Meet United States's 101 Top Directors in the Universities Space

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Brian Subirana

Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Brian Subirana is Director of the MIT Auto-ID lab (where the term Internet of Things was coined) and Visiting Scientist in MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. He has also taught at programs in several Business Schools (Harvard, Stanford, IESE and INSEAD). Before becoming academic, he worked at BCG. He obtained his PhD in AI at MIT CSAIL, an MBA from MIT Sloan and his research is focused in three areas: digital learning, SCM, and IoT/AI.

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Thomas Hardjono

Technical Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of Connection Science and Engineering at MIT (connection.mit.edu). He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and privacy in emerging technologies such as IoT, smart contracts and blockchain systems, and engages industry partners and sponsors on these fronts. Thomas is also the technical director for the Internet Trust Consortium under MIT Connection Science that implements open source software based on cutting edge research at MIT. Prior to this Thomas was the Director of the MIT Kerberos Consortium, developing the famous MIT Kerberos authentication software currently used by millions of users around the world. As an industry expert he has been active in the areas of security, applied cryptography and identity management for nearly two decades now, starting from the mid-1990s working in the emerging PKI industry as Principal Scientist at VeriSign as the largest PKI provider in the world. He has led a number of key industry technical groups within the IETF, OASIS, Trusted Computing Group, OCF, Kantara and other organizations. Aside from MIT Kerberos, he has been instrumental in the development of the OpenID-Connect 1.0 (OIDC) and the User Managed Access (UMA) identity management protocols. He is also spearheading exploratory work on core identities, open algorithms and verifiable transaction identities for blockchain systems. Over the years he has published four books and over sixty technical papers in journals and at conferences. He holds 19 patents in the areas of security and cryptography.

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Pooja Wagh

Director, Results Measurement & Lead, Health Community of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pooja Wagh is the Director of Solve’s Health pillar. She develops and nurtures relationships with Solve’s health-focused members, advisors, and Solvers, and works with them to drive forward promising, innovative solutions to intractable challenges in the health and wellness space. She is also responsible for defining Solve’s strategic direction for the Health pillar and measuring the impact of Solve’s partnerships on the ability of Solvers to affect change. Prior to joining Solve, Pooja was a Program Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action, where she managed a portfolio of rigorous research projects aiming to improve the access and quality of financial services in underserved areas around the world. She previously worked as a consultant at IBM Global Business Services, where she provided technology consulting services to pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods companies. Pooja holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in electrical engineering from MIT.

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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering.

Kathleen Kennedy

Director of Special Projects of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kathleen Kennedy is senior director of MIT Horizon. In her 14 years at MIT, Kathleen has helped MIT Technology Review to redefine the magazine brand and to achieve success in a rapidly changing market. She has established several new lines of business in the United States as well as in Asia, Europe and Latin America. She leads events, sales and international licensing for MIT’s media company as well as the global team of the entrepreneurial support organization, the MIT Enterprise Forum. She has been a long-time judge for the MITX awards and a distinguished juror for Lemelson-MIT prizes, also known as the “Nobel Prize for Innovators.” She sits on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and she was awarded the 2009 Folio: 40, which recognized the most innovative and influential people in magazines.

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Sanjay Sarma

Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of Digital Learning of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the first Director of Digital Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. He serves on the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies including Senaya and ESSESS. He received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Sarma also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. He has authored over 75 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz Award and Informationweek’s Innovators and Influencers Award. He advises several national governments and global companies.

