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Haniya Ali
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: hani249@uwo.ca
Office: STH 2136
Haniyah Ali is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Western University. Her research brings together social and political philosophy, philosophy of culture, and epistemology. Her current research examines cultural appropriation and asks how our understanding of what culture is shapes our judgments about cultural borrowing, authority, and harm.
Research Interest/Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Zemiology, and Cultural Appropriation; Epistemology
Haniyah Ali is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Western University. Her research brings together social and political philosophy, philosophy of culture, and epistemology. Her current research examines cultural appropriation and asks how our understanding of what culture is shapes our judgments about cultural borrowing, authority, and harm.
Ed Allore
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: lallore@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Foundation of Modern Physics, History of the Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
Revna Altiok
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Email: revnaaltiok@gmail.com
Research Interest/Specialization
Anime and Animation Studies / Extremism and Cultural Propaganda/ Identity, Otherness, and Monstrosity
Daniel Arauz Nuñez
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Email: darauznu@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Digital Mental Health, Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning, History of Psychology
Clair Baleshta
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Harm Reduction, Ethics
Nicholas Birmingham
Doctoral Student, Centre for the Study of Theory & Critcism
Email: nbirming@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Diagrams and Notation in the History of Science, Semiotics and Pragmaticism, Continental Philosophy (Leibniz, Kant, Cavaillès, Deleuze, Châtelet)
Daniel Bjorklund
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Mind, Intentionality, Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan Bowen
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: jbowen23@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7172
Research Interest/Specialization
Ecological Psychology, Theories of Conversation, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Isabella Braga
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind
Dake Cao
Master of Arts Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: dchao4@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Neuroscience, General Philosophy of Science
Alexander Casucci
Master of Arts Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: acasucc@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
AI Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Heather Champion
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: hchampi2@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Machine Learning, Philosophy of Experiment
Arsh Chowdhry
Doctoral Student, Department of Computer Science
Email: achowd85@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175-A7
Arsh Chowdhry is a PhD student in Computer Science at Western University and a member of the IDSL Lab and HCCG Group. His research focuses on explainable artificial intelligence, trustworthy AI, and human-centered AI systems.
Research Interest/Specialization
Statistical Modelling, AI/ML, Human Centred AI
Arsh Chowdhry is a PhD student in Computer Science at Western University and a member of the IDSL Lab and HCCG Group. His research focuses on explainable artificial intelligence, trustworthy AI, and human-centered AI systems.
Owen Chevalier
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Technology, Epistemic Injustice
Eysan Demirkaya
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: edemirka@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind
Kendra Duke
Independent Scholar
Email: kendracduke@gmail.com
Research Interest/Specialization
Environmental Philosophy, Existentialist Ethics, Feminist Philosophy
Rawan El Moghrabi
Master of Science Student, Department of Computer Science
Email: relmoghr@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, AI Safety and Alignment, Ethical and Philosophical Implications of AI
Erlantz Etxeberria
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: eetxeber@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Kawthar Fedjki
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: kfedjki@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7115
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioethics and Biotechnology, Sociopolitical and Legal Philosophy, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Moral Philosophy
Hilary Hall
Doctoral Student, Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism
Email: hhall27@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Information Technologies (AI), Nursing
Michelle Hatzel
Master of Science Student, Department of Mathematics
Eden Hoffer
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies; and Faculty of Health Sciences
Research Interest/Specialization
Intimate Partner Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Violence Against Women and Girls, Institutional and Social Service Systems, Trauma- and Violence-Informed, Survivor-Centred Approaches
Incé Husain
Doctoral Student, Neuroscience
Research Interest/Specialization
Human Cerebellum, Neuroimaging, Human Cognition
Shayanuthaa Shruthi Indran
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: sindran@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Clinical Research Ethics, Pregnancy and Clinical Research, Feminist Philosophy
Harshita (Hershy) Jaiprakash
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Therapy and Mental Health, Perspective-Taking and Perspective Change
Joshua Jimena
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: jjimena@uwo.ca
Josh is a PhD student in philosophy of physics, supervised by Chris Smeenk. His thesis investigates the epistemology of "unique" or non-traditional experiments, asking whether the knowledge these experiments generate can be understood in the same terms as knowledge from traditional experimentation.
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy of Physics and Science
Josh is a PhD student in philosophy of physics, supervised by Chris Smeenk. His thesis investigates the epistemology of "unique" or non-traditional experiments, asking whether the knowledge these experiments generate can be understood in the same terms as knowledge from traditional experimentation.
