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Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in academic program development, learning outcomes, and educational assessment best practices. She focuses on building and evaluating academic programs that promote inclusive excellence for all learners. Currently, Dr. Cullington serves as the Associate Provost of Academic Programs at Sacred Heart University. Previously, she was the Founding Co-Chair of the Honors Program at SUNY Farmingdale and Associate Director of the Research Aligned Mentorship (RAM) Program where she designed, implemented, and evaluated academic programs to engage students from historically minoritized communities in undergraduate research opportunities. She has served as a principal investigator and educational researcher on number grant initiatives, including grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Education.

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Mary V. Villani is an Associate Professor at Farmingdale State College (FSC) in the Computer Systems Department. She holds a doctoral degree from Pace University, the Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. Her dissertation topic was Keystroke Biometric Identification on Long-Text Input. Publications in this area include peer-reviewed journal articles, and a co-authored book chapter, in Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications. Dr. Villani has been actively seeking funding internally and externally to address gender disparity and broaden participation in the Computing Programs at FSC. The money raised through campus grants and other funding sources was used to provide Women Student Orientation programs, and to take students to women in computing events. Dr. Villani has been active publishing and presenting these experiences in an effort to share within the research community and to ultimately broaden participation.  Dr. Villani is the co-advisor of the Supporting Women in Computing Club where she has mentored many women students in the program. Dr. Villani is the recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.

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Nur Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Farmingdale State College in New York. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Hofstra University in New York. With a primary research focus on Game Theory and Social Networks, Dr. Dean also harbors a keen interest in Machine Learning classification. Passionate about mentoring undergraduate students, she has guided many in the realms of Game Theory and Machine Learning. Additionally, Dr. Dean has contributed her expertise as a judge at regional events such as the New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYSSEF) and the WAC Lighting Invitational Science Fair.

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Moaath Alrajab serves as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his Master of Science in Mobile Computing at Bradford University, UK. His undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering was attained from Albaath University in Homs, Syria. Before transitioning to academia, he worked as a software engineer.

Dr. Alrajab's research focuses on Machine Vision and AI. He is dedicated to supporting women in computing and advocating for increased diversity in the field. Additionally, Dr. Alrajab holds the position of chair for the department curriculum committee and is a member of the college-wide curriculum committee.

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Arthur Hoskey is a Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College in New York. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center and received his B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Purchase. Dr. Hoskey worked as a software engineer prior to starting his academic career.

Dr. Hoskey's primary line of research has been around innovative pedagogical methods. One line of research was a collaboration with faculty from multiple State University of New York colleges on a project to explore and develop a semi-standardized and accessible introduction to computer science course (SUNY IITG funded research), focused on teaching computational thinking skills. Another line of research was the development of a simulated operating system, SimpleOS, that allowed students to run basic programs and visually see the state of the simulated memory, registers, and process queues in order to facilitate student learning. Dr. Hoskey has also collaborated with the Farmingdale State College Center for Applied Mathematics and Brookhaven National Laboratory on an undergraduate research program in the area of Signal Analysis. Dr. Hoskey received the 2017 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York.

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Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York. Dr. Aydin's research is in the general area of wireless and mobile networks with a focus on transport layer issues including multihoming, SCTP, congestion control, and network coding. Dr. Aydin has mentored undergraduate and high school students on research projects that involve the use of Arduino boxes and Raspberry Pi's in the context of Internet of Things, and the use of public testbeds such as CloudLab and FABRIC for WiFi and cellular networking research. Dr. Aydin has been a vivid supporter of women in computing and increasing diversity in computing. She has been the co-faculty advisor for Women in Computing club at Farmingdale, contributed in Grace Hopper Celebration as a technical committee member and reviewer. Dr. Aydin has published and presented in peer reviewed venues about women in computing and broadening the participation over a decade. Dr. Aydin is the 2023 recipient of the Farmingdale Foundation Excellence Award for faculty service.

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