* I did not receive teaching release or any other form of remuneration for any of the committee and educational program development service outlined below.
Program Development:
B.A. in Management of Innovation, Sustainability & Technology (MIST)(Summary)
This MIST major is a technology management program centered around the sustainability paradigm of the triple bottom line (i.e., People, Planet and Profit).
Students will learn the principles of management (leadership, operations, finance) and creativity and innovation practice (design thinking, entrepreneurship) and how they couple with technological capabilities in order to address challenges that arise in coupled human and environmental systems.
The program is highly multidisciplinary blend of traditional technology management curriculum with sustainability studies and systems science; UC Santa Cruz is the only other UC to offer an undergraduate major in the broader area of technology management, and thereby aligns with UCM educational and research mission supporting interdisciplinarity and sustainability, with curriculum oriented around design thinking, problem solving and project-based learning.
Role: Proposal lead author; Submission lead. Time Commitment: Summer 2023, Fall 2023.
Status: Approved for launch in Fall 2025
Program website Registrar website
B.A. in Data Science & Analytics (DSA)(Summary)
This major will develop highly generalizable skillset centered around data-driven decision-making against the backdrop of real-world applications in economic analysis, business analytics, political and policy analytics, environmental policy analysis, geographic information systems, IT service design, and socio-technological systems management.
Accordingly, coursework is delivered by faculty from the Economics, Cognitive & Information Science, Management of Complex Systems and Political Science departments. The DSA program blends fundamentals in methods (computer applications, data science, data visualization and communication) and applications (decision-making , policy development and evaluation). The distinction between the DSA and the Data Science & Computation major is indicated in the degree type connoting technicality (B.A. -vs- B.Sc.), the core domains (Social & Management sciences -vs- Natural sciences) and the applications that are developed in coursework (human-centered design thinking, communication and decision-making with data -vs- computational methods and algorithm development tailored for applications in the natural sciences).
Role: Proposal lead author; Submission lead. Time Commitment: Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Fall 2022.
Status: Approved for launch in Fall 2024.
Program website Registrar website
Masters in Data Science & Analytics (Self-Supporting Graduate Professional Degree Program)(Summary)
We propose establishing a twelve-month intensive Master of Data Science and Analytics, a terminal self-supporting professional graduate degree program to be administered by the proposed E & J Gallo School of Management at the University of California, Merced. The program will be run jointly by three existing Graduate Groups – Cognitive and Information Sciences, Economics, and Management of Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology – with faculty oversight and a program director from these groups. The program will provide a core curriculum designed around practical skills that successful students can apply in diverse information-driven public and private industry settings. Major themes addressed by the program include practical economic principles underlying the data revolution, principles and best practices for effective communication with data, analytical skills for disclosing the embedded values and norms in data science and computing, introduction to scripting languages for data management and visualization, design of interactive web- and smart-phone-based platforms to facilitate organizational systems thinking and real-time decision-making, and best practices and management tools for data-intensive team-work. A summer capstone project will provide students with an integrative team-oriented experience to prepare for time-crunch, logistical, and other operational constraints encountered in real world decision-making scenarios.
Role: Core proposal team member (of 5). Contributions: contributed to program design and proposal text (134 pages in total). Time Commitment: Summer 2020.
Status: Original Submission 10/2020; First Revision 12/2020; Second Revision 08/2022; Current status: rejected.
Proposal for the establishment of the UC Merced Gallo School of Management(Summary)
Proposal to join 4 existing UCM departments (Economics, Cognitive & Information Sciences, Political Science, Management of Complex Systems) into a School of Management oriented around socio-economics, behavioral sciences and information and environmental systems management.
Role: Core proposal team member. Contributions: contributed as Gallo Proposal Executive Committee member and contributed substantal proposal text/analysis. Time Commitment: Proposal content generation in Fall 2019 with updates throughout the 3-year proposal process.
Status: Original Submission 2021; Current status: rejected.
University Service Committees:
AY2025-26
Management of Innovation, Sustainability and Technology graduate group
Role: Chair. Time commitment: continuous.
MCS department undergraduate program chair for the DSA and MIST majors
Role: Chair. In charge of undergraduate program development. Time commitment: continuous.
AY2024-25
Committee on Rules and Elections (CRE)
Role: Senate faculty represenative. Time commitment: monthly meetings.
MCS department undergraduate program chair for the DSA and MIST majors
Role: Chair. In charge of undergraduate program development. Time commitment: continuous.
AY2023-24
School of Engineering Executive Committee
Role: Chair. Time commitment: weekly preparation; monthly meetings; host semester all-school meeting.
UCM TAS Budget Work Group
Spring semester. Role: Co-chair. Time commitment: 2-3 weekly meetings; Provided recommendations on the Temporary Academic Support (TAS) budget to the Provost and Financial Administration office.
Undergraduate Council (UGC)
Role: Senate faculty represenative; Course Approval Subcommittee (chair). Time commitment: Biweekly meetings and roughly 3 hr/week reviwing courses and new programs; lead reviewer for 2 new major and 1 new minor proposals.
AY2022-23
Undergraduate Council (UGC)
Role: Senate faculty represenative; Course Approval Subcommittee (member). Time commitment: Biweekly meetings and roughly 3 hr/week reviwing courses and new programs; lead reviewer for 3 new major proposals.
Gallo School of Management Executive Committee
Role: member. Time commitment: monthly meetings.
AY2021-22
Environmental Systems graduate group Education Policy Committee
Role: member. Time commitment: monthly meetings.
Gallo School of Management Executive Committee
Role: member. Time commitment: monthly meetings.
AY2020-21
Environmental Systems graduate group - Education Policy Committee
Role: member. Time commitment: monthly meetings.
AY2019-20
School of Engineering Executive Committee
Role: Member (MCS representative). Time commitment: monthly meeting.
Ad hoc review
At request of CCGA: review of UC Irvine proposal to establish Master of Data Science program.