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: 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 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.
Research Interests: History of the body; history of the mind; knowledge exchange and re/production; globalization of science and standards; media in science; Japan and empire.
Research Interests: History of geology and seismicity; history of early modern earth science; carbon capture and sequestration; visual representation in earth sciences; STS.
Research Interests: Life sciences; history of biology; history of art and architecture; science & technology studies; feminist STS;scientific practice; media studies.
