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Experts Directory

The ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Experts Directory is a rolodex for reporters, designed to assist journalists in their search for subject-matter experts on a variety of topics and academic research areas.

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Ira Vouk

Ira Vouk

LecturerL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-206-1758

Area of Expertise

Hospitality technology, hospitality industry, hotel revenue management, pricing and market intelligence.

Robert Vryheid

Robert Vryheid

Adjunct Associate ProfessorSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human ServicesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-463-1266

Area of Expertise

Malaria, Thailand, Cambodia, avian influenza, coronavirus transmission and prevention

Minjuan Wang

Minjuan Wang

ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-3878

Area of Expertise

Learning across the Metaverse, Cross-Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning, AI in education, and the sociocultural aspects of learning design and the use of technology. Methods of inquiry, designing and developing training for the global audience, mobile learning design, and emerging trends in learning design and technologies.

Sandra Wawrytko

Sandra Wawrytko

ProfessorPhilosophyCollege of Arts and LettersºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-4428

Area of Expertise

Buddhist and Daoist philosophy, Asian aesthetics, the neuroscience of Buddhism and global philosphies.

Shirley Weber

Shirley Weber

Professor Emerita, Distinguished Faculty member, Current California Secretary of StateAfricana StudiesCollege of Arts and LettersºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected](916) 653-6814

Area of Expertise

Co-founder of the Africana Studies Department, co-founder of the W.E.B. DuBois Leadership Institute for Young Black Scholars. Africana studies, African culture and ethnicity.

Kristen Wells

Kristen Wells

Professor, Co-Director of ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï HealthLINK CenterPsychologyCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-1919

Area of Expertise

Improving the quality of healthcare delivered to underserved populations; the development, implementation, and testing og patient navigation interventions to improve access to care related to cancer, HIV prevention, suicide prevention, and COVID-19 vaccination, among diverse and minoritized populations; mobile sensing technologies and data to understand medication-taking behaviors, predict individual risk factors, and deliver interventions to improve adherence that are needed by the individual at the optimal time, place, and in the optimal context; cancer disparities, cancer care, patient navigation, mobile sensing, medication adherence, HIV prevention, suicide prevention and COVID-19 vaccination.

Bill Welsh

Bill Welsh

ProfessorAstronomyCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-2288

Area of Expertise

Astronomy, astrophysics, planets, extrasolar planets, exoplanets, Kepler Mission and astrobiology.

Aaron Wester

Aaron Wester

LecturerFowler School of BusinessMIS (Management Information Systems)ºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Statistics, Database Management, User Experience Design, Decision Science powered by Artificial Intelligence, Data modeling, Organizational Leadership, Technology, Digital Marketing, IOT/M2M, management information systems, VR integration

Wil Weston

Wil Weston

Librarian, Head of Collection ManagementUniversity LibraryºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-6988

Area of Expertise

Library management, acquisitions, and development of library collections. Information seeking behavior, online research behavior, student retention, student success and student persistence.

Jess Whatcott

Jess Whatcott

Associate ProfessorWomen's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesCollege of Arts and LettersºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Disability history, institutionalization, eugenics, prison history, California history, speculative fiction, Octavia Butler, abolition and transformative justice.

Roy Whitaker

Roy Whitaker

Associate Professor and Undergraduate AdvisorDepartment for the Study of ReligionCollege of Arts and LettersºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Philosophy of Religion; New, Emergent, and Alternative Religions; Comparative Religion and Philosophy; Global Philosophies; Hip Hop Culture and Music

Jillian Lee Wiggins

Jillian Lee Wiggins

ProfessorPsychologyCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-2188

Area of Expertise

Brain imaging (functional MRI) research with children/adolescents who have social-emotional mental disorders (i.e., severe tantrums, depression, anxiety), MRI, anxiety, and depression in children.

Shiloh A. Williams

Shiloh A. Williams

Assistant Professor, Nursing Leadership ProgramSchool of NursingCollege of Health and Human ServicesºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Imperial Valley[email protected]

Area of Expertise

health literacy, nursing, rural health, health care administration, nursing leadership, social determinants of health, rural health policy, rural-border health

Carl Winston

Carl Winston

DirectorL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]; [email protected]619-594-5254

Area of Expertise

Hospitality & tourism, hotel operations, meetings and events, restaurant operations, tribal gaming, holiday travel tips

Susan Woodruff

Susan Woodruff

Professor EmeritaSchool of Social WorkCollege of Health and Human ServicesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-3475

Area of Expertise

screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), a public health harm-reduction approach to reducing alcohol and drug use.

James Wright

James Wright

Assistant ProfessorEducational LeadershipCollege of EducationºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-908-2394

Area of Expertise

K-12 School administration and leadership; Administration and leadership in ethnic studies; achievement gap discourses in education; community engagement and parental involvement in education; race, culture, and ethnicity in K-12 education; inequities and injustices in K-12 school policies, leadership, and education; K-12 school policy and history of school policies.

Tianying Wu

Tianying Wu

Associate ProfessorSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human ServicesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-0969

Area of Expertise

Molecular and nutritional epidemiology; individualized nutrition; precision medicine; red meat and dietary acid load; hypoxia; cancer survival; climate changes; aging-related disorders; health disparities between Asians and non-Asians; secondhand and past smoking, complementary and alternative medicine.

Tao Xie

Tao Xie

ProfessorComputer ScienceCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Storage systems, high-performance computing, energy-efficient storage systems, security-aware scheduling, cluster and Grid computing and parallel and distributed systems.

Xiaofeng Xu

Xiaofeng Xu

Associate ProfessorBiologyCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-2279

Area of Expertise

How global change affects terrestrial ecosystems and how terrestrial ecosystems feed back to the climate system by using a modeling approach. Global change, climate warming, soil and trace gas.

Yong Yan

Yong Yan

ProfessorChemistry and BiochemistryCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Catalysis, solar cells, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals.

George Youssef

George Youssef

ProfessorMechanical EngineeringCollege of EngineeringºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-6649

Area of Expertise

metamaterials, design, mechanics of polymers, mechanics of composites, advanced manufacturing, impact, multiscale characterization, solid mechanics

William Zahner

William Zahner

ProfessorMathematics and StatisticsCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Mathematics education, multilingual students, English learners and algebraic reasoning

Bob Zeller

Bob Zeller

Professor and ChairBiologyCollege of SciencesºÚÁϳԹÏ[email protected]619-594-3044

Area of Expertise

Co-Faculty Director of the Microchemical Core Facility, member of the Molecular Biology Institute, the Coastal and Marine Institute, and the Center for Applied and Experimental Genomics.