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MEMORANDUM DATE: June 4, 2015 TO: Harold W. Mullis, Chair FROM: Judy Genshaft President SUBJECT: Tenure as a Condition of Employment Nominations, USF Tampa I am requesting approval by the USF Board of Trustees of the enclosed Tenure as a Condition of Employment Nominations at USF Tampa. In nominating these faculty members for tenure, I certify that the requirements and conditions contained in USF Regulations, Policies, and Procedures for the granting of tenure have been met. I am satisfied that the nominees will make a significant professional contribution to USF Tampa and the academic community. Enclosures

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Faculty Nominations for Tenure as a Condition of Employment, USF-Tampa USF Board of Trustees Meeting – June 4, 2015

College

Name

Rank

Department/

School Degree of Effort*

Arts & Sciences Herbert Maschner Professor Anthropology & School of Geosciences

Arts & Sciences

Xiaodong Michael Shi

Associate Professor

Chemistry

Arts & Sciences Steven Walczak Associate Professor

School of Information

Behavioral and Community Sciences

Chih-Chin Chou

Associate Professor

Rehabilitation & Mental Health

Business Gert-Jan de Vreede

Professor Information Systems & Decision Sciences

Business Kaushik Dutta Associate Professor

Information Systems & Decision Sciences

Engineering Sriram Chellappan Associate Professor

Computer Science & Engineering

Engineering Changhyun Kwon Associate Professor

Industrial & Management Systems Engineering

Engineering Fred Mannering Professor Civil Environmental Engineering

Engineering Xinming (Simon) Ou

Associate Professor

Computer Science & Engineering

Medicine Edmund Funai Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology

Medicine Valerie Parisi Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pharmacy Mark S. Kindy Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences

Public Health Troy Quast Associate Professor

Health Policy and Management

University of South Florida

Tenure Nominations as a Condition of Employment

USF Board of Trustees Meeting June 4, 2015 #27485-FINAL

Arts and Sciences

Herbert Maschner, Ph.D. Dr. Maschner has been jointly appointed as Professor in the School of Geosciences and the Department of Anthropology, effective August 7, 2015. Dr. Maschner earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. He was promoted to Professor at ISU in 2006. In 2011, he was appointed Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. In 2012, Dr. Maschner was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Maschner’s primary research interests include virtualization, visualization, informatics, 3D scanning, and public science in the creation of digital research infrastructures that transcend humanities, physical, natural, and social sciences. Dr. Maschner’s research has been funded by National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and local agencies. He is principle investigator or co-PI on more than $7.2 million in grants, including $5.19 million from NSF on 14 awards. He has over 100 publications, including two monographs and nine edited collections. Dean Eric Eisenberg of the College of Arts & Sciences strongly recommends the nomination of Dr. Maschner for the award of tenure upon appointment. Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox and USF System President Judy Genshaft concur and strongly support Dr. Maschner’s nomination.




Xiaodong Michael Shi, Ph.D.

Dr. Xiaodong Michael Shi has been appointed as Associate Professor in the

Department of Chemistry, effective August 7, 2015. Dr. Shi earned his M.S.

degree from Nankai University in 1997, and his Ph.D. from the University of

Maryland Park in 2002. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of

California-Berkeley, Dr. Shi joined the faculty at West Virginia University as an

Assistant Professor in 2005. He was tenured and promoted to Associate

Professor in 2011. Dr. Shi’s research in organic chemistry includes new

synthetic methodology development, organic materials, bio-organic

chemistry, organometallic chemistry and analysis. He has published 78 papers

in high impact peer reviewed journals. Dr. Shi has been very successful in

obtaining external funding for his work, including the prestigious NSF CAREER

award ($550,000). In the past four years, he has garnered $1M as PI,

~$300,000 as Co-PI, and $1M in equipment grants, totaling $2.3M. Dr. Shi’s

classroom instruction, measured by student evaluations, in the general area

of organic chemistry at the graduate and undergraduate levels is outstanding.

He has graduated five Ph.D. students and 4 MS students, almost all of whom

have moved into prestigious Ph.D. programs and postdoctoral positions.

Dean Eric Eisenberg of the College of Arts & Sciences strongly recommends

the nomination of Dr. Shi for the award of tenure upon appointment. Provost

and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox and USF System President Judy

Genshaft concur and strongly support Dr. Shi’s nomination.




