Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved over time, how they privilege certain metrics over others (e.g. quantitative over qualitative, representative cases over edge cases), and how they reflect the valuation of different types of labor (e.g. coding vs. manual review) within the development community.
Research Interests: History of medicine and science in and beyond Europe and America; history of chronic diseases such as heart diseases, neurological disorders and cancers, of therapeutics such as cardiology, cardiac surgery, and coronary revascularization, of neurology and neurosurgery, of specialty training and education, of global health, and of medical ethics in sub-Saharan Africa; and the origin of neurosurgery in the US
Research Interests:History of technology; East Asian studies; international science policy; postcolonial science studies; STS; transnational knowledge flows; post-secondary STEM education policy.
Research Interests: Environmental history; philosophy of science and technology; representation in the sciences; media studies; visual and material culture; design history. ... Read more about Samira Daneshvar
Science Historian - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Research Associateship
Research Interests: History and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.
Research Interests: History of biology; philosophy of science; history of technology & Industry; history of art, craft, and design; models & modeling practices; material culture; textiles.
Research Interests: History of biology; Postwar U.S. history; Cold War science; history of the American family; 1970s U.S. activism; feminist science studies.
Research Interests: History of technology; surveillance studies; historical epistemology; history of the human & social sciences; STS; media studies; history of computing; history of artificial intelligence; visual & material culture; philosophy of science & technology.