Mahan Azadpour Research Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Mahan Azadpour is a Research Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he focuses his research on cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant devices. These are the most successful neural interface technologies and have transformed the lives of deaf individuals by enabling hearing sensation through direct stimulation of auditory neural pathways with surgically implanted electrodes.… read more »
Clare Batty Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Kentucky Research Fellow, Centre for Olfactory Research & Applications at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London Clare Batty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky and Research Fellow at the Centre for Olfactory Research and Applications at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Her research interests are in the philosophy of perception and in particular the philosophy of olfaction. … read more »
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Tapomayukh “Tapo” Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he directs the EmPRISE Lab (https://emprise.cs.cornell.edu/). He completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology and was an NIH Ruth L.… read more »
James Bower CEO, Numedeon Inc. Computational Neuroscientist James M. Bower is a Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Bio-computation Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire, UK as well as an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He was previously a professor in the University of Texas System and at the California Institute of Technology. … read more »
Paul Breslin Professor of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, Rutgers University Co-Director, Monell Science Apprenticeship Program View Papers / Presentations » Paul Breslin is professor of Nutritional Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and is a Member of The Monell Chemical Senses Center, where he is Co-Director of the Monell Science Apprenticeship Program.… read more »
Christopher Cerrone Composer View Papers / Presentations » Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Recent commissions include In a Grove, a new opera co-produced by LA Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh and the Detroit Symphony, a brass concerto for the Cincinnati Symphony, a work for narrator and orchestra for the Louisville Symphony, a piano concerto for Shai Wosner and the Phoenix and Albany Symphonies, a percussion concerto for Third Coast Percussion, and four works for the LA Philharmonic.… read more »
Edgar Choueiri Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University.… read more »
Simon Critchley Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research View Papers / Presentations » Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Onassis Foundation. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing (1997), Infinitely Demanding (2007), The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009) and The Faith of the Faithless (2012). … read more »
Daniel Czitrom Professor of History on the Ford Foundation, Mount Holyoke College Daniel Czitrom is Emeritus Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, where he taught for 41 years. He is the author most recently of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford, 2016; pb, 2018).… read more »
Richard Deming Poet & Critic View Papers / Presentations » Richard Deming is an award-winning poet and critic, whose work explores the intersections of literature, philosophy, and visual culture. He is the author of six books, including This Exquisite Loneliness (Viking, 2023), Day for Night (Shearsman, 2016) and Art of the Ordinary (Stanford UP, 2018). … read more »
Andrea Gadberry Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, New York University Andrea Gadberry is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her first book, Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking, from the University of Chicago Press, appeared in 2020. She is currently at work on two new book projects: one on early modern rationalism and literary causality and a second, tentatively entitled, Notes on Clapping. … read more »
Jill Gordon NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita & Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Colby College Founding Member & former Director, Ancient Philosophy Society Jill Gordon is the NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Colby College. She is a founding member and former Director of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS). She is the author of two monographs, Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues (1999) and Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death (2012), and the editor of one collected volume, Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece (2022).… read more »
Andreas Keller Neuroscientist & Philosopher Andreas Keller is a New York-based academic with PhDs in neuroscience and philosophy who is interested in olfactory perception. He has over a decade of experience in olfactory psychophysics and the clinical aspects of olfaction. The results of his experiments have shed light on human olfactory capacities, on the relation between the structure and smell of odor molecules, and on the perceptual consequences of variability in odorant receptor genes.… read more »
Eric Klinenberg Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University Director, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University View Papers / Presentations » Eric Klinenberg is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air, and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance.… read more »
Jerrold Levinson Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Maryland View Papers / Presentations » Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell UP 1990, 2nd ed.… read more »
Pascal Massie Associate Professor of Philosophy, Miami University Pascal Massie was educated in France (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Agrégation) and completed his PhD at Vanderbilt University. He is currently associate professor at Miami University. His work focuses on Ancient and Medieval philosophy as well as contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Contingency, Time and Possibility; an essay on Aristotle and Duns Scotus (Lexington).… read more »
