AI Faculty Fellows

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, with secondary positions in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research and teaching focus on introducing enhanced AI and Data Science methodologies inspired by a wide range of applications. As a sample, his work toward teaching AI to be creative was featured in a recent story.

Soumia Bardhan is associate professor of Communication and serves as director of International Studies. An award-winning social scientist and rhetoric scholar, she examines how media, technology, and communication shape global political and cultural systems. Bardhan is founding director of the AI and Communication Certificate at CU Denver. As CETL Faculty Fellow, she led a campus-wide initiative on responsible AI integration in teaching and served on the Provost's AI Working Group on Research. Bardhan is an alumna of the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.

Cameron Blevins is Teaching Professor of History and Director of Digital Initiatives for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at CU Denver. He administers the Digital Studies Certificate, which helps students learn digital tools while understanding the relationship between those technologies and wider society. An award-winning scholar of US history and digital humanities, his research covers the history of communications, critical data studies, public history, and the history of gender and sexuality.

Lorne Bregitzer is an Associate Professor of Music Technology in the College of Arts & Media at CU Denver. A veteran audio engineer, producer, and educator, he is both an Ableton Certified Trainer and an Avid Certified Instructor, and has engineered sessions for artists including Eminem, Blues Traveler, NSYNC, TV on the Radio, Styx, Henry Rollins, and Method Man & Redman — work that earned him a Platinum record for D’Angelo’s Grammy-winning album Voodoo. At CU Denver he teaches audio production, sound design, synthesis, and advanced mastering, and is the author of Secrets of Recording (Focal Press).

Bud Talbot is a science educator, teacher, and researcher. He currently teaches pre-service and in-service science teachers, undergraduate peer Learning Assistants (LAs), and doctoral students in STEM education. Talbot’s research focuses on peer learning support in undergraduate science courses across the disciplines, although his experience and particular interest is in physics education research (PER). Talbot has also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education. Prior to entering academia, he taught physics, physical science, and earth science in grades 7–12 for seven years in US public schools.