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R. David Edelman

Director, Project on Technology, the Economy, & National Security of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. R. David Edelman comes to MIT having distinguished himself as one of the U.S. government’s foremost voices on how technology is changing our economy, national security, and daily lives. An expert on pressing technology challenges facing national security and the global economy, his insights have helped shape national and international policy at the highest levels. In his most recent role as Special Assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy at the National Economic Council (NEC), he led the White House team focusing on the digital economy — including broadband, telecommunications, spectrum, and technology trade — as well as consumer cybersecurity, domestic and international data privacy, high-tech patent and copyright issues, and antitrust/competition. In his time at the White House he led engagement with hundreds of technology companies around the world; advised the President on a range of emerging technologies such as big data, drones, and autonomous vehicles; and designed and managed over $15 billion of signature programs focused on technology, education, and economic opportunity. He was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his work on intelligence matters, and was twice the recipient of the Meritorious Honor Award for his United Nations negotiations and development of the nation’s cyber diplomacy strategy. He was previously named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” leaders in Law & Policy, and later chosen as a “30 Under 30 All-Star Alumni” — one of only three in the magazine’s history — for his ongoing contributions to national policy. Edelman holds a bachelor’s degree in History (with honors) from Yale and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Oxford in International Relations. His dissertation, “Cyberattacks in International Relations,” examined which forces might restrain state use of offensive cyber capabilities.

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Tenley Albright

Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tenley Albright is a Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT.

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Josue Velázquez-Martínez

Executive Director, Supply Chain Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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David Kiron

Editorial Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Jeff Freilich

Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Jeff Freilich

Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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David Kiron

Editorial Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Alex Stamos

Director, Stanford Internet Observatory of Stanford University

Alex Stamos joined Stanford University as Director in 2018. Alex Stamos is a cybersecurity expert, business leader and entrepreneur working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. Stamos is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute, a William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. As a Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Yahoo and a co-founder of iSEC Partners, Alex has investigated and responded to some of the most seminal events in the short history of cybersecurity, and has been called the “Forrest Gump of Info Sec” by friends. He is working on election security via the Defending Digital Democracy Project and advising NATO’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. He has spoken on six continents, testified in Congress, served as an expert witness for the wrongly accused, earned a BSEE from UC Berkeley and has five patents.

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Christopher Manning

Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University

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Irving L. Weissman

Director, Stanford University Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine of Stanford University

Irving L. Weissman, M.D., (Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board) is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. His research encompasses the developmental biology, self-renewal, homing, and functions of the cells that make up the blood-forming and immune systems. His main focus for the last several years has been the isolation, biology, transplantation, and evolution of stem cells. His Stanford lab was the first to isolate any stem cell from any tissue in any species. The isolation of mouse HSCs was followed by the isolation of human HSC by Dr. Weissman and his colleagues at SyStemix where he was a co-founder and director. He has also served on the founding scientific advisory boards of Amgen Inc., DNAX, Inc., and T-Cells Sciences, Inc. (now Avant, Inc.). He was a co-founder and is currently a member of the board of directors of StemCells, Inc., where he is co-inventor of the human brain stem cell composition. Dr. Weissman has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and to the American Association for the Arts and Sciences. He has received the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, the Pasarow Award for cancer research, the Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health, the E. Donnall Thomas Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hematology, the deVilliers Award for Outstanding Achievements in Leukemia Research, the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, the American Diabetes Association Elliott Proctor Joslin Medal, and the Society of Neurological Surgeons Bass Award. In 2002 he was awarded the California Scientist of the Year, covering all fields, and in 2004 was awarded the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research from the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, and the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal from the National Academy of Sciences Council. He is also the 2004 Alan Cranston Awardee from the Alliance for Aging Research, and the 2005 recipient of the Linus Pauling Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Science from Stanford University.

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David C Yeomans

Professor and Director of the Stanford Pain Research Center of Stanford University

David Yeomans is the director of pain research and a tenured associate professor of anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the chair of the scientific advisory board of three companies and an advisor to numerous pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as venture capital firms and intellectual property law practices. Dr. Yeomans has authored more than 90 peer reviewed articles and 11 book chapters in the field of pain, and has been the recipient of numerous NIH grants. He has authored numerous issued patents and patent applications and co-founded two companies devoted to the management of pain. Dr. Yeomans earned an AB degree from Dartmouth College, received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Florida, and completed his research training as a NIH fellow at the University of Illinois.

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Mark Blumenkranz

HJ Smead Professor Emeritus, Director of the Ophthalmic Innovation Program (Byers Eye Institute) of Stanford University

Mark Blumenkranz is Kedalion’s Executive Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, and also the Chairman and Managing Director of Lagunita Biosciences, a venture incubator that creates and grows early-stage companies to commercialize impactful translational science that addresses significant clinical needs. Dr. Blumenkranz is now the HJ Smead Professor Emeritus at the Byers Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University and served as departmental Chairman from 1997 to 2015. He played a leading role in the planning, fundraising and construction of the Institute which opened in 2010. Mark has a longstanding interest and expertise in university corporate technology transfer and early-stage biomedical companies and was a Founder and Director of Macusight, Peak Surgical, Optimedica Corporation, Adverum Biotechnologies, Oculeve, and Digisight Corporation (now Verana Heath). He has also served on the Boards of Directors of a number of other private and publicly traded ophthalmic drug and medical device companies including Oculex Pharmaceuticals, OIS, Midlabs, Presbia, and Beaver-Visitec (BVI Inc). He completed the Stanford Executive Program in the Graduate School of Business in 2004 and received his Undergraduate, Masters degree in biochemical pharmacology, and MD degrees from Brown University (AOA), where he is also a Fellow of the Corporation and immediate past Chair of the Medical School Committee.

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Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab of Stanford University

Erik Brynjolfsson serves as the schussel family professor at the [MIT Sloan School](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-sloan-school-of-management). He co-founded FlexPlay Technologies, a tech company that develops and supplies limited-life DVDs. Brynjolfsson has been an independent director at the Computer Sciences Corporation since December 2010. He also served as a co-director at BaseSix; a director at CSK Corporation from 2006 to 2008; the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business; and the chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review. He lectures worldwide on technology strategy, productivity, and intangible assets. Brynjolfsson is the co-author of Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy. He is on the academic advisory board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and he is also co-principal investigator on several grants by the National Science Foundation to study information technology, organizational transformation, and productivity. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford Universities. Brynjolfsson holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and decision sciences from Harvard University and a PhD in managerial economics from MIT.

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Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Stanford Platform Lab of Stanford University

Guru Parulkar is the Executive Director of Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) and Stanford Platform Lab, as well as Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University. Guru also leads open source projects ONOS® and CORD® hosted by The Linux Foundation. In the field of networking for more than 25 years, Guru joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate Internet Design Program. At Stanford, Guru helped create three programs: OpenFlow / Software-Defined Networking, Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020, and Stanford Experimental Data Center Laboratory. Prior to Stanford, Guru spent four years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and worked with the broader research community to create programs such as GENI, Future Internet Design, and Network of Sensor Systems. Guru received NSF Director’s award for Program Management excellence. Before NSF Guru founded several startups including Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Sceos (IPO’d as Ruckus Wireless). Guru served as Entrepreneur in Residence at NEA in 2001 and received NEA’s Entrepreneurship Award. Prior to this Guru spent over 12 years at Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Professor of Computer Science, Director of Applied Research Laboratory and the head of research and prototyping of high performance networking and multimedia systems. Guru received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987. Guru is a recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Achievement award and the Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award.

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Josie Garthwaite

Associate Director Of Communications of Stanford University

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Caroline Simard

Managing Director – VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab of Stanford University

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Karen Cooper

Associate Dean & Director of Financial Aid of Stanford University

Director of Financial Aid Stanford University.

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Maryam Sarah Hamidi

Associate Director of Scholarship & Health Promotion – Stanford Medicine WellMD Center of Stanford University

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Khari Jones

Assistant Director of Innovation/Video Production of Stanford University

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Magda Chia

Director of Strategy, Impact, and Policy of Stanford University

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Christopher Field

Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment of Stanford University

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Juan Carlos Niebles

Associate Director of Research at the Stanford-Toyota Center for AI Research of Stanford University

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Jaimie Henderson

Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery of Stanford University

Jaimie Henderson, M.D. is director of the Stanford program in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and co-director (with Prof. Krishna Shenoy, PhD) of the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory (NPTL).

