People
Senior Researchers – Program Directors
Philip Shapira
STIP Director
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 USA
Work Phone: (404) 894-7735
Work Fax: (404) 385-0504
Work Email: ude.hcetag.msirpnull@52sp
Philip Shapira teaches and conducts research on technology and innovation processes and policy, economic and regional development, industrial competitiveness, and policy evaluation.
For Philip Shapira’s most recent publications (2007 – present), please visit http://works.bepress.com/pshapira/.
Juan Rogers
STIP Director
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 USA
Work Phone: (404) 894-6697
Work Fax: (404) 385-0504
Juan D. Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research Value Mapping Program at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses on science and technology policy, information management and policy, knowledge management, logic of policy inquiry, and bureaucracy and policy implementation.
His current research interests include modeling the R&D process, assessment of R&D impacts, especially in the formation of scientific and technical human capital, technology transfer, R&D policy and evaluation, the interaction of social and technical factors in the development of information technology, and information technology policy. Recent publications include: “Denying Public Value: The Role of the Public Sector in Accounts of the Development of the Internet,” Journal of Public Administration: Research and Theory, Vol. 14, pp. 371-393, 2004 (with Gordon Kingsley); “A Churn Model of Knowledge Value: Internet Researchers as a Knowledge Value Collective.” Research Policy Vol. 31, pp. 769-794, 2002 (with Barry Bozeman); “Knowledge Value Alliances: An Alternative Method to R&D Project Evaluation,” Science, Technology and Human Values Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-55, Winter 2001 (with Barry Bozeman); “Software’s ‘Functional Coding’ and Personnel Mobility in Technology Transfer: Linkage Fields between Industry and Publicly Funded Research,” International Journal of Technology Management Vol. 22 No. 8, pp. 835-850, 2001; and “Science and the Politics of Internetworking: NSFNET in Internet History,” The Information Society, Vol. 14, No. 3, July-September 1998.
Professor Rogers received his Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an EE from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jan Youtie
STIP Director
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
75 Fifth Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308 USA
Work Phone: (404) 894-6111
Work Fax: (404) 894-1447
Work Email: ude.hcetag.etavonninull@eituoy.naj
Jan L. Youtie, Ph.D. is Manager of Policy Services with Georgia Tech’s Community, Policy, and Research Services division of the Enterprise Innovation Institute. She is an adjunct associate professor with Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy and co-founder of the program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She holds a doctorate in political science from Emory University.
Dr. Youtie’s research is focused on manufacturing competitiveness, technology-based economic development, emerging technology assessment (nanotechnology), and innovation and knowledge measurement.
She has been a principal investigator in studies sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, European Commission, United Nations Development Programme and the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia, METI Japan (in association with the Mitsubishi Research Institute), Aspen Institute, Southern Technology Council, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Intellectual Capital Partnership Program of the University System of Georgia, Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education, Georgia Office of Planning and Budget. Dr. Youtie has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Ninth Year Review Panel and the MEP evaluation working group. She served as a working group participant in the National Innovation Initiative of the US Council on Competitiveness. Dr. Youtie is a senior researcher with the Research and Innovation Systems Assessment component of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society (CNS-ASU).
Her research was awarded the Lang Rosen Gold Award for best article by the Journal of Technology Transfer, and also has appeared in Research Policy, Economic Development Quarterly, Technovation, International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Research Evaluation, and Evaluation and Program Planning.
For Jan Youtie’s most recent publications (2007 – present), please visit http://works.bepress.com/jan_youtie/.
Senior Researchers
Dan Breznitz
STIP Senior Research Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
International Affairs and Public Policy
781 Marietta Street, NW
Room 151
Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Work Phone: (404) 894-4399
Work Fax: (404) 385-0504
Marilyn Brown
STIP Senior Research Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
D.M. Smith Building 312
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta GA 30332-0345 USA
Work Phone: (404) 385-0303
Work Fax: (404) 385-0504
Marilyn A. Brown joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, she led several national scenario studies of climate change technology and policy options and held various leadership positions. Her current research addresses the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies, the design of policy options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the evaluation of energy programs and policies . At Georgia Tech, her research projects have included an assessment of the $3 billion/year multi-agency R&D portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, analysis of the geography of metropolitan carbon footprints, development of a national climate change technology deployment strategy, and an assessment of the cost and availability of supply- and demand-side electricity resources in the Southeast.
