2024 Speakers

Project: “Using 3D Data to Document and Exhibit Cultural Heritage”

Bianca Badajos is a programmer for Lux Lab, UCLA Library’s 3D Data Lab. She works on 3D data processing and visualization alongside researchers to effectively display 3D models.

Project: “Exploring Volumetric Video Capture for Humanities Scholarship and Pedagogy”

Rashida Braggs is chair and professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Comparative Literature at Williams College.

Project: “Exploring Volumetric Video Capture for Humanities Scholarship and Pedagogy” 

Bryan Carter is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at University of Arizona.

Project: “Virtual Angkor”

Tom Chandler is Associate Professor of Human Centered Computing at Monash University in Australia. His research explores 3D Modeling and virtual environments in research visualization.

Project: “Using 3D Data to Document and Exhibit Cultural Heritage”

Doug Daniels is an Emerging Technologies Librarian at UCLA’s Data Science Center. His interests include digital asset management, data visualization, data mining, 3D preservation, privacy issues and cultural heritage preservation.

Project: “Playing with Time: Great Perfection History in Virtual Reality”

Aftab Hafeez is a spatial audio UX research engineer at Google. Aftab is also a visiting VR designer at Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).

Project: “Playing with Time: Great Perfection History in Virtual Reality”

Elaine Lai is lecturer for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. She is a scholar of Buddhism, and completed her PhD in Religious Studies at Stanford in 2024.

Project: “Tapestry: Enhancing Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Multivocal Spatial Storytelling”

Elizabeth Lee is Vice President of Programs and Development at CyArk. Originally trained as an archaeologist, Elizabeth has been applying 3D technologies to the cultural field for over a decade.

Project: “Exploring Volumetric Video Capture for Humanities Scholarship and Pedagogy”

Zack Lischer-Katz is Assistant Professor of Digital Curation and Preservation at the University of Arizona College of Information Science.

Project: “Recontextualizing Egypt’s Ancient Material Cultural Heritage: The ‘Return to the Tomb’ Project”

Rita Lucarelli is Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture, Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and a Fellow of the Digital Humanities at University of California, Berkeley.

Project: “Virtual Angkor”

Cindy Nguyen is Assistant Professor in the Information Studies Department and Digital Humanities program at UCLA. She specializes in the history of libraries, information, and digital humanities.

Project: “Using 3D Data to Document and Exhibit Cultural Heritage”

Kelly Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Mellon Data/Social Justice Curriculum Initiative.

Project: “MUVIAN-Digital Innovation for the Historical Reconstruction of the Basin of Mexico” 

Carlos Francisco López Ramírez is a programmer and 3D designer at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Project: “Tapestry: Enhancing Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Multivocal Spatial Storytelling”

John Ristevski is the Chairman of the Board and CEO for CyArk. John has a Masters of Science degree from UC Berkeley and degrees from the University of Melbourne in both Geomatic Engineering and Law.

Project: “MUVIAN-Digital Innovation for the Historical Reconstruction of the Basin of Mexico”

Jesus Gerardo Medina Sanchez is a 3D designer for the Museo Virtual Anáhuac.

Project:“Recontextualizing Egypt’s Ancient Material Cultural Heritage: The ‘Return to the Tomb’ Project”

Elaine Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Egyptology in the History Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a digital humanist whose first book, Constructing the Sacred, was born digital in 2020.

Project: “Facilitating Access to Hidden Collections with 3D Models”

Sarah Swanz is the Digital Humanities librarian and Data Curator for deposits into Wash U Research Data.

Project: “Facilitating Access to Hidden Collections with 3D Models”

Harper Tooch is a 3D Visualization Specialist at Washington University in St. Louis. She also trained as an art historian and archaeologist.