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Anna Lembke

Medical Director of Stanford University

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Ron Davis

Director of Stanford Genome Technology Center of Stanford University

Ron Davis is Director of Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University.

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Larry Leifer

Director, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research of Stanford University

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Jim Leape

William and Eva Price Senior Fellow; Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions of Stanford University

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James Sweeney

Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center of Stanford University

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James Sweeney

Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center of Stanford University

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Larry Leifer

Director, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research of Stanford University

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Nadia Roumani

Director, Effective Philanthropy Lab, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of Stanford University

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Keith Devlin

Director of the Stanford Mathematics Outreach Project of Stanford University

Keith Devlin joined Stanford University as Director of the Stanford Mathematics Outreach Project in 2019.Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) at Stanford University and The Math Guy on NPR’s Weekend Edition.

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Neil Poloso

Executive Director, Biological Research of Allergan

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Tory Brady

Director of Product Engineering of Allergan

Tory Brady’s passion is building software with a keen eye on the customer and the jobs they’re hiring a product to do in their lives. He loves when beautiful design, performant code and comprehensive data intersect. He’s had a fruitful career as a Software Engineer, working for a variety of technology start-ups. Now Tory is applying these learned start-up methodologies to Allergan’s medical aesthetics business as they work to revitalize the digital relationship with their consumers.

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Vijay Raghavan

Senior Director, Management Science of Allergan

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Richard Swart

Director of Research of University of California Berkeley

Dr. Richard Swart is a PhD in Information Systems, an international award-winning academic and a recognized thought leader in the crowdfunding industry. Richard is a founding member of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CIFRA), and an early leader in the field. Richard co-organized the first major national conference on crowdfunding and coordinated several educational events on the JOBS Act throughout the United States. As Director of Research and Analysis for Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) Richard works closely with the University of California, Berkeley in the Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance Program which is dedicated to academic research on crowdfunding and has CCA principals as founders. Richard is currently collaborating on a research project for the World Bank’s InfoDev group exploring crowdfunding and funding models for innovative technology.

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Adam Sterling

Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business of University of California Berkeley

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Michèle Huff

Director of University of California Berkeley

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Erik Stallman

Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic of University of California Berkeley

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Erik Stallman

Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic of University of California Berkeley

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Lauren Landry

Associate Director, Marketing & Communications of Harvard Business School

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Ryan Frazier

Managing Director Technology at Harvard Business School Online of Harvard Business School

Managing Director Technology at Harvard Business School Online.

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Alex Richardson

Senior Associate Director, Alumni Career Management of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Sarah Toms

Executive Director, Wharton Interactive of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Kerry Gallivan

Senior Director of Finance Operations of Northeastern University

Kerry Gallivan is Senior Director of Finance Operations at Northeastern University.

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Patricia Wood

Director of Internal Audit of Northeastern University

As the Director of Internal Audit, Tricia Wood is responsible for developing, organizing and directing Northeastern University’s Internal Audit plan. She plans financial, operational, and compliance audits to determine the adequacy of the University’s systems of internal control and the degree of compliance with these controls. The Director of Internal Audit is also charged with conducting special investigations as requested, and making recommendations for improved controls, operating procedures, and systems designs. She reports administratively to the Senior Vice President for Administration & Finance and has a direct reporting relationship to the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees. She provides quarterly updates to the Audit Committee regarding Internal Audit’s activities. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2008, she worked in the Internal Audit department at Boston College, and also worked as a risk consultant for Deloitte. She received her MBA from Boston College, and her Bachelors in Mathematics from Stonehill College. Tricia holds Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified in Information Systems Risks & Controls (CRISC) certifications. Tricia also served on the ISACA New England board, and most recently served as the President of the New England chapter. She is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

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Ahmed Busnaina

Distinguished University Professor and Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing of Northeastern University

