Experts Directory

The San Diego State University Experts Directory is a rolodex for reporters, designed to assist journalists in their search for subject-matter experts on a variety of topics and academic research areas.

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Kristen Wells

Kristen Wells

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesPsychologySDSU[email protected]619-594-1919

Area of Expertise

Improving the quality of healthcare delivered to underserved populations; the development, implementation, and testing og patient navigation interventions to improve access to care related to cancer, HIV prevention, suicide prevention, and COVID-19 vaccination, among diverse and minoritized populations; mobile sensing technologies and data to understand medication-taking behaviors, predict individual risk factors, and deliver interventions to improve adherence that are needed by the individual at the optimal time, place, and in the optimal context; cancer disparities, cancer care, patient navigation, mobile sensing, medication adherence, HIV prevention, suicide prevention and COVID-19 vaccination.

Wil Weston

Wil Weston

Librarian, Head of Collection ManagementUniversity LibrarySDSU[email protected]619-594-6988

Area of Expertise

Library management, acquisitions, and development of library collections. Information seeking behavior, online research behavior, student retention, student success and student persistence.

Jess Whatcott

Jess Whatcott

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersWomen's StudiesSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Disability history, institutionalization, eugenics, prison history, California history, speculative fiction, Octavia Butler, abolition and transformative justice.

Roy Whitaker

Roy Whitaker

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersDepartment for the Study of ReligionSDSU[email protected]619-594-8613

Area of Expertise

Atheism, humanism, and secularism; pop culture and religion; new religious movements; hip hop studies and religious studies; African American theology and philosophy

Jillian Wiggins

Jillian Wiggins

Assistant ProfessorCollege of SciencesPsychologySDSU[email protected]619-594-2188

Area of Expertise

Brain imaging (functional MRI) research with children/adolescents who have social-emotional mental disorders (i.e., severe tantrums, depression, anxiety), MRI, anxiety, and depression in children.

Shiloh A. Williams

Shiloh A. Williams

Assistant Professor, Nursing Leadership ProgramCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of NursingSDSU Imperial Valley[email protected]

Area of Expertise

health literacy, nursing, rural health, health care administration, nursing leadership, social determinants of health, rural health policy, rural-border health

Carl Winston

Carl Winston

DirectorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementSDSU[email protected]; [email protected]619-594-5254

Area of Expertise

Hospitality & tourism, hotel operations, meetings and events, restaurant operations, tribal gaming, holiday travel tips

Susan Woodruff

Susan Woodruff

Professor and Associate Director of ResearchCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of Social WorkSDSU[email protected]619-594-3475

Area of Expertise

screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), a public health harm-reduction approach to reducing alcohol and drug use.

James Wright

James Wright

Assistant ProfessorCollege of EducationEducational LeadershipSDSU[email protected]619-908-2394

Area of Expertise

K-12 School administration and leadership; Administration and leadership in ethnic studies; achievement gap discourses in education; community engagement and parental involvement in education; race, culture, and ethnicity in K-12 education; inequities and injustices in K-12 school policies, leadership, and education; K-12 school policy and history of school policies.

Tianying Wu

Tianying Wu

Associate ProfessorCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of Public HealthSDSU[email protected]619-594-0969

Area of Expertise

Molecular and nutritional epidemiology; individualized nutrition; precision medicine; red meat and dietary acid load; hypoxia; cancer survival; climate changes; aging-related disorders; health disparities between Asians and non-Asians; secondhand and past smoking, complementary and alternative medicine.

Tao Xie

Tao Xie

ProfessorCollege of SciencesComputer ScienceSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Storage systems, high-performance computing, energy-efficient storage systems, security-aware scheduling, cluster and Grid computing and parallel and distributed systems.

Xiaofeng Xu

Xiaofeng Xu

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesBiologySDSU[email protected]619-594-2279

Area of Expertise

How global change affects terrestrial ecosystems and how terrestrial ecosystems feed back to the climate system by using a modeling approach. Global change, climate warming, soil and trace gas.

Yong Yan

Yong Yan

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesChemistry and BiochemistrySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Catalysis, solar cells, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals.

George Youssef

George Youssef

ProfessorEngineeringMechanical EngineeringSDSU[email protected]619-594-6649

Area of Expertise

metamaterials, design, mechanics of polymers, mechanics of composites, advanced manufacturing, impact, multiscale characterization, solid mechanics

William Zahner

William Zahner

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesMathematics and StatisticsSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Mathematics education, multilingual students, English learners and algebraic reasoning

Bob Zeller

Bob Zeller

Professor and ChairCollege of SciencesBiologySDSU[email protected]619-594-3044

Area of Expertise

Co-Faculty Director of the Microchemical Core Facility, member of the Molecular Biology Institute, the Coastal and Marine Institute, and the Center for Applied and Experimental Genomics.

Zheng-sheng Zhang

Zheng-sheng Zhang

ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersLinguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern LanguagesSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Chinese, Chinese language structure (corpus linguistics, stylistic variation, writing system, dialects), language pedagogy and technology for language teaching.

Mei Zhong

Mei Zhong

Associate ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-4633

Area of Expertise

Intercultural communication, cross-cultural studies (China and the U.S.), international studies, international education

Thomas Zink

Thomas Zink

LecturerCollege of EngineeringCivil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Native habitat restoration and water resources engineering.