PAMELA BROWN, PhD, PE, is Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at New York City College of Technology of The City University of New York (City Tech/CUNY). Prior to this position, Dr. Brown served for eight years as associate provost and six years as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Brown has a track record of creating initiatives to improve the retention and recruitment of students interested in careers in STEM fields. As dean and associate provost, she helped obtain and oversee five grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a Bridges to the Baccalaureate grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Currently, she is the PI of an NSF HSI IUSE grant and oversees the NYSED CSTEP grant. She founded the college's Emerging Scholars Program, an undergraduate research program providing undergraduate research opportunities and professional development skills to over 200 students each academic year. She served on the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on, "Barriers and Opportunities in Completing Two- and Four-Year STEM Degrees," which produced a consensus paper. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Brown is a registered professional engineering in New York State. During the 2011-12 academic year, Dr. Brown served as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Brown has the distinction of being the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU's Tandon School of Engineering). She also has an SM in Chemical Engineering Practice from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in Chemistry from the University at Albany, SUNY.

As Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs (EMSA), Dr. Marling Sone is responsible for ensuring the development and implementation of enrollment strategies that align with the College's operational goals, in addition to successful planning and accountability efforts that promote student success through integrated, comprehensive, and intentional student-centered approaches. Dr. Sone brought this vision to her co-creation of City Tech's groundbreaking Student Success Center, which connects students with personalized guidance and multiple crucial supports as they progress through their degree programs and on to graduation.

For nearly three decades, Dr. Sone has provided visionary, innovative, and student-focused leadership to higher education programs. She brings to her role her extensive expertise in student development and outcome assessment, in addition to successful strategies for recruitment, admissions, onboarding, leveraging resources, and retention practices that advance the persistence- to- graduation efforts of diverse student populations.

Dr. Sone maintains an exemplary record of creating strong alliances between college departments and leading diverse teams toward shared goals in rapidly changing institutional and fiscal contexts. As Program Director and Co-Principal Investigator of CUNY EDGE (formerly COPE) for more than 20 years, Dr. Sone cultivated a holistic student approach to helping thousands of students overcome barriers to college degree completion. Dr. Sone also served as an adjunct lecturer in the Social Science department, while concurrently holding a position for more than ten years at Metropolitan College of New York as the Coordinator of the Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) program.

Dr. Sone earned a BA and MA in Psychology from The City College of The City University of New York, and a doctorate in Education (EdD) from Northeastern University in Organizational Leadership.

Rita Uddin is the Chief Information Officer and Vice President of IT at New York City College of Technology. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Pace University and a Juris Doctorate from New York Law. Rising through different technology roles at NYCCT as well as being a part of the College's adjunct faculty for some years, her diverse experience brings a unique perspective to technology implementation and information security in Higher Education.

As CIO, she provides leadership and guidance in strengthening IT services and assets to support the technology landscape of the College. She leads operational goals to improve productivity and ensure utilization of emerging technology for institutional growth. Her expertise includes building IT compliance strategy and implementing information security controls. Leveraging over 15 years of experience in Higher Education and her combined background in technology and law, she has effected transformative change through the implementation of IT governance and the creation of a flexible and secure IT infrastructure. Rita represents the College's interests in driving University technology goals by serving in multiple City University of New York steering committees as well as a variety of regional and national higher education organizations including Educause, Women in Technology and Education CIOs.

Dr. Reginald Blake is the Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech). He is a Professor of the institution's Physics Department, and his research involves the application of satellite and ground-based remote sensing to the study of hydro-climate, hurricanes, and air pollution. He is the Director of City Tech's Center for Remote Sensing and Earth Systems Sciences (ReSESS), an affiliate of NOAA's Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies. In 2008, he was named to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 13-member panel of scientific experts who were responsible for providing the climate change science that underpins New York City's climate change policy for decades to come. He has since served two more tours of duty (one more under Mayor Bloomberg and one under Mayor De Blasio) on this elite panel. Dr. Blake conducts his climate change research at ReSESS and at Columbia University's NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He is the PI of an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant, an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant, and he was the PI for an NSF Opportunity for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences grant. Additionally, he is the Director of City Tech's STEM-based Black Male Initiative (BMI) Program. He is also a recent (July 2018) recipient of the United States Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.

