Dr. Abeba Birhane
Biography
Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist, currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She researches human behaviour, social systems, and responsible and ethical AI – work for which she was recently featured in Wired UK and TIME on the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI list. Birhane also serves on the United Nations Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body and the newly-convened AI Advisory Council in Ireland.
Jonathan O. Cain
Biography
Jonathan O. Cain is the Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Columbia University Libraries. In this role, Jonathan advances the libraries' strategic directions by providing leadership to the libraries' research support and teaching support, digital scholarship, communications, and access units at Columbia University Libraries.
Before joining Columbia University Libraries, Jonathan served as Interim Director of Digital Strategies and the Head of Data Services at the University of Oregon Libraries. Prior to moving into formal leadership roles, he served as the Government Information Librarian at the University of Oregon and as a Reference and Instruction Librarian (Assistant Professor) at Hunter College Libraries (City University of New York).
Jonathan's library work has focused on providing access to digital education, educational technologies, digital scholarship, and scholarly communications.
Jonathan is a Ph.D. student at Simmons University and holds an M.S.L.I.S. from Pratt Institute, an M.A. in Africana Studies from New York University, and a B.S. in Anthropology from the College of Charleston.
Dr. Michelle Caswell
Biography
Michelle Caswell, PhD, (she/her), is a Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where so co-directs the UCLA Community Archives Lab. At UCLA, she was recently appointed as Executive Vice Chancellor / Provost’s Special Advisor on Community-Engaged Scholarship. In 2008, together with Samip Mallick, Caswell co-founded the South Asian American Digital Archive, an online repository that documents and provides access to the stories of South Asian Americans. She is the author of two books: Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021) and Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), as well as more than four dozen peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Ben Lee
Biography
Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress. He recently received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, which was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in machine learning. He served as the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s History Department. Ben also served as a 2020 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress and the 2020-2021 Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
Dr. Yi Liu
Biography
Dr. Yi Liu earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science, focusing on artificial intelligence for document images. His research interests are in intelligent image analysis and deep learning. He has notably contributed to projects and publications focused on analyzing historical documents, working with entities like the Library of Congress to bridge academic and practical applications in this field.
Dr. Chulwoo (Mike) Pack
Biography
Dr. Chulwoo Pack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota State University, Jerome J. College of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision and deep learning, with a particular focus on reasoning in document image analysis and video analysis. His work aims to advance the understanding and application of artificial intelligence in analyzing complex visual data.
Thomas Padilla
Biography
Thomas Padilla is Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive. Thomas has deep experience in responsible computational use of memory organization collections, digital strategy, data literacy, digital scholarship, and data curation. Thomas is Advisory Board Member, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media; National Advisory Board Member, Opioid Industry Documents Archive; and Advisory Board Member, The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections.
Rosamond Thalken
Biography
Rosamond Thalken is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University. Drawing from the computational social sciences and cultural analytics, she researches the use of large language models to study cultural phenomena in domain-specific datasets. She completed her master’s degree in Literature at Washington State University and bachelor’s degrees in English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. She co-authored the second edition of Text Analysis with R: For Students of Literature.