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Julieta Chaparro-BuitragoView profile

Research Fellow

• Reproductive Justice
• Decolonial Feminisms
• Reproductive Violence
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Dr. Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, specializing in decolonial approaches to reproductive justice across Latin America. Her work bridges anthropology, gender studies, and environmental sociology through critical examinations of colonial power structures. Her educational foundation includes a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she received the Oriol Pi-Sunyer Dissertation Prize and multiple research awards recognizing her groundbreaking work on forced sterilization in Peru. Chaparro-Buitrago's research centers on how colonial legacies and extractive industries shape reproductive experiences of indigenous and peasant women. She develops innovative frameworks like Reproductive Extractivism to analyze connections between land exploitation, environmental contamination, and bodily sovereignty, challenging Western-centric reproductive rights paradigms through decolonial feminist methodologies. Her publication trajectory reveals expanding scope from Peru-focused ethnography to transnational comparisons (US, China) and environmental dimensions, consistently centering peasant epistemologies while critiquing state violence and repro-normative hierarchies. Her scientific recognition includes: Wellcome Trust Early Career Award (2022) Oriol Pi-Sunyer Dissertation Prize (2021) Armelagos-Swedlund Graduate Research Award (2018) Richard B. Woodbury Award (2015) Pre-Dissertation Research Award (2013) Her Wellcome-funded project on reproduction in Peru's extractive zones drives interdisciplinary collaboration with Cambridge Reproduction and the Cambridge Lactation Network, generating policy interventions for environmental reproductive justice amid climate crisis. She actively shapes discourse through the Cambridge Reproduction Forum and Reading Group, fostering cross-departmental dialogue on decolonizing reproduction research while mentoring emerging scholars in critical feminist methodologies.

Suyi LiView profile

Associate Professor

• Origami Engineering
• Mechanical Metamaterials
• Soft Robotics
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Suyi Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, where he leads the Dynamic and Architected Robot and structurE (DARE) Lab. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at Clemson University from 2016-2022 after completing postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2014) M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2008) B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006) Dr. Li's research focuses on pioneering new paradigms of intelligent robots and functional structures by exploiting the interplay between geometry, mechanics, actuation, and computation. His work spans origami-inspired morphing structures, physically computing materials that perform machine learning tasks without traditional electronics, and soft/reconfigurable robots that can move like animals or grow like plants. His innovative approach combines mechanical engineering principles with computational thinking to create systems with 'mechano-intelligence'. Analysis of Dr. Li's recent publications reveals a strong trajectory toward embodied intelligence and mechanical computing, where physical structures themselves perform computational tasks. His work increasingly integrates origami/kirigami principles with advanced materials to create systems that can sense, process information, and actuate without conventional electronics. The research shows progression from fundamental mechanics of adaptive structures to sophisticated applications in robotics and computing. Dean's Awards of Excellence – Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech (2024) C.D. Mote Jr Early Career Award, ASME Design Engineering Division (2022) Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award, ASME Aerospace Division (2021) Junior Researcher of the Year Award, College of Engineering, Clemson University (2020) CECAS Dean's Faculty Fellow, Clemson University (2018) CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2018) ASME Freudenstein Young Investigator Award Dr. Li has secured nearly two million dollars in research funding, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award and an NSF EFRI project to build mechano-bio hybrid reservoir computers. He advises multiple Ph.D. and Master's students in the DARE Lab, with recent successes including Vishrut Deshpande's Ph.D. defense. His research has generated close to 80 journal and conference papers, demonstrating significant impact in the fields of adaptive structures and materials systems. Dr. Li also serves on editorial boards for several prominent journals including Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The DARE Lab at Virginia Tech comprises a multidisciplinary team of researchers working on origami-inspired meta-structures, physically computing materials, and soft robotics. Current projects include developing electronics-free crawling robots with mechanical central pattern generators, creating kirigami-based wearable medical devices, and engineering metamaterials with programmable mechanical properties. The lab actively collaborates with institutions across the country and has received recognition for its innovative approaches to combining mechanical design with computational capabilities.