Ahmed A. Busnaina, Ph.D. is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing since 2004, the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials since 2015, and the NSF Center for Nano and Microcontamination Control at Northeastern University, Boston, MA since 2002. He is also the founder and CTO of Nano OPS, Inc. since 2017. Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2000, he was a professor and a director of the Microcontamination Control Lab at Clarkson University from 1983-2000. Dr. Busnaina is internationally recognized for his work on nano and micro scale defects mitigation and removal in semiconductor fabrication. He specializes in directed assembly-based nano and microscale printing of inorganic and organic conductors, semiconductors, and dielectrics for making micro and nanoscale interconnects, FETs, sensors, LEDs, sensors, and various other devices. He developed many techniques for directed assembly and nanomaterials based manufacturing of nanoscale structures for energy, electronics, biomedical, and materials applications. His research support exceeds $58 million. He authored more than 600 papers in journals, proceedings, and conferences. He also has 22 granted and 40 pending patents. He organized and chaired more than 175 conferences, workshops, sessions, and panels for many professional societies. He was awarded the 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and Medal. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Adhesion Society, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He was awarded the 2006 Nanotech Briefs National Nano50 Award, Innovator category, the 2006 Outstanding Faculty, SØren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Northeastern University 2006, the 2005 Aspiration Award, Northeastern University. He is an editor of the journal of Microelectronic Engineering and an associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. He also serves on many advisory boards including Samsung Electronics; Journal of Particulate Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Journal of Electronic Materials Letters, Journal of nanomaterials. He is and listed in Who’s Who in the World, in America, in science and engineering, etc.).

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Sean Gallagher

Executive Director, Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy of Northeastern University

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Ian Gorton

Professor of the Practice, Director of Computer Science, Seattle Campus of Northeastern University

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Lucy Masters

Director of Marketing of Northeastern University

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Claire Duggan

Director for Programs & Operations, The Center for STEM Education of Northeastern University

Claire Duggan is Director for Programs & Operations at Northeastern University.

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Vladimir Torchilin

Professor and Center Director of Northeastern University

Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nonomedicine at Northeastern University. He graduated from the Moscow University with MS in Chemistry, and also obtained there his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds in 1971 and 1980, respectively. In 1991 Dr. Torchilin joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 Dr. Torchilin is with Northeastern University. He was there the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1998-2008. His main interests include drug delivery and targeting, nanomedicine, multifunctional and stimuli-sensitive pharmaceutical nanocarriers, biomedical polymers, experimental cancer therapy, cancer immunology, novel imaging agents. He has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 10 books, including Immobilized Enzymes in Medicine, The Handbook on Targeted Delivery of Imaging Agents, Liposomes: A Practical Approach, Nanoparticulates as Pharmaceutical Carriers, Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers, Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting, Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs in Cancer, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 37,000 citation of his papers with H-index of 86. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery and on the Editorial Boards of many leading journals in the field including Journal of Controlled Release (Review Editor), Bioconjugate Chemistry, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Journal of Drug Targeting, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, and few others. Over the years Prof. Torchilin got more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. Among his many awards, Professor Torchilin was the recipient of the 1982 Lenin Prize in Science and Technology (the highest scientific award in the former USSR). He was elected as a Member of European Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and of the Controlled Release Society, and received the 2005 Research Achievements in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Award from the AAPS, 2007 Research Achievements Award from the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress, 2009 AAPS Journal Award, 2009 International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award, 2010 Controlled Release Society Founders Award, 2012 Life Time Achievements Award from the Journal of Drug Targeting, 2012 Alec Bangham Life Time Award, and 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal for Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences. In 2005-2006 he served as a President of the Controlled Release Society. In 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.

