Professor of English and Education, Central Michigan University Troy Hicks, PhD, is Professor of English and Education at Central Michigan University, where he collaborates with K–12 colleagues to explore how they implement newer literacies in their classrooms and teaches master’s and doctoral courses in educational technology. He is also Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. A former middle school teacher, he has received numerous awards including the Michigan Reading Association Teacher Educator Award and the Central Michigan University Excellence in Teaching Award, and is an ISTE Certified Educator, a trained facilitator in digital storytelling through StoryCenter and story exchanges through Narrative4, and an affiliate faculty member with the Media Education Lab.
Professor, School of Information Technology, Halmstad University Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson is Professor in computer science, specialization in machine learning, and currently also deputy vice chancellor at Halmstad University with responsibility for research. Thorsteinn initiated and directs Halmstad University's Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR) (see https://www.hh.se/caisr). Thorsteinn's main research direction is machine learning for knowledge creation. Some examples of Thorsteinn's ongoing projects are deep neural networks for predicting development indicators from satellite images, predictive maintenance for machines, machine activity recognition, and creating synthetic data.
Dosen, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana Saya mengambil master pada program Hubungan Internasional di Universitas Gadjah Mada dalam konsentrasi Politik Internasional. Saat ini bidang minat kajian saya dalam lingkup diplomasi dan juga politik luar negeri yang terjadi pada era politik kontemporer.
Associate professor in robotics, Czech Technical University I am working in the mobile robotics domain with a particular focus on long-term mobile robot navigation in changing environments. During my earlier work, I developed a robust visual navigation algorithm that allows autonomous operation of aerial and ground robots in outdoor environments that exhibit seasonal appearance variations. Later, I proposed to model the uncertainty of environment states by their frequency spectra, which improves long-term mobile robot autonomy in changing environments, see the FreMEn method. As part of my work, I also implemented software libraries for fast visual tracking and UAV control, which were used by the roboticists of the NASA, EPFL, KIT, AIT etc, and contributed to our success during the Mohammed bin Zayeed Robotics Challenge and DARPA Subterranean Tunnel Circuit. I cooperated with several research institutes all across the globe and I was invited to present my work at world-leading laboratories including CSAIL@MIT, GRASP@UPENN, Oxford or ETH. My research interests include long-term autonomy, robot vision and aerial robotics.
PhD Candidate, History of Art, UCL Eighteenth and nineteenth-century European history, with particular emphasis on French sartorial politics (strategic use of dress to convey political and social ideals) and sartorial appropriation (the adoption and presentation of non-Western garments in shaping colo-nial narratives around cultural superiority). On the first point, I’m interested in exploring ideas around the political implications of ‘power-dressing down,’, which is the focal point of my dissertation’s third chapter where I examine Napoleon’s clothing choices prior to becoming First Consul and Emperor. This is done in parallel with research into the peri-od’s leading female figures of fashionability including Thérésa Tallien and Juliette Ré-camier. On the second point, I’m particularly interested in examining male appropriation of non-European garments. This subject often highlights the role of French women in such cross-cultural colonial exchanges; which I argue merits further nuance as my disser-tation’s fifth and sixth chapters examine French soldiers intrigue and adoption of Mame-luke attire during the Egyptian campaign of 1798. Publications Sheikhan, T. ‘Politics, Fashion and Female Agency in Parisian Salons c. 1800: The Case of Juliette Récamier.’ Object Vol. 23, Issue 1 (2022) : 47-64. Zasrodney K, Sheikhan T, Sheikhan N, Pinto A, Witek T.J. ‘Trends in FDA Drug Promo-tion Enforcement letter over a Ten Year Period.’ ISPOR International Meeting 2018. Sheikhan T, Witek TJ. ‘Women’s health and Commerce: A Historical Perspective.’ MISC Magazine July 2016, 106-108. Curatorial Work Femininity Unbound, Grémio littéraire de Lisbonne, Portugal Junior Curator, 2023 North South / East West, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal Junior Curator, 2018 Hotel Bogotá, Toronto, Canada Junior Curator, 2014
PhD Candidate, English literature, University of Glasgow The Rev. Tom Emanuel is a progressive Christian minister and theologian and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His current research explores the reception of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings among twenty-first century audiences and is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) doctoral partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). His writing on Tolkien has appeared in journals including Mythlore and Tolkien Studies and he serves on the editorial board of Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society.
