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• Critical Care Outcomes
• Aging
• Geriatrics
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Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. She serves as a Core Director at the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and is actively involved in the Winchester Center for Lung Disease and the RECOVER Program. Yale School of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Janeway Society Dr. Ferrante’s research focuses on aging and critical care outcomes, particularly the functional recovery of older adults after ICU stays. Her work integrates geriatrics and critical care to understand the impact of frailty, cognitive impairment, and socioeconomic factors on long-term disability and mortality. She leads NIH-funded studies such as LANTERN and VALIANT, and her research has been instrumental in shaping care models that prioritize functional preservation during and after critical illness. Her recent publications reveal strong trends in post-ICU functional decline, with a focus on predictive modeling, social determinants of health, and multimodal risk factors like frailty and isolation. These works are published in top-tier journals including JAMA Internal Medicine , Annals of Internal Medicine , and Critical Care Medicine . Scientific Awards: Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science, American Thoracic Society (2023) Critical Care Early Career Achievement Award, American Thoracic Society (2022) Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award, American Geriatrics Society (2021) Inaugural Arti Hurria Memorial Award, AGS (2019) Intensive Care Global Rising Star Award, ANZICS (2018) AGS/Merck New Investigator Award (2016) Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Award, Yale (2016) Dr. Ferrante has received major grant funding as PI for the LANTERN (R01 AG079916) and VALIANT (P30 AG021342-18S1) studies, as well as prior support from the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award (K76 AG057023) and the GEMSSTAR program. She mentors trainees and contributes to academic leadership as Student Thesis Chair in Internal Medicine and through her role in the American Thoracic Society’s Critical Care Program Committee. She is affiliated with research teams including the Yale Center for Geriatric Epidemiology and the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, and leads the Whisk Cup research stream under the RECOVER initiative.

Pedro Jose Sousa Da FonsecaView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computer Security
• Operating Systems
• Distributed Systems
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Pedro Jose Sousa Da Fonseca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he leads the Reliable and Secure Systems Lab. His research focuses on building reliable and secure systems, particularly in core software components like operating systems, hypervisors, and distributed systems. He joined Purdue in Fall 2018 and has received awards including the NSF CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Awards. Education: PhD from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and University of Saarland (advised by Rodrigo Rodrigues), postdoc at University of Washington (with Arvind Krishnamurthy, Hank Levy). Research interests span system reliability, security, and concurrency testing. His work includes frameworks like MultiNyx for hypervisor analysis, SKI for kernel bug detection, and KARD for data race detection. Teaching includes courses on Operating Systems (CS503), Reliable and Secure Systems (CS592), and Software Testing (CS408). Active in academic service as PC member for OSDI, EuroSys, and SOSP. Advises PhD students on topics like kernel testing, serverless computing, and confidential cloud systems. Awards: NSF CAREER Award (202?), Google Faculty Research Award, Google Research Scholar Award. Over 30 publications in top venues like SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, and ASPLOS. Collaborations with institutions like MPI-SWS, University of Washington, and industry partnerships with Google.

Mohammadkazem TaramView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computer Architecture
• Computer Security
• Microarchitectural Attacks
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Mohammadkazem Taram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, joining in Fall 2022. He holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), completed in 2022. His research focuses on computer architecture and computer security, particularly microarchitectural attacks, performance mitigations, and security-enhanced hardware design. He has been awarded the ACM SIGMICRO Dissertation Award for his doctoral work and has received several best paper awards for his publications in top-tier conferences like ASPLOS and ISCA. His research interests include hardware security vulnerabilities, secure execution environments, and optimizing performance-security trade-offs. Notable contributions include work on Extended User Interrupts (xUI) , Pathfinder control-flow attacks, and Hardware-Assisted Fault Isolation (HFI) . He actively collaborates with industry and academia, evidenced by his roles in developing novel mitigation techniques against speculative execution and side-channel attacks. Teaching: CS-426 (Computer Security), CS-593 (Microarchitecture Security), and CS-593 (Principles in Computer Architecture) at Purdue. Students: Advises Milad Esrafilian Najafabadi, Berk Aydogmus, and others, with co-advisory roles on Qi Ling and Gustavo Franco Camilo. Labs/Teams: Leads a research group focusing on hardware security and architecture, with a focus on practical and scalable defenses. Publications span top venues like ASPLOS, ISCA, and USENIX Security, with artifacts and open-source contributions. His work emphasizes bridging the gap between theoretical security concepts and real-world hardware implementations.

