Sarit Kraus

Visiting Scholar

Sarit Kraus (PhD, Computer Science, Hebrew University, 1989) is a Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. Her research is focused on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems integrating machine-learning techniques with optimization and game theory methods. In particular, she studies the development of intelligent agents that can interact proficiently with people and with robots. She has also contributed to the research on machine learning, agent optimization, autonomous vehicles, homeland security, adversarial patrolling, social networks and nonmonotonic reasoning.

For her work, she received many prestigious awards. She was awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellent Award, the ACM SIGART Agents Research Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer and the EMET prize, and she was twice the winner of the IFAAMAS influential paper award. She is an ACM, AAAI and EurAI fellow and a recipient of the advanced ERC grant. She also received a special commendation from the city of Los Angeles, together with Professor Tambe, Professor Ordonez and their USC students, for the creation of the ARMOR security scheduling system. She has published over 400 papers in leading journals and major conferences, co-authored five books and was IJCAI 2019 program chair.  She is an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Fahri Öz

Keyman Scholar and Artist in Residence

Fahri Öz is an ex-academic, translator and poet. After signing the Academic for Peace declaration in 2016, he was dismissed in 2017 from his position at Ankara University, where he taught British and American poetry, poetic genres, literary history and translation. He translated into Turkish works by Christina Rossetti, Jack London, Saki, William Burroughs and Bob Dylan. He co-authored and co-edited a collection of very short fiction in Turkish called Hayat Kısa Proust Uzun. Currently he has been working on the translation of complete poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. He has a book of poems (Meşrutiyet Çok Bulutlu On Beş Santigrat Yağmur Olasılığı Sıfır) that came out in 2019. He was a visiting scholar and a resident of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Anoush Tamar Suni

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anoush Tamar Suni earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. For her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Politics of Memory in Anatolia,” she spent over two years (2015-2017) in the region of Van, in southeastern Turkey, conducting ethnographic research. She is currently working on her book project, which investigates questions of memory and the material legacies of state violence in the region of Van with a focus on the historic Armenian and contemporary Kurdish communities. Prior to coming to Northwestern, she was a Manoogian Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Armenian Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include state and intercommunal violence, memory, materiality and landscape, cultural heritage, space and place, and political and historical anthropology in Turkey, Armenia, Kurdistan, and the broader Middle East.

 

Visiting Scholar

Woong-ghee Cha, a career diplomat, was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs after serving as Deputy Consul General of the Korean Consulate in Chicago from July 2019 to February 2022. Prior to assuming the position at the Consulate, he was Director for ASEAN Cooperation and Overseas Korean Nationals Protection at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. After joining the Ministry in August 2000, he served at multiple embassy postings in Tokyo, Japan (twice); Jakarta, Indonesia and Montevideo, Uruguay. During more than two decades of foreign service, he worked on many issues involving Korea-Japan/US relations, peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and ASEAN affairs among other things.  

Mr. Cha graduated from Seoul National University with a BA in international relations in Seoul, Republic of Korea and Keio University in Tokyo, Japan with an MA in political science. He also studied at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. 

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Shu-chin Grace Kuo is a Professor of Law in the Department of Law at the National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan, Republic of China. Her research interests lie in the field of legal knowledge of civil dispute resolution, including family law, civil procedure law and alternative dispute resolution. In recent years, Professor Kuo has focused on the methods and theories of anthropology of law and ethnography of law. Her research includes mandatory mediation, specifically how the state assists or interferes with private parties in reconstructing the order of their personal lives through formal and informal negotiation under judicial supervision. Professor Kuo is the author of two books: Legal Anthropology, Legal Knowledge and Legal Techniques (Fa Lu Ren Rei Xue, Fa Lu Zh Sh, U Fa Lu Chi Shu) and Family and Family Law Reconstruction (Xen Dai Chia Tin Shen Huo De Zhung Zheng U Zai S). 

Professor Kuo holds an SJD and an LLM from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and received her primary legal education in Taiwan, where she earned her LLB from National Taiwan University and passed the bar examination. Following the completion of her doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University, she was a visiting scholar of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School.

 

Najia Mahmodi

Visiting Scholar