Professor Philip Shapira
Research Group on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

Industrial Modernization | Knowledge Economy | Regional Innovation | Economic Development | Technology Policy | Policy Analysis and Evaluation

Group Directors
	Philip Shapira, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
	Jan Youtie, Principal Research Associate, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Research Associates
	Dr. Andrea Fernandez-Ribas, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007. Visiting Assistant Professor 2008.
	Greg Laudeman, Program Research Associate, 2001-present. Graduate Research Assistant, 1998-1999. Current position: Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute.
Research Assistants (Current)
	Jue Wang - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2002-Fall 2007. Post-Graduate Fellow, 2008.
	Li Tang - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2005-present. Currently Visiting Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research, Germany.
	Luciano Kay - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Summer  2007-present
	Stephen Carley - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2007-present
	Ashley Kirby - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2007 - present
	Harmeet Singh - MS in Quantitative and Computational Finance, Graduate Research Assistant, Spring 2008 - present
	Sophia Randhawa - MS in Quantitative and Computational Finance, Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2007 - present
	Brian Lynch - BS in Public Policy. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer  2007-present
	Clay Karwisch - BS in History, Technology and Society. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2007-present

Research Assistants - Completed Assignments or Graduated
	Taner Osman - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2006-Spring 2007. Entered UCLA Planning PhD Program, Fall 2007.
	Pratik Mehtra - MS in Quantitative and Computational Finance, Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2006 - Fall 2007
	Erin Lamos - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2005-Spring 2007. National Governors Association, 2008.
	Sharyn Finney - BS in Public Policy. Undergraduate Research Assistant and PURA Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2006 - Spring 2007
	Charles (Luke) McCloud - BS in Aerospace Engineering - PURA Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2006. Entered Harvard Law School, Fall 2007.
	Ajay Bhaskarabhatla - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2004-Spring 2006. Entered PhD Program in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change, Carnegie Mellon University (2006).
	John Slanina - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2004-Fall 2005. Spring 2005 exchange, Delft University, The Netherlands. On graduation: State Science and Technology Institute (2006)
	Yashraj (Yash) Bhawsar- Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Summer 2003.
	Melody Pugh - Public Policy BSPP Program. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2003.
	Aselia Urmanbetova - Public Policy PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
	Deepak Hegde  - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2002-Spring 2004. Entered Doctoral Program in Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2005.
	Kathy Brice - Public Policy Joint PhD Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Summer 2001-Spring 2003.
	Don Changeau - Public Policy BSPP Program. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2002-Fall 2002.
	Alberto DiMinin - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Spring 2001-Summer 2002. PhD Program in City Planning, University of California, Berkeley. Currently Assistant Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa. Italy Web Link
	Sushanta Mohapatra - Public Policy MSPP Program.  Graduate Research Assistant, 2000-Spring 2002. Current Position: SRI International, Washington, DC.
	Enjoo Oh - Public Policy Ph.D. Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2000-Spring 2002.
	Charima Young - Public Policy MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2000-Spring 2002.
	Lacy Taylor - Public Policy BSPP Program. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2000.
	Cliff Lipscomb, Public Policy - Ph.D. Program. Graduate Research Assistant, 1998-2000. On graduation, too position with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of Commerce. In 2005, appointed Assistant Professor of Economics at Valdosta State University.
	Lisa Griffin, Public Policy - MSPP Program. Graduate Research Assistant, 1999.
	Vijaya Perulama (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1996 - 1997
	Harald Seckel, Karlsruhe University, Visiting Research Scholar, 1999 - 2000.  Thesis topic completed: New Public Management in the Field of Science and Technology: The Case of GPRA - Implementation at the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. [ACROBAT PDF 798 KB]
	Callie Ann Waters (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1998-1999. On graduation, took position with the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority in Atlanta.
	Donald Upton, Jr. (Mechanical Engineering) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1998.
	Shane Robinson (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1996 - 1997
	Alisa Tuhganov (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1996 - 1997. Economic Development Consultant. Current Position: Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute.
	Cameron Meierhofer, (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1995 - 1997.  On graduation, took position with TASC, Washington, DC. Current position: PC Data, VA.
	Marc Cummings (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1994-1996.  On graduation, too position with the United States Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, Washington, DC.
	Michael Lane (Public Policy) - Graduate Research Assistant, 1994-1996
Visiting Researchers and Research Associates - Prior Years
	Keisuke Nakao - Public Policy MSPP Program. Research Associate, Fall 2004-Spring 2006.