• Epidemiology
• Public Health
• Mental Health
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Milagros A Ruiz is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Epidemiology & Public Health department at University College London (UCL). Her work focuses on understanding how social, economic, and environmental factors influence health outcomes across the lifespan, particularly in vulnerable populations. Key research themes include mental health disparities, health inequalities, cognitive aging, and the intersection of socioeconomic position with disease burden. Her research integrates large-scale epidemiological data from multinational cohorts, emphasizing cross-national comparisons (e.g., China-England studies) and longitudinal tracking. Projects like the MINDMAP and HAPIEE initiatives highlight her expertise in harmonizing complex datasets to analyze neighborhood effects, dietary impacts on mental health, and healthcare access challenges in low-resource settings. Recent work addresses pressing global health issues such as the inverse care law in Brazil's depression care system, wealth-health linkages in indigenous populations, and disparities in hypertension management across socioeconomic groups. She collaborates extensively with international teams to translate epidemiological findings into policy recommendations for reducing health inequities.

• Computer Science
• Cybersecurity
• Reliable Computing Systems
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Professor Zbigniew Kalbarczyk is affiliated with the Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS), part of the University of Illinois. His research focuses on designing and validating reliable and secure computing systems, with an emphasis on software middleware (ARMOR), operating system-level error recovery (Reliability Microkernel, RMK), hardware reliability support (Reliability and Security Engine, RSE), and formal verification frameworks (SymPLFIED). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1992), and two M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering (Technical University of Sofia, 1984) and Mechanical Engineering (Technical University of Warsaw, 1981). His research interests span fault injection techniques (NFTAPE), GPU resilience, autonomous system safety, and cybersecurity in industrial control systems. Recent work includes projects on hierarchical autoscaling for large language models (Chiron), power-aware DL serving (µ-Serve), and security testbeds for supercomputing infrastructure. He explores SLOs in resource-constrained environments and Kubernetes failure mitigation. His methodologies combine experimental validation with formal analysis to address both accidental errors and malicious attacks. Key contributions include frameworks like ARMOR middleware, Reliability Microkernel, and Symbolic Program-Level Fault Injection (SymPLFIED). His articles highlight trends in resilient AI/HPC systems, energy-efficient computing, and secure embedded systems (e.g., ARM TrustZone for PLCs). Current work addresses challenges in smart grid cybersecurity, machine learning-driven malware detection, and safety-critical fault mitigation in autonomous vehicles. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Research grants and collaborations are inferred through project descriptions but not explicitly detailed. He is part of the Illinois ARCS team, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects involving hardware-software co-design and cybersecurity solutions for industrial and cloud systems.

Mary-Louise CorrView profile

Senior Lecturer

• Youth Justice
• Youth Offending
• Homelessness and Housing Insecurity
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Mary-Louise Corr is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast's School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, affiliated with the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ) and the Centre for Children's Rights. She holds roles including Programme Director of the PgDip/MSc in Youth Justice, Undergraduate Disability Advisor, and member of the School Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team. Her research focuses on youth justice, youth homelessness, conflict legacy, and domestic violence, employing qualitative methods like biographical interviews. Key projects include a rights-based analysis of homelessness (funded by NICCY), studies on secure accommodation orders in Jersey, and investigations into over-representation in youth justice systems. She has secured funding from bodies like the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People, the Department of Justice, and the Children's Commissioner for Jersey. Teaching responsibilities include modules on youth crime, criminal justice, and childhood studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She supervises PhD students researching domestic violence disclosures, migrant child detention, and modern slavery in child exploitation. Her work aligns with UN SDGs 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions), and 4 (Quality Education). Recent publications (2021–2025) address pandemic impacts on children's services, conflict legacy's generational effects, and youth diversion programs. She actively participates in academic networks like the American Society of Criminology and contributes to policy development through workshops and advisory roles.

