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Nevine El NosseryView profile

Professor

• Francophone Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Women's Writing
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Nevine El Nossery is a Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, affiliated with the Department of French and Italian within the College of Letters and Science. Her research spans Francophone studies, postcolonial theory, women’s writing, and the intersections of art and politics, with a regional focus on North Africa and the Middle East. Her research interests center on gender, memory, and resistance in postcolonial Francophone contexts. She explores how women writers and artists challenge political and cultural taboos, particularly during revolutionary periods such as the Arab Spring. Her work emphasizes the role of literature and visual culture in reconstructing historical trauma and redefining national and personal identity. The 15 most recent publications reflect a sustained engagement with themes of transgression, memory, and feminist activism in North African and diasporic contexts. Her scholarship frequently examines the interplay between text and image, the ethics of representation, and the narrative strategies used to articulate silenced histories. She has published extensively on authors like Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey, and Ken Bugul, as well as contemporary visual activists such as Zainab Fasiki. Scientific Awards: Vilas Associates Research Fellowship Award 'Women, Art, and Revolution' (2019-21) UW Fall 2017 Honored Instructor Award National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (2014) European Studies Alliance course development grant (2012) Course development grant, International Association for Quebec Studies (2011) European Studies Alliance course development grant, UW-Madison (2011) Resident Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison (2010) Dr. El Nossery has secured multiple competitive grants supporting course development and research in Francophone and North African studies. While specific advisees are not listed, her mentorship is evident through her editorial work, collaborative research, and leadership in academic initiatives. She has also contributed to public scholarship through her documentary film She was at Tahrir Square , which highlights women’s voices during the Egyptian Revolution. She is associated with interdisciplinary research initiatives at UW-Madison, including the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the European Studies Alliance, reflecting her commitment to collaborative and transnational scholarship.

• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Affective Computing
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Antonio Fernández-Caballero is a Full Professor at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos , with a career spanning since 1996. His academic contributions focus on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Human-Computer Interaction. Primary affiliation: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Department: Sistemas Informáticos Academic rank: Professor His research interests include affective computing, machine learning, computer vision, and applications in healthcare and smart cities. He has published extensively on emotion recognition using EEG/fNIRS signals, robot gesture interpretation for autism therapy, and domain-specific generative AI for medical simulations. Recent publications highlight his work in extended reality for rehabilitation, IoT solutions for elderly care, and systematic reviews on deep learning for defect detection and smart city societal aspects. Collaborations span institutions in Spain and Portugal, with cross-disciplinary applications in medical informatics, robotics, and smart environments.

• Psychology
• Human Geography
• Economics
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Tilmann von Soest is a Research Professor at OsloMet – Storbyuniversitetet , affiliated with the Youth Research group under the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (Norwegian Social Research). His work spans psychology, social sciences, and public health, with a focus on adolescent development, mental health, and the social determinants of behavior. Current affiliations: OsloMet – Storbyuniversitetet (Research Professor, Youth Research) Research interests: Adolescent sexuality, mental health disparities, socioeconomic influences on psychological outcomes, trauma, and longitudinal developmental studies Recent publications highlight his engagement with longitudinal analyses of self-esteem, internalizing symptoms, and financial stress. His work also explores digital media's impact on youth sexuality and risks, alongside neurodevelopmental markers in internalizing disorders. The majority of his 2025 articles employ population-based datasets, emphasizing social and psychological trajectories from adolescence into midlife. Scientific awards: None explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Dr. von Soest is involved in projects like DIGISEX (Youth Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Digital Era) and studies on adolescent work values' long-term social impacts. His research often intersects psychology with epidemiology and social medicine, utilizing multimodal data and national cohort studies.

Kristopher L. CannonView profile

Teaching Professor

• Queer Theory
• Digital Media Studies
• Visual Culture
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Kristopher L. Cannon serves as a Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, specializing in the intersection of new media technologies, visual culture, and queerness through theoretical frameworks of digitality and phenomenology. Education: PhD in Moving Image Studies, Georgia State University (completed August 2013) Dr. Cannon's research interrogates how mediated objects refigure bodily and ontological visibility through aesthetics of failure, employing queer theory and object-oriented ontology. His seminal dissertation "Oblique Optics: Seeing the Queerness of Ec-Static Images" pioneered oblique methodologies for analyzing visual culture beyond surface-level representation. Current work expands into digital bodies, sonic visibility, and non-human ontologies, maintaining consistent focus on failure aesthetics across media studies, queer theory, and technology. His publications span interdisciplinary journals including Spectator , Critical Studies in Media Communication , and Deleuze Studies , alongside the edited collection Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media . Scientific awards: None documented in source materials. Advising and grants: Source texts indicate active PhD/Master's student mentorship through courses like MSCR3700: Queer Media, though specific advisee names and grant details remain unreported. Recent public engagement includes August 2024 commentary on Netflix release cycles for Communication Studies. Labs and teams: No dedicated research laboratories or collaborative teams specified in available documentation.

