Fellows Directory

Displaying 1 - 6 of 6
Headshot of Samy Ayoub.

Samy Ayoub

Current Fellow
Middle Eastern Studies
|
College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Improving Teaching and Learning
person in regalia

Natalie Czimskey

Current Fellow
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
|
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.

Headshot of Andrew Dell'Antonio.

Andrew Dell'Antonio

Current Fellow
Music
|
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.

Headshot of Krishna Kumar.

Krishna Kumar

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
|
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.

A photo of Navid Saleh, a man with dark hair and glasses, standing and smiling in a striped yellow button up shirt.
Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
|
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.

Headshot of Carlos Torres-Verdin.

Carlos Torres-Verdín

Current Fellow
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
|
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).