Members

Parixit Davé currently serves as Director at CUIT for Emerging Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for the operations and projects related to new technologies and works directly with faculty and researchers in support of ETC grants. He provides a much-needed consulting role on emerging technologies to the entire university. He also liaisons with peer institutions and works closely with Educause. In 2018, Parixit co-founded CUIT's Emerging Technology Consortium (ETC), and was appointed as the director.

Prior to this, Parixit was a senior manager and led the group of Academic Technologies at CUIT. This group supported numerous services used by over 36,000 students and 4,000 faculty members. 

Before Columbia, Parixit led systems development and infrastructure engineering teams at Rutgers University for 15 years. There he spearheaded and supported technology projects used by over 70,000 students and 8,000 faculty and researchers. Parixit received his MBA and undergraduate degree in Information Technology from Rutgers University.

HyunSoo (Soo) joined Emerging Technology at Columbia University Information Technology in 2022. Soo oversees the emerging technologies and XR grant program, as well as practice wide XR business and project management.

Soo has over a decade of experience in strategic financial planning, performance improvement, and executive management throughout the private and education sectors. From there, she developed market assessments and growth strategies for healthcare providers. Building upon the experience, Soo became the lead account and relationship manager at one of the global financial institutions. She transferred her skills and passion to Higher Education where helping faculty and researchers is still at the core of what she does.

Soo has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and master’s degrees in Business Administration from the University of Chicago and Educational/Instructional Technology from Columbia University.