Rachel BaconView profile

Research Fellow

• Sociology
• Demography
• Religious Studies
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Rachel Bacon, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Center for Mind and Culture, affiliated with Pennsylvania State University’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). Her work focuses on the intersection of religion, demography, and social structures, with particular emphasis on secularization processes, caregiving dynamics in rural communities, and quantitative modeling techniques. She holds a Ph.D. and utilizes mixed-methods approaches to address complex societal challenges. Her research interests include analyzing religious ecologies, the impact of education on religious decline, and the challenges faced by rural caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. She has pioneered the use of microsimulation models to forecast population dynamics and evaluate policy impacts, contributing to both demographic science and public health strategies. Bacon has published extensively on topics such as Amish settlement demographics, Norwegian secularization through auto-biographical studies, and the cost-benefit analysis of population modeling approaches. Her work on caregiving often integrates community-level data with individual experiences, emphasizing multi-level analytical frameworks. Supported by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), her research bridges academic inquiry with practical applications in social policy and healthcare. She collaborates with institutions like the Population Research Institute (PRI) and has developed tools to assess rural caregiver needs, including validated survey instruments for diverse populations. Bacon’s contributions to demographic modeling are notable for addressing methodological gaps between cohort-component models and microsimulation techniques. Her interdisciplinary approach combines sociology, gerontology, and computational science to advance understanding of population trends and social structures.

Esther K WhitfieldView profile

Professor

• Contemporary Latin American Literature
• Caribbean Studies
• Cuban Culture
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Esther K. Whitfield is a Professor of Hispanic Studies and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She holds joint appointments in the Department of Comparative Literature and Department of Hispanic Studies. Her work focuses on contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literature, particularly Cuban cultural studies, postcolonial borderlands, and Welsh diasporic narratives. Whitfield earned a B.A. in Modern Languages from Oxford University (1994), followed by an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Romance Languages & Literatures from Harvard University. Her research explores transnational cultural dynamics, including the socio-political dimensions of the Guantánamo naval base, post-Soviet Cuban literature, and Welsh-Patagonian identity. Her recent book A New No-Man’s Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba (2024) examines the region as a contested borderland through interdisciplinary lenses. She has also co-edited volumes on Havana post-1989 and Cuban short fiction. Whitfield’s honors include the Presidential Award for Faculty Governance (2023), NEH grants, and fellowships from Harvard and Brown. She teaches courses on Caribbean re-writings, Cuban revolutionary literature, and postcolonial theory. Current research investigates animal welfare movements in Cuba alongside human rights advocacy. Whitfield actively contributes to academic organizations including the Modern Language Association and Latin American Studies Association.

