جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Hilary Greavesمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Ethics
• Formal Epistemology
• Philosophy of Physics
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Hilary Greaves is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow at Merton College. She holds visiting appointments at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on ethics, formal epistemology, and philosophy of physics, with particular emphasis on consequentialism, population ethics, effective altruism, and AI ethics. She previously directed the Global Priorities Institute (2018–2022). Education: PhD in Philosophy (Rutgers University, 2008); BA in Physics and Philosophy (Oxford, 2003, First Class Honors). Awards include the Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018–2020) and the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2015–2017). Research interests span moral philosophy, including aggregation debates, existential risk analysis, and interdisciplinary work with economics. She has published extensively in journals like Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Mind , and contributed to edited volumes on consequentialism and population ethics. Teaching includes graduate courses on effective altruism, population ethics, and undergraduate modules in moral philosophy and philosophy of physics. She has supervised eight DPhil theses and organized workshops on global priorities research and population ethics. Grants include a £1.2M Leverhulme Trust project on population ethics (2014–2018) and collaborations with the Oxford Martin School on human rights for future generations. Her lab, the Global Priorities Institute, focuses on longtermist ethical frameworks and policy applications.

Bernhard Schölkopfمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Causal Inference
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Bernhard Schölkopf is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and holds a Professorship at ETH Zurich. He is one of Europe's leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence and serves as co-founder and president of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). His scientific interests focus on machine learning and causal inference, with applications spanning biomedical problems, computational photography, and astronomy. Schölkopf has conducted research at prestigious institutions including AT&T Bell Labs, GMD FIRST in Berlin, and Microsoft Research Cambridge before joining the Max Planck Society in 2001. Schölkopf's recent work examines the tangible risks of AI systems rather than speculative existential threats, highlighting important challenges including algorithmic bias, lack of transparency, privacy violations, worker exploitation, carbon footprint of AI systems, and job displacement across multiple publications in different languages. His scientific achievements have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards: Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Royal Society Milner Award Leibniz Award Koerber European Science Prize BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Allen Newell Award Fellow of the ACM Fellow of the CIFAR Program "Learning in Machines and Brains" Schölkopf is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and co-founded the series of Machine Learning Summer Schools. His work bridges theoretical advances in machine learning with practical applications across diverse domains, while advocating for responsible AI development that addresses real-world challenges rather than speculative existential threats.

Dhruv Shahمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Robotics
• Machine Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dhruv Shah is an Incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University starting January 2026 and currently serves as a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. He is also an Associated Faculty member in Princeton's Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, focusing on the convergence of machine learning and robotics for real-world deployment. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley (2024) and a B.Tech. (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2019). Shah's research pioneers foundation models for robotics, emphasizing large-scale robot learning, out-of-distribution generalization, and long-horizon reasoning. His group adopts a full-stack methodology spanning algorithmic innovation to system design, drawing from cognitive science to develop physical AI systems at the perception-learning-control interface. Key focus areas include reinforcement learning, human-robot interaction, and continual learning for challenging environments. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals dominant trends in foundation models for visual navigation, language-conditioned policies, and multi-agent systems. His work increasingly integrates multimodal inputs (vision, language) while addressing generalization gaps in real-world settings, with strong emphasis on efficient data curation and scalable robot learning frameworks. His accolades feature the Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics & AI Fellowship (2024), two IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Awards (2024), multiple ICRA finalist awards across cognitive robotics and manipulation categories, and the Berkeley Fellowship (2019-2024). Shah will recruit PhD students for Princeton's upcoming admissions cycle, establishing a research group dedicated to full-stack robotics development. While specific grant details aren't provided, his trajectory indicates significant funding for AI-robotics convergence projects, particularly in foundation model development and real-world deployment challenges. His laboratory at Princeton will integrate algorithmic innovation with system design, focusing on physical AI systems that bridge perception, learning, and control while maintaining strong ties to cognitive science principles for human-aligned robotic intelligence.

