جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Zijian Diaoمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Quantum Computation
• Quantum Information Theory
• Natural Language Processing
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Zijian Diao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio University's College of Arts and Sciences, where he contributes to both teaching and research. He is based at the Eastern Campus in Shannon Hall and teaches a wide range of undergraduate mathematics courses. Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 2001 M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, 2003 B.S. in Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, 1996 His research spans interdisciplinary areas with a strong focus on quantum computation and information theory , where he has made contributions to Grover's algorithm, quantum counting, and quantum circuit design. He has also worked in natural language processing , particularly in multilingual speech-to-speech translation systems like MARS. Additional interests include control theory , partial differential equations , and mathematical modeling . His recent and ongoing publications reflect a blend of theoretical mathematics and applied computational science. The works trend toward quantum algorithms and foundational mathematical proofs, with earlier contributions in NLP and control systems. His research bridges pure mathematics with practical implementations in quantum computing and language technologies. Scientific Awards: Ohio University Regional Higher Education Outstanding Professor Dr. Diao advises undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and related fields, though specific student names are not listed. He has been involved in research projects supported by academic grants, particularly in quantum computing and interdisciplinary technology development. His curriculum vitae indicates sustained scholarly activity across multiple domains. He is associated with research groups and collaborations in quantum computing, having co-authored works with G. Chen, C. Huang, and others. His work in NLP was part of larger team efforts involving researchers from industry and academia, suggesting active participation in collaborative technical teams.

Haihua Chenمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science
• Data Quality
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Haihua Chen is an Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas (UNT), with a co-affiliation in Health Informatics. They lead the Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics (IDEA) Lab, focusing on interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence, data science, and informatics. Chen earned a Ph.D. in Information Science (concentrating in Data Science) from UNT in 2022, an M.S. in Information Science from Wuhan University, and dual B.S. degrees in Information Science and English Literature from Central China Normal University. Research interests span applied machine learning, data quality evaluation, NLP, and informatics applications in legal and healthcare domains. Notable work includes developing frameworks for measuring scientific novelty, constructing high-quality legal and biomedical datasets, and leveraging AI for precision medicine and disaster response. Chen has secured over $499K in external grants, including NSF REU and HSI projects, and $20K+ in internal grants. Their work has been published in top journals like Journal of Informetrics , IEEE Transactions on Reliability , and Scientometrics , with a strong focus on innovation measurement and data-centric AI. Teaching includes courses on computational methods, data analysis, and AI in healthcare. Professional leadership roles include chairing ASIS&T SIG-STI and editorial roles for Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology , Knowledge and Information Systems , and others. Awards include UNT’s Great Grads Award and the Linda Schamber Writing Award.

Sandaru Seneviratneمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Text Simplification and Generation
• +۱ مورد دیگر

Sandaru Seneviratne is a Research Fellow at the School of Computing , The Australian National University , focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Text Simplification, and Health Informatics. His work bridges advanced language technologies with healthcare applications. PhD in Computer Science, The Australian National University Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa Research Interests His NLP research emphasizes text simplification frameworks like TextSimplifier and Prompt-based methods for multilingual contexts (e.g., English-Sinhala translation). He investigates factuality error detection in simplified text and lexical substitution techniques for accessibility. In Health Informatics, he contributes to medical term identification using neural networks (CNNs/Transformers), CLEF eHealth evaluations, and diabetes management technologies for teens. Earlier work includes clustering word embeddings for knowledge graphs and restaurant domain information extraction. Publication Trends His publications span 2018–2024, with recent focus on multilingual text simplification, factuality in AI-generated text, and healthcare information retrieval. Technical methods include transformers, triplet networks, and hierarchical clustering, often applied to medical/health domains.

