From 2010 to 2012, Ben Abdeljelil served as graduate teaching associate at the University of Lorraine, France. Then, he spent several months at the Institute of Research in Computer Science, Mathematics, Automation, and Signal at The University of Haut-Alsace, Mulhouse, France as a research associate. From 2014 to 2019, he taught as a teaching assistant at the University of South Florida. Ben Abdeljelil has taught a variety of math courses, including but not limited to college algebra, elementary statistics, topics in mathematics, precalculus, and mathematics for liberal arts. His research interests include Nonassociative Rings and Algebras, Lie Theory, Deformation of Algebraic Structures, Low Dimensional Topology, Hom, and BiHom-structures. He has published research papers on the Algebras of Generalized Derivations of Ternary Lie and BiHom-Lie Algebras. He is currently working on methods of applying the "Twisting" principle to a more general variety of algebraic structures.

Before joining the UT, Ahmed worked as a visiting assistant professor at Florida Polytechnic University for two years where he taught a variety of courses, including differential equations, linear algebra, pre-calculus and the calculus sequence. His research interests lie in the areas of geometric group theory, combinatorics and number theory. Ahmed defines himself as a group theorist. He earned a B.Sc. in mathematics from Mansoura University in Egypt, a pre-Ph.D. diploma at the International Center for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy and and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of South Florida.

Ahmed loves history, museums and classic Egyptian songs.

Home is where the heart is for UT education alumna Megan Civil. She is glad to be back and now a Lecturer I in the department where her UT experience began in 1998. Her K-12 teaching career and experiences include teaching, academic advising, and student advocacy. The unique combination of grade levels and roles within the school system allowed her to fill a role in the education department as an experienced practitioner, instructor, and internship coordinator. In 2016, she first returned as an adjunct professor. Since 2017, Civil has been a full-time member of the department of education; teaching courses, advising students, supervising elementary interns, overseeing secondary education clinical experiences, and now sponsoring and co-sponsoring campus organizations. According to Civil, "it is an honor to return to my roots with colleagues I admire. It is important for me to use my role to impact change both within our college and across our campus community."

Since 2007, Gourd has taught in computing disciplines. He has taught foundational courses in computing, as well as a wide variety of elective courses that cover data science, cyber security, artificial intelligence, and other applications of computing. In his previous roles as Chair of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering programs, he has developed computing curricula with the goals of retaining students and addressing traditionally underrepresented groups. His current research interests include computer science curriculum development in higher education, cyber threat avoidance, and artificial intelligence. In his role as Chair of the new computer science program at UT, Gourd plans to focus on the program's curriculum development, hiring of faculty, and developing relationships with local industry in preparation for the program's planned deployment in Fall 2021.

Shea Gryglewicz was an Assistant State Attorney for several years prosecuting cases ranging from DUI to Sexual Battery. After Shea left the State Attorney’s office, she continued her career in law by becoming an adjunct professor and teaching Criminology, and Criminal Law and Procedure at the University of Tampa for the last decade. Over the last year, Shea has returned to the practice of law focusing her career on Elder Law and Estate Planning.

Caitlin Kelly is a developmental psychologist who specializes in health psychology. She studies how relationships can help or hurt individuals’ chronic illness management, with most of her work in the area of type 1 diabetes. Kelly loves teaching and had the pleasure of teaching health psychology (with a ‘developmental spin’) and statistics in psychology at the University of Utah. Over the past year, she completed a research post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Essex in the UK, where she also helped mentor students on research projects.

Khyam Paneru’s research interest is in applied statistics and focuses on data visualization, modeling, and prediction. He has collaborated in multiple research projects in different areas such as business, economics, education, agriculture, and teaching and learning. He has authored multiple research articles, presented research in regional, national, and international conferences and mentored multiple undergraduate research projects and received undergraduate research grants. Paneru has taught a variety of courses, including introductory statistics, introduction to R, business statistics, business mathematics, finite mathematics, applied statistics, applied nonparametric statistics, applied regression analysis, applied probability, mathematical statistics, and actuarial exam preparation.

Rhissa Briones Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her current research focuses primarily on juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice with additional interests in racial/ethnic differences in crime across the life course, and interpersonal victimization. Manuscripts in progress include the use of multilevel mixed effects models to estimate the impact of religiosity on continued substance use across gender, and examination of the effects of family disruption (parent death, divorce) on delinquent conduct across gender.