Alin Comanمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Collective Memory
• Social Psychology
• Cognitive Science
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Alin Coman is a Professor at Princeton University 's School of Public and International Affairs, leading the Cognition in Collectives Lab . His research explores how cognition emerges and evolves within social contexts, focusing on collective memory, belief dynamics, and emotion regulation through interactions. Education: Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research Research Focus: Integrating laboratory experiments, field studies, social network analysis, and agent-based simulations, his work demonstrates how macro-level phenomena like collective memories and synchronized beliefs arise from micro-level cognitive processes. Key themes include memory convergence, belief propagation in networks, and socially triggered prediction errors. Article Trends: His recent publications address vicarious memory frameworks, emotion regulation contagion, moral narratives, political belief change, pandemic-related belief dynamics, and the role of social norms in cognitive processes. Methodologies often involve network science and experimental paradigms. Advising: Mentors graduate researchers including Ari Dyckovsky, Gracielle Li, and Naomi Vaida. Lab: The Cognition in Collectives Lab employs a social-interactionist approach to study emergent psychological phenomena across groups and networks.

Eric Talleyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Corporate Law
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Eric Talley is the Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia Law School , where he has served as Full-time Faculty since 2015. Prior to Columbia, he held tenured positions at the University of California, Berkeley (2006–2015) and the University of Southern California (1995–2006), and visiting appointments at Caltech, University of Chicago, ETH-Zurich, European University Institute, Georgetown, Harvard, RAND Graduate School, and Stanford. Education : J.D. and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University; B.A. in Economics & Political Science from UC San Diego His research and teaching focus on Corporate Law , Mergers & Acquisitions , Corporate Governance , Law and Machine Learning , and Economic Analysis of Law . He co-directs the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership , directing research on corporate governance and performance trends. Recent publications analyze topics such as valuation disputes , officer liability in Delaware , and gender dynamics in startups , reflecting his interdisciplinary approach blending law, finance, and data science. His work has been featured in top journals and media outlets like the Wall Street Journal , Bloomberg , and Harvard Law School’s Forum . Scientific Awards : Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2017, 2022) Elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2024) Talley hosts the Beyond “Unprecedented” podcast, exploring economic recovery post-pandemic. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Columbia University Data Science Institute and has held leadership roles in the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and the American Law and Economics Association.

Mustafa Kircaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Postmodernist Fiction
• Postcolonialism
• Comparative Literature
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Mustafa Kirca serves as Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Çankaya University in Ankara, Turkey, where he is affiliated with the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. His academic profile demonstrates extensive engagement with contemporary literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, with particular focus on the Turkish context. Kirca's research interests span postmodernist fiction, postcolonial theory, literary translation, gender studies, and cultural identity. His scholarly work consistently examines the intersections between literature, philosophy, and cultural politics, with special attention to how global literary phenomena are received and transformed in Turkish intellectual contexts. He has made significant contributions to understanding the relationship between translation studies and comparative literature, advocating for border-crossing approaches that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries. Analysis of Kirca's publications reveals consistent engagement with postcolonial narrative strategies, particularly textual decolonization approaches that challenge Eurocentric discourses. His work frequently examines how contemporary authors like Murakami, Rushdie, and Carter negotiate cultural hybridity and identity formation. A notable thread throughout his scholarship is the examination of how literary texts engage with philosophical concepts, from Kierkegaardian existentialism to postmodern historiography, often through the lens of translation and cross-cultural reception. Kirca has co-edited several significant scholarly collections including Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays (2010), B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures (2017), and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives (2018), demonstrating his collaborative scholarly approach and broad intellectual interests. His editorial work has created important platforms for interdisciplinary dialogue in literary and cultural studies. As an active academic, Kirca has contributed to numerous conferences on Language, Literature and Culture, with particular emphasis on how contemporary literature engages with themes of fear, identity, and cultural transformation in the post-millennial era. His work demonstrates consistent scholarly productivity with publications spanning from 2009 to the present, including the forthcoming 2025 work on Murakami's Killing Commendatore .

• Artificial Intelligence Policy
• Biodefense
• National Security Policy
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Carol R Kuntz serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program at Georgetown University, teaching courses on artificial intelligence policy implications. She concurrently holds an adjunct fellowship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the Strategic Technologies Program. With over 30 years of U.S. Department of Defense experience, she specializes in adapting national security frameworks to technological disruptions. Her academic credentials include: Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MPA from Princeton University B.A. with Honors from Cornell University Dr. Kuntz's research bridges defense strategy and emerging technologies, focusing on AI governance in military contexts and biotechnological threats. Her work analyzes autonomous weapons ethics, genome editing risks, and WMD defense systems through interdisciplinary lenses spanning computer science, political theory, and public health policy. Recent publications examine AI integration in warfare and genome manipulation governance, revealing consistent themes of proactive policy design for technological existential risks. These studies highlight her strategic approach to anticipating security vulnerabilities before crises emerge. Her accolades include: Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service (awarded twice) Dr. Kuntz's government leadership encompassed directing Project Bioshield and the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, demonstrating extensive grant management and interagency coordination expertise. Her academic mentorship leverages decades of high-stakes policy implementation experience. At CSIS, she contributes to strategic technology assessments while maintaining active academic roles. Her career trajectory—from Cold War defense planning to AI policy—exemplifies continuous adaptation to evolving security paradigms through institutional collaboration.