• Machine Translation
• Natural Language Processing
• Multilingual Models
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Barry Haddow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. With over 15 years of research experience, he coordinates major international projects in machine translation and natural language processing, including HPLT (Horizon Europe) and Utter (Horizon Europe). His work spans both theoretical and applied aspects of language technology with significant impact on multilingual systems. Haddow's research focuses on machine translation, particularly addressing challenges in low-resource languages, multilingual models, and speech translation. His recent work demonstrates a strong shift toward leveraging large language models for translation tasks while investigating their limitations in cross-lingual settings. He has made significant contributions to understanding how to adapt general language models for specialized translation scenarios and evaluating their performance across diverse language pairs. Analysis of Haddow's recent publications (2023-2025) reveals a clear research trajectory focusing on the intersection of large language models and machine translation. His work examines how to effectively adapt LLMs for translation tasks, investigates evaluation methodologies for multilingual systems, and develops techniques for improving translation quality across diverse language families. A notable trend is his focus on practical applications of these technologies in real-world settings, including financial language processing and speech translation systems. Haddow has coordinated multiple major European research projects including HPLT (2022-2025), Utter (2022-2025), GOURMET (2019-2022), ELITR (2019-2022), and HIML (2015-2018), securing substantial research funding from Horizon Europe and other sources. His work has established him as a leading figure in the machine translation community, regularly contributing to major shared tasks like WMT (Conference on Machine Translation). As a core member of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at Edinburgh, Haddow collaborates closely with the Language Technology Group. His research directly contributes to the institute's mission of advancing computational approaches to human language processing, with particular emphasis on developing technologies that can operate effectively across the world's diverse languages.

Katherine Schofieldمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• South Asian music
• visual art
• cinema
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Katherine Schofield , Professor of South Asian Music and History at King’s College London , specializes in Mughal India’s musical and cultural history (1570–1860). A viola-trained historian, she integrates Persian, Urdu, and visual sources to explore intersections of music, empire, emotions, and the supernatural. Head of Department of Music, King’s College London Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society & Royal Historical Society Affiliated Scholar, University of Cambridge Centre for South Asian Studies Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania Department of South Asia Studies Research interests span South Asian musicology, Mughal historiography, Sufism, and the social history of musicians. Her ERC-funded MUSTECIO project (€1.18M) examined music’s transformation during colonial transition in India and the Malay world. Her 2024 monograph Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India redefines the field as a finalist in the Prose Awards. Academic contributions include the documentary Songs of the Sufi (2023) and the edited volumes Tellings and Texts (2015) and Monsoon Feelings (2018). She currently studies Urdu ghazal singing under Vidya Rao. Honors include British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2018) and leadership roles on international boards like the Max Planck Institute. She mentors early-career researchers from Black and Global Majority backgrounds.

Julia Sushytskaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• 20th Century European Literature
• Eastern European Philosophy
• Comparative Literature
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Julia Sushytska is a Resident Associate Professor in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College, appointed in 2019. She teaches courses including "Truth, Trust, and Propaganda: Postmodern Theory and the Practice of Dissent," "The Novel as Philosophy: Recollecting Lost Time," "Grotesque Bodies, Eccentric Minds: Carnival Perversions from Gogol to Žižek," and "Eastern European Myth and Folklore." Her educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from John Carroll University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. She also studied at Université Paris X during Fall 2004/2005. Dr. Sushytska specializes in 20th century European and Eastern European literature and philosophy, with research focusing on metics —those who place themselves in-between major cultures, languages, or ethnicities. Her work explores the philosophical dimensions of cultural hybridity, border identities, and the space for truth in political discourse. She has particular expertise in Russian and Eastern European thought, with extensive knowledge of works by figures like Merab Mamardashvili. Her scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with philosophical approaches to Eastern Europe, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, and the concept of "metics" as cultural mediators. Her publications span multiple languages and disciplines, demonstrating interdisciplinary approaches that bridge literary studies, philosophy, and cultural theory, with increasing attention to responses to the war in Ukraine. Book Review Editor, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (2019-2025) Executive Committee, Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division (2023-present) Reviewer for European Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Brill Academic Publishers She is fluent in English and French, with native proficiency in Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish, and reading knowledge of Ancient Greek. Her multilingual capabilities support her cross-cultural research and translation work, including co-editing "A Spy for an Unknown Country" (2020), a collection of essays by Soviet-era Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili, and "Both Sides Face East: Durable Words" (2025), a multilingual collection responding to the invasion of Ukraine.

