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Victor Asal is Director of the Center for Policy Research and a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also an editor of the American Political Science Association Journal of Political Science Education.

He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also, along with R. Karl Rethemeyer, the co-director of the Project on Violent Conflict. Dr. Asal is affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence.

Asal鈥檚 research focuses on the choice of violence by nonstate organizational actors as well as the causes of political discrimination by states against different groups such as sexual minorities, women and ethnic groups. In addition, Asal has done research on the impact of nuclear proliferation and on the pedagogy of simulations. Asal has been involved in research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.

Asal teaches courses on world and comparative politics, political violence and oppression, negotiation and research design. He has worked as a negotiation trainer in a variety of academic, governmental and military settings, and in conjunction with the ICONS Project, created simulations on varied topics. Asal also is a past director of the Center for Policy Research.

Specialization: Information Technology Management

Mila Gasc贸-Hernandez is the Research Director at the Center for Technology in Government and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College. Before joining the University at Albany, Dr. Gasc贸 served as a senior researcher at the Institute of Governance and Public Management (currently known as ESADEgov - Center for Public Governance) and the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, both at ESADE Business & Law School in Spain. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst at the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia and a professor in the Rovira Virgili University and the Pompeu Fabra University, both in Spain.

Mila has considerable consulting experience in the areas of information and knowledge society. In this respect, she has worked for a wide variety of organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the Mayor鈥檚 Office in Valencia (Venezuela), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the City Council and the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Latin American Centre on Management for Development (for whom she co-developed the Ibero-American Interoperability Framework), the World E-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (she was the leading judge for the WeGo Awards), the Inter-American Development Bank, and Google.

Her areas of research are mainly related to information and technology in government and, among other, they include electronic and open government, e-governance, public sector innovation, smart cities, telework, and artificial intelligence in government.

Dr. Gasc贸 holds a MBA and a PhD in public policy evaluation.  She was awarded the Enric Prat de la Riba award for the best PhD thesis on public management and administration, given by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Prager is co-director of the . His research is focused on the policy and economics of disasters and has used computable general equilibrium analysis to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of environmental policy, natural disasters, and terrorism events. Prior to joining CSUDH, Prager was a postdoctoral research associate at USC Price School of Public Policy and Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), working with numerous Department of Homeland Security agencies on different policy analyses.