Shiori Sasaki is a licensed architect and infrastructure professional whose work centers on geospatial technology, asset management, and the systems that shape the built environment. His experience spans architecture, planning, construction, operations, and maintenance, with a focus on how organizations use information, governance, and strategy to improve the way infrastructure is delivered and sustained. Prior to joining Esri, he supported historic preservation and resilience projects for NYC public agencies, including subway station rehabilitation at the MTA and later, capital planning and geospatial application development initiatives at the Port Authority of NY & NJ. These experiences strengthened his belief in the geographic approach – a way of seeing and understanding the world that brings together different domains of knowledge, grounds decisions in relationships between natural and built systems, and breaks down siloes by framing problems through their spatial, environmental, and social context.

At Esri, Shiori serves as an Industry Consultant and Strategic Advisor, partnering with global AEC firms, infrastructure agencies, airports, and utilities to advance geospatial strategy, governance, and asset management maturity. His work focuses on helping organizations adopt enterprise GIS as a location-centric platform that strengthens operations, connects project delivery to lifecycle asset stewardship and resilience, and supports more transparent, data-informed decision making. He specializes in geospatial program governance, GIS/BIM integration, Digital Twin and digital delivery workflows, and geospatially enabling asset management for asset-intensive organizations. Shiori is a registered architect in New York and Colorado and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union and a Master of Science in Construction Management from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Shiori's CV is available here. 

Sean Cusack graduated from The Cooper Union with a BSE degree in 1998. He has worked on software infrastructure for the past 15 years at Bloomberg LP, Merrill Lynch, and Jefferies & Co. His work has included designing and implementing system-level interfaces, data-mining, and interactive monitoring systems for Bloomberg's Data License product and Merrill Lynch's Quantitative Statistical Arbitrage unit.

In 2011, Sean started working on his venture, Learnosaurus, Inc. As a dedicated instructor and computer programmer, he decided to combine his passions into a service that will convert grade level K-5 homework into educational games. Research and development is currently under way, and now, after having proceeded through a few structural iterations iterations, the company's first round of crowd-funding is expected to start this spring, and the product ready for use in schools by fall 2013.

At Cooper Union, Sean has been teaching CS102, Introduction to Computer Science, in the fall semesters since 2003. In fall 2012, he also ran his first EID364, a cross-school independent study program focusing on Web and App development and project management. And in spring 2013, he will be assisting Professor Eric Lima with his EID103 design course, and teaching classes at the Flatiron School.

Together with a number of students and faculty, Sean helped found the Cooper Union Entrepreneurship Society and continues to be active in the organization, such as helping to organize and livestream their first big event, the Startup Challenge. During the summer of 2012, he ran a student and alumni workshop called Cooper App Camp. Also see the CUES winter 2012 event, Cooper Union I2V.

As an active member of the Cooper Union alumni community, Sean has been involved intensely, especially since 2011. As an elected member of the Alumni Council, he is involved in the Communications and Events committees, and helps administrate social media for the organization. He also is a primary organizer of Friends of Cooper Union, helping to bring the various stakeholder groups of the Cooper Union community together, and currently maintains the community-owned documentation project CooperUnionTaskForce.com.

In his personal time, Sean loves to Scuba Dive. Having explored St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Bahamas, Lake Annecy in France, and the Galapagos, he earned his Rescue Diver certification in Corsica in 2009. He enjoys traveling above water as well, such as to Machu Picchu and Pompeii. On off hours during the week, he co-ran Boy Scout Troop 999 at the Icahn House West homeless shelter. And today he is working to be a budding amateur pianist, performing occasionally at homeless shelters and small private events.

Sue Ferguson Gussow is a figurative painter working in a wide range of drawing and painting media. She is Professor Emerita at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union where she teaches the Advanced Drawing Seminar. She has taught, lectured, or served as visiting critic at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Bennington, Maryland Art Institute, Pratt Institute, RISD, Parsons School of Design, Tulane University, New York University, Alfred University, University of Pennsylvania, the Frick Collection, Stony Brook University, the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Copenhagen, Denmark), the Aarhus School of Architecture (Aarhus, Denmark), and the EPFL School of Architecture (Lausanne, Switzerland). 
 
Numerous museums and collections hold her work, including the Brooklyn Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Art; Seattle Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; New Orleans Jazz Museum; Philadelphia Free Library; Frick Collection Archive; and the Museum of Modern Art lending collection. Her work is represented in the private collections of the CBS Building, Schuyler B. Chapin, Diana and David Rockefeller Jr., Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jane and Morley Safer, and the estates of Dore Ashton, Werner Kramarsky, Van Deren Coke, Carl Djerassi, Jeanette Rockefeller, Werner Muensterberger, and John Q. Hejduk. 
 
Her notable solo exhibitions include the New Orleans Museum of Art (1966); Stanford Museum (1983)—honoring her year at Stanford University as the Pamela Djerassi Visiting Artist (1982-83); a 40-year retrospective in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery at The Cooper Union (1997)—reviewed in The New York Times by Paul Goldberger; and the Center for Contemporary Art (Bedminster, New Jersey, 2015)—reviewed in The Star Ledger by Dan Bischoff. Her most recent solo exhibit at Front Art Space (Manhattan, April 2017) was reviewed in LUXE by Barbara Stehle. A major exhibition of her work will be held in the Houghton Gallery in October 2023.
 
Gussow is the author of Draw Poker (The Cooper Union, 1997) and Architects Draw (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008). A second edition of Architects Draw (B/Gilbert Hansen, Copenhagen) is scheduled for publication in November 2023.
 
In 2017 Gussow was honored by alumni of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, who endowed the Sue Ferguson Gussow Scholarship to be awarded to an architecture student annually. 

View Sue Ferguson Gussow's CV here.

New York University, Ph.D; New York University, M.A.; Columbia University, B.A.