Marco Venutiمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Linguistics
• Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies
• +۱۲ مورد دیگر

Marco Venuti is a tenured researcher in English Language, Translation, and Linguistics at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania, where he teaches Statistics in Corpus Linguistics and English Linguistics and ESP. He previously held a research position at the University of Naples Federico II from 2006 to 2014. He is a founding member of the Interuniversity Research Center I-LanD (Identity, Language, and Diversity), the Center for Humanistic Computing (CInUm), and the Neurohumanities Research Center at the University of Catania. He serves as the Department's delegate for Digital Humanities and Digital Sociology and is a member of the Departmental Research Committee. His primary research interests include: Critical Discourse Analysis Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies News and Political Discourse Institutional Discourse Social Media in the Public Sphere Language and Gender His recent scholarly work focuses on the discursive construction of social and political events across media and cultures, particularly analyzing news values, identity representation, and evaluative language. His publications reveal a strong methodological consistency in combining corpus linguistics with critical discourse analysis, often in cross-cultural and multilingual contexts, examining topics such as same-sex marriage rulings, EU perception in media, and the linguistic framing of riots and political briefings. He has developed and analyzed major corpora, including the CompWHoB Corpus (White House Press Briefings) and the CorDis Corpus (Iraq War discourse). Scientific contributions and projects include: Principal Investigator (PI) of the interdepartmental research project on online journalism (2020–2024) Departmental PI of the project on Crisis in/of Democracy, focusing on populism and social media Co-development of linguistic corpora for political and media discourse analysis He actively mentors students, supervising theses on discourse analysis, media language, and gender. His research bridges linguistics, sociology, and digital humanities, contributing to both theoretical and applied understandings of language in public and institutional domains.

Nicole Y. Wichaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neurobiology of Language
• Bilingualism
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Nicole Y. Wicha is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), within the College of Sciences. She leads the Wicha Lab, which is dedicated to understanding the neural mechanisms of language and math cognition, with a special focus on bilingual populations. Her lab is based in the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building (BSE 2.206), and she is actively involved in research, teaching, and mentoring. Her research interests center on the cognitive neuroscience of language comprehension, bilingualism, and the interface between language and other cognitive systems such as mathematics. Using electrophysiological techniques like EEG and ERP, Dr. Wicha investigates the real-time neural dynamics of language and arithmetic processing across development. Her work spans diverse populations, from children to older adults, and includes both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals through collaboration. The recent publications from her lab highlight a strong trend in exploring how bilingual individuals process arithmetic in their two languages, examining retrieval strategies, neural time courses, and developmental trajectories. These studies integrate behavioral and brain imaging data to understand language-dependent memory access in math and the cognitive control mechanisms involved in switching between languages during calculation. Dr. Wicha has advised numerous graduate students, including PhD candidates like Vanessa Cerda, Amandine Grenier, and Matt Wood, all of whom have successfully defended their dissertations. She actively recruits students and volunteers into her lab, offering research experience and academic credit. She is involved in multiple collaborations and secures funding to support her research on language and math cognition. The Wicha Lab fosters a vibrant research environment with regular participation in national and international conferences such as the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Society for the Neurobiology of Language, and CogSci. The lab emphasizes community outreach through STEM events, science fairs, and volunteer initiatives. Lab culture balances rigorous research with team-building and celebration of milestones, including birthdays, graduations, and dissertation defenses.

• Language Didactics
• Norwegian Language Education
• Grammar Instruction
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Eli Anne Eiesland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). Her work bridges linguistic research and classroom practice, with a strong focus on grammar instruction, language didactics, and the evolution of Norwegian in educational materials. Her research interests include language didactics , grammar pedagogy , linguistic change in textbooks , second language acquisition , and exploratory approaches to language teaching . She investigates how grammar is taught in schools, how language evolves in educational contexts, and how students and teachers engage with language as a system. Her recent work explores the impact of digital tools and AI on language learning and writing motivation. The trends in her publications show a consistent focus on contextualized grammar teaching , teacher reflection , and language change in educational materials . Her interdisciplinary approach combines corpus linguistics, pedagogical theory, and classroom-based research. She frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Urd Vindenes and Signe Laake, contributing to both Norwegian and international scholarly discourse. Scientific contributions and dissemination: Over 11 scientific publications, including articles in Journal of Child Language , Nordic Journal of Linguistics , and Pedagogical Linguistics 2 textbooks, including Utforskende arbeid med grammatikk i skolen (2022) 1 research report on Norwegian noun-noun compounds (2016) 73 dissemination works, including public lectures, conference presentations, and media contributions Eiesland actively contributes to teacher education and curriculum development. She has been involved in projects integrating linguistics into teacher training and analyzing language change in national curricula. Her work supports both pre-service and in-service teachers in developing deeper metalinguistic awareness and innovative teaching strategies. She has presented at national and international conferences, including the International Conference on Construction Grammar and the NordAnd conference. She is a key member of the Text and Disciplinary Didactics research group at OsloMet, where she collaborates on projects related to language learning, grammar instruction, and textbook analysis. Her work emphasizes practical applications of linguistic research in educational settings, aiming to enhance both teaching quality and student engagement with language.

