Experts Guide
Professor
Masonic 217
A professor at the USF since 1997, Dr. Howell was the first full time professor hired into the Sport Management Master's program where he has taught numerous courses that focus on the intersection of sport, culture and commerce. He has since held multiple roles at the institution. In 2010 he was part of a three-member Interim Athletic Director team that oversaw all operations of USF's Athletic Department. He is currently the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, a member of the Athletics…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 281
Expertise: Rhetoric and Writing Studies,
Cultural Studies
Nicole Gonzales Howell received her MA from California State University, Fresno and earned her PhD from Syracuse University in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric. In 2014 Nicole was selected as one of the Ethnic Minority Dissertation Fellows at the University of San Francisco (now the Gerardo Marin Dissertation Fellows). Currently, Nicole is a full-time associate professor in the Rhetoric and Language department and teaches several Written Communication and Public Speaking courses. Additionally,…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Governance,
Planetary & Ecosystems Health,
Global Health Policy,
Health Systems Strengthening and Resilience Building
Dr. Lee-Nah Hsu, upon returning to the United States in 2016, is an adjunct faculty at the School’s Public Health Program. Prior to joining the University, she worked with the United Nations on developing health and social policies and programs in Africa, Asia, Americas and Europe. She combines her global health, legal and epidemiology expertise to promote transdisciplinary solutions in addressing the challenges of planetary health. In addition to doctoral degrees in Juris Prudence, and in…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Data Engineering,
Data Science,
Machine Learning,
Data Visualizations
Stephen Hsu is a Solutions Architect helping companies end-to-end data projects with experience deriving insights from data to augment decisions in industries such as finance, retail, and healthcare. His direct experience as key data personas in data analysis, data engineering, and data science bring industry knowledge as well as experience in his user-focused projects, hackathons, and data-driven consultations.
Stephen specializes in data visualization, predictive modeling, and communication…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: HIV and Hepatitis C Clinical Care,
Primary Care/Mental Health Integration,
Behavioral Medicine,
Clinical Health Psychology,
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dr. William Hua is an adjunct professor and teaches for the MPH and PsyD programs; his courses include a focus on integrated behavioral health, integrated care, and psychotherapy. He is a clinical health psychologist with the San Francisco VA health care system and has a strong emphasis on work with diverse and stigmatized populations and is dedicated to providing culturally humble care and treatment.
Dr. Hua received his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine at the…
Assistant Professor
Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor of Nursing appointed to teach Adult Health Nursing at the baccalaureate level. His teaching experience includes working with pre-licensure (BSN and MSN-CNL) students and MS Family Nurse Practitioner students. Working as a bedside nurse and as a nurse practitioner, Dr. Huang recognized how social determinants of health could disproportionately affect patient outcomes, prompting him to pursue his Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. His doctoral dissertation…
Professor
Harney Science Center G42
Expertise: Cosmological analysis,
Machine learning/AI appplications,
Search for strong gravitational lenses in imaging surveys with machine learning,
Strong gravitational lens modeling,
Supernova spectroscopy
Xiaosheng Huang leads a research team, with mostly undergraduate students, that has found the largest number of strong gravitational lens candidates using cutting-edge machine learning techniques. He leads large-scale observation programs for high resolution and spectroscopic confirmation of these candidates. His team has also developed the fastest lens modeling code, GIGA-Lens. He is the PI and Co-I of a number of significant programs on the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space…
Assistant Professor
Cowell Hall 409
Expertise: Nurse Practitioner, Urgent Care,
Quality Nurse Consultant, Virtual Nursing Team,
Clinical Nurse, Emergency Department
Dr. Hubbell is the program director for the undergraduate nursing program and has taught in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs at USF since 2017, including courses on evidence-based practice and health assessment. She currently teaches Applied Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology I in the BSN program. Dr. Hubbell's scholarly work has focused on advance care planning and improving end of life care, particularly for homeless and underserved populations.
Instructor
Harney Science Center 122B
Renee Brunelle Hubert has been fascinated by mathematics since a very young age. After graduating magna cum laude from USF with a BS in mathematics in 1994, she attended UC San Diego on a Cota Robles Fellowship, earning an MA in mathematics in 1997 with emphases in complex analysis and abstract algebra. She currently specializes in making mathematics accessible and exciting to non-majors, and investigating ways to integrate technology into the learning experience.