The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) at Georgia State University has appointed Adam Pah as assistant dean for digital innovation, effective Aug. 1, 2024.

Pah has led digital innovation in the college since he joined it as the policy analytics lead faculty and clinical associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in August 2023. He has led coordination of the curriculum of the Digital Landscape Initiative across five academic units and the growth of research efforts in policy analytics and computational social science across AYSPS.

“Dr. Pah is an expert in applying computational approaches to understand decision-making in social systems and institutions,” Dean Thomas J. Vicino said. “He is well-positioned to advance the innovation of our work and its impact.”

In his newly expanded role, Pah joins the dean’s leadership team to elevate strategies for innovation in the digital space. He will continue to strategically lead and manage the college’s Digital Landscape Initiative. Additionally, in collaboration with its academic units and research centers, institutes and labs, he will lead the college’s efforts to advance the programmatic areas of policy analytics, big data, data ethics, open science, artificial intelligence and related areas across its portfolio of academic programs and research initiatives.

Pah’s research focuses on data science, complex systems and artificial intelligence and the applications of these methods to better understand decision-making in social systems and institutions. He is a co-founder of the Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation EventS Open Knowledge Network (SCALES OKN), an effort to transform the transparency and accessibility of court records funded by the National Science Foundation. He has won grants and awards from the National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation, Georgia State’s Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Challenge, the Public Interest Technology University Network and the National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Program. His articles have been published in journals that include Artificial Intelligence and Law, AI Magazine and Science.

Before joining Georgia State, Pah held the position of clinical assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management and as clinical assistant professor of law at Pritzker School of Law, both at Northwestern University. He has served as an assistant research professor and associate director at the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO) and as a data scientist with both TTX Corporation and Datascope Analytics in Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences and a Certificate in Biotechnology from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology from Arizona State University.

“As we continue to advance the mission and strategic plan of the Andrew Young School in alignment with Georgia State University’s Blueprint to 2033: Our Place, Our Time, this appointment positions the college to expand our innovative programmatic and research enterprise,” Vicino said.