Hildegard FrauenederView profile

Senior Lecturer

• Art History
• Gender Studies
• Post-War Period in Austria
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Hildegard Fraueneder is a Senior Lecturer for Art History at Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she has taught since 1995. She serves as Deputy Senate Chair and leads the program director of "Figurations of Transition" at the Science & Art Cooperation Center. Her affiliations include the Department of Fine Arts and Design and the Institute for Open Arts. University of Salzburg Salzburg University of Applied Sciences University of Art and Design Linz Hildegard Fraueneder's research focuses on post-war Austria, housing and living arrangements after 1945, and gender studies in art history. She explores femininity and heroism through interdisciplinary projects and has led initiatives like the research group Art and the Public Sphere. Her work often intersects art history with socio-political discourse. Her publications and conferences address themes like public art controversies, feminist art narratives, and cultural memory. Notable works include analyses of Salzburg's urban art spaces, Nazi-era art recontextualization, and gender dynamics in Austrian art history. Hildegard Fraueneder has organized significant academic events, including the Austrian Congress of Art Historians (2003), "Conflict Areas of Contemporary Art" (2015), and lecture series on gender studies. She actively participates in curricular committees and gender-focused academic initiatives.

Justus ThiesView profile

Professor

• Computer Graphics
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
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Justus Thies is a Professor at the Technical University Darmstadt (since September 2023), leading research at the intersection of computer graphics , computer vision , and machine learning . His work focuses on real-time 3D reconstruction, tracking, and photorealistic rendering of humans and environments using commodity hardware, with applications in AR/VR , movie production , and 3D telepresence for collaborative virtual environments. Current faculty member at Technical University Darmstadt Research themes: 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, hybrid machine learning/Graphics methods Applications: AR/VR, telepresence, human-environment modeling His research emphasizes neural rendering and deep learning approaches for facial and body modeling, including projects like GEM (Gaussian Eigen Models), SynShot (synthetic prior inversion), and TeCH (text-guided clothed human reconstruction). Collaborations include institutions like Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Google . Key trends in his recent publications include: neural Gaussian splatting for real-time avatars, diffusion models for speech/audio-driven animation, and hybrid approaches that combine classical computer graphics principles with modern machine learning techniques. These methods address challenges in generalizability , controllability , and editability of 3D representations. Notable research contributions since 2014 include advancements in monocular facial reconstruction , real-time expression transfer , and neural rendering techniques that enable 3D scene synthesis from unpaired or sparse data. His work has received significant recognition, including Face2Face featured in Communications of the ACM (2019) and multiple publications at top venues like CVPR , ECCV , and SIGGRAPH .

• Early Buddhism
• Buddhist Art
• Gandharan Studies
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Jessie Pons is a Professor for South Asian History of Religions at Ruhr University Bochum's Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES). With expertise in art history and archaeology, her work bridges religious studies with material culture analysis, particularly focusing on Gandharan Buddhist art and its cross-cultural interactions. Trained at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), École du Louvre, and University of Paris Ph.D. in Art History from University of Paris-Sorbonne (2011) on early Buddhist art from Gandhara Current faculty member at Ruhr University Bochum since 2016 Her research explores: Intersections between religion and art Materiality in South Asian religious experiences Preservation discourses of religious heritage Digital methodologies for cultural documentation Inter-religious dynamics in South Asia Cultural appropriation of religious sites Recent publications and projects (2018-2024) demonstrate her commitment to: Digitization of Gandharan artefacts (DiGA project) Development of linked data methodologies Stylistic analysis of Buddhist art Preservation of South Asian cultural heritage Interdisciplinary approaches to religious materiality Historical Buddhist networks and communication She supervises doctoral research on topics including: Material culture of sacred spaces in South India Jain funerary monuments Colonial context of medical collections Cultural plurality in Central Asia