Tatjana Schnellمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Existential Psychology
• Meaning in Life
• Existential Health
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Tatjana Schnell is a Professor of Existential Psychology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, where she has worked since October 2020. She also holds a fellowship at the Humanistic University Berlin (since 2024). Her professional journey includes academic training in psychology, theology, religious studies, and philosophy across Germany, the UK, and Austria, with a doctorate from the University of Trier (Germany) and habilitation from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), where she founded the Existential Psychology Lab. Education : Psychology, Theology, Religious Studies, and Philosophy from the University of Göttingen, University of London, University of Heidelberg, and University of Cambridge Degree : Doctorate in Psychology (University of Trier, Germany) Habilitation : Psychology (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Tatjana Schnell's research focuses on existential themes including meaning in life, existential health, death attitudes, alienation, and religious/spiritual/secular worldviews. Her work bridges individual psychology with societal and environmental implications, with extensive international collaborations and publications. She has authored key works like "The Psychology of Meaning in Life" (2nd ed., 2025) and "Sinn finden" (2024). Her recent publications examine pandemic psychology, existential resources in gifted adults, workplace spirituality, and meaning-based interventions for chronic pain and cancer rehabilitation. Her research projects include "Making Sense of Volunteering," "Sinnmacher - The Meaning App," and studies on existential resources in palliative care. The Tatjana Schnell website provides further details about her work. Fellow : Humanistic University Berlin (2024) Tatjana Schnell has developed innovative tools like the Sources of Meaning Card Method (SoMeCaM) and Meaning in Work Inventory (ME-Work), with validated versions across multiple cultures. Her work emphasizes the practical application of existential psychology in mental health, organizational behavior, and ecological engagement. She founded the Existential Psychology Lab at the University of Innsbruck and continues to lead impactful research at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society.

• Developmental Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Procrastination Behaviors
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Monika Dacka is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her research focuses on personality development, procrastination behaviors, moral intelligence, and psychosocial challenges across life stages. Academic Rank: Assistant Professor Institution: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Key Research Areas: Developmental Psychology, Personality Psychology, Adolescent Risk Behaviors Her recent work examines time perception in digital contexts, the quarter-life crisis, and moral development in young adults. She actively reviews for journals like Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska and Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe . Dr. Dacka supervises master's theses on topics spanning adolescent procrastination, helicopter parenting, and social media challenges. She contributes to educational workshops on judicial mediation, forensic psychology, and pandemic-era coping strategies. Notable projects include the adaptation of the Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12) and participation in international conferences on Kazimierz Dąbrowski's psychological theories. Her publications address chronic fatigue in adolescents, sexual abuse prevention, and health behavior transformations.

• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Crisis Management
• Anticipatory Governance
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Reidar Staupe is an Associate Professor in Public Safety at the Department of Technology and Security, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2020-2022) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Research Interests: His work bridges civil security, disaster risk reduction, and anticipatory governance. Key themes include: Temporalities of crisis perception and response Cultural/political impacts of disaster declarations Creeping crises (AMR, climate change) Disaster terminology evolution Wind power development conflicts Polycrisis dynamics Publication Trends: Recent articles (2022-2025) explore the interplay between societal security, slow-onset disasters, and interdisciplinary collaboration. His work appears in journals like Time & Society , Policy & Politics , and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , with forthcoming books on doomscrolling and global crisis cooperation. Scientific Awards: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Teaching: Courses include SVF-3202 Crisis Management SVF-3616 Crisis and Disaster Management His research group The Grey Zone – Secure Societies examines security narratives in crisis contexts.