Rebecca HermanView profile

Associate Professor

• Environmental Politics
• Modern Latin America
• US in the World
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Rebecca Herman is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. As a historian of the Americas, her research spans environmental politics, US military basing in Latin America during World War II, and transnational environmental organizing in decolonizing contexts. Current research: Antarctic governance and sovereignty in international borderless zones Secondary research: Latin American engagement with sustainable development and global environmentalism in the 1980s-90s Her work examines tensions between national sovereignty and global governance, particularly through case studies involving Argentina, Chile, and Panama. She is writing a book analyzing competing visions for Antarctica's future resource management in the context of decolonization. 50% of her recent publications focus on Latin American environmental politics, including a 2024 Environmental History article on Greenpeace's Buenos Aires office and a 2024 chapter exploring colonial legacies in Antarctic governance. Other works analyze US-Latin America relations during World War II and Cold War-era global governance frameworks. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship American Society for Environmental History Fellowship Hellman Fellows Program Fellowship Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Bernath Scholarly Article Prize Honorable Mention Benenson Award in the Arts Lewis Hine Documentary Fellowship She received her PhD in History (2014) and MA in History (2010) from UC Berkeley, following a BA in Literature & History and Spanish from Duke University (2008). Prior to academia, she worked in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Boston on documentary and translation projects. Her research has been supported by fellowships from Social Science Research Council, Smithsonian Institution, and Council on Library and Information Resources.

• Web Security
• Software Security
• Secure Programming
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Prof. Dr. Martin Johns serves as Chair of Application Security at the Institute for Application Security within the Carl Friedrich Gauss Faculty at Technical University Braunschweig. He joined TU Braunschweig after working as Research Expert at SAP Security Research, where he shaped security strategy and led software security teams. Prior to SAP, he worked as software engineer in Germany at companies like TC Trustcenter and Infoseek Germany. Academic qualifications include a PhD in Computer Science (University of Passau, 2009) and a Diploma in Computer Science (University of Hamburg, 2003). His research focuses on web security and software security , particularly secure programming , vulnerability detection , and attack mitigation strategies. Recent publications cover topics like GDPR compliance frameworks , WebAssembly security , federated learning privacy , and server-side request forgery (SSRF) defenses. His work appears in top conferences including IEEE S&P, CCS, WWW, and ACM CODASPY.

Ivan PudduView profile

Researcher

• Information Security
• Cybersecurity
• Computer Science
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Dr. Ivan Puddu is a Researcher affiliated with the Institute for Information Security at ETH Zürich. His work focuses on advancing cybersecurity, particularly in the realms of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), hardware security, and privacy-preserving technologies. He explores vulnerabilities in modern computing systems, including attacks on enclave-based security mechanisms and side-channel exploits. His research also addresses distributed systems, blockchain, and FPGA-accelerated architectures, aiming to enhance system sovereignty and data integrity. Notable contributions include studies on code confidentiality in TEEs, disaggregated memory systems, and mitigating security threats in low-power networks.

Shah Mahmoud HanifiView profile

Professor

• Middle Eastern History
• South Asian Studies
• Central Asian Studies
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Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is a Professor of History at James Madison University, specializing in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Central Asian history, with a focus on Afghanistan since 1500. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research explores colonialism, nationalism, tribal history, environmental studies, and the intersection of cultural anthropology with historical inquiry. Notable works include Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011) and Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia (2019). Professor Hanifi has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, and Carnegie Corporation of New York, among others. His scholarly contributions include groundbreaking studies on Afghanistan's environmental history, cartography, and the legacy of colonial knowledge production. He has organized major international conferences, such as the 2017 Mountstuart Elphinstone Conference in Mumbai, and serves on editorial boards including the International Journal of Middle East Studies . His interdisciplinary initiatives include founding JMU’s Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations minor and advocating for inclusive academic programs. Recent research emphasizes Afghanistan’s environmental challenges, including water scarcity and pollution, alongside historical analyses of migration, identity, and cultural resistance. His work bridges global and local perspectives, challenging traditional tribal-state paradigms and recentering Afghanistan within broader Asian networks of trade, culture, and power.

Maurice SmithView profile

Professor

• Motor Control
• Sensorimotor Learning
• Neuromotor Adaptation
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Maurice Smith serves as the Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where he leads the Neuromotor Control Lab. His primary appointment resides within the Department of Bioengineering, focusing on the computational and neural mechanisms underlying human movement control. Smith's research centers on sensorimotor learning , motor adaptation , and neuromotor control systems . He investigates how the brain forms and retains motor memories, particularly examining cerebellar contributions to long-term sensorimotor memory and the dissociation between implicit and explicit learning pathways. His work frequently employs computational modeling to dissect neural tuning properties and motor variability regulation. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong emphasis on temporal dynamics in motor learning , cerebellar function in memory consolidation , and Bayesian frameworks for understanding sensorimotor adaptation . His research demonstrates consistent focus on how error processing, uncertainty, and neural plasticity shape motor memory formation across multiple timescales. Smith maintains active collaborations with researchers including Wilsaan M. Joiner, Yohsuke R. Miyamoto, and Nathan Sandholtz, as evidenced by frequent co-authorship patterns. His laboratory investigates fundamental questions in motor control with implications for neurorehabilitation and adaptive robotics.