Steven Walczak, Ph.D.

Dr. Steven Walczak has been appointed as Associate Professor in the School

of Information, effective August 7, 2015. Dr. Walczak graduated from

University of Florida in Computer Science with his Ph.D. in 1985. He has

served as an Associate Computer Scientist with the National Security Agency,

in private industry. From 1998-2014, he was a tenured Associate Professor in

the College of Business at the University of Colorado. He currently is a

tenured Associate Professor at University of South Carolina’s Integrated

Information Technology Department and Director of Graduate Studies in

Health IT. Dr. Walczak’s primary research applies artificial intelligence (AI)

and other technical solutions to both diagnostic and resource planning issues

within healthcare domains. He has published over 55 peer reviewed papers,

as well as presented over 80 conference proceedings and presentations. He

received numerous funding supports from industrial sectors. Dr. Walczak is

an accomplished scholar and teacher whose academic and professional

experiences will be integral to the School of Information and the Florida

Center for Cybersecurity’s emphasis on health information security. Dean Eric

Eisenberg of the College of Arts & Sciences strongly recommends the

nomination of Dr. Walczak for the award of tenure upon appointment.

Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox and USF System President

Judy Genshaft concur and strongly support Dr. Walczak’s nomination.




Behavioral and Community Sciences

Chih-Chin Chou, Ph.D.

Dr. Chih-Chin Chou has been appointed as an Associate Professor and

Program Director of the Department of Rehabilitation & Mental Health in the

College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. Dr. Chou received her Ph.D.

in Rehabilitation Psychology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in

2004. Dr. Chou comes to the University of South Florida from the University

of Arizona where she is a tenured Associate Professor and Rehabilitation

Counseling Program Coordinator in the Department of Disability and Psycho-

educational Studies. Prior to that appointment, she was an Assistant

Professor and Undergraduate Rehabilitation Program Coordinator in the

same department at the University of Arizona for six years. From 2005 –

2007, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological

Studies, Co-Director of the University Counseling Center, and Program

Director for the Master Applied Psychology Program at the National Institute

of Education in Singapore. She also held an academic appointment for a year

at the City University of New York – Hunter College. Dr. Chou has published

over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and eight book chapters. Dr. Chou

has received numerous grants including three current training grants totaling

almost $2.5 million. Dean Julie Serovich of the College of Behavioral and

Community Sciences, Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and

USF System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Business

Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ph.D.

Dr. Gert-Jan de Vreede is currently a Durham Distinguished Professor at the

College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska

Omaha, where he is also Managing Director of the Center for Collaboration

Science. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Delft University of

Technology in the Netherlands. His research focuses on crowdsourcing,

collaborative software engineering, Collaboration Engineering, and the

facilitation of teamwork. His work has been supported by a variety of funding

sources, including Federal (NSF), Government (USSTRATCOM, AFOSR),

International (CIGREF, ING Group), Private (MindMixer, Woodmen of the

World, Union Pacific), and Non-Profit (American Telemedicine Association).

He has published over 250 refereed journal articles, conference papers, and

book chapters. His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of

Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems

Quarterly Executive, Journal of the Association for Information Systems,

Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Small Group

Research, Communications of the ACM, Group Decision and Negotiation,

International Journal of e-Collaboration, Journal of the OR Society, Human

Factors, and the Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management. He was

named the most productive Group Support Systems researcher worldwide

from 2000-2005 in a comprehensive research profiling study. Currently, he is

on the editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of the Association of

Information Systems, Paradigm, the Journal of the Midwest Association for

Information Systems, Group Decision & Negotiation, and the International

Journal on e-Collaboration. Dean Moez Limayem of the College of Business,

Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and USF System President

Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Kaushik Dutta, Ph.D.

Dr. Kaushik Dutta has been appointed as an Associate Professor of the

Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the Muma College of Business.

