Experts Guide
Faculty Emeritus
Harney Science Center 442
Dr. Curtis' areas of interest and research in inorganic chemistry include: optical and thermal electron-transfer processes, redox kinetics and electrolyte effects thereon, solvent-solute interactions and second coordination sphere interactions.
Dr. Curtis has received the University Distinguished Research Award at USF.
Associate Professor
Malloy Hall 211
Associate Professor Kourosh Dadgar’s educational and professional background is diverse and interdisciplinary. His training and practice are in industrial product design and manage information systems (MIS) with the flavor of software engineering. His perspective in teaching and research is human-centric, participatory, and value-sensitive.
His teaching philosophy is: explore, think, do, and learn. His classes are organically designed and include interactive and participatory business cases…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Women and media,
Media analysis,
Live journalism performances,
Digital storytelling,
News satire
Keli Dailey has been a journalist for 21 years. Some notable stops on her straight-news path include the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the TIME Asia bureau, and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Keli was awarded Stanford University's John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship in 2013. She also produces news comedy, including her "News Hangover" webseries supported by First Look Media and documentary-theater performances entitled "Surviving…
Executive Director
Kalmanovitz Hall 180-A
Melissa S. Dale has served as Executive Director of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies since August 2012.
Prior to joining the faculty and staff at USF, she served as Associate Director of International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley (Nov. 2011 – Aug. 2012) where she worked in the areas of international relations and development for the entire campus with a particular focus on prospect development and stewardship for leadership and major gifts from the Asia-Pacific region.…
Adjunct Professor
KA 202
Roberta D’Alois teaches business communication at USF as well as at San Francisco State University. Prior to beginning her teaching career, she spent several years in human resources and recruiting. She has a BA with honors in theatre arts from Brandeis and an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University. Roberta was chosen as one of the 2016-17 fellows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where she worked with 30 other artists and change-makers to delve deeply into the intersection of…
Adjunct Professor
Harney Science Center 510A
Expertise: Reputation and recommender systems / Crowdsourcing / Computational Advertising,
Two-sided marketplaces,
Big data predictive analytics
Maria Daltayanni's research interests include reputation and recommender systems in crowdsourcing environments with specialization in two-sided marketplaces (labor, advertising, games). Her patent pending work in developing predictive analytics infrastructure in advertising data warehouses brings together big data and statistical learning. Her recent research in learning unbiased employee rankings (WorkerRank) has been used in labor marketplaces to improve industrial hiring systems. She teaches…
Adjunct Professor
For Professor Damon, teaching math is a second career; before teaching she worked in the finance industry as a bond fund manager. In her spare time she likes working math problems, jogging, hiking, reading, and baking sourdough bread.