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Meet the PI-Tech Team

Faculty

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Shalini Misra
PI-Tech Lab Director, Associate Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech in Arlington, Virginia
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Ben Katz
Associate Professor of Adult Development and Aging within the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech
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Patrick S. Roberts
Professor in the Center for Public Administration & Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech in Arlington, Virginia
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Kurt Luther
 Associate Professor of Computer Science & a founding faculty member of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus near Washington, D.C

Current PhD Students

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Muhammad Awfa Islam
Doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech
 
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Katelyn J. Singer
Doctoral candidate within the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech
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Isabel Valdivia
Human Development PhD student at Virginia Tech
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Norhan Abdelgawad
PhD student in Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech

Past Students

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Mackenzie Carney
 Design and Visualization Specialist at Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning based in New York, NY