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Rachel Adler is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she co-directs the Information Experience and Accessibility Lab. Adler's research interests are in human-computer interaction, accessibility, and computing education. She is particularly interested in designing applications for and with people with disabilities. Some of her recent projects include co-designing a mobile health application to empower cancer survivors with disabilities, co-designing a mobile health peer navigator intervention for people with disabilities, and creating simulation games to teach students about accessible design. 
Her research has been funded through the National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research; and the U.S. Department of Education. 
Adler was previously an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University. She was also a visiting associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 

 is a Beckman Institute researcher and an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Within the iSchool, Seo directs the Accessible Computing Lab. His research topics include accessible computing, universal design, inclusive data science, and equitable healthcare technologies. As an information and learning scientist, his research focuses particularly on how to make computational literacy more accessible to people with dis/abilities by using multimodal data representation. His research projects have involved not just web accessibility, but also human-centered design and development studies, including inclusive makerspaces, tangible block-based programming, accessible data science (e.g., data actualization, sonification, and verbalization), and accessible/reproducible scientific writing tools for people with and without dis/abilities.
At the Beckman Institute, Seo's research addresses accessibility barriers at the intersection of information and learning. Specifically, he designs, develops, and evaluates accessible technologies that can offer better usability and learnability to blind and low-vision individuals. His two primary focus areas are accessible computing and accessible healthcare, given the increasing importance of computing and healthcare in our daily lives. He is particularly interested in multimodal data representation methods, such as physical data visualization, spatial audio sonification, and generative AI-assisted visual descriptions, to make data and information more accessible to people with visual impairments.
Research areas:


Accessible computing/data science


Ability-based human-computer interaction


Inclusive Learning Sciences/STEM+C education across dis/abilities


Accessible health informatics


 
Research interests:


Learning Analytics/Statistical Computing


Data Science-Based Reproducible Research


Large-Scale Virtual/Quantitative Ethnography


 
Education


Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Learning, Design, and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2021


M.Ed., Learning, Design, and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016


Double B.A., Education and English Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, 2014

Sajid Khan, MD is an Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology), Section Chief of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary & Mixed Tumors at Yale School of Medicine, and Co-Director of Team Science at Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Khan is nationally recognized for superb clinical care and excellence in cancer research. He earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and is Board Certified in both Complex General Surgical Oncology and General Surgery. He completed general surgery training at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR and Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore in Bronx, NY. He also completed a research fellowship in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY and a clinical and research fellowship in surgical oncology at University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, IL. . Dr. Khan is dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients by his busy surgical practice, federally funded research, leadership by example, and kindness.
Dr. Khan's surgical oncology practice specializes in patients with tumors of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts, gallbladder, stomach, and colon. Additionally he treats individuals diagnosed with melanoma, sarcoma, neuroendocrine tumors, and pancreatic cysts. His commitment to his patients and their families incorporates a multidisciplinary team approach, excellent communication, and state of the art minimally invasive surgery to provide an exceptional patient experience. Nationally, he has been named Top Doctors in American by Castle Connolly and consistently ranks in the top 1 percentile rank for patient satisfaction.
Dr. Khan is a federally funded, well published, surgeon-scientist who uses modern molecular biology (focused on metabolomics and transcriptomics) to improve our understanding and treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers. His gastrointestinal surgical oncology focused research has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute and incorporates principles of team science. The Khan Lab performs translational scientific research studying cancer metastasis and differences in tumor biology based on race/ethnicity and sex. Using molecular and clinical markers, the Khan Lab studies the scientific underpinnings of liver metastasis and identifies cancer patients who may benefit from liver surgery. In addition, his lab studies the relationship of tumor metabolites and RNA expression with race/ethnicity and sex. He also performs clinical outcomes research for all types of gastrointestinal cancers. His lab's research is regularly presented at national and international scientific meetings, published in prestigious scientific journals, and featured in national media outlets.
Dr. Khan is Chair of the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Research Committee, on the Editorial Board for the Annals of Surgical Oncology, and Institutional Representative for the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). He is an active member of the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), Society of University Surgeons (SUS), National Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCN), American College of Surgeons (ACS), Association for Academic Surgery (AAS), Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI), Yale Cancer Center, and Yale School of Medicine Admissions Committee.

Dr. Sam A. Kashani is a board-certified Sleep Medicine Specialist at UCLA Health whose clinical interests include chronic insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, parasomnias, pediatric sleep disorders, and the associations between sleep, obesity, and metabolic health. He sees both adult and pediatric patients.
Dr. Kashani completed his residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Southern California, where he worked with the medically underserved population of San Bernardino County with plans of becoming a primary care physician. Upon completing his residency, he chose to pursue his interest in Sleep Medicine and completed a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Kashani also currently serves on the board of directors for the California Sleep Society (CSS) and regularly delivers lectures and conferences on sleep health in the community. 