Karsten Ulrik NissView profile

Part-Time Lecturer

• Health Informatics
• Telemedicine
• Medical Information Systems
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Karsten Ulrik Niss is a part-time lecturer at Aalborg University's Faculty of Medicine, specifically within the Department of Health Science and Technology and the Danish Centre for Health Informatics. His work focuses on healthcare IT systems, organizational development, and telemedicine implementation. Research Interests: Telehealth systems, EHR integration, medical imaging informatics, organizational change in healthcare Key Expertise: Stakeholder analysis, clinical workflow optimization, medical IT evaluation His research explores the intersection of technology and human factors in healthcare settings, particularly through network analysis of telehomecare systems and bottom-up organizational development approaches. Recent publications examine video consultations for specialized treatments and systemic impacts of PACS/RIS implementations. Notable contributions include the MIEMIS framework for medical information system evaluation and studies on EHR implementation challenges. His work spans both theoretical modeling and practical case studies across multiple medical domains.

Shefali Setia VermaView profile

Assistant Professor

• EHR genomics
• bioinformatics
• data integration
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Shefali Setia Verma, PhD serves as an Instructor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , holding an entry-level faculty appointment that combines teaching and translational research responsibilities. Education & Training: While specific degrees are not detailed in the provided text, her credential as “PhD Instructor” indicates doctoral-level training followed by post-doctoral or fellowship experience in computational biology, genomics, or a related quantitative biomedical field. Research Interests: Dr. Verma’s work is anchored at the intersection of genomics, bioinformatics, and women’s health . Core themes include: Integration and harmonization of large-scale electronic health record (EHR) data with genomic datasets to uncover disease mechanisms. Development and validation of polygenic risk scores (PRS) across diverse ancestries, with special attention to African and other under-represented populations. Translational application of multi-omics (genomics, proteomics, imaging-derived phenotypes) to complex diseases such as endometriosis, primary open-angle glaucoma, coronary microvascular disease, and cardiometabolic traits . Her methodological toolkit spans genome-wide association studies (GWAS), exome sequencing analyses, machine-learning-based risk modelling, and causal inference approaches , all aimed at advancing precision medicine. Publication Portfolio: Across 2024–2025 she has authored or co-authored more than thirty peer-reviewed articles. The collective body of work demonstrates a clear trend toward (1) expanding genomic discovery in ancestrally diverse cohorts, (2) integrating imaging or proteomic endophenotypes with germline genetics to sharpen disease prediction, and (3) translating these insights into clinically actionable tools for women’s health conditions such as endometriosis, preeclampsia, and breast cancer. Scientific Awards & Recognition: No specific prizes, fellowships, or named lectureships are mentioned in the provided text. Advising & Mentorship: No doctoral or master’s students are explicitly listed; however, her collaborative publication record suggests active mentoring and team science within large consortium efforts. Laboratory & Consortium Affiliations: While no dedicated laboratory name is supplied, her work is embedded within multi-institutional initiatives such as the Million Veteran Program and Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative, indicating access to extensive computational resources and diverse patient cohorts.

• Italian Renaissance Literature
• Neo-Latin Studies
• Word and Image Interaction
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Francesco Lucioli is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Sapienza University of Rome's Department of Modern Literature and Culture since November 2024. Previously, he served as Lecturer/Assistant Professor at University College Dublin (2016-2021), followed by a three-year Adjunct Lecturer position. His research focuses on Italian Renaissance literature and Neo-Latin studies , particularly examining word-image relationships , literature-religion intersections , conduct literature , and post-Ariosto chivalric poetry . He leads the TransLATINg research project on Italian-to-Latin literary translations and co-organizes Hortus europaeus , a triennial Italy-France-Germany conference series. Key research contributions include: Three monographs on Renaissance themes Co-editing two modern editions of Renaissance texts Six collective volumes on humanist studies Current editorships at Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà and LId’O His scientific accolades include: 2013 Sapienza University Press Doctoral Thesis Award 2014-2015 Jean-François Malle Fellowship at Harvard's I Tatti 2016 Research Fellowship at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute As active academic, he serves on editorial boards for multiple international journals and publication series while organizing annual Dublin Dante Summer Schools (2019-2021). His teaching spans Italian literature, Renaissance culture, and historical-literary analysis.

