Ben Deen is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Tulane. His research uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how we understand other people, interpret their behavior, and predict what they will do in the future. Dr. Deen received his BS in Physics and Cognitive Science from Yale University, and his PhD in Neuroscience from MIT. He conducted postdoctoral research at The Rockefeller University, supported by fellowships from the Helen Hay Whitney and Leon Levy foundations.

Tommaso Buvoli is joining Tulane University as an assistant professor in the math department. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in applied mathematics at the University of California, Merced. In 2018, he earned his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Washington under the supervision of Professor Randall LeVeque. His research interests lie at the intersection of numerical analysis, scientific computing, and high-performance computing.

I received my PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2011 doing research on signal transduction in plants. I have taught for several years and am particularly interested in ways to support diversity and inclusion in my classes.

Khaled is a Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering. He earned his PhD from Virginia Tech and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Olivia Beckwith is a number theorist whose research focuses on modular forms and their connections to algebraic number theory and combinatorics. Beckwith became interested in number theory after attending a summer math program at the Ohio State University. Later Beckwith completed a bachelor’s degree at Harvey Mudd College and a PhD at Emory University before moving on to postdoctoral positions at the University of Bristol (England) and the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.

Joseph Billingsley, PhD, fuses social psychology, cognitive science and evolutionary biology in an effort to understand the psychological mechanisms that regulate cooperation and altruism. His research investigates cooperation and altruism along several distinct but related lines of inquiry: the mechanisms underlying reconciliation and relationship repair; how kinship influences cooperation; religiosity and prosocial behavior; and social categorization.

Zhengming Ding received a BEng degree in information security and a MEng degree in computer software and theory from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He received a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University 2018. Prior to joining Tulane’s Department of Computer Science, he was a faculty member affiliated with the Department of Computer, Information and Technology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.