Dr. Nancy L. Segal received a B.A. degree in psychology and English literature from Boston University (1973), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Social Sciences and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1974 and 1982, respectively. She is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Twin Studies Center, at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), which she founded in 1991. She is the CSUF 2004-5 Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and the 2004-5 Outstanding Professor of the Year. She also received the 2005 James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research, from the Behavior Genetics Association and International Society for Twin Studies.
Other honors include the 2006 International Making a Difference Award (Multiple Births, Canada), a 2007 Award for Excellence (Mensa Foundation), and the 2008 Social Responsibility Award (Western Psychological Association).
Dr. Segal is the author of Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005/2007) and Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior (NY: Dutton, 1999, NY: Plume 2000), and is the senior editor of Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development (Washington, D.C.: APA Press, 1997). She received a 2003-2004 American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for completion of her most recent book. She was also co-principal investigator of an NIMH supported study “Twins, Virtual Twins and Friends: Peers and Adjustment.” Dr. Segal is an Associate Editor of Twin Research and Human Genetics, the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies.
Dr. Segal has authored approximately 120 scientific articles and book chapters in addition to her three books.  In fall 2007 she was the featured guest speaker at the New Zealand Multiple Births Association, in Auckland.
Dr. Segal’s guest television appearances include Good Morning America, 20/20, the Oprah Winfrey Show and Discovery Health. Good Morning America produced a special twin segment and NPR (Diane Rehm Show) had her on as a guest in the fall 2005, when Indivisible by Two was released. She frequently addresses both professional and general audiences concerning her work. Her current recent interests include behavioral and physical development of twins, the nature of twins’ social relationships, Korean twins separated at birth (one raised in Seoul, the other raised in the United States), the behavioral development of Chinese twins adopted internationally (both by same and different families), and the behavioral consequences of twin loss.
 






1982, Ph.D, University of Chicago
1974, M.A., University of Chicago
1973, B.A, Boston University
 






Twin studies, developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, sex differences, cooperation and competition.

Professor Brian DeMarco has advanced the frontier of using light, atoms and molecules for quantum science and technology for over 30 years. For his graduate work, DeMarco and his PhD advisor Deborah Jin created the first Fermi gas of atoms. As a postdoc working with Nobel laureate David Wineland, DeMarco made key contributions creating a scalable platform for trapped atomic ion quantum computing. At Illinois, DeMarco’s research group has pioneered quantum matter science, including the first demonstrations of Anderson localization in three dimensions, localization of strongly correlated particles, quenches across quantum phase transitions, and many-body localization. His research group is now tackling the challenge of realizing distributed quantum computing architectures. Professor DeMarco is the Director of the $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks, and he is the Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), which supports the $150M+ portfolio of quantum science and engineering research at Illinois.
Professor DeMarco has also provided key national leadership, including serving as the Chair of the NASA Fundamental Physical Sciences Standing Review Board. In that capacity, he led a team to develop a decadal plan for quantum space science—an achievement recognized by the NASA Group Achievement Award. DeMarco has a keen interest in the intersection of science, policy and national security. He serves on the chairline of the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs, and is one of 200 experts in science, math, technology, and medicine charged by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a member of its Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group.

Rohit Bhargava serves as the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a primary academic appointment as Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering. He graduated with a B.Tech. dual-degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and received a doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University. After postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, he has been at Illinois as a faculty member.
Bhargava is recognized as a pioneer in the field of chemical imaging and its applications to histopathology. Advances from his laboratory have established the theory, state of the art instrumentation, analytical workflows and applications of this emerging technology, some of which have been commercially translated. Using artificial intelligence techniques, his work focuses on enabling all-digital, chemical histopathology for augmenting diagnoses and decision-making. He has also served to connect the research community in new and exciting ways. Bhargava was one of the first external hires in the Illinois Bioengineering department, founded the Cancer Scholars Program and started the NIH T32-supported tissue microenvironment training program. He founded and continues to lead the Cancer Center at Illinois - a basic cancer center at the convergence of science, engineering and oncology.

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Dr. Tusty ten Bensel is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at UA Little Rock. She is also the Director of the Justice Research Policy Center at UA Little Rock. She received her B.A and M.A in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Dr. ten Bensel is a premier scholar specializing in violence and victimology. Her research stems from an interest in understanding the broader social, historical, and political contexts of criminal behavior and desistance, focusing specifically on sexual violence, victimization, neighborhoods and crime/recidivism, and hate crimes against special populations.
She has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Criminology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Criminal Justice Policy Review. She has completed one book and secured multiple grants/contracts. Based on her research on collective sexual violence in warring countries, she was invited to present her work at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2014, where she discussed the collectivization process of sexual violence in Bosnia and Sierra Leone. In 2019, Dr. ten Bensel received the Faculty Excellence Award in Research and Creative Endeavors by the College of Social Science and Communication for her research achievements.