• American literature
• American Poetry between the Wars
• Modernism
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Vakrilen Petkov Kilyovski is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies , Faculty of Modern Languages , St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo . He holds a PhD and has been actively contributing to academia since at least 2005. Research Focus : His scholarly work centers on American literature , Modernist poetry , and intermediality studies , with particular emphasis on E.E. Cummings ' experimental texts. His expertise spans Avant-Garde movements , visual poetics , and cross-artform analysis . Publications : He has published extensively on Cummings' works, exploring intersections between poetry and visual arts , interwar American literature , and transatlantic cultural exchanges . Recent works include analyses of Cummings' Eimi and its Bulgarian cultural contexts. Projects : Participated in the 2014 project Comparativistics in the Age of Globalization: Perspectives and Challenges , focusing on: Global ethics in comparative literature Slavic-Anglophone literary connections Travel writing about Eastern Europe Transnational dynamics in contemporary migrant writers Contact : v.kilyovski@ts.uni-vt.bg | vakrilen@gmail.com

Roy RosinView profile

Research Professor

• Health-care innovation
• Behavioral economics
• Digital health interventions
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Roy Rosin, MBA, is Board Partner at First Round Capital and served from 2012-2024 as Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania. An innovation executive rather than a tenure-line academic, he nonetheless leads large NIH- and PCORI-funded research programs, has published >70 peer-reviewed articles since 2015, and teaches Wharton Executive Education courses on business-model innovation and health-care leadership. Education: MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business AB, cum laude, Harvard College Research & Innovation Focus: Rosen’s work sits at the intersection of behavioral economics, digital health, and rapid-cycle implementation science. His team has designed, piloted, and scaled more than 150 technology-enabled care-delivery interventions that measurably reduce readmissions, emergency-department use, medication non-adherence, and clinician burden while increasing screening rates, patient engagement, and use of high-value care sites. Key methodological themes include text-message–based coaching, conversational AI agents, financial & social-incentive design, and workflow automation inside large health systems. Publication Trends: Across 50+ recent papers he consistently pursues patient-facing digital interventions—chatbots for oncology adherence, SMS programs for maternal health, automated triage tools, and incentive trials for distracted driving—demonstrating a cross-disciplinary portfolio spanning oncology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, dermatology, emergency medicine, and population-level behavioral prevention. Honours & Recognition: Becker’s “30 Great Chief Innovation Officers to Know” (2022) Three separate CHIBE papers named among the Top-20 Clinical Research Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum (2025) Advising & Grant Leadership: Although individual PhD students are not listed, Rosin directs multi-million-dollar implementation trials (e.g., NIH “iSMART”, PCORI opioid-use disorder studies) collaborating with dozens of faculty, fellows, and data scientists across Penn’s medical school, engineering, and Wharton. He mentors start-up founders nationally and serves as executive-in-residence for Wharton’s Health Care Management program. Labs & Teams: As Penn Medicine’s inaugural CIO he built the “Innovation Accelerator,” an internal consultancy that applies design-thinking, Lean Start-up, and behavioral economics to clinical operations. The group includes data scientists, UX researchers, software engineers, and quality-improvement specialists who co-design interventions with frontline clinicians and patients; many projects transition into routine operations or spin out as commercial ventures.

Kami EmirhanView profile

Assistant Professor

• Textile Design
• Fashion Design
• Printing Arts
• +3 more

Dr. Kami Emirhan serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textile and Fashion Design within Yeditepe University's Faculty of Fine Arts, a position she has held since 2015 after previously working as a Research Assistant at the same institution from 2002 to 2005. Her academic foundation spans textile engineering, fashion sociology, and artistic practice with emphasis on innovative material applications and critical gender analysis in clothing. Her educational trajectory includes: Proficiency in Arts (2005-2014) from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, thesis: "The Influence of Feminine, Androgyn, Homosocial and Homoerotic Elements in Today's Men's Clothing and Men's Image by Social Developments Beginning in the 1960s" Master's Degree (2002-2005) from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, thesis: "Usage Areas of Optical Fiber in Textiles" Undergraduate Degree (1998-2002) from Yeditepe University in Fashion and Textile Design Dr. Emirhan's research critically examines intersections between material innovation and sociocultural dynamics in fashion. Her work spans technical textile engineering (notably optical fiber integration), printing arts methodology, and gender deconstruction in clothing systems. She investigates how historical shifts in social structures manifest through men's fashion evolution, challenging binary gender norms through contemporary design practices while documenting homoerotic representation in luxury branding. Her publication timeline reveals a deliberate shift from material science (2005 optical fiber studies) toward sociological fashion critique (2013-2019 gender neutrality research), paralleled by foundational contributions to art education through children's creative methodology texts. Recent scholarship focuses on dismantling gendered clothing conventions while maintaining strong connections to textile pattern theory and printing techniques. Dr. Emirhan has supervised Master's research including BİKE's 2019 thesis on visual art's impact on artist recognition through clothing applications. Her administrative leadership includes Department Vice Chair (2016), Quality Committee membership (2017), and coordination of Erasmus/Bologna programs since 2002. Teaching responsibilities encompass advanced courses in textile printing, graduation projects, and gender studies in men's fashion. Active in international artistic networks, she participates in exhibitions like Pera Museum's "YÜZLEŞME / CONFRONTATION" and the "1st International Triennial of Textile Arts," while curating departmental showcases such as Yeditepe University's "KAT KAT" group exhibition with colleagues.

