Cassidy R. Sugimoto

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is the Bess Family Dean and professor in the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an internationally recognized scholar and academic leader whose work examines how research systems are organized, evaluated, and resourced, and how they can be reshaped to advance equity, innovation, and the public good.

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Sugimoto served as Tom and Marie Patton School Chair and professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, she led a successful strategic and philanthropic initiative to name the school in honor of President and Mrs. Carter, securing $10 million in development funds, while supporting a $26 million renovation to house the newly named school. She oversaw growth in student enrollment, the development of a semester-long program in Washington, D.C., and the creation of new interdisciplinary undergraduate minors that connected public policy with emerging areas of science and technology.