Erin Fehr is Yup’ik and the assistant director and archivist at the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she has been since 2011. She co-authored the “American Indians in World War I” webpage for the United States World War One Centennial Commission in 2019 and continues to support the research conducted by the Valor Medals Review Task Force.
She received a Master of Music in Musicology and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of research include the musical education and performance of Native Americans during and after the boarding school era, Native Americans in World War I, and the history of American Indian marching bands. She serves as the secretary for the American Indian Center of Arkansas Board of Directors.

Colin Crawford serves as the dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at UA Little Rock. He has undergraduate history degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge, and did doctoral work in modern history in Cambridge. He has a JD from Harvard Law School.
Dean Crawford’s academic work concentrated in comparative and international urban legal questions, and particularly questions of environmental and land use justice, especially in Latin America. Prior to coming to Bowen, he was dean at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. He has held tenured positions at Tulane and Georgia State universities, among others.

Elizabeth Small is the UA Little Rock Director of Business Networks and the Real Estate Instructor in the School of Business Finance Department. As a former business owner, she brings 32+ years of commercial real estate development, real estate brokerage, commercial contracting, and property management experience to the classroom.

Joanna A. Hall, MNSc, RN is the Director of Simulation and Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Nursing. Joanna received her Bachelor of Science in Community Health Promotion (BS), Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN), and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), all from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her Master of Nursing Science (MNSc) in Nursing Administration and Nursing Education from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Joanna is passionate about helping grow and empower young leaders, engaging students, and creating impactful change in nursing education and the community through incorporation of inclusive, innovative teaching practices and technology.

Derek Slagle is the director of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He formerly served as the director of the Survey Research Center.
Concomitantly, he served as a state lead for Occupational Licensing Policy Learning Consortium, a three-year project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and managed jointly by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, and the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices. Dr. Slagle has worked on over 2.5 million dollars of funded research – included grants from the CDC, Robert Wood Johnson and contracts with various state agencies, nonprofits, and for-profit companies.
As faculty in the Master of Public Administration program, he focuses on training the next generation of Arkansas leaders while emphasizing service and connecting theory to praxis. His research in Public Affairs Education, Higher Education, Community Development, & State Government have been published in a variety of academic journals.

Lav R. Varshney is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, with further affiliations in Computer Science, Neuroscience, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, Digital Agriculture, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, all at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical and computer engineering (magna cum laude) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 2004. He received the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 2006, 2008, and 2010, respectively.

Varshney was named a White House Fellow for the 2022-2023 class, where he was placed at the National Security Council as Deputy Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology. He was a principal research scientist at Salesforce Research during 2019-2020, focused on AI ethics and AI for Good. He was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 2010 until 2013, where he conceptualized and led the development and deployment of the Chef Watson computational creativity system to worldwide recognition. Varshney is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi, and a senior member of IEEE. He was a founding member of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Big Data in Signal Processing and served on the Shannon Centenary Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
His research agenda focuses on transitional justice, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, and democratization across the developing world. He critically examines the empirical and normative arguments used to justify the introduction of social and economic policies in societies emerging from periods of conflict and repression. Much of his work has focused on using social science research methods to evaluate transitional justice mechanisms. His research is driven by a normative desire to set more realistic policy expectations, particularly among victims and marginalized groups.
Dr. Wiebelhaus-Brahm’s most recent book, Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies, was published by Routledge (2010). As of mid-2018, Eric also is the author of 11 book chapters and 17 peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Peace Research, International Journal of Transitional Justice, and Journal of Human Rights.
Dr. Wiebelhaus-Brahm is a co-investigator on the UK Global Challenges Research Fund-supported “Strategic Network on Justice, Conflict and Development” that links a group of academics and practitioners in the developed world with those in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Uganda. He is also a co-investigator on a Norwegian Research Council grant evaluating the implementation record of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. He served as a volunteer with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Diaspora Project between 2007 and 2009. Eric earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dr. David Montague serves as the associate vice chancellor for academic affairs - student success and a professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He formerly served as the director of online learning. 
Dr. Montague completed federal investigations for 14 years in law enforcement and intelligence capacities working for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a federal drug diversion investigator. At the age of 23, he lectured on Asset Forfeiture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and at 29, he was appointed as head of investigations for the United States JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) as the senior investigator. He later went on to serve as a consultant on national security matters with US Investigations Services, Inc. and was a member of the founding faculty of the PhD Program in Organizational Leadership at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
In 2004, he joined UA Little Rock’s Department of Criminal Justice as an Assistant Professor teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs. He has used his time at UA Little Rock to facilitate a mix of his teaching, research, and service in such a manner as to use his access to expose students via projects, collaborate both on and off campus, and generate grant and contract funding as often as possible. He founded the UA Little Rock Senior Justice Center to promote service and research on crime against older people. He is the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Faculty Staff Award for Outstanding Teaching and Intellectual Development of Undergraduate Students by the University of Maryland at College Park Nyumburu Cultural Center, the 2009 UA Little Rock College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, and the 2014 UA Little Rock College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award in Service. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Felix Fabian Founder’s Award from the Southwest Association of Criminal Justice, awarded for outstanding contribution to SWACJ and the criminal justice profession.
Dr. Montague formerly served as the graduate coordinator for the UA Little Rock Master of Science Program in criminal justice and is a graduate of the LeadAR Program, the Arkansas State leadership program involving a two-year commitment of service-learning and travel within-state and the People’s Republic of China. He was a founding member of the UA Little Rock’s Chancellor’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity, and his most recent funded research project was to evaluate programming for the Arkansas Department of Community Correction, dealing with services for clients during and after release from prison. In 2017, he was appointed to a part-time role as coordinator of UA Little Rock’s university-level mentoring program for new faculty.
Dr. Montague is active in the community volunteering as a deputy sheriff in Arkansas, participating in a rehabilitation program at three prisons, and has served on several discipline-related boards – one of them being the board of directors for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, one of the largest national associations for criminal justice educators.
He has presented his research internationally at conferences in Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Holland, Trinidad, and Canada. In addition to serving as a keynote speaker nationally, he has testified before two state legislatures on prospective policies. He has written numerous publications and is the coauthor of the book Travesty of Justice: The politics of crack cocaine and the dilemma of the Congressional Black Caucus, now in its Second Edition. He is also finishing up a new book dealing with his tenure as part of the Congressional reinvestigation of JFK assassination records during the 1990s.
Dr. Montague resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife and daughter.