Ricardo HenaoView profile

Associate Professor

• Machine Learning
• Biostatistics
• Precision Medicine
• +7 more

Ricardo Henao is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Associate Professor in Surgery, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is also a core member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, and the Duke Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics. Education: Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark, 2011 Research Interests: Henao’s research integrates advanced machine learning with high-impact clinical and biological questions. His work spans infectious-disease diagnostics (including rapid host-response assays for bacterial vs viral infection), cardiovascular genomics and risk prediction, precision-medicine toolkits for transplant recipients, ophthalmic AI for retinal and cardiac imaging, and fairness-aware AI to ensure equitable healthcare delivery across demographic groups. Publications Trend: Across >317 peer-reviewed publications (2013–2025), a clear trajectory emerges from foundational statistical methodology to large-scale translational implementations. Recent 2025 papers emphasize automated harmonization of electronic health records, fairness-constrained predictive models for stroke risk, computer-vision systems for point-of-care echocardiography, and deep-learning segmentation of pulmonary vasculature—demonstrating a fusion of NLP, computer vision, and survival modeling to solve real clinical problems. Scientific Awards & Honors: While the supplied text does not list specific named awards, Henao’s funding portfolio serves as a proxy for recognition: he is PI or multi-PI on >34 active grants totaling tens of millions of dollars from NIH, NHLBI, NIAID, NSF, DoD, and private foundations such as Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. Advising & Grants: Henao mentors trainees at the intersection of data science and medicine. Current grant titles illustrate the breadth of mentee opportunities: PREEMPT: Prospective Randomized Evaluation and Management of Premature Atherosclerosis (NIH, 2025–2032) Machine Learning Guided Precision Genetic Testing for Monogenic Cardiovascular Disorders (NHLBI, 2024–2028) Synthesizing immunoinformatics and genetic epidemiology for malaria immunity signatures (NIAID, 2023–2028) NSF CC* Integration-Large: Scaling scientific workloads on distributed commodity GPUs (NSF, 2025–2027) Improving quality of life in SLE via stratified personalized health planning (DoD, 2022–2026) Multidisciplinary study of biological disparities in NASH progression (DoD, 2020–2025) Rapid point-of-care host gene-expression test for pre-symptomatic viral infection (DoD, 2021–2024) Clinical and molecular epidemiology of high-risk coronary plaque (NIH, 2019–2024) Labs & Teams: Henao leads the Division of Translational Biomedical Informatics within the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and participates in Duke’s Bass Connections and Data+ programs, embedding graduate and undergraduate students in interdisciplinary teams that span genomics, cardiology, surgery, and global health.

Jonas CarlquistView profile

Professor

• Old Swedish language
• Medieval manuscript studies
• Runic studies
• +3 more

Jonas Carlquist is Professor in Scandinavian Languages at Umeå University , based in the Department of Language Studies, Section of Swedish and Scandinavian Studies. Holding the Swedish academic title of Docent, he specializes in Old Swedish philology, medieval manuscript culture, runology, and the intersection of text, image, and devotion in late-medieval Sweden. Research Interests Old Swedish language and textual analysis Medieval manuscripts and literacy practices Runic inscriptions before the Viking Age Material culture and devotional artefacts in parish churches Digital philology and scholarly editing Gender and learning in Birgittine monasteries Carlquist’s publications reveal a consistent focus on how texts—both runic and manuscript—function within their historical contexts. A recurring theme is the interplay between written word and material object, evident in studies of Marian sculptures, Vadstena Abbey’s liturgical books, and pre-Viking fibula inscriptions. His work integrates traditional philological close reading with modern digital approaches, advocating what he terms “the art of reading slowly.” Research Groups & Projects Member of the Umeå Group for Premodern Studies Principal investigator of the project Imitatio Mariae (2010–2013) Contact E-mail: jonas.carlquist@umu.se Phone: +46 90 786 66 24 Office: Humanisthuset, corridor HUM.K.2, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden