People Group Archives: Affiliate Faculty

Dr. Suman Acharya is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) at the University of Central Florida. With a multidisciplinary background in environmental anthropology, forestry, and climate science, Dr. Acharya’s research examines the political dimensions of environmental change and security, multilevel governance, political ecology, and the intersections of power, […]

Amrit Singh Bedi is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Computer Science. Before coming to UCF, Bedi was a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He worked as a research associate within the computational and information […]

Shaurya Agarwal is currently (2024-present) an Associate Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. He joined UCF in 2018 as an assistant professor and key member of the Future City Initiative. He is the founding director of the Urban Intelligence and Smart City (URBANITY) Lab and currently […]

Barry Griffiths, Ph.D. is an associate instructor in the Department of Mathematics within the UCF College of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Central Florida in 2014. Dr. Griffiths is also an adjunct professor at the Vellore Institute of Technology, and helped in the development of the exchange program established […]

Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Central Florida holding a joint appointment with the NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Santra is the founding director of UCF Materials Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) Center. He has been actively working in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for over […]

Dr. Jahani earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior with a focus on knowledge management and sharing. Dr. Jahani co-edited three textbooks related to research methodology in hospitality and tourism. Dr. Jahani also serves as an Invited Associate Methodology Editor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights which requires her to carefully and timely review […]

Heerak Shah ( Producer / Director / Editor ) is an award-winning multimedia content creator. Some of his most recent and noteworthy accomplishments are his work on a feature-length Bollywood film titled ‘Shiv Shastri Balboa’, a South Asian streaming single-camera sitcom titled ‘Metropark’, a short film titled ‘The Ice Man’, and a music video titled […]

Amrita Ghosh, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of English at UCF. Previously, she was a researcher at the South Asian Center (SASNET), Lund University in Sweden. She also worked on a postdoc at Linnaeus University, Center of Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Sweden. During the postdoc she […]

Lisa Mills is a Professor of Film, Documentary, at the University of Central Florida. She received her BA in English from Jacksonville University (1983), her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Central Florida (1999) and her PhD in Political Communication from the University of Florida (2005). Before entering academia in 1999 she was […]

Phil Peters is a professor in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media. He earned his M.A. in Theatre Design and Technology from the Universtiy of Montana and went on to be a film production designer and computer game producer/designer for over twenty years. Including the Emmy award-winning series Northern Exposure, Peters has been a […]