Dr Sparks is an Associate Professor in Urban Studies and Planning in the School Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. He received his M.A. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington. His research and teaching interests fall at the intersection of poverty, law, and social policy with a particular emphasis on homelessness and housing informality. He has published several articles on the implications and complications of life in a homeless encampment in Seattle Washington.  His current research focuses on the everyday legal regulation of the bodies, spaces, and habitations of the informally housed in San Francisco.

In addition to the introduction and capstone courses in USP, he teaches courses related to law and urban social policy.  These courses include USP 480: Introduction to Urban Policy and Analysis, USP 513: Politics, Law and the Urban Environment, USP 560: Urban Poverty and Politics, and USP 570 Urban Health Policy.

Teaching Interests

In addition to the introduction and capstone courses in USP, he teaches courses related to law and urban social polity.  These courses include USP 480: Introduction to Urban Policy and Analysis, USP 513: Politics, Law and the Urban Environment, USP 560: Urban Poverty and Politics, and USP 570 Urban Health Policy.

Research Interests

Poverty, Governance, Social Policy, Homelessness. Social Inequality 

Publications

Sparks, T., 2017. Citizens without property: Informality and political agency in a Seattle, Washington homeless encampment. Environment and Planning A, 49(1), pp.86-103.  

Sparks, T., 2012. Governing the homeless in an age of compassion: Homelessness, Citizenship, and the 10 Year plan to end homelessness in King County Washington. Antipode, 44(4), pp.1510-1531.

(Forthcoming 2024) Tent City Seattle: Refusing Homeless and Making Home. University of Washington Press.  Seattle

(2020) With Sheppard, E., and Leitner, H., 2020. World class aspirations, urban informality, and poverty politics: A North–South comparison. Antipode. (Second Author)

(2019) Reproducing Disorder: The effects of ‘broken windows’ policing on homeless people with mental illness in San Francisco. Social Justice  (45 2/3, 51-81)

LinkedIn:

Tony Sparks' LinkedIn Profile

Education

• Ph.D., Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2005
• Ph.D., Mathematics, Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1995
• M.S./B.S., Mathematics,  Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine,1987-1992​

Research Interests

• Time series analysis. Segmentation, and classification of time series.
• Application of statistical methods in different areas of natural and medical sciences, such as neuroscience, cancer research, finance, and oceanography.
• Stochastic processes, Levy processes. Tempered stable distributions. 

Teaching

• MATH 324, Probability and Statistics with Computing, San Francisco State University
• MATH 440, Probability and Statistics I, San Francisco State University
• MATH 442, Probability Models, San Francisco State University
• MATH 449, Categorical data analysis, San Francisco State University
• MATH 449, Introduction to Statistical Learning and Data Mining
• MATH 742, Advance Probability Models, San Francisco State University