Cecilia Wallerstedtمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Early Childhood Education
• Music Education
• Aesthetic Education
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Cecilia Wallerstedt is a Professor at the University of Gothenburg, affiliated with both the Artistic Faculty at the Academy of Music and Drama and the Department of Education, Communication and Learning. As Pro-Dean of the Artistic Faculty, she bridges artistic and educational research, while leading the FILUR project focused on imagination development in early childhood education. Her research explores teaching and learning in music and other aesthetic subjects across educational levels, emphasizing teacher-child interactions and sociocultural theory. Current projects address play-responsive teaching, intergenerational play dynamics, and digital media integration in preschool settings. She supervises PhD students in the PReCEC graduate school and collaborates with Nordic institutions through networks like the Studies of Artistic Vision and the Network for Internship Development. Recent publications highlight play-responsive didaktik, metacognitive strategies, and cultural historical theory applied to music, narrative play, and multilingual engagement. While no scientific awards are mentioned, her work includes EU-funded research and systematic reviews of music education practices.

Britta Fredeمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Islamic Studies
• African Studies
• Sufism
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Prof. Dr. Britta Frede is Acting Professor for the Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Bayreuth since April 2022 and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple. Her work focuses on translocal relations and global interconnections of Muslim Africa since 1800, Islamic education, manuscript culture, and popular Islamic movements like Sufism and the Muslim Brotherhood, with regional expertise in North Africa (Maghreb/Mauritania) and sub-Saharan Africa (East Africa/Kenya). Doctorate in Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin (2012) Editor of the Africa section of the Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (2024–) Member of academic councils and editorial boards, including Islamic Africa (Brill) Her research explores Islamic education systems, Saharan manuscript traditions, and gender dynamics in Islamic authority. Recent publications analyze transcontinental manuscript collaboration, traditional female learning circles in Nouakchott, and postcolonial governance of Islamic heritage. She has received the Annemarie Schimmel Foundation Research Prize (2015) and Hedwig Hintze Women's Promotion Prize (2013). Her grants include Volkswagen Foundation and DFG funding for projects on Islamic reform, de-radicalization, and manuscript preservation.

Abhimanyu Sharmaمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Language Policy
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Sociolinguistics
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Abhimanyu Sharma is a Teaching Associate in German Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge. His academic work focuses on language policy, critical discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. He serves as the Communications Secretary of BAAL's Language Policy Special Interest Group and founded the Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle to promote sociolinguistic research at Cambridge. Dr. Sharma's educational background includes: PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge (2019), with thesis on language policies of the EU and India MA in German Linguistics from the University of Bern Double degree MA from Bremen and Palermo in Medieval German Literature Dr. Sharma's research centers on language policy with particular focus on power dynamics, critical discourse analysis, and language in social contexts. His work examines policies across Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg, the EU, and India, with significant contributions to understanding how language policies impact minority communities, migrants, and deaf populations. He employs Historical Structural Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate sociopolitical factors shaping language legislation. His publications reveal a consistent comparative approach to language policy analysis across multiple continents, examining how policies address linguistic minority needs in education, healthcare, legal systems, and media. A notable pattern is his examination of shifts in language policy texts through modal verbs (from 'may' to 'shall'), reflecting changing sociopolitical contexts. Monograph: 'Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy. Evidence from Comparative Cases' (Springer, 2022) Established Malati Sharma Memorial Award (2019) for PhD students As an educator, Dr. Sharma teaches Introduction to German Studies, German Linguistics modules, and translation courses. His teaching integrates sociolinguistic theory with practical language instruction, particularly regarding German language education during the pandemic. Dr. Sharma leads the Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle and delivered the Kapuscinski Development Lecture on 'Language Policy, Development and Inclusion' at Maqsut Narikbayev University in April 2025.