Jack Johnson
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: jjohn525@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
The Foundations of Statistical Methods in Physics, the Arrow of Time, Epistemic Notions of Probability
Carson Johnston
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: cjohn445@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology
Yi-Hsuan Kao
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: ykao23@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7115
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Biomedical Science, Philosophy of Mind
Jack Kausch
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Email: jkausch@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Knowledge Translation, Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs, Human Computer Interaction, Neurosymbolic Computation , Knowledge Organization
Junyu Ke
Doctoral Student, Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism
Research Interest/Specialization
Embodied Perception, Environment and Sustainability, Emerging Technologies
Asghar Khan
Master of Science Student, Faculty of Health Sciences
Email: akha228@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Clinical Bioethics; Artificial Intelligence; Health Equity, Policy, and Care
Daniel Kim
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Health Sciences
Email: dkim568@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Bioethics, Public Health, Health Policy
Michael Korngut
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Kardelen Kucuk
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Zhitong Liu
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: zliu2895@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7148
Research Interest/Specialization
History of Physics, Philosophy of Physics
Amy MacKinnon
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: amacki22@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Psychiatry, Psychology (cognitive and clinical)
Suesan MacRae
Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology
Email: smacra2@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Embodiment and Grounded Cognition, Memory, Cognitive Science
Takuya Maeda
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Email: tmaeda@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Human-Computer Interaction, AI Ethics, Sociotechnical Systems
Charan Mandur
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Email: cmandur2@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7115
Research Interest/Specialization
Environmental History, History of Science and Technology, Digital History
Jasvinder Mann
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Jaipreet Mattu
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychedelics
Francisco Mendina
Doctoral Student, Health Information Science
Research Interest/Specialization
Humanitarian Health Ethics, Global Health Equity
Ashar Mobeen
Doctoral Student, Department of Visual Arts
Email: amobeen@uwo.ca
Office: VAC 240
Research Interest/Specialization
History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Cosmology and Visual Culture
Kathryn Montminy
Doctoral Student, Department of French Studies
Email: kmontmin@uwo.ca
Kathryn has been studying French Literature at the University of Western Ontario since 2019. In her graduate studies and research, she is aiming to help reconfigure some of the value judgments in early-modern literature (all the way up to modern literary criticism) by re-evaluating some of the lesser-studied and more unconventional works in 17th century France.
Research Interest/Specialization
Resistance, History of Ideas, Construction of Meaning
Kathryn has been studying French Literature at the University of Western Ontario since 2019. In her graduate studies and research, she is aiming to help reconfigure some of the value judgments in early-modern literature (all the way up to modern literary criticism) by re-evaluating some of the lesser-studied and more unconventional works in 17th century France.
Kat Newman-Seymour
Doctoral Student, Department of Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies
Email: knewma26@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Queer Ecology, Environmental Justice, Social Determinants of Health
Saher Panjwani
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: spanjwa7@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Mind, Unity of Consciousness, Philosophy of Neuroscience
Maximilian Petrowitsch
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
(Higher) Category Theory, Mathematical Logic, Homotopical Algebra
Angelica Ramoutar
Master of Arts Student, Department of Georgraphy & Environment
Email: aramout2@uwo.ca
Office: SSC 2306
Research Interest/Specialization
Environment: Law and Policy, Industrial Agriculture, Environmental Justice
Sidath "Sid" Rankaduwa
Doctoral Student, Neuroscience
Research Interest/Specialization
Consciousness Studies, Neuroscience of Psychedelics, Visual Illusions and Cognition
Aditya Rao
MSc Student, Department of Mathematics
Email: arao82@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Neural Networks, Dynamical Systems, Theoretical Neuroscience
Purya Rabet
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: prabet@uwo.ca
Purya Rabet is a doctoral student and McNair Scholar undergoing philosophical training and preparing for an academic career at the University of Western Ontario.
Research Interest/Specialization
Feminist Philosophy, Trans Philosophy, Social Epistemology
Purya Rabet is a doctoral student and McNair Scholar undergoing philosophical training and preparing for an academic career at the University of Western Ontario.
Simon Raposo
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: sraposo7@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Ontology, Metaphysics
Varun Ravikumar
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive and Social Science, Philosophy of Mind, History and Philosophy of Science
Yifei Ren
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: yren272@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7148
Research Interest/Specialization
The Emergence/Reduction of Spacetime in Quantum Gravity.
Pascal Rodríguez-Warnier
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: prodri5@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7164
Research Interest/Specialization
Foundations and Philosophy of Physics, General Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics of Science
Farid Saberi
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophies of Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and Mind
Rojina Sabetiashraf
Doctoral Student, Visual Arts
Email: rsabetia@uwo.ca
Office: VAC 240
Research Interest/Specialization
Contemporary Art, Petroculture, Iranian Visual Culture
Sasha Simon
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: ssimon48@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Feminist Philosophy, Hannah Arendt, Social and Political Philosophy
Veljko Simovic
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: vsimovi@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Political Philosophy
Andrew Siwabessy
Doctoral Student, Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism
Email: asiwabes@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Phenomenology, Planetary Geology, Existentialism
Isabella Spensieri
Master of Science Student, Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Email: ispensie@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, Feminist-Relational Philosophy
Edoardo Tagliani
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: etaglian@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Cosmology, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Science
Nafiye Ulku Coskuner
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: ncoskune@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
Sara Varón Echeverri
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Simulations
Aditi Vashistha
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Email: avashi4@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Human Computer Interaction, Policy, Ethics in AI
Kaitlyn Wade
Doctoral Student, Department of Computer Science
Email: kwade4@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7175
Research Interest/Specialization
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Algorithmic Fairness, AI application in Healthcare
Haoran Wang
Doctoral Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: hwan783@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Computational Social Science, Policy Communication, Large Language Model
Meghan Winsby
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Devra Winslow
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: dwinslow@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Moral Psychology, Feminist Philosophy, Mad Studies
Daniel Wyzynski
Doctoral Student, Faculty of Health Science
Email: dleonar7@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Clinical Ethics, Health Policy, Mental Health
Yusheng Xia
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: yxia335@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Meta-metaphysics, Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Social and Political Philosophy
Sijie Yang
Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy
Email: syang849@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Philosophy of Physics, History of Physics, History of Ethics
Binchi Zhang
Master of Science Student, Department of Computer Science
Email: bzhan484@uwo.ca
Office: WIRB 7156
Research Interest/Specialization
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
Wenqing Zhang
Master of Science Student, Department of Computer Science
Email: wzhan969@uwo.ca
Research Interest/Specialization
Human-Centered AI, Human-Computer Interaction, AI Fairness