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

1. Darkhovsky, B., and  Piryatinska A."Model-free classification of panel data via the ϵ-complexity theory." Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 51.7 (2022): 4073-4086.
2. Piryatinska, A., and Darkhovsky. B."Retrospective technology of segmentation and classification for GARCH models based on the concept of the $\epsilon $-complexity of continuous functions." Data Science in Finance and Economics 2, no. 3 (2022): 237-253.
3. Piryatinska, Alexandra, and Boris Darkhovsky. "Retrospective Change-Points Detection for Multidimensional Time Series of Arbitrary Nature: Model-Free Technology Based on the ϵ-Complexity Theory." Entropy 23, no. 12 (2021): 1626.
4. Lobach, I., Sampson, J., Lobach, S., Alekseyenko, A., Piryatinska, A., He, T. and Zhang, L., 2019. A simple approximation to the bias of gene-environment interactions in case-control studies with silent disease. Genetic epidemiology, 43(3):292-299.
5. Darkhovsky B, Piryatinska A. Model‐free offline change‐point detection in multidimensional time series of arbitrary nature via ϵ‐complexity: Simulations and applications. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. (2018), 34(5):633-644.
6. Dey T., Piryatinska A., Woyczynski W., Ozinga S., and Alberts JL., Quantifying the Complexity of Time Series with Applications to Postural Balance Studies of Parkinson's Patients. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research 10, no. 4 (2018): 301-315.
7. Piryatinska A, Darkhovsky B, Kaplan A. Binary classification of multichannel-EEG records based on the ϵ-complexity of continuous vector functions. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine. (2017); 152:131-9.
8. T.Y. Yen, S. Bowen*, R. Yen, A. Piryatinska, B. Marcher, Glycoproteins in Claudin-Low Breast Cancer Cell Lines Have a Unique Expression Profile, Journal of proteome research, (2017), 16 :1391–1400.
9. Timpe L., Li  D*,  Yen T.Y., Wong J.,  Yen R., Marcher B. Piryatinska A., Mining the Breast Cancer Proteome for Predictors of Drug Sensitivity,  Journal of  Proteomics Bioinformatics, 8 (2015), 204-211. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000370.-
10. Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A. Quickest detection of changes in the generating mechanism of time series via epsilon-complexity of continuous functions, Sequential Analysis: Design methods and applications, 33(2014), 231-250.
11. Piryatinska, A, EEG-sleep study, Wiley Interdisciplinary review, Computational statistics,  5(2013):326-333 (invited paper).
12. Zheng Y., Moore H., Piryatinska A., Solis T., Sweet-Cordero, E.A.  Mathematical modeling of tumor cell proliferation kinetics and label retention in a mouse model of lung cancer. Cancer Research 73(2013), 3525-3533. .
13. Piryatinska A., Woyczynski W., Scher M.S., Loparo K.A., Optimal channel selection for analysis of EEG-sleep patterns of neonates, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 106( 2012), 14-26.
14. Piryatinska, A,  Terdik G., Woyczynski W., Loparo, K.A., Scher, M.S.,  Zlotnik A.,  Automated detection of neonatal sleep stages, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,  95 (2009), 31-46.
15. Piryatinska A, Glazman R., Weichman P. Near-zonal wavefronts and related features of equatorial dynamics derived from satellite altimeter data,   Dynamic of ocean and atmosphere, 45 (2008), 26-45.
16. Terdik G., Woyczynski W., Piryatinska, Fractional- and integer-order moments, and multi-scaling for smoothly truncated Lévy flights, Physical letters A, 348(2006), 94-109.
17. Terdik Gy., Woyczynski W.A., and Piryatinska A. Are Levy flights multiscale? Pure Mathematics and Applications, 15(2005), 323-333.
18. Piryatinska A, Saichev A.I.,. Woyczynski W.A, Models of anomalous diffusion: the subdiffusive case, Physica A: Statistical Physics, 349(2005), 375-424.
19. Tsibulov P.M, Piryatinskaya S., Dmitrieva O.S., Piryatinska A., Pshonkivska I. M., Current Tendencies in Patenting Activities in Different Branches of Ukrainian Economy,  Problemi Nauki, 3, 43-51, (2000) (in Ukrainian).
20. Pavlenko H.,  Piryatinska A, On Representations of Cuntz Type Algebras, Methods Funct. Anal. Topology, 5 (1999), no. 3, 35--39.
21. Piryatinska A., On Unitary Classification of Weakly Centered Operators, Vestnik Tambov University, 3 (1998), 79-83.
22. Piryatinskaya  A.,  Samoilenko Yu.S., Wild Problems in Representation Theory of *-Algebras whose Generators Satisfy Some Relations, Ukrainian Mathematical Journal 1 (1995), 70-78.   

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings and Book Chapters Publications:

1. Darkhovsky, B.S., Piryatinska, A., Dubnov, Y.A., Popkov, A.Y. and Kaplan, A.Y., 2020, October. Complexity of Continuous Functions and Novel Technologies for Classification of Multi-channel EEG Records. In International Conference on Neuroinformatics (pp. 137-142). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

2.Darkhovsky, B.S., Piryatinska, A., Dubnov, Y.A., Popkov, A.Y. and Kaplan, A.Y., (2020), October. The complexity of Continuous Functions and Novel Technologies for the Classification of Multi-channel EEG Records. In International Conference on Neuroinformatics (pp. 137-142). Springer, Cham.