Jerry Zeeمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Environmental Anthropology
• Geopolitical Ecology
• China Studies
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Jerry Zee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. His research examines environmental emergence through political, meteorological, and geopolitical lenses, with focus on China's ecological transformations and transpacific entanglements. Publications analyze dust governance, aerosol politics, and racialized ecologies, employing interdisciplinary approaches from feminist STS and environmental humanities. Current work investigates planetary-scale infrastructural projects and necrotic politics.

Shannon M Bellمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Political Theory
• Cyber Politics
• Aesthetics and Politics
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Shannon Bell is a Professor in Political Science at York University, working as a performance philosopher who integrates digital video technology with political theory. Her research examines intersections of cyberpolitics, aesthetics, and power through projects like 'Shooting Theory', which visualizes philosophical concepts through film. She has authored books including 'Fast Feminism' and 'Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body'. Current SSHRC-funded projects explore bioart and robotic art extremes, with residencies at Symbiotica (UWA) and international exhibitions. She teaches courses on modern political thought, technopolitics, and aesthetics. Educational background includes a PhD in Political Science from York University. Professional leadership includes directing the Resource Centre for Public Sociology.

James A. Evansمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computational Social Science
• Collective Intelligence
• Science of Science
• +۱۲ مورد دیگر

James A. Evans is the Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology and Data Science at the University of Chicago, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology within the Division of the Social Sciences. He is the director of Knowledge Lab and the Faculty Director of the Masters Program in Computational Social Science . He holds additional affiliations as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute , External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna , and Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google . Education: B.A. in Anthropology, Brigham Young University (1994) M.A. in Sociology, Stanford University (1999) Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University (2004) His research centers on the collective system of thinking and knowing , exploring how ideas emerge, spread, and evolve through social and technical systems. He investigates innovation, collective intelligence, and the science of science , using large-scale data modeling, machine learning, generative AI, and network analysis to study knowledge creation. His work spans domains including science, technology, law, and religion, with a focus on how AI is reshaping discovery processes. The most recent publications highlight trends in AI and scientific discovery , with a strong emphasis on innovation, knowledge systems, and human-machine intelligence . His research increasingly explores AI as a transformative agent in science , including the concept of 'alien intelligence' and the development of complementary AI to augment human capacity. Projects like the $20M NSF-funded APTO initiative aim to build language models that predict technological outcomes by analyzing historical data. Scientific Recognition and Funding: Research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) , National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) , and philanthropic sources Work published in Nature, Science, PNAS , and leading social science journals Featured in The New York Times, The Economist, The Atlantic, Wired, NPR, BBC, Le Monde , and others James Evans advises on science policy and funding strategies, emphasizing the importance of diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and demographic balance in fostering innovation. He critiques current academic incentives and proposes alternative discovery regimes. He leads Knowledge Lab , a collaborative research environment that conducts seminars, grants, and employment opportunities in computational social science and AI.

Richard Holtonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Moral Philosophy
• Philosophy of Mind
• Free Will
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Professor Richard Holton is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His work spans moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, with a focus on agency, responsibility, and trust. His recent research examines mental effort, akrasia (weakness of will), and ethical decision-making in pandemic contexts. Publications highlight interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, psychology, and medical ethics. While his articles address causation, self-deception, and linguistic frameworks, no explicit scientific awards or student advisement records are documented in the provided materials.

Michal Masnyمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Moral Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Well-being
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Micahł Masny is a Research Fellow at MIT, previously serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley's Kavli Center and completing his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University. His work bridges moral/political philosophy with pressing societal concerns, focusing on well-being, humanity's future, and work ethics. He has earned teaching accolades, including Princeton's Graduate School Teaching Award for pioneering interdisciplinary courses like 'Ethics of Technology.' Education: PhD in Philosophy (Princeton University), Postdoctoral Fellowships at UC Berkeley and MIT. Research explores theoretical issues in well-being (e.g., wasted potential, life extension ethics), societal progress, and work's evolving role in the technological era. Current projects examine work-life separation, shorter working hours, and obsolescence anxieties. Publications span topics like epistemic consequentialism, Schopenhauer's philosophy, and intergenerational ethics. His work appears in Philosophical Studies , Journal of Moral Philosophy , and Philosophy & Public Affairs . Teaching includes MIT's biomedical ethics courses and Berkeley's first AI ethics graduate seminar. Awards: Princeton's Graduate School Teaching Award (2020). Advising: No formal advisees listed, but impactful mentorship through course development. Active in ultramarathons and philosophical generalism.