Kyongbum Lee
Dean, School of Engineering
Karol Family Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Kyongbum Lee investigates systems biology, metabolomics, and microbiome. His work aims to gain fundamental insights into the biochemical and biophysical cues contributing to the regulation of metabolic pathways, and to develop technologies for assembling, characterizing, and manipulating these systems. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering with a minor in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.
William Harvey
Deputy CIO and Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
William Harvey is a rheumatologist and clinical informatician at Tufts Medicine in Boston. After serving as Clinical Director of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology for 10 years, Dr. Harvey moved into a system role as Deputy CIO and Chief Medical Informatics Officer. His research activities include clinical trials in rheumatology as well as informatics research across the clinical spectrum, and use of clinical AI. He received his doctor of medicine from Penn State University.
Abani Patra
Director, Center for Data Foundations in AI
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Abani Patra researches computational issues in large scale and data driven modeling. He is trained in computational mathematics. Patra was the founding director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at University at Buffalo and has directed programs at the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. He received his PhD at the University of Texas.
Aruna Ramesh
Professor, Comprehensive Care, School of Dental Medicine
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Dental Medicine
Aruna Ramesh is a Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs within the School of Dental Medicine. The Office of Academic Affairs has oversight on the development and implementation of an evolving predoctoral and postdoctoral curricula and its impact on educators and learners. She received her MS in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Dentistry in 2000 and DMD from TUSDM in 2004.
Matthias Scheutz
Director, Human-AI Interaction Center (HAII)
Karol Family Applied Technology Professor, Department of Computer Science
Matthias Scheutz has over 400 peer-reviewed publications in artificial intelligence, artificial life, agent-based computing, natural language understanding, cognitive modeling, robotics, human-robot interaction and foundations of cognitive science. His research focuses on complex ethical cognitive robots with natural language interaction, problem-solving, and instruction-based learning capabilities in open worlds. He received a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Vienna and a joint PhD in cognitive science and computer science from Indiana University.
Nick Seaver
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Director, Science, Technology & Society
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Nick Seaver studies how people who make technology deal with cultural materials. He examines how engineers theorize about culture and technology – who they are and how they should interact. He also investigates the technocultural life of attention in the United States. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine.