Research Institutes, Centers and Initiatives

AI at Dietrich College

Block Center for Technology and Society*

Director: Ramayya Krishnan, dean, Heinz College, and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems

Center for African American Urban Studies & the Economy (CAUSE)

Director: Joe W. Trotter Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice

Center for Applied Research on Targeted Violence (CARVt)*

(A joint center with the University of Pittsburgh)

• Executive Director: Susan Baida
• Faculty Co-Director: Mark Kamlet, professor of economics and public policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology
• Faculty Co-Director: Lisa Nelson, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public & International Affairs

Center for the Arts in Society*

Director: Wendy Arons, professor of dramatic literature

Center for Behavioral and Decision Research*

Steering Committee:

• Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy in Heinz College
• George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology in Dietrich College

Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic

Director and Founder: Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and Francophone studies

Center for Ethics and Policy

Director: Alex John London, Clara W. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy

Center for Formal Epistemology

Director: Kevin T. Kelly, professor of philosophy

Center for Human Rights Science

Director: Jay D. Aronson, professor of science, technology and society

Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS)*

Director: Kathleen Carley, professor, Institute for Software Research

Center for Risk Perception and Communication

Director: Julie Downs, associate research professor of social and decision sciences

Center for Shared Prosperity*

• Executive Director: Illah Nourbakhsh, K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
• Operations Director: Marlene Williams

Children’s School

Director: Sharon Carver, teaching professor of psychology and associate dean for educational affairs

CMU-Pitt BRIDGE Center*

(A joint center with the University of Pittsburgh)

• Co-director: Timothy Verstynen, associate professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• Co-director: Julie Fiez, professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

The Humanities Center

Director: Edda Fields-Black, professor of history

Institute for Complex Social Dynamics

Director: Kevin Zollman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and Social and Decision Sciences

Modern Language Resource Center

Director: Sébastien Dubreil, teaching professor of French and Francophone studies, second language acquisition and technology-enhanced learning

Neuroscience Institute*

Director: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, Psychology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center

Director: Ron Yurko, assistant teaching professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science

STAtistical Methods for Physical Sciences Research Center (STAMPS)

Directors: Mikael Kuusela, assistant professor; Anne Lee, professor and co-director, Ph.D. program