New College of Florida Welcomes New Faculty Members

New College of Florida welcomes a new Data Science program director, four assistant professors, and six visiting and adjunct faculty this fall.

Burcin Bozkaya
Director, Data Science Program
Professor of Data Science

Dr. Burcin Bozkaya has been a professor of business analytics at Sabanci University’s Sabanci School of Management in Istanbul, Turkey, where he conducted research on big data analytics; customer behavior analytics and predictive analytics in finance, insurance and telecom; spatio-temporal modeling and analysis; transportation/logistics modeling and optimization; geographic information systems and decision support systems.

He has also been a visiting professor at the Media Lab at MIT, analyzing high-dimensional data sets with millions of bank transactions and customer demographics, Syrian refugee call data records, insurance premium contracts and points of interest.

He received his Ph.D. in management science in 1999 at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a master’s and bachelor’s degrees, both in industrial engineering, from Bilkent University in Turkey.

Kristopher Fennie
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Dr. Fennie was recently a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, at Florida International University.

His ongoing funded research at the Florida Department of Health at Broward includes a community based participatory community health assessment, working with transgender community leaders in Broward County to determine health care needs and priorities of the community; women-centered HIV care practices to identify effective provider and system women-centered HIV care practice; and a mind-body intervention to reduce symptoms among people aging with HIV.

He received his Ph.D., MPhil., and M.PH. in epidemiology from Yale University. He also has a master’s degree in entomology from the University of Alberta and a B.A. in biology from The Colorado College.

Michael Gorup
Assistant Professor, Constitutional Law

Dr. Gorup was recently a lecturer of political science at the Critical Writing Program of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of specialization include political thought and development in the United States; modern and contemporary political theory; the politics of race and ethnicity; constitutionalism and constituent power.

He received his Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. He also has a M.A. in politics and a B.A. in philosophy from The New School in New York City.

Christopher Noble
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Noble has been a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at New College since 2018. He’s also taught at The Ethics Program at Villanova University and Rowan University.

Academic interests include early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, classical Chinese philosophy, medieval philosophy, continental philosophy, ethics. Languages: English, German (speaking and reading), Latin (reading), French (reading)

He received a Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy from Villanova University. He also has a B.A. in philosophy and German Studies from Boston College.

Andrey Skripnikov
Assistant Professor, Applied Statistics

Professor Skripnikov was a postdoctoral associate and lecturer at the University of Houston, teaching graduate-level courses in Statistical Computing and Biomedical Modeling, conducting research in the areas of high-dimensional data and time series analysis. Intended applications include, among others, gene expression data and stock market crash prediction.

He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in statistics from University of Florida and a BSc in applied mathematics and computer science from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

New College also appointed the following visiting and adjunct faculty:

Angela Buck
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Creative Writing

Emily Carr
Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing

Tabea Cornel
Visiting Assistant Professor, Medical Humanities

Tetyana Dzyadevych
Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Language and Literature

Rebekah Jones
Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Levente Pap
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Located in Sarasota, New College of Florida educates intellectually curious students for lives of great achievement. As the legislatively designated Honors College of Florida, New College offers 35 undergraduate majors and a master’s degree program in data science. The 110-acre campus on Sarasota Bay is home to more than 800 students and 80 full-time faculty engaged in interdisciplinary research and collaborative learning.