Faculty
Mirela Alistar
Assistant Professor • Living Matter Lab • BIOCHIPS, PERSONAL MEDICINE, DIY BIO • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute
John Bacus
Lecturer, Co-Chair Board of Advisors, ATLAS Institute • Vice President of User Software, PassiveLogic • DESIGN, AR/VR, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
ATLAS Institute
Amy Banić
Visiting Associate Professor • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
Computer Science
Matthew Bethancourt
Teaching Associate Professor • Whaaat?! Lab • GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND
ATLAS Institute
Carson Bruns
Assistant Professor • Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials • CREATIVE MOLECULAR NANOTECH • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Ruscha Cohen
Lecturer • Co-Director Graduate Programs • GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Kevin Cook
Lecturer • UI/UX
User Interface Designer • Amazon
Laura Devendorf
Assistant Professor • Unstable Design Lab • SMART TEXTILES, HCI, DESIGN RESEARCH • INFORMATION SCIENCE
Arielle Dispenza
Director of Undergraduate Programs • Teaching Assistant Professor • HCI, INTERACTION DESIGN, ART
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Professor • Director, ATLAS Partnerships & Innovation • ACME Lab • DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HAPPY HEALTHY LIVING • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Jill Van Matre Dupré
ATLAS Associate Director • Co-Director Graduate Programs • Professor of Engineering Practice • TECH POLICY, SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT, INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION
Steven Frost
Faculty Director, B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance
Media Studies
Justin Gitlin
Lecturer • Industry Mentor • CREATIVE CODER • MUSICIAN • MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
CACHEFLOWE
Greg Greenstreet
Lecturer • BIG DATA
Senior Director of Engineering • Splunk
Mark D. Gross
Professor • ATLAS Director • DESIGN, ROBOTICS, TANGIBLE INTERACTION • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute
Torin Hopkins
Lecturer • PhD Student • MUSIC, MUSIC INTERACTIONS, TANGIBLE MUSICAL OBJECTS
ATLAS Institute
Kevin Hoth
Lecturer • PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL IMAGING
ATLAS Institute
Rita Klees
Adjunct Professor
Civil • Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Megan Leahy Friesth
Lecturer • MS, TMS—Creative Technologies + Design '16
ATLAS Institute
Daniel Leithinger
Assistant Professor • THING Lab • SHAPE CHANGING & HAPTIC INTERFACES • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Annie Margaret
Teaching Assistant Professor • STORYTELLING • PSYCHOTECHNOLOGIES • ATTENTION ACTIVISM
ATLAS Institute
Erika Palmer
Lecturer • SOCIAL IMPACT
Aileen Pierce
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs • Teaching Associate Professor • MOBILE APPS, INTERACTIVE WEB
Anthony Pinter
Lecturer
ATLAS Institute
Denise Powell
Lecturer • MS, TMS—Information and Communication Technology for Development '18
Danny Rankin
Teaching Assistant Professor • Whaaat!? Lab • MATERIALS, GAMES, GRAPHIC DESIGN
Sheiva Rezvani
Teaching Assistant Professor • ART & DESIGN, SOCIOTECHNOLOGY, DEAD MEDIA
David Schaal
Teaching Associate Professor • Lead Multimedia Instructor • SOUND DESIGN, DIGITAL ARTS
Zachary Schwemler
Lecturer • MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22
ATLAS Institute
Joel Swanson
Assistant Professor • TYPO Studio • ART, DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY • Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
Zoe Tran Do
Lecturer • USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
ATLAS Institute
Brittney Urich
Lecturer • USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
ATLAS Institute
Zack Weaver
Lecturer
ATLAS Institute
Shaz Zamore
Teaching Assistant Professor • STEM Outreach • OUTREACH & INCLUSION, NEUROENGINEERING, VR/AR
Post Docs and Research Interns
Hyejin Kwon
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Mechanical Engineering
Michael Rivera
Post-Doctoral Researcher • Computing Innovation Fellow • HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION • DIGITAL FABRICATION
ATLAS Institute
Midhun Sreekumar Menon
NASA Post-Doctoral Associate
ATLAS Institute
Affiliate Faculty
Alaa Ahmed
Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology • Mechanical Engineering
Lecia Barker
Associate Professor
Information Science
August Black
Assistant Professor, Critical Media Practices
College of Media Communication and Information
Jed Brubaker
Assistant Professor
Information Science
Nikolaus Correll
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Marcel de Lange
Assistant Clinical Professor
Program of Environmental Design
Pierre de Vries
Scholar-in-Residence by courtesy
ATLAS
Ann Eisenberg
Senior Research Associate
Institute of Cognitive Science
Laurie Gries
Assistant Professor
Communications
Dale Hatfield
Spectrum Initiative Co-Director
Shaun Kane
Associate Professor • Superhuman Computing Lab • ACCESSIBLITY, MOBILE HCI
Computer Science
Brian Keegan
Assistant Professor
Information Science
Clayton Lewis
Professor Emeritus
Computer Science
Dan Ligon
Professor of Practice
Advertising PR and Media Design
Shelly Miller
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Shalom Ruben
Senior Instructor • AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, SIGNALS PROCESSING
Mechanical Engineering
Wayne Seltzer
Technologist-in-Residence • ELECTRONICS, DIY, U-FIXIT
ATLAS Institute
Aubrey Shick
Research Affiliate
ATLAS Institute
Doug Smith
Assistant Dean for Programs and Engagement
College of Engineering & Applied Science
Dan Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member
Danielle Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member
Heather Underwood
Lecturer • ENTREPRENEUR • BIODESIGN CONSULTANT
Amy Voida
Assistant Professor
Information Science
Stephen Voida
Assistant Professor • Founding Faculty
Information Science
Gregory L Whiting
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Helanius J. Wilkins
Assistant Professor
Theater and Dance
Tom Yeh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Affiliated Researcher
Alex Eldridge
Affiliated Researcher
Industry Mentors
Lennon Barnica
Industry Mentor • Executive Producer, Plus Productions; Owner/Furniture Maker, Dean Designs
Todd Berger
Industry Mentor • CEO Co-Founder Ello, the creators network • Co-Founder Berger & Föhr
Justin Gitlin
Lecturer • Industry Mentor • CREATIVE CODER • MUSICIAN • MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
CACHEFLOWE
Courtney Loveman
Industry Mentor • VP, Chief Strategy Officer at Noun (CP+B Brand Invention)
Tran Wills
Industry Mentor • Creative Director/Entrepreneur • Co-Founder of Base Coat Nail Salon, SVPER ORDINARY