Meet the Faculty
Interim Dean
Louise Ko Huang, PhD
Vice Provost for Academic Services and Associate Professor, Director, Center for Research in Science; Director, Environmental Studies Program; Faculty Fellow, Honors College
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6481
Fax: (626) 387-5907
Email: lhuang@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 147A
Interim Associate Dean
Tasha Bleistein, PhD
Interim Associate Dean; Director, Online TESOL Programs; Professor, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2414
Fax: (626) 815-3871
Email: tbleistein@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 147D
Professor
Mark Arvidson, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6531
Email: marvidson@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 104
Joseph Bentz, PhD
Professor, Department of English
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3485
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: jbentz@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad, Room 31
Matthew Berezuk, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6502
Fax: (626) 387-5906
Email: mberezuk@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 303
Patricia Brown, PhD
Professor, Department of English
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3775
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: plbrown@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad, Room 28
Enson Chang, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6538
Email: echang@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 116
Charles Chen, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6622
Email: cpchen@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 207
David Dyer, PhD
Executive Director and Professor, MS in Biotechnology Studies
Diana Pavlac Glyer, PhD
Professor, Honors College
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3486
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: dglyer@apu.edu
Office Location: Mary Hill Center, Room 124
Emily Griesinger, PhD
Professor, Department of English; Program Director, MA in English
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3745
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: egriesinger@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad, Room 3
Nori Henk, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages; Director, Ethnic Studies
Kevin Sheng-Lin Huang, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-2175
Fax: (626) 387-5906
Email: shuang@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 304
Soeun Kim, PhD
Director, Graduate Program in Applied Statistics and Data Science; Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2600
Email: soeunkim@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 110
Carole Lambert, PhD
Professor, Department of English
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2085
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: clambert@apu.edu
Office Location: Rose Garden, Room 16
Bryant Mathews, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6536
Email: bmathews@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 108
Bradley McCoy, PhD
Chair and Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6535
Email: bmccoy@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 111
Christopher Noble, PhD
Professor, Department of English and Honors College
Daniel Palm, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Political Science
Windy Counsell Petrie, PhD
Chair and Professor, Department of English
Sarah Richart, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6511
Fax: (626) 387-5906
Email: srichart@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 210
Cahleen Shrier, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6512
Fax: (626) 387-5906
Email: cshrier@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 206
Mary Shepard Wong, PhD
Director, Field-based TESOL Programs; Professor, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages; Fulbright Program Advisor
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3483
Email: mwong@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 169/165
Associate Professor
Michael Dean Clark, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of English
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3102
Fax: (626) 812-3024
Email: mclark@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad, Room 10
Philip Cox, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6518
Email: pcox@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 301
Edwin Ding, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6615
Email: eding@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 107
Douglas Hume, JD
Associate Professor of Political Science and Pre-Law Advisor
Phone: (626) 804-2552
Fax: (626) 815-3868
Email: dhume@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 124
David Miyahara, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3844
Email: dmiyahara@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 114
Lu Ruan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Ethan Schrum, PhD
Director, Humanities Program, and Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science
Phone: (626) 815-4658
Fax: (626) 815-3868
Email: eschrum@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 126
Abbylin H. Sellers, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science
Phone: (626) 815-4514
Email: asellers@apu.edu
César Aroldo Solórzano, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3781
Email: asolorzano@apu.edu
Office Location: Ronald Building, Room 103
Caleb D. Spencer, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of English
Willetta Toole-Simms, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6513
Email: wsimms@apu.edu
Office Location: Carl E. Wynn Academic Center, Room 211
Sándor Volkán-Kacsó, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6614
Email: skacso@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 105
Jennifer Young, PhD
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6517
Email: jlyoung@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 302
Assistant Professor
Aisha Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Kaitlyn G. Fitzgerald, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6529
Email: kfitzgerald@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 112
Elijah Roth, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6501
Email: eroth@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 305
Marian Saleh, MA, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6624
Email: msaleh@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 209
Ryan Somers, PT, DPT
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 6514
Email: rmsomers@apu.edu
Office Location: Segerstrom Science Center, Room 202
Affiliated Faculty
Daniel Horner, MS
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Phone: (704) 778-1422
Email: dhorner@apu.edu
Lecturer
Rodney Ulrich, MS
Lecturer/Lab Manager, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Professor Emerita
Carol “Carrie” Peirce, PhD
Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages
Email: cpeirce@apu.edu
Professor Emeritus
Richard Christopherson, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, TESOL, and Modern Languages
Bradley Hale, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Political Science
Email: bhale@apu.edu
Donald Isaak, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Samuel Sambasivam, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics
Theodore Szeto, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, and Statistics