Recognizing the need for policy innovations to promote sustainable energy solutions, Dr. Brown teaches Georgia Tech courses on Energy Policy and Technology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as a policy analysis capstone course for Masters students. Dr. Brown has authored more than 200 publications including a recently published book on Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths and two special issues of energy journals. Her work has appeared in numerous venues including Science; Energy Policy; The Electricity Journal; Energy Efficiency, Annual Review of Energy and Environment; the Journal of Technology Transfer; Technology in Society; and Environment and Planning. She has contributed chapters to more than a dozen books.Check out the School of Public Policy’s Working Paper series for some of her most recent writings.Dr. Brown has also provided testimonies and Congressional briefings to Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, and to numerous state agencies. In addition to informing national leaders about energy policy, she is also the author of Georgia Tech’s quarterly energy sustainability index, the EnergyBuzz. Recent presentations and media interactions have included talks at meetings of the Council of State Government, National League of Cities, and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, along with various webcasts.
Dr. Brown serves on the board of directors of the Alliance to Save Energy, the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Technology Transfer and is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Among her honors and awards, Dr. Brown is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Brown’s recent service to Federal Agencies includes participation on DOE review committees and the National Academies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. In late 2008 she was appointed (from more than 1,000 nominees) to the National Academies’ Committee on America’s Climate Choices. She also participates on numerous advisory committees to universities and foundations across the country. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Brown collaborates with the Strategic Energy Institute, the Sloan Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, and the Enterprise Innovation Institute ‘s Science and Technology Innovation Program as the Director of Sustainability. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Certified Energy Manager.
Alfie Meek
STIP Senior Research Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
Enterprise Innovation Institute EI²
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 USA
Work Phone: (404) 385-1340
Work Fax: (404) 894-1447
Work Email: ude.hcetag.etavonninull@keem.eifla
Alan Porter
STIP Senior Research Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
ISYE and Public Policy (Emeritus)
Work Phone: (404) 894-2330
Work Fax: (404) 894-2301
Alan L. Porter is professor emeritus of the School of Public Policy, and of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE). His major concentration is technology forecasting and assessment. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech (1967) and a PhD in Engineering Psychology from UCLA (1972). He served on the University of Washington faculty through 1974, joining Georgia Tech in 1975. He co-directs the Technology Policy and Assessment Center. He is also Director of R&D at Search Technology, Inc.Dr. Porter has taught workshops on Tech Mining and on Analysis of Emerging Technologies at Georgia Tech, various IBM locations, and in Mexico, South Africa, Botswana, Finland, and China.He has authored over 200 professional publications. Books include (as author or co-author, editor or co-editor):
- A Guidebook for Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis, 1980
- Science, Technology, and National Policy, 1981
- Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research, 1986
- Forecasting and Management of Technology, 1991 (2d edition in preparation, 2009).
- Tech Mining, 2005.
Current research focuses on text mining of Science & Technology information resources (research publications, awards, citations, and patents) [see also http://www.theVantagePoint.com]. This informs Future-oriented Technology Analyses. Current NSF funding includes ongoing work on nanotechnology text data mining to help profile research areas and forecast emerging opportunities. A new NSF project is on “Measuring & Tracking Research Knowledge Integration.”
Alan Porter and Fred Rossini co-founded the International Association for Impact Assessment. Alan served it variously as editor of the Impact Assessment Bulletin, Secretary, Executive Director, and President (1995-96).
