Experts Guide

Associate Professor
Ben Levy is a cognitive neuroscientist who received his PhD from the University of Oregon. His research focuses on memory and cognitive control, with a particular interest in understanding why we forget. He teaches biological psychology, research design, and learning, memory and cognition.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Todd Lewis has a BA in Speech Communications and an MA in TESOL from San Francisco State University. He has taught AEM in private institutes, City College of San Francisco and Academy of Art University in addition to teaching EFL in Mexico, Taiwan, and Costa Rica. Spanish is his second language while his Chinese language skills remain a third language option. He also works in TESOL teacher training, computer assisted language learning, Spanish literacy, and curriculum development, presenting at…
Associate Professor
Kendrick Hall 311
Tiffany Li is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she teaches intellectual property and technology law courses. She is also a Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Li is an expert on privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology platform governance. She regularly appears as a legal commentator in national and global news outlets, and she has written for popular publications including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Landscape design, Landscape infrastructure, Participatory design, Drawing and representation
Yu-Chung’s diverse background exposes him to the intersecting relationships among humans and nature, science and art, logic and intuition, at various scales. He passionately explores the possibilities in shaping our world and brings them into reality with thoughtful details. His design philosophy focuses on people. Design is not only the beautiful backdrop of human activity; it is the essential wheel driving life-changing economic and social improvements.
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 341
Dr. Zhiqiang Li is a professor of Chinese and director of the Chinese Studies minor program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of San Francisco. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT.  Professor Li is a linguist. His research expertise includes several areas, including phonology, acoustic phonetics, Chinese linguistics, and language pedagogy. He has conducted research on phonological prominence in tone sandhi, the interaction of tone and intonation in…
Associate Professor and Chair of the Justice for Animals Program
Kendrick 312
Expertise: Animal law, Professional responsibility/Legal ethics, Law & social movements
Professor Matthew Liebman joined the USF faculty in 2020 as the endowed Justice for Animals chair and as an associate professor of law. Before coming to USF, Matthew practiced law for 12 years with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, including three years as the organization’s director of litigation. At ALDF, Professor Liebman litigated a wide variety of animal protection issues, including cases to defend the First Amendment rights of activists and to establish fundamental legal rights for nonhuman…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 261
Expertise: Photojournalism, Photo editing, Visual story telling, Journalism education
Jessica Lifland is a Bay Area-based photographer, editor and instructor with 20 years of experience as a photojournalist working all over the United States and internationally in such places as Kosovo, Burma, Italy, The Middle East, and Africa. Her work has been published nationally and internationally in publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Le Monde and National Geographic. She has done non-profit work with organizations such as Operation Smile and The California Health Care…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Web Development, Cloud Computing, Microservice Architecture, Enterprise Software Development
Mario Lim teaches Software Development Life Cycle & Best Practices, Bridge Project, and Cloud Computing. Mario Lim has worked in the Silicon Valley since graduating from USF. He has led engineering teams for two successful start-ups which were later acquired by Entrust and Oracle. He’s worked extensively in the areas of single sign-on systems and identity management systems. Currently, Mario is a founder and CTO at Openprise, a SasS startup in San Mateo, CA., specializing in data…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Collaborative courts, Program development and implementation
Wyatt Lim-Tepper is the President and Founder of A Curiae, a 501c3 non-profit organization based in San Francisco. He has extensive experience working with the reentry population, collaborative courts, and program implementation, having overseen the Reentry Court and the Conviction Alternatives Program in the Northern District of California. He has presented for various courts, national conferences, and judicial events. Wyatt has a passion for working at the intersection of criminal justice,…