THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE CAS ASSOCIATES AND FELLOWS
CLASS OF 2018-2019
Associates:
Brian Cunningham (Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering) Digital resolution biosensing, disease diagnostics, and DNA sequencing using dielectric nanoantenna-microcavity hybrids
Sandy Dall’erba (Agricultural & Consumer Economics) Agricultural production, global trade and export of virtual water under future climate conditions
Rui Loja Fernandes (Mathematics) Poisson manifolds of compact type
Lynford Goddard (Electrical & Computer Engineering) Multi-depth Atomic Layer Etching of Silicon using Photo-Electro-Thermo-Chemistry
Stephanie Hilger (Comparative & World Literature and Germanic Languages & Literatures) Liminal Bodies: Hermaphrodites in the Eighteenth Century
Bo Li (Statistics) Prediction of Future HIV New Diagnosis Rates using Spatial Bayesian Method
Vidya Madhavan (Physics) Imaging Light Induced Excitations at the Nanoscale
David O’Brien (Art History) The Cult of Napoleon and French Visual Culture, 1815-1848
Elyse Rosenbaum (Electrical & Computer Engineering) Machine Learning Models for Reliability Analysis
Gisela Sin (Political Science) The Disempowered Executive: Reconsidering the Line Item Veto
Rebecca Stumpf (Anthropology) Surveillance Sampling to Identify, Predict, and Prevent Disease Transmission and Antibiotic Resistance in Western Uganda
Smitha Vishveshwara (Physics) Quantum pancake vortices on Earth and beyond
Assata Zerai (Sociology) African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics: From Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
Fellows:
Jeffrey Filippini (Physics) Observing the Dawn of Time from Above the Clouds: new telescopes for the second flight of SPIDER
*Pinshane Huang (Materials Science & Engineering) Imaging Molecular Surfaces via Atomic Scale Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Hong Jin (Biochemistry) Transcript-specific Translation: Mechanisms, Structures and Principles
Jamie Jones (English) Rendered Obsolete: The Afterlife of the U.S. Whaling Industry in the Petroleum Age
Avital Livny (Political Science) Persistent Effects of Diversity for Politics and Economics: The Case of Ottoman Turkey
*Mauro Nobili (History) Making Authority by Rewriting the Past in Islamic West Africa: The Seventeenth-century Tārīkh Ibn al-Mukhtār and the Nineteenth-century Tārīkh al-fattāsh
Yue Shen (Astronomy) Supermassive Black Hole Physics and Evolution with Time-Domain Exploration
*Vesna Stojanoska (Mathematics) Homotopical Arithmetic Duality
*Lav Varshney (Electrical & Computer Engineering) A Mathematical Theory of Creativity
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* Denotes CAS Beckman Fellow | 
