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\n\n \n \n Paulo Shakarian\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Director, Leibniz Lab
\nK.G. Endowed Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Syracuse University
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\n\n \n \n Mario Leiva, Ph.D.\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Post-doctoral Researcher
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\n\n \n \n Alexander Reid\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Undergraduate Research Intern
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\n\n \n \n Divyagna Bavikadi\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Ph.D. Student
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\n\n \n \n Kaustuv Mukherji\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Ph.D. Student
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\n\n \n \n Joshua Shay Kricheli\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Ph.D. Student
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\n\n \n \n Jaikrishna M. Patil\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Ph.D. Student
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\n\n \n \n Colton Payne\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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M.S. Student
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Affiliated <\/span><\/strong>Collaborators<\/span>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n \n \n Gerardo I. Simari\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Professor, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y T\u00e9cnicas (CONICET)
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\n\n \n \n Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz\n <\/a>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Privy Counselor of Justice, House of Hanover
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* We generally do not list collaborators at US-based universities and tech companies, as we frequently collaborate with very many talented US-based faculty. However, if you wish to be listed, and have active collaboration with the Leibniz Lab, please contact pashakar@syr.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Associates Graduate Students Affiliated Collaborators* * We generally do not list collaborators at US-based universities and tech companies, as we frequently collaborate with very many talented US-based faculty. However, if you wish to be listed, and have active collaboration with the Leibniz Lab, please contact pashakar@syr.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leibniz.syracuse.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}