Dr. Dutta comes to us from the National University of Singapore as a tenured

Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems. Prior to

joining NUS, Dr. Dutta was a tenured Associate Professor at Florida

International University until July 2011. Dr. Dutta has several years of

professional and research experience in the field of enterprise IT

infrastructure, data analytics and big data systems. In his present research,

Dr. Dutta is handling terabytes of social media dataset on mobile applications

to derive analytics that are useful for mobile ad-tech companies. Dr. Dutta’s

primary expertise is combining operations research and data mining

techniques with Computer Science systems knowledge to efficiently handle

big data and manage large IT infrastructure. Dr. Dutta’s recent work on data

analytics has been published in several leading journals and conferences. In

total, Dr. Dutta has published 27 journal and 44 peer-reviewed conference

publications. He also holds few patents in the area of IT infrastructure and

caching. Dr. Dutta has served as reviewer of many IEEE, ACM and INFORMS

journals and conferences. He is the Area Editor (Database) of Elsevier Journal

of Systems and Software and Associate Editor of Springer Journal of

Information Technology and Management. Combining academic and

industry, Dr. Dutta has total 17+ years of experience in the field of

Information Technology. He has a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from

Jadavpur University, Masters in Computer Science from Indian Statistical

Institute and a Ph.D. in Management (Information Systems) from Georgia

Institute of Technology. Dean Moez Limayem of the College of Business,

Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and USF System President





Engineering

Sriram Chellappan, Ph.D.

Dr. Sriram Chellappan has been appointed as an Associate Professor of

Computer Science & Engineering in the College of Engineering. Dr.

Chellappan comes to us from Missouri University of Science and Technology,

where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. He received a Ph.D.

from Ohio State University in 2007. His research area is in Socio-Technical

Systems with an emphasis on Cyber Security and Smart Health. He also has

interests in Mobile and Wireless networking and Cyber-Physical systems. He

has published seventeen journal papers in high quality venues such as the

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and the IEEE Transactions on Information

Forensics and Security. He has also published thirty-seven papers in

conferences and two book chapters. Many of his conference publications are

in high quality conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on e-

health networking, the IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security and

Trust and the IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications

Conference. His research has attracted significant citations with almost eight

hundred citations and an H-index of sixteen according to Google Scholar. He

is currently the PI on three grants from the National Science Foundation. This

includes a prestigious NSF Career award. The total of his open grants on

which he is PI is over $830,000.00. Additionally, he serves as a co-PI on over

$800,000.00 of Federal funding. Dean Robert Bishop of the College of

Engineering, Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and USF

System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Changhyun Kwon, Ph.D.

Dr. Changhyun Kwon has been appointed as an Associate Professor of

Industrial & Management Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering.

Dr. Kwon comes to us from the University of Buffalo, where he served as an

Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering.

He is currently being evaluated at Buffalo for tenure and promotion, both of

which he is expected to be awarded in the coming early summer months. Dr.

Kwon earned his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania

State University in 2008. He also received his M.S. degree in Industrial

Engineering and Operations Research from Penn State in 2005, and a B.S.

degree in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in South Korea in 2000. Dr.

Kwon’s research focuses on operations research and transportation systems.

His publication record includes twenty-three published journal articles, eight

articles under review, seven papers in refereed proceedings, fifty-five

conference presentations, eight invited seminars, five book chapters and an

edited book. Dr. Kwon is very active in professional societies, including

INFORMS, IIE and MOS (Mathematical Optimization Society) and has served

as a session chair eight times. In the past several years, his research has

focused on risk management in transportation systems, in particular,

hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation. He proposed new advanced risk

measures for risk-averse routing and created a robust optimization model for

routing under data uncertainty. To solve related optimization problems, he

devised efficient computational methods and tested their performance with

realistic road network data. For this research, he has received an NSF grant

for hazmat traffic regulation methods in 2011 and an NSF CAREER award in

2014. The following is a summary of his external grant funding so far. Dean

Robert Bishop of the College of Engineering, Provost and Executive Vice

President Ralph Wilcox, and USF System President Judy Genshaft strongly

support this recommendation.




Fred Mannering, Ph.D.

Dr. Fred Mannering has been appointed as a Professor of Civil Environmental

Engineering in the College of Engineering. Dr. Mannering comes to us from

Purdue University where he served as the Charles Pankow Jr. Professor of

Civil Engineering. He has authored more than one-hundred (100) refereed

publications in prestigious journals in the caliber of Transportation Research

(Parts A, B and C) and the Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention. He has

also edited a widely used textbook, Principles of Highway Engineering and

Traffic Analysis. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals of

Analytic Methods in Accident Research and Transportation Research Part B

(Methodological) and an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part A

(Policy and Practice). He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of

Accident Analysis and Prevention and Transportation Research Part C

(Emerging Technologies). His teaching ability is evident from the Charles B.

Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue University's

highest undergraduate teaching honor. Moreover, he has been funded by a

number of agencies such as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),

National Council for Highway Research Projects (NCHRP) and Departments of

Transportation in Pennsylvania, Washington and Indiana. Dr. Mannering has

advanced the state of the art of statistical and econometric analysis and

modeling, key techniques essential for researchers and students in the field

of transportation engineering. It is strongly believed that he would be helpful

to both the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) and certainly

the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in providing

credentials, research leadership, mentoring, and research productivity and

accomplishments. He will certainly play an important role in motivating

undergraduate civil engineering to consider Masters or Ph.D. studies in

transportation. Dean Robert Bishop of the College of Engineering, Provost

and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and USF System President Judy

Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Xinming (Simon) Ou, Ph.D.

Dr. Xinming (Simon) Ou has been appointed as an Associate Professor of

Computer Science & Engineering in the College of Engineering. Dr. Ou comes

to us from Kansas State University where he served as an Associate Professor

in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences. He has been

appointed as the Peggy and Gary Edwards Chair in Engineering since June

2014. Dr. Ou received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University

in 2005. His research is in Computer Security. In particular, he has worked

on dealing with uncertainty in cybersecurity in his NSF Career grant. Also, he

has done research on the human aspects of computer security and network

security. He has published a number of papers in high quality journals such

as IEEE and JSAC. He has many papers in high quality conferences such as the

40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and

Networks (DSN) and the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications

Conference (ACSAC) where the work won a best paper award. His research

has attracted significant citations with over thirteen hundred (1300) citations

and an H-index of fifteen according to Google Scholar. He is currently the PI

on three grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with over

$3,000,000 in funding. He also has an open grant for over $1,000,000 from

the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Dean Robert Bishop of the College

of Engineering, Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox, and USF

System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Morsani College of Medicine

Edmund Funai, M.D.

Dr. Edmund Funai has been appointed as Vice President for Strategic

Development for the USF System, Chief Operating Officer for USF Health and

Vice Dean for Administration for the Morsani College of Medicine. He was

concomitantly recommended for appointment as Professor in the Department

of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with tenure on appointment. Dr. Funai has had

many accomplishments as a Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University

College of Medicine and is internationally recognized for his many achievements

in academic Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine. He

received his MD degree from New York Medical College (1992) and completed

his residency training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City (1996), followed by

fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at New York University (1998).

He joined the faculty at NYU as an Assistant Professor in 1998, followed by

relocation to Yale University where he served as an Associate Professor of

Obstetrics and Gynecology (2004-2009), with several other concomitant senior

positions, and was promoted to Professor in 2009. In 2011, he relocated to The

Ohio State University with the rank of Professor and Associate Dean for

Administration. He served as Interim Dean at OSU in 2014 before relocating to

USF Health and the University of South Florida. Dr. Funai has been the recipient

of numerous research grants, including NIH R01 and R21, and is the author of 93

peer-reviewed publications, 23 books and chapters, and 117 abstracts. He has

been on numerous grant reviews and has served as an editorial and publication

reviewer. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. The Chair of the

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the members of the Morsani

College of Medicine Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee have

reviewed Dr. Funai’s credentials and recommend the award of tenure upon

appointment. Dr. Charles J. Lockwood, Senior Vice President for USF Health,

Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine strongly supports the nomination, and

USF System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Valerie Parisi, M.D.

Dr. Valerie Parisi has been appointed as Senior Associate Vice President for

Academic Affairs for USF Health and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Morsani

College of Medicine, to commence on July 1, 2015. She was concomitantly

recommended for appointment as Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and

Gynecology, with tenure on appointment. Dr. Parisi has previously held tenured

academic appointments at the University of Texas at Houston, Stony Brook

University in New York, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Wayne

State University related to her outstanding academic and leadership achievements.

