Christopher Watts has devoted his entire career to math education. After he was awarded a Math for America fellowship and full scholarship to Bard College, he taught in three different public schools in New York City. During this time, he was granted a Master Teacher Fellowship and was named a finalist for the Big Apple Award, the city’s most prestigious recognition. He was also a classroom specialist for the City University of New York’s Tutor Corps, an experience that placed him in schools in all five boroughs supporting math teachers and tutors who he trained and supervised.

Anneliese Singh, PhD, LPC, serves as the inaugural chief diversity officer at Tulane University, where she is a professor in the School of Social Work and has a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Singh is an award-winning social justice scholar, author, speaker and community organizer who speaks on a wide variety of racial healing, racial justice, diversity/equity/inclusion and LGBTQ+ topics.

Yang Pan teaches advanced data management in the Master of Business Analytics program. She joins A. B. Freeman School of Business from Louisiana State University, where she served as an assistant professor of information systems and taught database management and data analytics in the master's program. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Maryland–College Park. Her research focuses on incumbent firms’ behaviors in the IT industry, responding to new entry threats.

Yue Lu (preferred name: "Zoe") joins the Tulane University from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned her PhD in marketing with a minor in psychology. At the A. B. Freeman School of Business, she will be teaching marketing fundamentals. Lu has broad research interests, including consumer psychology, judgment and decision-making, and subjective well-being. Recently, she has been studying the role of psychological ownership in incentive effectiveness and advertisement design.

Yasaman Hemmat is a graduate of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and attended Tulane for a psychiatry residency. Her areas of interest include perinatal and immigrant mental health. At Tulane, she plans to provide psychiatric consultation for the Louisiana Mental Health Perinatal Partnership as well as outpatient care in the community.

Yatish Hegde is a lecturer in the A. B. Freeman School of Business. He has a wealth of experience leading the system development for research projects in machine learning, natural language processing and information systems domains. Hegde received his MS in information management and CAS in data science from Syracuse University.

Xiang Ji is an assistant professor in the math department at Tulane University. He completed his postdoc training with Marc Suchard at University of California–Los Angeles. He earned a PhD degree in bio-informatics and statistics from North Carolina State University under Jeff Thorne’s direction. He earned his MS degree in material science and engineering at NC State as well. His thesis advisor was John Muth. Before coming to the United States, he earned his BS degrees in physics and economics from Peking University, China.