Laura Fine is the state director for the Arkansas SBTDC hosted by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She joined the program in 1989 initially engaged in training and communications roles prior to becoming Assistant State Director in 1992 and then Associate State Director in 2013. She was named state director in 2017. Prior to joining the Arkansas SBTDC, Fine was a trainer and special projects manager for Levi Strauss & Co.
She leads the ASBTDC statewide network of 11 offices with more than 60 team members. ASBTDC is currently performing on six projects federally funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
A member of the America’s SBDC Network Board of Directors, Fine also serves on the national Marketing and Operations Committees and previously served on the Accreditation Committee. She was recognized by Arkansas Business in its annual Arkansas 250 listing in 2019 and 2020 as one of Arkansas’ Most Influential Leaders in Economic Development. She represents the Arkansas SBTDC with the Arkansas Economic Developers and Chamber Executives, the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, and the Arkansas Community & Economic Development Alliance.
Fine earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from the University of Central Arkansas. She is an active member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock where she currently serves on the Finance Team.

Professor Virginia (Gina) Lorenz joined the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015, where her research group performs experiments in quantum optics and atomic, molecular and optical physics. Lorenz's research group currently focuses on a variety of areas in quantum optics: quantum networks, quantum memories, photonic quantum sources, quantum sensing. On November 4, 2023, in collaboration with other research teams and university and community partners, Lorenz launched the first publicly accessible quantum network. Her group investigates new sources of entangled photon pairs for use in quantum protocols. They are also developing a quantum memory capable of storing and retrieving THz bandwidth quantum states. Finally, her group studies quantum information theory to better understand and predict the limitations of sensing techniques in a wide range of applications.
She received her B.A. in physics magna cum laude and mathematics in 2001 and completed her Ph.D. in physics in 2007 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2007-2009 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the University of Oxford, where she worked on implementations of quantum memories in atomic and solid-state systems. From 2009-2014, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware.

Professor Shaloo Rakheja is an expert in physics-based modeling of nanoelectronic devices and technology-device-circuit co-design and co-optimization. She is particularly interested in understanding, predicting, and modeling physical phenomena in materials that drive their functional behavior and enable multifaceted applications in the domains of low-power logic and memory, sensing, brain-inspired computing, and wireless communication.
The models Rakheja creates are predictive in nature, provide guidance to experiments, reduce costs of test-structures, improve the turnaround and success rate of laboratory tests by preventing trial and error, and enable correct interpretation of experimental data. Her computational models also strengthen the innovation loop between materials scientists, device engineers, and circuit designers and eventually enable new functionalities in the next-generation sensing, memory, computing, and communication technologies.
From 2015 to mid-2019, Rakheja was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU), where she established her independent research laboratory called “Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory.” Since joining UIUC in 2019, she has continued to grow in the area of physical modeling of electrical, thermal, and magnetic excitations in nanoscale devices. She has successfully used her models to enable a co-design framework wherein the different layers of the design hierarchy – materials, devices, and circuits – are simultaneously optimized for maximum system-level benefits.