Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Nihar Shah is the Head of Data Science at Mysten Labs, where he currently works on questions at the intersection of cryptocurrency and experimentation. He has also worked at Jump Crypto and on Meta's Libra/Diem project, as an economist. Prior to his work in cryptocurrency, he worked on experimentation projects, particularly for Meta's advertising and payments platforms. Nihar graduated from Harvard in 2018 with a PhD in Economics.
Adjunct Professor
Eyal Shahar is a music and art technologist. He develops exhibits and serves as the chief new media exhibits engineer at the Exploratorium. At USF, he teaches the Museums/Technology Practicum. Eyal has a BSc in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University and an SM in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab.
He started his career as a professional musician, working with some of Israel's most prominent artists for over a decade. His software and hardware engineering experience includes…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Disability sciences,
Marriage and family therapy,
Clinical supervision,
Issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Dr. Shankar immigrated to the United States in 2014 to pursue her dream of expanding her knowledge related to working with underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities. As a child of a disabled parent, her clinical and research interests are closely tied to family systemic perspectives of disability. She also served as a speaker at the American Association for Family Therapy's systemic conference where she introduced her ideas of incorporating stronger disability dialogue into the…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Criminal Law,
Criminal Procedure,
Death Penalty Law
Professor Emeritus Steven F. Shatz taught at USF from 1972 until his retirement in 2015. During that time, he was also a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, a visiting professor at Hastings College of Law, and a visiting professor the East China Institute of Politics and Law, in Shanghai, China. Shatz created, and for 12 years directed, USF’s Keta Taylor Colby Death Penalty Project, whose goal is to involve law students in the interim reform, and ultimate abolition, of the death penalty in the…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Chemistry,
Biochemistry
Cayce Shaw received her BS from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and was a four-year starter on the NCAA women's soccer team. She then completed her Ph.D. at University of California, San Francisco where her thesis investigated the biochemical and enzymatic mechanisms of Kdm6a, a lysine demethylase (H3K27me2/3) known to escape X chromosome inactivation in the brain.
Adjunct Professor
Maw Shein Win's most recent poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) which was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and CALIBA's Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Win's previous collections include Invisible Gifts and two chapbooks Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Win’s Process Note Series features poets and their process. Win often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Tech transactions,
IP counseling,
Privacy Compliance (CCPA, CPRA, GDPR)
Jennifer (Jenny) Sheridan is the founder and principal of JLSheridan Law, a Silicon Valley boutique law firm focused on technology transactions, IP counseling and data privacy compliance. She has earned the CIPP/US privacy certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is also the founder of StartUp Law Bootcamp, a training platform for technology attorneys as well as StartUp Law Forum, a knowledge and networking community for technology attorneys. Her…
Adjunct Professor
MaryHelen Sherman is an accomplished Educational Technology professional with a passion for using technology to close the United States educational gap among low-income and underrepresented students. MaryHelen began her career as a teacher with San Francisco Unified School District, it was this experience that inspired her to pursue her Master's in Educational Technology at the University of San Francisco.
After obtaining her degree she quickly rose through the ranks to become an Educational…
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 216
Hwaji Shin joined the Sociology Department at the University of San Francisco as a full-time Assistant Professor in 2007. She completed her PhD in Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, where she received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Between 2008 and 2010, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Japan Fund fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stanford University where she researched and lectured on race and ethnic relations in modern Japan.
Her research…