• British Speculative Literature
• American Speculative Literature
• Environmental Humanities
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Harry Warwick is a Teaching Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. His research focuses on British and American speculative literature and cinema, environmental and energy humanities, and critical theory. Education: BA, University of Southampton MA, University of Southampton PhD, University of Southampton His scholarship examines speculative fiction and film through lenses of energy infrastructure, capitalist enclosure, and utopian/dystopian social worlds. Recent publications analyze Battersea Power Station's symbolism, Marxian interpretations of "cognitive estrangement," and critiques of neoliberalism in media. Scientific Awards: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in English Warwick's 2023 monograph Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science-Fiction Film, 1979-2017 investigates enclosure theory in sci-fi aesthetics, while his ongoing project A Second Modernity explores energy futures in speculative culture.

Darian Marie TottenView profile

Assistant Professor

• Classical Archaeology
• Roman History
• Mediterranean Studies
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Darian Marie Totten is an Assistant Professor & Director of Classical Studies at McGill University's Department of History and Classical Studies. Her research focuses on Roman archaeology, environmental history, and the intersection of ancient and modern placemaking. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and specializes in Mediterranean regions from 2000 BCE to 600 CE. Education: PhD in Classics/Archaeology from Stanford University (thesis not specified). Research interests include Roman infrastructure, comparative imperial systems (e.g., Han China), urban resilience strategies, and the material culture of labor and exchange. She directs fieldwork at Salapia-Salpi in Apulia, Italy, exploring late antique urbanism and environmental adaptation. Her scholarship bridges archaeological material analysis with historical interpretation, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to ancient economies, landscapes, and cultural transitions. Recent work highlights cross-cultural comparisons between Rome and Han China, as well as the long-term dynamics of Mediterranean coastal settlements. Her publications consistently engage with methodological innovation in field archaeology, particularly in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and ceramic sourcing. She also critiques modern uses of Roman heritage in national identity formation, reflecting a commitment to critical archaeology. Current projects include ongoing excavations at Salapia, analysis of Apulian salt production networks, and investigations into late antique glass trade routes. She teaches courses on classical archaeology (CLAS 240) and specialized topics (CLAS 349).

Caroline TrippelView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computer Architecture
• Hardware Security
• Formal Methods
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Caroline Trippel is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research focuses on ensuring correctness and security in computer systems through formal methods, with particular emphasis on hardware verification, memory consistency models, and mitigating vulnerabilities like Spectre/Meltdown. She previously worked at Facebook’s FAIR SysML group before joining Stanford. Education: PhD in Computer Science, Princeton University BS in Computer Engineering, Purdue University Her work has influenced the RISC-V ISA memory consistency model and produced tools like CheckMate, which automatically synthesizes hardware exploits for security verification. She explores privacy-preserving ML, ML-driven hardware optimizations (e.g., neural recommendation), and datacenter reliability. Her research has earned awards including the 2020 ACM SIGARCH Dissertation Award and NVIDIA Fellowship. Key contributions include: Formal analysis of RISC-V memory models Exploitation synthesis frameworks (CheckMate) Hardware-software contracts for security Defenses against microarchitectural side-channel attacks Current projects include: VeriCoder: LLM-enhanced RTL code verification Multi-μPATH synthesis for security validation Near-data processing (RecSSD) for recommendation systems

Luca CarloniView profile

Professor

• Computer Science
• Embedded Systems
• Hardware Design
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Luca Carloni is a Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair at Columbia University's Columbia Engineering. He leads the System-Level Design Group, focusing on heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, networks-on-chip (NoC), and embedded systems. Carloni holds a Laurea Summa Cum Laude in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. His work emphasizes specialized hardware design, energy-efficient computing, and FPGA-based prototyping. Research interests include system-level design methodologies for SoCs, embedded accelerators, and quantum computing hardware. He has pioneered frameworks like Embedded Scalable Platforms (ESP) and tools like MosaicSim for rapid SoC prototyping. Carloni has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2006), IEEE Fellow (2017), and multiple best paper awards at DATE and CloudCom conferences. He has served on editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on CAD and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing , and chaired key conferences like EMSOFT and ESWeek. His research addresses challenges in heterogeneous architectures, power management, and the intersection of machine learning with embedded systems. Current projects explore quantum control systems, brain-computer interfaces, and energy-efficient datacenter computing.

