2026 LMU Faculty Fellows
Andrew Forney
Andrew Forney (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with research interests broadly at the intersection of cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and experimental design. While his foundational expertise lies in Causal and Counterfactual Inference for agentic design, he is equally dedicated to responsibly integrating modern AI tools into pedagogy to elevate the student experience. As director of the Applied Cognitive Technologies (ACT) Lab, Dr. Forney mentors students in leveraging their technical skills to tackle complex, interdisciplinary challenges. Notable ACT Lab initiatives include: Briefcase, a collaboration with Loyola's Project for the Innocent to aid lawyers in exonerating the wrongfully incarcerated; Knowledge Grapht, an instructor-driven spaced-repetition app to help STEM students with long-term concept retention; and PostCommit, a tool for instructor-curated, but genAI-assisted, assignment reflections for educational accountability. His work is published in flagship AI venues (NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI) and top engineering education conferences (SIGCSE, ASEE). Locally, he champions student success at LMU, having chaired Seaver's First Year Advising Committee and received the university's Rudinica Award for Teaching and Advising in 2024.
Evgeniya Pyatovskaya
Dr. Evgeniya Pyatovskaya studies organizational communication, leadership, and resilience from critical, feminist, and transnational perspectives. Her work focuses on how communication impacts human flourishing in organizations and communities navigating crisis, uncertainty, and change. She is especially passionate about applied research that can meaningfully support practitioners, including in nonprofit organizations, and organizational leaders.
As a Fulbright scholar and Atlas Corps alumna, Dr. Pyatovskaya brings extensive international work experience to her research and teaching. As an educator and a certified Collaborative Discussion Coach, she is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment where students are encouraged to grow with and through others into compassionate, responsible, and critically thinking individuals.
Amy Woodson-Boulton
Amy Woodson-Boulton (Ph.D., UCLA) is Professor of History in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. Her work concentrates on cultural reactions to industrialization, particularly the history of museums, the social role of art, the history of anthropology, and the changing status and meaning of art and nature. She has published articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews as well as two co-edited volumes, Ruskin After 200 (2025) and Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830–1914 (2008), and a monograph, Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain (Stanford, 2012). She has just finished a book manuscript tentatively titled The Myth of Art: Anthropology, Nature, and Magic in Modern Britain, a cultural history of using “art” to put people in relation to each other, Nature, history, and the future. She teaches modern British, European, and global courses that focus on imperial, cultural, public, and environmental history. She has received the top BCLA service, advising, and research awards, as well as (with Elizabeth Drummond) the university award for inclusive excellence for their joint work transforming the History curriculum. In addition to contributing to multiple university initiatives, committees, and task forces, Prof. Woodson-Boulton has served as History department chair, has been active on the Faculty Senate, and facilitated conversations at the CTE about faculty morale and student health and wellness in the wake of COVID.