Program Manager
Lynn Willingham
Program Manager
Georgia Institute of Technology
Enterprise Innovation Institute
75 Fifth Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308
Work Phone: 404-894-0730
Work Fax: 404-894-8194
Work Email: ude.hcetag.etavonninull@mahgnilliw.nnyl
STIP Research and Policy Associates
Todd Greene | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Luciano Kay | University of California at Santa Barbara (STIP Post-Doc 2011-2012)
Andrea Fernandez-Ribas | STIP Research Fellow 2005-2009
Li Tang | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (STIP Post-Doc 2011-2012)
Jue Wang | Nanyang Technological University (STIP Post-Doc 2007-2008)
Nils Newman | IISC
Ismael Rafols | Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Research Assistants (current)
Sanjay Arora | PhD Public Policy
Stephen Carley | PhD Public Policy
J.J. O’Brien | BS Public Policy
Yin Li | PhD Public Policy
Xiao Zhou | Beijing Institute of Technology (visiting)
STIP Faculty Associates
Shiri Breznitz | Public Policy
Julia Melkers | Public Policy
Marco Ceccagnoli | Management
Jennifer Clark | Public Policy
Bill Drummond | City Planning
Mary Frank Fox | Public Policy
Ronald N. Kostoff | Public Policy (formerly Office of Naval Research)
Usha Nair-Reichert | Economics
Christine Ries | Economics
David Rosen | Mechanical Engineering
Mark Zachary Taylor | International Affairs
Valerie Thomas | ISYE and Public Policy
STIP Alumni
Visiting Research Associates (Alumni)
Arho Suominen | University of Turku | 2012
Yi Zhang | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2011-2012
Wei Fan | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2011-2012
Zhengyin Hu | Chinese Academy of Science | 2011-2012
Tingting Ma | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2010-2011
Wenping Wang | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2010-2011
Lidan Gao | Chinese Academy of Science | 2010-2011
Ruimin Pei | Chinese Academy of Science | 2009-2010
Xuanting Ye | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2009-2010
Ying Guo | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2008-2009
Lu Huang | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2008-2009
Heming Zhang | Nankai University | 2007-2008 | China Research Council Fellow
Ranier Frietsch | Fraunhofer ISI | Fall 2007
Shannon Barker | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 2007
Stephen Roper | Aston University | Fall 2006
Juan Noguera | University of Valencia, Spain | 2005
Research Assistants (Alumni)
Travis Horsley | MS Public Policy | 2011-2012
Shawn Skolky | BS Public Policy | 2011-2012
Laura Rodriguez | BS INTA | 2010-2011
Audrey Campbell | BS ISYE | 2010
Annie Bidgood | BS ISYE | 2009-2010
Reynold Galope | Joint GT-GSU PhD Public Policy | 2008-2010
Vrishali Subramanian | PhD Public Policy | 2008-2009
John Garner | BS CS | 2008-2009
Harmeet Singh Gandhi | MS Quant Finance (’09) | 2008-2009
Hari Naraynanan | MS Quant Finance | 2008-2009
Brian Lynch | BS Public Policy (’08) | 2006-2008
Ronak Kamdar | MS IE (’08)
Yi Meng | PhD Public Policy | Summer 2008 GRA
Gordon Cutler | BS Computer Science | Summer 2008 UGA
Ashley Rivera | MSPP Public Policy and MCRP | 2007-2008
Jue Wang | PhD Public Policy (’07) | 2003-2008
Clay Karwisch | BSPP Public Policy | 2007-2008
Sophia Randhawa MS Quant Finance | 2007-2008
Pratik Mehta | MS Quant Finance (’07) | 2006-2007
Alexa Stephens | MSPP and MCRP (’07) | 2006-2007
Taner Osman | PhD Public Policy | 2006-2007
Erin Lamos | MSPP Public Policy (’07)| 2006-2007
Sharyn Finney | BSPP Public Policy (’07) | 2006-2007
Luke McCloud | BSPP Public Policy (’07) | 2006-2007
John Slanina | MSPP Public Policy (’05) | 2005-2006
Jingjing Zhang | PhD Public Policy (’06) | 2006
Nooshin Ahangar-Mahalia | MSPP Public Policy | 2005
Ajay Bhaskarabhatla | MSPP Public Policy (’06) | 2004-2006
Uttam Malani | ISYE | 2005
Georgia Innovation Interns
2012
Daniel Cotter | MS City and Regional Planning
Lyndsey Nott | MS Public Policy
Alison Pienta | MS City and Regional Planning
Shan Zhou | PhD Public Policy
2011
Ben Deitchman | PhD Public Policy
Deji Fajebe | PhD International Affairs
Nettrice Gaskins | PhD Digital Media
Mary Richardson | MS City and Regional Planning
2010
Thema Monroe-White | PhD Public Policy
Hsini Huang | PhD Public Policy
Dong Gu Choi | PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering
Kia Ball | MS City and Regional Planning
2009
Stephen Carley | PhD Public Policy
Jennifer Chirico | PhD Public Policy
Rahul Jain | MCRP City and Regional Planning
Shanshan Zou | MS School of Economics
2008
Ashley Rivera | MSPP and MCRP Public Policy
Ogundiran Soumonni | PhD Public Policy
Rick McKeon | MSPP Public Policy
2007
Steven Simms | MCRP City Planning
Nathan Moon | PhD History, Technology, and Society
Taner Osman | PhD Public Policy
2006
Mark Farmer | MSPP Public Policy
Miguel Granier | MCRP City Planning
John Kim | MCRP City Planning
Kenwin Hayes | MCRP City Planning
Alexa Stephens | MSPP Public Policy / MCRP City Planning
2005
Jonas Titas | MCRP City Planning
Phaedra Tucker | MSPP Public Policy
Wenbin Xiao | PhD Public Policy Georgia State-Georgia Tech