• Energy Efficiency in Software
• Multicore Memory Systems
• Hardware/Software Co-Design
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Arrvindh Shriraman is an Associate Professor and Program Director of Software Systems at Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science in Surrey. His research focuses on energy-efficient software, multicore memory systems, and optimizing hardware/software interfaces for parallel programming. He holds a Ph.D. (2010) and M.S. (2006) in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, and a B.Eng. (2004) from the University of Madras. He teaches courses on parallel programming and energy-conscious software design. His research interests include synchronization mechanisms for domain-specific architectures, cache optimization, and FPGA-based acceleration. He has contributed to frameworks like Mu-grind for HLS-generated RTL instrumentation and TAPAS for parallel accelerator generation. Notable projects include RANGE-BLOCKS for synchronization in domain-specific systems and TapeFlow for gradient computation in neural networks. His work emphasizes real-time verification of autonomous systems and safety-critical trajectory planning for underwater vehicles. Shriraman collaborates closely with the Tangent Lab, exploring cutting-edge solutions in hardware-software co-design and embedded systems. His teaching and research bridge theoretical computer science with applied engineering challenges, addressing scalability, efficiency, and safety in modern computing systems.

Lorenzo CavallaroView profile

Professor

• Trustworthy AI for Systems Security
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Malware Detection
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Lorenzo Cavallaro is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), specializing in Trustworthy AI for Systems Security. His research focuses on developing learning-based methods that are robust against adversaries by understanding the interplay between program analysis, representations, and machine learning models. His research interests span multiple critical areas in cybersecurity, including adversarial machine learning, malware detection, program analysis, and security evaluation. Cavallaro's work particularly emphasizes the challenges of concept drift in security systems and the development of robust defenses against evolving threats. His research has significant implications for Android security, binary analysis, and memory safety in embedded systems. Analysis of his recent publications (2024-2025) reveals a strong focus on addressing fundamental challenges in ML-based security systems. His work spans malware detection systems that maintain reliability under distribution shifts, adversarial attacks in the problem space, context-driven approaches using LLMs for security applications, and temporal invariance in malware detection. A recurring theme is the critical examination of whether ML-based security systems are truly robust and reliable in real-world scenarios. Cavallaro serves in significant editorial and advisory roles including the NDSS Steering Group (2023-2026), Associate Editor for Computer & Security and ACM TOPS, and Scientific Advisory Board for SERICS. He has been actively involved in program committees for top security conferences including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, and NDSS from 2021-2025. He teaches Malware (COMP0060; 2022—ongoing), Research in Information Security (COMP0057; 2021—23), and Computer Security 2 (COMP0055; 2021—ongoing) at UCL, contributing to the next generation of security researchers and practitioners.

Tom ConteView profile

Professor

• Computer Architecture
• Compiler Optimization
• Manycore Architectures
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Tom Conte is an academic leader with a joint appointment in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering and School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. As the founding director of the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH), he specializes in computer architecture and compiler optimization. His work focuses on manycore architectures, energy-efficient microprocessor design, and embedded system architectures. Prior to Georgia Tech, he directed the Center for Embedded Systems Research at North Carolina State University. He holds IEEE Fellow status and served as 2015 President of the IEEE Computer Society, co-leading the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative since 2011. Dr. Conte earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware (1986), followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1988 and 1992). His research has been recognized with prestigious awards including the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Member award and the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (1996). His research interests span quantum computing, 3D chip architectures, energy-efficient processing, and post-Moore computing innovations. He has pioneered initiatives like the Superstrider architecture and CREEPY energy-efficient processing frameworks. Recent work includes advancements in quantum programming languages (e.g., Qwerty) and hybrid quantum-classical systems. Awards: IEEE Fellow, Young Alumni Achievement Award, CAREER Award Leadership: IEEE Computer Society President (2015), CRNCH Director Key Projects: Rebooting Computing Initiative, Superstrider Architecture His lab’s contributions include novel compiler optimizations for manycore systems, smart NIC offloading techniques, and thermodynamically inspired computing models. Conte’s work bridges academic research with industry needs through interdisciplinary collaborations and standardization efforts.

Jean-Luc BonniolView profile

Professor

• Anthropology
• Caribbean Studies
• Colonial History
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Jean-Luc Bonniol is a Professor of Anthropology at Paul-Cézanne University (Aix-Marseille III) affiliated with UMR 6591 (IDEMEC) and the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences. His work focuses on postcolonial societies, race, and Caribbean cultural dynamics. Key affiliations: University of Aix-Marseille, IDEMEC research unit, Mediterranean anthropological networks. Doctoral research included studies on population genetics in Caribbean island communities. Research emphasizes colonial legacies, memory of slavery, and creolization processes. He has curated major collections like the 'Creole Societies' series. Publications span anthropology, sociology, and history, addressing topics like racialization, postcolonial identity, and Guadeloupean social movements. His 2009 analysis of labor strikes in Guadeloupe remains seminal. Received formal permissions to distribute works openly via Les Classiques des sciences sociales. Active in interdisciplinary dialogue blending anthropology with historical and political analysis.