Faculty-Staff Achievements
Yelena Biberman-Ocakli, assistant professor of political science, gave a talk at the U.S. Department of
State about her new book, “Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India.” 
Kristofer Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, was quoted in
the NBC News article “Tree-planting campaigns are gaining momentum, but climate researchers warn they're
not a silver bullet,” as an ecologist who has conducted extensive research on methane emissions from
forests in the northeastern United States.
Charlotte D’Evelyn, assistant professor of music, recently participated in two musical performances to commemorate the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre. The performances took place in downtown Los Angeles, a few blocks from old Chinatown, and at Scripps College in Claremont. D’Evelyn, featured on the two-string fiddle known as the Chinese erhu, joined three other musicians and a narrator for these musical memorial events.
Flip Phillips, professor of psychology, received an Innovator Award from Wolfram Research during the Wolfram Technology Conference 2019 “for his work on the visual and haptic
perception of 2D and 3D shapes, psychological aesthetics and cortical plasticity related
to blindness and visual restoration.” He also gave a talk and was an emcee for the 2019 Livecoding Championship at the conference. The competition
was broadcast live over Twitch, Facebook Live and YouTube Live.
David Read, lecturer in computer science, co-presented a session, "Honeypots and Machine Learning: An Effective Security Tag-team" with Xinyi Gu ’20 at the 2019 ISC2 Security Congress in Orlando, Florida. The session
covered the process of collecting computer attack data from honeypots and then leveraging
machine learning to protect other computer systems from similar attacks.
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