Inside our Academic Programs:  Meet the Students

Meet our current PhD Students

Discover the breadth of research being conducted by our PhD students. Each profile highlights the student's research areas, current work, and publications providing an overview of the diverse scholarship within our department.

Meet our PhD Students

Dissertation Research

The Department of Technology, AI and Society is dedicated to excellence in research advancing knowledge in technology and science policy, design/planning research in intersecting-socio-technological areas of responsible and societal artificial intelligence (AI); energy and environmental systems; and engineering & technology workforce policy while preparing the next generation of scholars and professionals.  You can view our current and past dissertation defense abstracts.

View Current and Past Dissertation Defense Abstracts

SBU TSM students meeting with DTAS faculty

TSM Connect 2026

Over 40 students in the Technological Systems Management (TSM) major gathered in the CEAS Undergraduate Students Office on September 10 for TSM Connects: Bridging Students, Faculty, and Careers. This was an opportunity for students to network with Department of Technology, AI and Society faculty to ask questions and make new connections. Nicholas Amador and Yoon Yu Yu Ya joined the Career Center to talk through students' career "worries" and brainstorm solutions. A success, students found this event to be insightful, helpful, and a wonderful opportunity to practice networking while building bridges within the SBU community.


Meet our Undergraduate Students
Professor Wolf Schafer speaking about ethics and “computing for good” in his VIP course on Automotive Ethics where the topic of conversation centers on the world of AVs and the ethical decisions these vehicles will make in the future.