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Peter Roby

Director of Athletics and Recreation of Northeastern University

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Vladimir Torchilin

Professor and Center Director of Northeastern University

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Peter Roby

Director of Athletics and Recreation of Northeastern University

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Ikhlaq Sidhu

Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology of UC Berkeley College of Engineering

Ikhlaq Sidhu is the Chief Scientist for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and has been the primary architect of its T-shaped curriculum and applied research program. He joined UC Berkeley in 2005 as founding Director of UC Berkeley’s highly successful Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, which has grown to become the cornerstone of the Fung Institute. Ikhlaq received recognition as the 2009 Emerging Area Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley for his contribution to this new research and teaching area. He brings valuable insight to the Berkeley community by building the connections between teaching and current innovation topics within Silicon Valley. Within industry, Ikhlaq has established new businesses and developed new technologies at U.S. Robotics Corporation, 3Com Corporation, and Cambia Networks. He was 3Com’s “Inventor of the Year” in 1999, and has been granted over 60 US Patents in networking technology, IP telephony, and PDA functionality. Technology and intellectual property from his work has been cross-licensed to Palm Computing, 3Com, and UT Starcom. Ikhlaq also designed hardware for the first generation of laser printers at Hewlett Packard. Ikhlaq received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his master’s degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.

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Lloyd Ratner

Professor of Surgery; Director, Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation of Columbia University

Lloyd Ratner, M.D., M.P.H., is professor of surgery and director of renal and pancreatic transplantation at Columbia University/NY Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He has served as a member of the membership and professional standards committee and its performance analysis and improvement subcommittee. He also was a member of the kidney paired donation workgroup and previously served on the kidney transplantation committee. Dr. Ratner serves on the council (board of directors) and the living donor committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). He also is chair of the board of directors of New York Organ Donor Network and a member of its critical care working group, previously serving as chair of the medical advisory board. He was a member of the ASTS/American Society of Transplantation/NATCO joint societies workgroup on living kidney donor policy. He has served on the medical advisory board of Gift of Life Donor Program and the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland and on the board of directors of the Transplant Resource Center of Maryland (now, the Living Legacy Foundation). He earned his medical degree at Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and a master’s degree of public health from Columbia University in New York.

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Ralph Semmel

Director of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

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Michael Psarouthakis

Director, Michigan Venture Center of University of Michigan

Prior to my current job as the Director at the University of Michigan Venture Center, I was the Vice President of Business Acceleration at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) where I managed over $240 million in direct early-stage investments, convertible loans and grants in the life science, information technology, energy, defense, advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing industries. In addition to overseeing these investments and the team of managers responsible for the portfolio, I established and managed several investment programs in support of early-stage technology investments in Michigan, including most recently, the conception, launch, and management of the Pure Michigan Venture Match Fund and conception and launch of the Pure Michigan Venture Development Fund. Before my work at the MEDC, I managed a $50 million corporate venture fund for Forest Health Services performing due diligence, valuation, closing and post investment management of early-stage investments in biotechnology, immunotherapy, computer security, logistics, and manufacturing companies. Previous to Forest Health Services I established, operated and/or directed the sale of several Internet companies over 10-year period including Online Technologies Corporation, EIP Inc., and Gamezone.com. I currently serve on the advisory boards for eBay and PayPal. MBA, University of Michigan Ross School of Business; MS, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment; BS, History and Political Science Eastern Michigan University.

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Stephen Comello

Director, Energy Business Innovations Focus Area, Stanford GSB of Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Louis Walcer

‪Director, Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences of Cornell University

Louis Walcer is a ‪Director, Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.

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Oliver Gao

Associate Director, Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy of Cornell University

Transportation systems, the environment (especially air quality), and sustainable development are the research interests of Oliver Gao. He addresses various issues in urban/regional transportation planning, engineering, air-quality impact and conformity, and related transportation policies. Most of Gao’s research involves the intensive application of mathematical and probability theories, statistical/econometrical methods (estimation, inference, hypothesis testing, forecasting), scientific computing, and information technology (GIS, temporally and spatially indexed transportation/environment database).

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Shari Kearl

Assistant Director, Business Relationship Management of Cornell University

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Carla Gomes

Professor / Director Institute for Computational Sustainability of Cornell University

Carla Gomes is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University. His research area is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on large-scale constraint-based reasoning, optimization, and machine learning. Recently, He is become deeply immersed in the establishment of new field of Computational Sustainability.

