Adam R Swenson

I had the honor of serving CSUN as President of the Faculty for four years and have spent over 10 years representing CSUN on the statewide Academic Senate (the ASCSU). I have been part of the ASCSU leadership for 4 years and been the Vice Chair for last 2; I am likely to be the next Chair. I spend most of my time pushing for policies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and fighting to protect CSU faculty's control over the curriculum, especially around transfers and GE. I keep my sanity through all of this by teaching classes in ethics and mentoring students on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects.

I maintain a significant research agenda. As a philosopher, I work mostly on philosophical and ethical issues related to pain and pain medicine. With my interdisciplinary research group at the USC Pain Center, I have active projects exploring, inter alia, factors affecting trust between chronic pain patients and clinicians, the clinical utility of genetic markers for pain sensitivity and liability to addiction, patterns in pain patient Twitter use, and the use of artificial intelligence tools in screening chronic pain patients for psychosocial comorbidities.

I'm also starting to work on ethical issues concerning personal data privacy, machine learning/ data analytics, and information security.

Whenever there is any time left over, I write software to help myself teach better.