Paula McDowell Professor of English, New York University Paula McDowell is Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of books and essays addressing “media effects” from the eighteenth century to today, including The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 (Oxford) and The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago), which won the John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies.… read more »
John McGann Director, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University Professor of Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience, Psychology Department, Rutgers University Dr. John McGann is the Director of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science and a tenured Professor of Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at Rutgers. He runs the McGann Laboratory on the Neurobiology of Sensory Cognition, which uses the olfactory system of humans and rodent models to explore how organisms learn about and interpret their sensory world.… read more »
John McQuaid Journalist & Author John McQuaid is a journalist and author of Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat (Scribner, 2015), on the biology, history, and cultures of flavor. He has written on science and the environment for publications including Smithsonian and Scientific American, and won many national journalism awards, including sharing Pulitzer Prizes for a series on global fisheries collapses and for coverage of Hurricane Katrina while at the New Orleans Times-Picayune (after writing a series on hurricane risk that anticipated the disaster).… read more »
Daphne Merkin Novelist & Critic Daphne Merkin is a novelist and critic who has made a name for herself with her often-unnerving candor and forthright attitude towards issues of family, religion, money, and sex as well as her ability to straddle the High/Low cultural divide. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in book publishing for six years as first a senior editor and then associate publisher, acquiring fiction and non-fiction.… read more »
Yalda Moayedi Assistant Professor, New York University Dr. Yalda Moayedi is an Assistant Professor at the Pain Research Center in the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at New York University College of Dentistry. Her research focuses on the biology of somatosensory neurons that innervate the oral cavity and upper airway, investigating how information from these neurons guides oral functions such as flavor perception, feeding mechanics, airway protection, and vocalization.… read more »
Nils Noren Professional Chef Director of Hospitality & Development, Chapman Ventures Co-Found & Director of Trade & Union Nils Noren started his cooking career in his native Sweden, where he worked at many of the top restaurants and was Executive Chef at KB restaurant were he received a star from Guide Michelin. Nils moved to New York City to work along side Marcus Samuelsson at Restaurant Aquavit as Chef de Cuisine before being promoted to Executive Chef.… read more »
Tristan Perich Composer Tristan Perich’s (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release on Cantaloupe Music, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live.… read more »
Maria G. Pisano Book Artist, Printmaker, Curator & Educator View Papers / Presentations » Maria G. Pisano is a book artist, printmaker, curator and educator and publishes her work under the Memory Press imprint. Memory Press works are represented in The Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, National Library of Medicine, Columbia University, New York Public Library, Stanford University and many more.… read more »
Danielle Reed Chief Science Officer, Monell Chemical Senses Center View Papers / Presentations » Danielle Renee Reed is the Chief Science Officer of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a non-profit research institution devoted to the study of taste and smell, located in Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University, and did her postdoctoral training in genetics at the University of Pennsylvania.… read more »
Dmitry Rinberg Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Dmitry Rinberg, a Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, joined the field of neuroscience after having completed his Ph.D. in Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research comprises 3 core domains: deciphering the fundamental principles of neural coding, exploring olfactory information processing in the brain, and harnessing the olfactory system’s remarkable sensitivity as a chemical detector.… read more »
Erica Robles-Anderson Associate Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication, NYU Erica Robles-Anderson is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, a recipient of the 2023-24 Leonore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and the editor-in-chief of Public Culture.… read more »
Anna Shechtman Klarman Fellow, Cornell University Anna Shechtman is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University and will begin as an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English in 2024. She is writing a two-volume history of the “media” and “data” concepts in the United States.… read more »
Mark Smith Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History and Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is also Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. … read more »
Sushma Subramanian Science Writer & Journalist Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Mary Washington View Papers / Presentations » Sushma Subramanian is the author of “How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch,” a book that explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch and that aims to reconnect readers to what is arguably our most important sense.… read more »
R. John WIlliams Associate Professor, English, Film and Media, at Yale University R. John Williams is an Associate Professor of English, Film and Media, at Yale University. His academic work has focused on international histories of Buddhism, technological innovation and the perceived difference of racial and cultural otherness. His book, The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and The Meeting of East and West (Yale University Press, 2014), examines the role of technological discourse in representations of Asian/American aesthetics in late-nineteenth and twentieth century film and literature.… read more »