Fellows Directory

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Samy Ayoub

Current Fellow
Middle Eastern Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Improving Teaching and Learning
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Wenhong Chen

Current Fellow
Journalism
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Moody College of Communication
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning

Dr. Wenhong Chen is a professor of media studies and sociology, the founding co-director of Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, and a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.  

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Tanya Clement

Current Fellow
English
Information
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College of Liberal Arts
School of Information
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Tanya E Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in Digital Humanities (DH).

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Natalie Czimskey

Current Fellow
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
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Moody College of Communication
Initiative Focus
Student Success
Student Wellbeing

Natalie Czimskey, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The University of Texas where she earned all three of her degrees. She began teaching as a doctoral student in 2012 and continued teaching part time until completing her Ph.D. in 2019 when she joined the faculty full-time.  Her primary research area is adult neurogenic disorders with a special interest in traumatic brain injury, though her passion is teaching; she has taught 9 different courses in the past 2 years.

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Andrew Dell'Antonio

Current Fellow
Music
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College of Fine Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Faculty Communication
Improving Teaching and Learning

Andrew Dell’Antonio (he/him/his) specializes in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with a focus on seventeenth-century Italy. His research interests include musical historiography, reception history, and disability studies.

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Krishna Kumar

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Improving Teaching and Learning

Krishna Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Civil, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Krishna’s work involves developing exascale micro and macro-scale numerical methods for modeling natural hazards. Krishna also develops Scientific Machine Learning algorithms: Graph Network Simulators and Differentiable programming to accelerate numerical methods and solve optimization, design, and inverse problems.

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Filippo Mangolini

Current Fellow
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

Filippo is an Associate Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering. His interdisciplinary research activities aim to develop a fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical processes occurring on material surfaces as well as at interfaces under extreme environments and far-from-equilibrium conditions. Filippo teaches courses on Materials Engineering, Enhancing Sustainability through Tribology, Phase Transformations, and Advanced Methods in Surface Analysis.

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Marcelo Paixao

Current Fellow
African and African Diaspora Studies
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College of Liberal Arts

Marcelo Paixão is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a faculty at the African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS), in conjunction with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Prof. Marcelo is a Brazilian economist and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (IUPERJ, Brazil). Before coming to Austin, he has been a Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for 16 years, the same place where he majored.

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Navid Saleh

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Improving Teaching and Learning
Institutional Resource

Navid Saleh is a Professor at the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department. He is an environmental engineering faculty member with a passion for teaching. His mission as an educator and researcher has been to engage with the community and co-create knowledge. He has developed modules utilizing problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, conducted detailed and systematic evaluation, and devoted himself to student learning at UT.

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Carlos Torres-Verdín

Current Fellow
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Assessment
Improving Teaching and Learning

Carlos Torres-Verdín received a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. During 1991-1997, he held the position of Research Scientist with Schlumberger-Doll Research. From 1997-1999, he was Reservoir Specialist and Technology Champion with YPF (Buenos Aires, Argentina).