John Eastwood Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, York University John Eastwood, a registered Clinical Psychologist, holds an academic appointment at York University in Toronto Canada as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology where he trains future psychologists and conducts research on the intersection between cognition and emotion. He has examined how attention is allocated to affective and socially relevant information, the influence of mood and motivation on attention, as well as the affective consequences of attention failures.… read more »
Nicholas Economides Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, NYU Nicholas Economides is a Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business of New York University, and Founder and Executive Director of the NET Institute. He has taught previously at Columbia University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, antitrust, and public policy.… read more »
Shimon Edelman Professor of Psychology, Cornell University Shimon Edelman BSEE MSc PhD holds degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and is interested in all aspects of mind, brain, and behavior. He has taught in Israel, England, and South Korea and is presently Professor of Psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he works on behavioral, neural, evolutionary, and computational aspects of vision, language, consciousness, and happiness.… read more »
Laura Edelson Postdoctoral Researcher, New York University Laura Edelson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University with the Cybersecurity for Democracy project, which she co-directs with Damon McCoy. There, she leads the Ad Observatory and Ad Observer projects, which aim to increase public transparency of digital advertising, particularly during elections.… read more »
Tina Eliassi-Rad Professor, Computer Science, Northeastern University Tina Eliassi-Rad is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. Prior to joining Northeastern, Tina was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; and before that she was a Member of Technical Staff and Principal Investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.… read more »
Katherine Elkins Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature Director of The Integrated Program in Humane Studies Founding Co-Director KDH Lab Kenyon College View Papers / Presentations » Katherine Elkins is Professor of Humanities and faculty in Computing at Kenyon College, where she teaches in the Integrated Program in Humane Studies. She writes about the age-old conversation between philosophy and literature as well as the more recent conversation about AI, language and art.… read more »
Susan Engel Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Director of the Program in Teaching, Williams College Susan Engel is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Her research interests include children’s narratives, play, the development of curiosity, and more generally, teaching and learning. Her work has appeared in journals such asCognitive Development and the American Education Research Journal.… read more »
G. Bard Ermentrout Distinguished University Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Bard Ermentrout received his BA and MA (mathematics) at Johns Hopkins Univerity and his PhD in biophysics & theoretical biology at the University of Chicago in 1979. He is the author of over 200 papers in math, biology, physics, and neuroscience, including XPPAUT software for the simulation and analysis of dynamical systems, and the books, Simulating, Analyzing, and Animating Dynamical Systems (2002) and, with David Terman, Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience (2010).… read more »
Percival Everett Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California Author Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and an author of some thirty books, mostly novels. In his career he has won numerous awards, honors, and fellowships, among the most recent being the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association in 2018.… read more »