diff --git a/app/_data/people.yaml b/app/_data/people.yaml index e4b120ac..34831e7e 100644 --- a/app/_data/people.yaml +++ b/app/_data/people.yaml @@ -206,25 +206,6 @@ jacob-rhoades: affiliated: true current: true section: Staff -aristana-scourtas: - name: Aristana Scourtas - sort_name: Scourtas - role: Product and Research Manager - bio: >- - Ari comes to LIL from the world of applied AI and scientific software - engineering, where she tackled topics such as wildfire smoke detection, AI - reproducibility, and building open-source contributor communities. She's - held many roles in the past, including software engineer, project manager, - community organizer, library assistant, and research scientist, and is - thrilled to combine all of these in her new role at LIL to create tools for - just access to information. She is especially excited about the - intersections of information, justice, and technology. - email: ascourtas@law.harvard.edu - github_account_name: ascourtas - image: aristana-scourtas.jpg - affiliated: true - current: true - section: Staff christopher-setzer: name: Christopher Setzer sort_name: Setzer @@ -397,6 +378,22 @@ jacqueline-dearborn: affiliated: true current: true section: Affiliates +kyle-deeds: + name: Kyle Deeds + sort_name: Deeds + role: Fellow + bio: > + Kyle Deeds is an assistant professor of computer science at Boston University. His work focuses + on both core database technology and its applications to open data initiatives. He co-leads the + govscape.net project which aims to make every government document searchable and accessible. + In addition, he is a lead developer on the Finch sparse array framework where he applies database + optimization techniques to new problems. He has been published in a variety of data management + conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, PODS, and ICDT, where he won the best paper award in 2025. + He was also a runner-up for the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award in 2026. + image: kyle-deeds.jpg + affiliated: true + current: true + section: Affiliates christopher-dick: name: Christopher Dick sort_name: Dick @@ -414,6 +411,28 @@ christopher-dick: affiliated: true current: true section: Affiliates +benjamin-charles-germain-lee: + name: Benjamin Charles Germain Lee + sort_name: Lee + role: Fellow + bio: > + Benjamin Charles Germain Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the + University of Washington, where he has started the Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage. + Ben's research explores how to re-imagine search and discovery for large-scale digital + collections held by libraries, archives, and museums. Previously, Ben has served as an + Innovator in Residence as well as a Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of + Congress. He also was the inaugural Digital Humanities Fellow at the United States Holocaust + Memorial Museum, a Visiting Fellow in Harvard's History Department, and the Richard and Ina + Willner Memorial Fellow in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. + Ben received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, + which was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in machine + learning. His public writing has appeared in publications including The New Republic, WIRED, + and Longreads. + image: benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg + affiliated: true + current: true + section: Affiliates +# past affiliates zena-agha: name: Zena Agha sort_name: Agha @@ -1071,6 +1090,12 @@ lori-schulsinger: sort_name: Schulsinger role: Collection Development Coordinator affiliated: false +aristana-scourtas: + name: Aristana Scourtas + sort_name: Scourtas + role: Product and Research Manager + github_account_name: ascourtas + affiliated: true dakota-sexton: name: Dakota Sexton sort_name: Sexton diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/aristana-scourtas.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/aristana-scourtas.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 2960212e..00000000 Binary files a/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/aristana-scourtas.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6bbfa12c Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/kyle-deeds.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/kyle-deeds.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b02b7526 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/216x216c/kyle-deeds.jpg differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/aristana-scourtas.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/aristana-scourtas.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index e98fb8dc..00000000 Binary files a/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/aristana-scourtas.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98e55884 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/kyle-deeds.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/kyle-deeds.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bedd03c6 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/432x432c/kyle-deeds.jpg differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/aristana-scourtas.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/aristana-scourtas.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index a1cc7a2e..00000000 Binary files a/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/aristana-scourtas.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..525c52c9 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/benjamin-charles-germain-lee.jpg differ diff --git a/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/kyle-deeds.jpg b/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/kyle-deeds.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a8969f54 Binary files /dev/null and b/app/assets/thumbs/648x648c/kyle-deeds.jpg differ