About Us
Here is the team behind the Pillar Foundation.
Board of Directors
John Park Ph.D.
Executive Director
Dr. Park is an assistant research professor at Penn State University. His scholarship is characterized by three interrelated areas of inquiry: sustainable development, risk management, leadership development, and STEM workforce development. He received extensive methodological training in the area of organizational psychology.
Garrett Vanhoy Ph.D.
Dr. Vanhoy is a Senior Research Scientist at Peraton Labs. His research interests are in the fields of digital signal processing, wireless communications, software defined radio, and machine-learning. For seven years, he taught undergraduate engineers and computer scientists at the senior level the foundations of making and creating hardware and software for the future.
Nathan Choe Ph.D.
Sustainability Team Director & co-founder
Dr. Choe is co-founder of the Pillar Foundation International. He is currently leading on sustainability-related projects. He is currently a faculty member at George Washington University and holds a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin. He also worked as an engineer at LG Electronics.
International Collaborators
Hiroko Yamano Ph.D.
Director of Japan
Dr. Yamano is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. She holds a Ph.D. in engineering and a master’s degree in life science from the University of Tokyo. She also worked as a project specialist on public relations for the university. Her research areas include network science, computational social science, and technology management of innovation science.
Tiffany Lin Ph.D.
Director of Asia
Dr. Lin is currently a Researcher in the Pharmaceutical Biotech Industry and an Analyst of Biotech Marketing. She got her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences Program at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research experience mainly is focus on Genetic Analysis of Channelopathy & Ion channel electrophysiology in Diabetes mellitus & Cardiovascular Disease.
Melissa Neighbour
Melissa is an environmental town planner, community builder, and sustainability specialist. She is the Managing Director of Sky Town Planning, a purpose-driven town planning consultancy based in Sydney. She has developed and implemented award-winning sustainable development projects across Australia and is on a mission to activate sustainable forms of living in urban spaces.
Mihee Park
Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Mihee Park, MS, has conducted Official Development Aid projects as a researcher or project manager in Southeast Asian countries and East coast African countries. Her major research interests lie in the areas of diversity and inclusion, women empowerment, sustainability education and practice, and multiculturalism.
Andrews Idun
Andrews Idun is a professional teacher with eight years of experience in school management and currently working as a basic school teacher for Ghana Education Service. He received his Bachelor of Education from the University of Education Winneba. Andrews is passionate about empowering his community through skills development and the acquisition of entrepreneurship knowledge.
Ashneet Kaur
Ashneet joined the PhD program at IIM-A in 2018 after the industry experience of three years with the consulting and auditing firm, McKinsey & Co and Deloitte USI respectively. She has extensively worked in the areas of Corporate Finance, Activist Investors, Regulatory Strategy, Growth Strategy, Corporate Performance Diagnostics, Quarterly Reports, Investor Relations.
Seiji Takano Ph.D.
Dr. Takano is an associate professor at Tokai Univ. B.A. from the Univ. of Tokyo, M.A. from the Univ. of Chicago, M.S. and Ph.D. from the Univ. of Tokyo. He is a human geographer focusing on urban development around railroad station. He has engaged in peace education through researching interpreting military and war ruins. Finding and preserving modernization period heritage like abandoned industrial and transportational facilities is also his recent interest.
Staff
Minwoo Kim
Marketing & Branding Strategist
MS in International Management (Northeastern University). As a global strategist, currently working with startups that are based in the USA & Israel and giving them marketing and branding consultation. Creating and implementing marketing and brand strategy in Pillar Foundation Inc.
John Biscanti
Engineering and Applied Science Team
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Tucker Newman
Web Development Team
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Amil Khattar
Marketing Team
Northeastern University
Divyata Gauchan
Web Development Team
Northeastern University
James Dwyer
Engineering and Applied Science Team
Jeewoon Jeong
Engineering and Applied Science Team
Seoul National University