• American Studies
• Native American subjectivity
• Identity
• +۱۳ مورد دیگر

Ana Maria Costa Lopes is a Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu's School of Education (Escola Superior de Educação de Viseu), where she has been serving as a Coordinating Professor since 2020. She holds leadership positions in the Foreign Languages Department and has previously served as Coordinator of the Foreign Languages Department, Vice-President of the Technical Scientific Council, and Secretary of the Scientific Council. Her educational background includes a PhD in Letters with specialization in American Studies from the University of Beira Interior (2009), a Master's in Anglo-Portuguese Studies from NOVA University Lisbon (1995), and a Bachelor's in Modern Languages and Literatures with a focus on English and German Studies from the University of Coimbra (1981). She is fluent in English (C2 level) and has basic proficiency in French, German, and Italian. Her research spans multiple areas within Humanities, with particular focus on American Studies, Native American subjectivity, identity, oral tradition, subjective space, colonial and post-colonial spaces, borders, geocriticism, heterotopia, translation, imagination/representation, space studies, finitude, and travel literature. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between literature, cultural studies, spatial theory, and language education. Her recent publications reveal a growing interest in the intersection of language education, digital technologies, and pedagogical innovation, with numerous studies on foreign language learning in higher education, multimodal creativity, and storytelling as pedagogical tools. She has also maintained her foundational research in American literature, particularly focusing on spatial representation and identity formation. Active participant in multiple research projects including HARVEST (2023-2024), APSASeG (2022-2024), and others focused on language education and pedagogical innovation Regular member of academic committees including scientific and organizational committees for conferences on language teaching and literary studies Active participant in recruitment and evaluation juries for academic positions Her academic leadership extends to supervising master's theses and participating in examination committees both in Portugal and internationally, including at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil.

Soyeon Leeمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Transnational Writing
• Literacy Studies
• Environmental Rhetoric
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Soyeon Lee serves as Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso's College of Liberal Arts. Her academic work centers on transnational communication frameworks within multilingual community contexts, particularly examining disaster recovery systems and social justice initiatives through rhetorical and design lenses. Her educational credentials include: Ph.D. in English with concentration in Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy (University of Houston) Graduate Certificate in Teaching Technical Communication (Texas Tech University) Dr. Lee's research explores transnational writing practices , environmental disaster rhetoric , and equitable user experience design with emphasis on community-engaged pedagogy across linguistic borders. Her current monograph investigates how multilingual writers navigate climate disaster recovery communication, revealing critical gaps in institutional accessibility frameworks. This work intersects with anti-racism advocacy, as seen in her coalition-building research addressing anti-Asian violence. Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on disaster recovery systems (2021-2024), with growing emphasis on transnational justice frameworks. Her scholarship consistently bridges academic theory and community application, particularly through multilingual UX design for vulnerable populations. Professional recognition includes: ACM SIGDOC 2021 Best Paper Award for COVID-19 recovery research While advising activities and grant funding details aren't specified in source materials, Dr. Lee's collaborative publications indicate active engagement with community partners and interdisciplinary teams. Her work consistently emphasizes trans-border implementation, suggesting ongoing fieldwork with border communities despite no formal lab structure being mentioned.

• Natural Language Processing
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Mechanistic Interpretability
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Simon Ostermann serves as a Senior Lecturer at Saarland University and Senior Researcher & Deputy Director at the Multilinguality and Language Technology (MLT) lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He leads the Efficient and Explainable NLP (E&E) research group and contributes to major projects including lorAI (Low Resource AI), TRAILS (Trustworthy Machines), PERKS (Procedural Knowledge), DAM-S (Semantic Search), and DisAI (Disinformation Combat). His research centers on democratizing language technology through transparent, robust models—specializing in mechanistic interpretability to reverse-engineer LLM internals and enhance efficiency for low-resource languages. Key focus areas include reducing model size for constrained environments, improving cross-lingual transfer via adapters, and developing structured input techniques. His work bridges theoretical interpretability with practical applications in resource-limited settings. 2025 publications reveal concentrated efforts in low-resource adaptation (language adapters, graph-enhanced embeddings), explainable AI (counterfactual generation, conversational XAI datasets), and multilingual fact-checking systems. Notable trends include systematic neuron manipulation frameworks, rigorous evaluation of synthetic data strategies, and cross-lingual claim verification benchmarks. Ostermann advises six PhD candidates (Anikina, Oguz, Bäumel, al Ghussin, Gurgurov, Vykopal) and multiple MSc students on topics spanning RAG hallucinations, multilabel classification, and adapter interpretability. His research receives funding through DFKI-led consortia with European and international partners focusing on trustworthy, efficient AI deployment. The E&E group under his leadership drives innovation in efficient NLP through biweekly seminars, collaborative coding sessions, and partnerships with institutions like KInIT. Current initiatives prioritize green computing for language models and real-world deployment in industrial procedural knowledge systems.