Katelyn GolladayView profile

Assistant Professor

• Criminological Theory
• Gender and Crime
• Victimization
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Katelyn Golladay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Sociology at the University of Wyoming, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. (2018) and M.S. (2014) in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University, and a B.B.A. in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University. Her research focuses on criminological theory, gender and crime dynamics, victimization, and female offender rehabilitation, with a particular emphasis on gender-responsive policy development. Dr. Golladay’s academic positions include Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming (2018–present), Instructor at Arizona State University (2017–2018), and roles as a teaching/research assistant (2012–2017). She has taught courses on criminology, research methods, gender in criminal justice, and community corrections. Her research explores victim-offender overlap taxonomies, the consequences of identity theft, and resilience among children of incarcerated parents. She has contributed to over 15 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Criminal Justice and Behavior , Feminist Criminology , and Journal of Financial Crime . Key themes in her work include applying criminological theories to victimization studies and examining gendered pathways to crime. Dr. Golladay has received awards such as the Distinguished Graduate Student Award (2017) and the Graduate Scholar Award (2016). Her work integrates interdisciplinary approaches, including trauma-informed care for older adults and intersectional analyses of LGBTQ+ victimization. She has collaborated on grants, including a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded project on academic misconduct. Her teaching and service contributions include workshops on research methods, online teaching strategies, and academic job markets. She has reviewed manuscripts for journals like Feminist Criminology and served on professional committees, including the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime.

• Poetry Writing
• Prosody
• Modern and Contemporary Poetry
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Alexandra Teague is a Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of Idaho’s College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. She also serves as Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program and Co-Director of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Her academic roles include teaching courses on poetry writing, modern poetry, and creative writing pedagogy. Teague holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida (1998) and a B.A. in English from Southwest Missouri State University (1996). Her research focuses on feminist poetics, genre-crossing hybrid forms, and contemporary poetry. Notable works include the poetry collections Mortal Geography (2010), The Wise and Foolish Builders (2015), and Or What We’ll Call Desire (2019), as well as the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (2017) and the anthology Bullets into Bells (2017). Her 2023 memoir Spinning Tea Cups blends myth and personal narrative. Teague’s work has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2011), Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2019), and the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (2014). She actively contributes to literary communities through roles like Senior Editor at Broadsided Press and advisory board member of the Idaho Center for the Book. Her outreach initiatives include co-founding the BASK Collective and curating Vandal Poem of the Day . Her teaching portfolio includes courses on prosody, women’s literature, and creative writing workshops. She advises graduate students in the MFA program and has mentored through grants like the University of Idaho Seed Grant for The Wise and Foolish Builders . Current research explores intersections of feminist theory and poetic form, with a focus on hybrid genres and public poetry initiatives.

Casey GolomskiView profile

Associate Professor

• Cultural Anthropology
• Medical Anthropology
• African Studies
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Casey Golomski is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire's College of Liberal Arts. He also coordinates Africana Studies. His office is in Huddleston Hall, with contact email Casey.Golomski@unh.edu and phone (603) 862-1864. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Brandeis University and a B.A. in Sociology from Saint Norbert College. His research explores life-death thresholds, memorialization, and critical events through lenses of medical/cultural anthropology, African studies, gender, and religion. Key projects include racial dynamics in elder care (God's Waiting Room), grassroots pandemic responses (Funeral Culture), and recovering Regina Gelana Twala's anthropological manuscript. Recent articles examine aging, digital divides, care ethics, and biopolitics, with methodologies spanning ethnography, narrative analysis, and multispecies studies. First Prize in Poetry, Society for Humanistic Anthropology Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Award He collaborates with institutions like the Seacoast African American Cultural Center and has secured funding from Fulbright, Wenner Gren, and Mellon foundations.

Jenni BrooksView profile

Associate Professor

• Social Policy
• Social Care
• Dementia Studies
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Dr. Jenni Brooks is an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, part of the University of Sheffield Hallam. She specializes in sociological and policy-oriented research focusing on social care systems, ageing populations, and the lived experiences of individuals with health conditions or impairments. Her work addresses critical issues such as dementia care, personal assistance in workplaces, and barriers to public involvement in universities. Teaching responsibilities include modules on applied research methods, qualitative research, and sociology at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Courses she teaches encompass BA Sociology, MRes Social Science, and BSc Public Health. She also supervises dissertations and postgraduate research in qualitative studies related to social care and ageing. Her research highlights include the project Living alone with dementia , which investigates service navigation challenges for people with dementia living independently. Other projects examine workplace dynamics for physically disabled individuals and low-pay issues in Sheffield’s labor market. She actively contributes to initiatives like the NIHR Research Programme for Social Care and the Sheffield Dementia Strategy Implementation Group. Key research themes include the socio-political dimensions of care systems, disability rights in employment, and inclusive policy design. Her work bridges academic inquiry with practical applications, emphasizing participatory methodologies and stakeholder engagement.

