Rachel Lovell is the Director of the Criminology Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 2007 and joined the Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology at Cleveland State University in 2021. She is an applied criminologist and methodologist whose research focuses on gender-based violence and victimization, particularly sexual assault, human trafficking, and intimate partner violence. She is currently directing large action research projects on untested sexual assault kits in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in collaboration with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office and Akron, Ohio, in partnership with the Akron Police Department, with funding provided by the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.

Daniel J. Flannery is the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. His research has been published in a variety of scientific outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine, Developmental Psychology, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Criminology and Public Policy. He is also author of several books including Violence in Everyday Life (2006), Wanted on Warrants: The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (2013), and the upcoming Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (2nd edition, 2018). His primary areas of research are in youth violence prevention, the link between violence and mental health, and community-based program evaluation.

Dr. Xinyue Ye is the Harold Adams Endowed Professor on Interdisciplinary Built Environment Science Research, Associate Professor of Stellar Faculty Provost Target Hire for Urban Computing at Texas A&M University, where he directs the Urban Data Science Lab. With career experience in urban planning, economic geography, geographic information system, and computational science, his research focuses on geospatial artificial intelligence, big data, smart cities, and urban computing. Dr. Ye models the space-time perspective of socioeconomic inequality and human dynamics for applications in various domains, such as economic development, disaster response, transportation and land use, and public health and urban crime.