About Us

EVL Labs is located at Duquesne University in the Van Kaam Building, Suite 101 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Patrick Juola, Ph. D.

Professor

David Berdik

Researcher

Sean Vinsick

Researcher

Derek Prijatelj

Researcher

Jean Zambri

Office Administrator

Patrick Juola, Ph. D.

Professor

Dr. Juola is an internationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. As a faculty member at Duquesne University, he has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two million dollars in Federal research grant funding. As director of the Duquesne University EVL lab, he is the lead architect of the JGAAP project and provides overall scientific direction for Juola & Associates.

David Berdik

Researcher

David Berdik is an undergraduate student currently attending Duquesne University in pursuit of a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. In the EVL Lab, David serves as the main developer for the Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program (JGAAP). Additionally, David researches n-gram length effectiveness for authorship attribution in a variety of languages.

Sean Vinsick

Researcher

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. —Anonymous

Sean Vinsick graduated from Duquesne University in 2018 and received a B.S. in Computer Science with Mathematics and Philosophy as the minor. His primary skill at EVL Lab is utilizing the Twitter, Google, and various social media APIs for researching the digital humanities. His primary role is supporting and maintaining the EVL Lab website, and managing the back-end server stack and network. He currently works for General Dynamics Mission Systems as a Linux Kernel Developer.

Derek Prijatelj

Researcher

Derek Prijatelj is an undergraduate student currently attending Duquesne University in pursuit of a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics, Statistics, and Philosophy. Derek’s role at EVL Lab involves researching statistics and machine learning techniques to improve the common practices of using linguistic analyses for automated stylometry.

Jean Zambri

Office Administrator

Jean Zambri is the Office Administrator of the EVL Lab at Duquesne University. She possesses a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from Point Park University and has extensive experience working in administrative roles at nonprofits and educational institutions including the Community College of Allegheny County, the Allegheny Intermediate Unit and Duquesne University. She started working at Duquesne University in 2010 when the EVL Lab was founded and she served as the Office Administrator for over 6 years until 2016. After a hiatus from 2016 to 2018, she has returned to her role in the EVL Lab as the Office Administrator. She also helped co-found Juola & Associates in 2010, a company which provides authorship attribution and text analysis services for a wide range of clients.