All Faculty Experts

Yuting (Tina) Chen, F.ASCE has been working as a tenure track assistant professor at UNC Charlotte since Fall 2021. Before she joined UNC Charlotte, she worked as a postdoc researcher in Purdue University-West Lafayette and focused research on applying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to construction safety inspection on site.

Bill Chu, founding chair of the Department of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity research and education. 

Yongqiang Chu is the Childress Klein Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics and professor of Finance in the Belk College of Business.

Tyler Cline is a digital archivist and assistant professor at Atkins Library. His work centers around preserving and providing access to the sources of history. He completed a Master of Arts in Public History in 2011.

Heather Coffey, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education and serves as director of the UNC Charlotte Writing Project and the UNC Charlotte Teaching Fellows. Coffey's primary teaching responsibilities include graduate English language arts methods as well as service-learning courses.

Devin Collins is interim executive director of Ventureprise, UNC Charlotte’s innovation and entrepreneurship center serving the campus and Charlotte region as a center of excellence for evidence-based entrepreneurship.

John Connaughton joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1978. He is the director of the Barings/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast, which is recognized as the leading source of economic information for North Carolina. Dr. Connaughton has authored economic impact studies that have received widespread attention.

Lynne Conner, Ph.D., is a cultural historian, stage director and playwright.Her plays and adaptations have been produced at theatres across the United States. Her most recent play, "The Mother," is a 2018 and 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference semifinalist.

James M. Conrad completed a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and master's and doctorate degrees in computer engineering from North Carolina State University. He is currently a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Karen L. Cox, Ph.D., is a professor of History and the founding director of the graduate public history program. She offers a variety of courses in Southern history and culture and graduate electives in public history.