Chung Hwan KimView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computer Systems Security
• Cyber-Physical Security
• Software Security
• +2 more

Dr. Chung Hwan Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas' Erik Jonsson School of Engineering. His research focuses on system security, including embedded systems protection, trusted execution environments, and automated bug detection. He directs the Software & Systems Security Laboratory and holds affiliated appointments in Electrical Engineering. Key research areas include developing compartmentalization techniques for embedded devices (TZ-DATASHIELD), securing GPU computations via CPU enclaves, and fuzzing methods for autonomous driving systems. His publications demonstrate consistent innovation in hardware-assisted security and vulnerability detection. Dr. Kim received the UT Dallas New Faculty Research Award (2021) and was a CSAW Best Paper Finalist (2018). His industry experience includes prior work at NEC Labs developing security solutions for enterprise systems.

Tracy CollinsView profile

Lecturer

• Social Wellbeing
• Widowhood Transitions
• Loneliness Prevention
• +4 more

Dr. Tracy Collins serves as Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy and Programme Lead for the MSc (Pre-Registration) Occupational Therapy at Northumbria University's Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. A registered Occupational Therapist with UK and US practice experience, she joined Northumbria in 2017 after holding an academic position at the University of Salford. Her research focuses on social wellbeing with particular emphasis on widowhood transitions and loneliness prevention. PhD in Sociology, Keele University (2011) MA in Sociology, Keele University (2002) BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy, Keele University (1996) PGCert in Academic Studies in Education (2015) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) Collins' research examines the intersection of occupational therapy and social wellbeing through mixed-methods approaches. Her current work investigates military widows' experiences, ambulance service overuse linked to loneliness, and community-based interventions for social isolation. She develops frameworks for supporting older men's social participation and children with HIV/AIDS in resource-limited settings, emphasizing practical applications of occupational therapy in community development. Recent publications (2023-2025) reveal consistent focus on social isolation mechanisms across diverse populations including military widows, frequent ambulance users, and individuals with chronic illnesses. Her work bridges clinical occupational therapy with public health approaches to loneliness prevention, featuring strong methodological diversity with equal emphasis on qualitative exploration and quantitative validation of interventions. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Women & Aging Academic Editor, Health and Social Care in the Community Collins secured significant research funding including a £34,977 NIHR grant for investigating loneliness among frequent ambulance callers. Her academic leadership includes developing community Christmas events for older adults with dementia and evaluating social participation frameworks. She actively mentors through the MSc Occupational Therapy program while conducting fieldwork with military widows and isolated older populations. Based at Coach Lane Campus (Room H215), Collins collaborates with international partners through Northumbria's global network, particularly on projects addressing social isolation in vulnerable populations across multiple cultural contexts.

Suvo MitraView profile

Professor

• Movement Coordination
• Cognitive Processes
• Motor Development
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Suvo Mitra is a Professor in the Division of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and serves as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Social Sciences. His research focuses on movement coordination, cognitive processes (attention/memory/imagery), motor development, and ageing-related postural control. He has held prior positions at the University of Warwick and Haskins Laboratories (USA). Research Interests: Postural stability under cognitive load Age-related motor-cognitive interactions Motor learning dynamics Neuroscience of action-imagery relationships External Contributions: Editorial board member: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ESRC Peer Review College member since 2010 Grant reviewer for BBSRC, MRC, NSF Funding: Supported by Royal Society, ESRC, and others. His work bridges dynamical systems theory with clinical applications in ageing populations and motor development challenges.