We are indeed fortunate to have her join our team at the University of South

Florida. Dr. Parisi received her medical degree from Brown University (1975),

followed by her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California,

Berkeley (1980) and her MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

(2004). She has had many accomplishments and is internationally recognized for

her many achievements in academic Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal

Medicine. She comes to USF from Wayne State University School of Medicine,

where she has been Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

since 2007, and Dean of the School of Medicine since 2010. She has served in many

professional leadership positions in academic and professional societies and is

currently the President of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a prestigious

position that will bring additional recognition to the University of South Florida.

She has been the recipient of numerous research and program grants with federal

funding and is the author of 48 peer-reviewed publications, 11 books and chapters,

and 71 abstracts. She has been on numerous grant reviews and serves as an

editorial and publication reviewer. She is the recipient of numerous honors and

awards. The Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the

members of the Morsani College of Medicine Appointment, Promotion and Tenure

Committee have reviewed Dr. Parisi’s credentials and recommend the award of

tenure upon appointment. Dr. Charles J. Lockwood, Senior Vice President for USF

Health, Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine strongly supports the nomination,

and USF System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this recommendation.




Pharmacy

Mark S. Kindy, Ph.D.

Dr. Mark S. Kindy has been recruited as Professor in the Department of

Pharmaceutical Sciences of the College of Pharmacy. He comes to USF from the

Medical University of South Carolina, where he has been a tenured Professor

since 2002. Dr. Kindy has a positive national reputation as a very competent

researcher and mentor. He presently has a R01-NIH grant, and has been very

productive in his laboratory. He has recently submitted several R01 - NIH grants

for review, and is an active member on study sections with the NIH. Nationally,

Dr. Kindy has been readily visible and recognizable during national research

meetings, and he has numerous publications in impactful journals. He is the

author of 161 peer-reviewed publications, has been on numerous grant reviews

and has served as an editorial and publication reviewer. He is the recipient of

numerous honors and awards. Dr. Kindy epitomizes the culture of USF Health

collaboration. He has promised to effectively create research relationships with

faculty in the Morsani College of Medicine and throughout USF Health in disease

states and laboratory techniques similar to his own. Dr. Kindy has

demonstrated significant accomplishment in the area of academic instruction.

He has actively provided instruction to graduate students during his long and

skillful career. A review of his teaching assignments reveals an academician that

is very engaged with the students that he instructed. His heightened

biochemistry expertise has been very instrumental to providing mentoring for

student learners. Dr. Kindy recognizes the importance of mentoring to student

learners and young faculty, and is excited to continue this high level of

mentorship in the USF College of Pharmacy. Dr. Kindy has exhibited service to

various organizations, the range of which include national, state, university, and

college committees, as well as professional organizations. The Chair of the

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences has reviewed Dr. Kindy’s credentials

and recommends the award of tenure upon appointment. Dean Kevin Sneed,

USF Health Senior Vice President Charles J. Lockwood, and USF System President





Public Health

Troy Quast, Ph.D.

Dr. Troy Quast was appointed as Associate Professor to commence on July

31, 2015. Dr. Quast is currently an Associate Professor with tenure in the

Department of Economics and International Business at Sam Houston State

University. Dr. Quast was first appointed to an Assistant Professor position in

2006 and in 2012 was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr.

Quast has his doctorate in Economics from the University of Florida (2006),

with a Master's in Economics from the University of Texas (1999) and a

Bachelor's in Economics from George Washington University (1995). Dr.

Quast is an accomplished teacher and has been active and successful in

pursuing external funding for his work. Most notably, he is the recipient of an

R03 grant ($147,476) from the National Institutes of Health for "treatment of

displaced, low income children with chronic conditions." Dr. Quast will bring

this grant with him to USF. In addition, Dr. Quast has received funding from

the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the

University of New Mexico and from the Maryland Population Research

Center at the University of Maryland. Dr. Quast has published on the impact

of the ACA on medical loss ratios and quality; the relationship between

aggregate income and mortality rates; emergency department use following

the migration of people from New Orleans after Katrina to Texas; and the

interesting question of the impact of recessions on mortality in Mexico and

the United States. The tenured faculty of the Department of Health Policy

and Management and the members of the College of Public Health

Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee have reviewed Dr. Quast's

dossier and concur with the recommendation for tenure upon appointment.

Dean Donna J. Petersen, USF Health Senior Vice President Charles J.

Lockwood, and USF System President Judy Genshaft strongly support this

recommendation.

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