3  Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A., Detection of changes in binary sequences, Proceedings of  Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications - Dresden, Germany, March 2019,  editors: A.Steland, E.Rafajlowicz, ͕ Ostap Okhrin, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics,  157-176.

4.  Rodriguez D*., Piryatinska A,  Zhang X. Neural Forests and Personalized EMG Gesture Classification,  In proc. of the 2016 SAI Computing Conference, London, United Kingdom, July 13-15, 2016.

5.  Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A., Prohorov A., Xia F., The epsilon-complexity of copulas,  Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications ICIEA 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, 17th June 2015

6. Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A., Novel methodology of change-points detection for time series with arbitrary generating mechanisms, Proceedings of  12th German-Polish Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, Wroclaw, Poland, February 2015,  editors: A. Steland, E. Rafalowicz, K. Szajovsky, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics,  122 (2015) 241-252

7.  Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A., New Approach to the Segmentation Problem for Time Series of Arbitrary Nature, Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. The issue is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Albert N. Shiryaev, 287(2014), 61-74.

8.  Darkhovsky B., Piryatinska A., A new complexity-based algorithmic procedures for electroencephalogram (EEG) segmentation, Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB),  2012  IEEE,  1 – 5.

9.     Piryatinska  A., Pavlenko H.,  On generalization of the Cuntz algebras. Symmetry in nonlinear mathematical physics, Proceedings  Institute of  Mathematics, National Academy of Science Ukraine,  30,  Kiev,  Part 1, 2 (Kyiv, 1999), 357—363.

Jeff practices sound and radio art, sound design, directing, producing, writing, and performing, and happily serves as Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. Jeff is a Lynda.com author, founder of Living Sound Productions (in 1980), and has worked at Quinnipiac University, Real Art Ways, The Media Arts Center, and the National Radio Project. Current projects include Into Sonic Space (sound art installations), The Traveling Radio Show (creative radio program), and collaborations with artists working in a variety of mediums. Jacoby has been recognized for his work with an Emmy award and two Emmy nominations, two Crystal Radios, five Broadcast Education Association Best of Competition Awards, and two Ciné Golden Eagles, among other honors. His work has been heard on PBS, NPR, and other venues, including art festivals such as South by Southwest, Black Maria, Festival du Cinéma de Paris, ASIFA East, and in galleries across the country. Jeff lives in San Francisco with the brilliant visual artist Sharon Steuer <www.sharonsteuer.com>. For more information about Jeff visit www.jeffjacoby.net. He also has Facebook & LinkedIn pages, and follow him on Twitter: @professornoize.

I am a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern Europe and its relationship with the wider world. My research focuses on central and eastern Europe, but my writing and teaching more generally look at transcultural trends across Europe and beyond. My first book, Islam, Christianity, and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453 - 1683, examines the construction of Czech identity from the Fall of Constantinople to the final siege of Vienna through discourse about the Turk. It utilizes written and material texts and draws on postcolonial theory to describe the hybrid nature of identity on the peripheries of Europe in this period. I am currently working on two classroom texts - an intellectual history about changes in epistemology during the early modern period and a more general textbook about interactions between Europe and the wider world. My next archival project will look at the construction of artificial fishponds in the sixteenth century in southern Bohemia and the relationship between projects of state-building and land development in the period. My teaching interests encompass a variety of topics, from courses on early modern Europe and the world to global history courses on love and sexuality.

Hamid Mahmoodi received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design in nano-electronic technologies. He has published more than one hundred and  fifty  technical papers in journals and conferences and holds six U.S. patents. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design. He has served on technical program committees of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design, and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.

Websites:
 

Publications

CV:

David Leitao received his A.B. in History (Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College in 1986. After a year at the Harvard Law School and another at the post-baccalaureate program in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania, he went for graduate study in Classics to the University of Michigan, where he received an M.A. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1993. His dissertation was entitled "The 'Measure of Youth': Body and Gender in Boys' Transition Rites in Ancient Greece." He has published numerous articles on Greek adolescence and on the history of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece. In 2012, he published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature.

Watch video profile