{"id":9398,"date":"2022-09-26T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/scst\/2022\/09\/26\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellows\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:23:42","slug":"welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/2022\/09\/26\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome New Grand Challenge Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Join us in welcoming our new additions to our Schmid College and Grand Challenge Initiative faculty!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/miranda-aiken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/miranda-aiken.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/miranda-aiken-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-miranda-aiken\/\">Miranda Aiken, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Dr. Aiken is a biogeochemist researching the release of toxic, naturally-occurring soil metals into our groundwater. Her work is highly-interdisciplinary and investigates metal release from individual soil aggregates, all the way up to entire groundwater basins. The goal of her work is to understand the mineral, chemical, and biological controls of metal release and how human activity may impact water quality in the long-term. Ask her about manganese (a personal favorite), chromium, or arsenic! Dr. Aiken holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-miranda-aiken\/\">Read more about Dr. Aiken &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9393 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1.jpeg 2413w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1-300x255.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1-1024x872.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1-768x654.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1-1536x1308.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/hector-camarillo-abad-1-2048x1744.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-hector-camarillo-abad\/\">Hector Camarillo Abad, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Dr. Camarillo Abad\u2019s research focuses on new interactions aimed at improving human activities. The interaction occurs between users and intelligent systems through wearable devices. During his Ph.D. he developed haptic-based interactions for dance-related applications. His specific interests include human-computer interaction, wearables, ubiquitous and assistive technology, sensing devices, nonverbal communication through technology, motor skills, and sensor-based classification. He holds a Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems from Universidad de las Am\u00e9ricas Puebla in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-hector-camarillo-abad\/\">Read more about Dr. Abad &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9389 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/kamal-diki1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"260\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-kamal-diki\/\">Kamal Diki, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Dr. Diki obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano where he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM). His research interest is in (hyper)-complex analysis and operator theory with potential applications in quantum mechanics and time-frequency analysis. Recently, Dr. Diki started exploring new research directions in theoretical machine learning (ML), with particular interest in neural networks (NN) and support vector machines (SVMs). His research in this area consists of investigating new algorithms for NN and developing further properties of some RBF kernels used in SVMs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-kamal-diki\/\">Read more about Dr. Diki &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9385 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/desiree-forsythe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/desiree-forsythe.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/desiree-forsythe-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2022\/09\/desiree-forsythe-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"name\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/scst\/announcement\/welcome-new-grand-challenge-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow-desiree-forsythe\/\">Desiree Forsythe, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Dr. Forsythe (she\/her) has a background in both the biological sciences and education. 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