Adam Lawson worked for nearly a decade developing medical education software and simulators for private industry before pursuing a PhD in clinical anatomy. Lawson’s primary professional goals have always been to educate while pursuing research that informs his educational approach.
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.
Chiung-Kuei Huang, known as CK, obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. His long-term career goals are to clarify the molecular pathogenesis of liver disease progression with a specific focus on alcoholic liver disease and identify potential therapeutic targets for these patients. During his off-work hours, he likes to spend time with family, watch movies, swim and jog.
Corey J. Miles is an assistant professor in both the sociology and Africana studies departments. His research interests are situated at the nexus of Black performativity and carcerality, with a regional focus on the U.S. South. His forthcoming book, published by the University Press of Mississippi, is titled Hip-Hop’s Vibe: Rural Black Aesthetics and Racialized Emotions in the Carceral South, in which he maps the ways the South itself is a site of carcerality, and how trap music is used as a relational space to contest and make sense of emotional and spatial violence.
Thomas Patrick Pringle researches the relationship between media technology, culture and the environment. Before joining Tulane as an assistant professor of environmental communication, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and received a PhD in modern culture and media from Brown University. Pringle has held research fellowships with the SenseLab at Concordia, the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Daniel Bernstein is interested in geometric and combinatorial structures that arise in areas of science and engineering including structural rigidity, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. My non-professional interests include music, powerlifting, mountain biking and the trading card game Magic the Gathering.
