Celebrating Arthur Paul Pedersen’s Promotion to Tenure-Track Faculty at CCNY

Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CREST Institute), has been promoted to tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The City College of New York (CCNY) and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), starting during the fall 2025 semester. Pedersen is co-director of the intel investigations Lab (i2Lab) at The CCNY, which, in partnership with Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, is dedicated to advancing intelligence research and workforce development through interdisciplinary scholarship, applied research and practice.  

In addition to the CUNY Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and M.S. & Advanced Certification Programs in Data Science, Pedersen has been appointed faculty of the M.S. Program in Cybersecurity and the M.S. Program in Data Science & Engineering at The City College of New York. Pedersen conducts research at the interface of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, probability and statistics, logic and computation, decision and game theory, and network science. 

His current research focuses on fundamental and applied problems in natural language inference and human-machine interaction, theoretical and methodological foundations of artificial intelligence, and social network and economic modelling and analysis. Current application areas include intelligence analysis and tradecraft, cybersecurity threat modeling and risk assessment, forensic handwriting identification and analysis, art authentication and attribution, forensic expert testimony and reporting, and social and strategic information forecasting and network design. A related thread of his scholarship targets the theoretical and methodological foundations of artificial intelligence vis-à-vis scientific inference, especially in connection with the theory of measurement. A driving force of the research efforts by Pedersen is his deep interest in theoretical and practical problems for reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, especially under conditions owing to incomplete or contradictory information, under conditions of unresolved conflict or competing interests, or under conditions of limited time, cognitive capacities, or computational resources. 

Pedersen has designed a new graduate course, Open-Source Intelligence: Investigations Practicum, to be offered during the spring 2026 semester. Pedersen is eager to foster deeper interdisciplinary collaborations across the CREST community to advance meaningful, innovative solutions to hard, real-world problems.

CREST congratulates Dr. Pedersen on this well-deserved milestone.