Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Forensic Psychology
Dr. Rafael Padilla is an adjunct professor at USF, exclusively teaching the South Bay MFT students. He teaches Law and Ethics, Counseling Methods, Relationship Counseling, and the Traineeship class during the 3rd year of the program. His area of expertise is Forensic Psychology and he is often in court testifying as an expert witness in Family Court matters. Dr. Padilla has been qualified as an expert on child development, child custody, parenting plans and many other categories.
Director, Data Science Partnerships
Expertise: Natural language processing,
Deception
Victor received his master's degree in data science from the University of San Francisco and is currently working in the same field at the University of San Francisco as the Director of Data Science Partnerships. He teaches and mentors courses on data science, machine learning, Python, and KNIME. His initial projects and interests were in the deception detection space and also in health care, but originally his love of data science blossomed from natural language processing in the translation…
Associate Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 220
Jeffrey Paller specializes in African politics and sustainable urban development. His current research examines 1) the contentious politics of African urbanization, 2) the building of sustainable neighborhoods in African cities, and 3) political change and local governance in emerging cities. His first book Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2019. He also curates the weekly news bulletin “This Week in Africa.”
Adjunct Professor
Mrs. Karolyn K. Palmer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#38766) and a Credentialed School Counselor. She currently is a School Counselor at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California and is a psychotherapist at Lafayette Family Counseling. She focuses her private practice on providing children, adolescents, and adults individual, family, and group psychotherapy. In her nineteen years of professional experience, she has gained specialized knowledge and training in the areas of…
Adjunct Professor
Mei-Chen Michelle Pan received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Michigan. With an interdisciplinary background, she is interested in theories and cultural productions/practices that cross national and language boundaries. She has written about trans-colonial Taiwan, female writers in modern Chinese and Japanese literatures, museum space/narratives and identity.
She is also a translator and a full-time staff at USF.
Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Kalmanovitz Hall 180
Jeff Paris joined the USF faculty in 2001 when he left a teaching position at the California State University at Bakersfield. He received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, later serving as the Department of Philosophy chair (2010-2013) and the Environmental Studies program director (2016-2018). He was appointed as Academic Assistant Dean (2018-2019), then as Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities (2019-2023), and currently as Acting Dean for the College of Arts &…
Professor
Malloy Hall 220
Professor Sun-Young Park draws from her extensive academic and professional expertise in strategy, corporate social responsibility, branding, and marketing. She strives to help her students develop and practice more sustainable business models.
As a former management consultant for a leading multinational firm, Dr. Park has advised global companies and national government agencies in both the Asia Pacific and U.S. Additionally, she produced financial and marketing assessment reports to evaluate…
Professor
Malloy Hall, Room 307
Expertise: Negotiation and Bargaining,
Team Dynamics,
Self-as Instrument,
Consulting Practices,
Mindful Leadership
Professor Jennifer Parlamis's academic career has centered on pioneering social-psychological research in the areas of negotiation, conflict resolution, communication, and organization dynamics. Specifically, she studies the impact of technology on negotiation outcomes and the role of anger and incompetency emotions in negotiation and conflict contexts. In addition, she has written on ageism in organizations as well as negotiation pedagogy.
She employs the latest scholarly research to help…
Faculty Emeritus
101 Howard 607
Expertise: Software engineering,
Programming language design and implementation,
How programmers communicate with machines to build new software
Terence is a professor of computer science and is the creator of the ANTLR parser generator. He herded programmers and implemented the large jGuru developers web site, during which time he developed and refined the StringTemplate engine. Terence has consulted for and held various technical positions at companies such as IBM, Lockheed Missiles and Space, NeXT, and Renault Automation. Terence was an expert witness for Google in the Oracle v Google Android lawsuit. His passion is writing software.