Dr. Mendoza joined the CET Department at CITY TECH in Fall of 2011. He worked previously as a Postdoctoral Research Engineer at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. He has extensive industry experience as a software engineer and project manager developing systems used in government, education, entertainment, and other industries.

His research activities include:

• Multi-Agent Systems, in particular mechanism for distributed resource allocation, negotiation, and coordination;
• Bio-Inspired Systems, in particular bio-inspired algorithms for optimization, decentralized coordination and control;
• Context and Situation Awareness, in particular the combination of machine learning and semantic based approaches to define and detect situations and complex events in streaming data; and
• Cyber-Physical Systems, in particular developing methods to analyze social behavior and integration and interaction of people and cyber environments.

Jose is a seasoned professional with over 16 years of experience in online learning and instructional design. He is currently the Director of Instructional Technology and the Enhancement Center at City Tech CUNY.

As Manager of Online Learning at the Fashion Institute of Technology our Online Learning program ranked 1st in New York and 22nd in the nation according to Newsweek America's Top Online Colleges for 2023.

Jose is a highly organized individual who excels at project management. He creates and manages development timelines for online courses. He also works closely with subject matter experts to identify the training needs of the target audience and to ensure that instructional end goals are met.

Jose is passionate about creating engaging and compelling online, blended/hybrid, remote, and face-to-face learning experiences. He supports the creation of audio, video, simulations, role plays, and gamification, to enhance the experience of the learner.

With expertise in videography, animation, web development, and social media, Jose utilizes his technical skills to craft compelling and lively multimedia content. Jose is highly skilled at leveraging digital storytelling to educate and transform the learner.

If you are interested in learning more about Jose and the projects he has worked on, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Dr. David B. Smith is a Professor specializing in sound and music technology. He was instrumental in the department's award of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant of $780,000 for the acquisition of new equipment. He has taught at the college since 1997.

As a composer, sound designer, inventor, and musician, Dr. Smith has been active in the professional world since the early eighties. He has performed as a violinist in ensembles ranging from symphony orchestras to rock bands, both live and in the studio. His compositions, written in an equally eclectic variety of genres, have been heard across the country.

As a sound designer, Dr Smith has designed for over one-hundred and fifty productions in venues of all sizes. He was resident Composer/Sound Designer at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for eight years.

Dr. Smith is recognized as one of the world leaders in the development of live performance computer instrument systems. Partnering with Dr. Frederick Bianchi (currently at Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Dr. Smith created the first virtual orchestra system in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late eighties. This was quickly followed by several professional productions, including a critically acclaimed Wizard of Oz at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and the world's first virtual orchestra presentation in professional opera: Hansel und Gretel, at Kentucky Opera, in 1990. Further research in this area lead to a collaborative experiment in live gestural control of virtual orchestra systems with Lucent Technologies. The results of this were showcased at Telecom'99 in Geneva Switzerland, with a 320-speaker immersive environment used in conjunction with a performance of Natalie Cole, Sir John Barry, and the l'Orchestre du Suisse Romande.

Recognizing a need in contemporary performance venues, Dr's Smith and Bianchi teamed with Mr. Jeffrey Lazarus to found Realtime Music Solutions (RMS). This company is devoted to the development of new musical instruments that increase the efficiency of musical pit orchestra performance without sacrifice of musicality and expression. As Director of Research and Development at RMS, he has been instrumental in the creation of the Sinfonia orchestral enhancement instrument. He has overseen its implementation in over thirty-five productions, including fourteen national tours, London's West End, and Cirque du Soleile. He holds both US and British patents in music performance systems.

Working in collaboration with Opera Company of Brooklyn, Dr. Smith created two highly controversial productions of Mozart operas. The first, die ZauberflÖt, used Sinfonia in conjunction with an immersive array of loudspeakers to simulate an orchestra. This production also demonstrated proof of concept with metric control of external visual elements. This has led to current research in tighter metric integration along with co-researcher Professor John Huntington.