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Sarah Christen

Director IT Infrastructure of Cornell University

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Jo Ann Difede

Professor and Director of Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies of Cornell University

Difede is Director of the Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies and a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an internationally recognized expert in the assessment and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a pioneer in the application of virtual reality technology to the treatment of PTSD. Difede has worked with those who have experienced burns, terrorism, motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, air disasters, and life-threatening illness during the past fifteen years. She has also worked extensively with New York City firefighters, rescue and recovery workers, emergency services personnel, and other disaster relief workers. Difede has consulted to major corporations affected by the WTC attack, including Marsh McLennan. Difede supervised the crisis center for Marsh in the immediate aftermath of the attack and has continued to advise them on establishing mental health services for their employees who escaped, as well as their bereaved families. She has worked with other major corporations by establishing and supervising their mental health screening and treatment programs. As an attending psychologist, Difede is a consultant to the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Burn Center for all inpatients and ambulatory patients who require evaluation and treatment for the psychological sequelae to burns. As such, she supervised the care of all burn patients who survived the WTC attack and their families, as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Burn Center received all burn survivors of the WTC attack. Difede has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private foundations to develop treatments for PTSD following terrorism, burns, and other traumas. She is currently Principal Investigator of NIH funded awards to develop interventions to treat PTSD following burn injury and terrorism in both civilians and disaster relief workers. Following the WTC attack of September 11, 2001, the NIH granted one of the few supplements awarded to Difede to extend her treatment studies to WTC survivors. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the assessment and treatment of PTSD, and is regularly invited to address national conferences on these topics. Of note, Difede has published the first report of the successful use of virtual reality technology for the treatment of PTSD following the WTC and is now developing virtual reality treatments for PTSD following other types of traumas. Difede’s work has also been featured in many popular media outlets including the New York Times, Crains Business, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, National Public Radio, The MacNeill-Lehrer Report, NBC, CBS, ABC with Peter Jennings, and CNN.

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David A Barnhart

Director, Space Engineering Research Center; Research Professor, USC of University of Southern California

David Barnhart is an active Research Professor in the Department of Astronautical Engineering at USC, the Director/Co- Founder of the USC Space Engineering Research Center at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), and co-founder/CEO of Arkisys Inc. David specializes in developing innovative technologies and architectures for 2nd generation space morphologies, RPO technologies/techniques, and hands-on projects with students, faculty and staff through an “engineering teaching hospital” construct. Over 250 students have graduated through the SERC’s laboratories to-date. David was a senior space Project Manager at DARPA, pioneering cellular spacecraft morphologies, satbotics, space robotics and low cost high volume manufacturing on the Phoenix and SeeMe projects. Prior to USC and DARPA David helped initiate two commercial space companies; co-founding and serving as VP and CFO for Millennium Space Systems in Los Angeles CA; and elected member of a startup in Bremen, Vanguard Space, one of the first companies working commercial spacecraft servicing.

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Jonathan Schwartz

Senior Director of University of Southern California

Jonathan Schwartz has spent over 15 years in the corporate video space with a specialization in video production and strategic marketing to fully realize, protect, and enhance a company’s brand. Projects that Jonathan has produced/directed have been featured in national marketing campaigns – distributed both on the web and broadcast television. Jonathan also has an extensive technical background which he leverages to build state of the art and award winning digital delivery systems. Currently, Jonathan is the Director of Video Productions and Operations at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy where he has designed and implemented cost-effective streaming and video solutions/workflows which has allowed the University to reduce costs and bring production in-house. Jonathan came to USC from Celebrity Cruises, where he designed and implemented their on-board closed circuit IP-TV station / delivery system for their Solstice Class of ships. Jonathan also has a passion for the narrative space, and produces / directs short films that are often featured in film festivals around the country. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California – School of Cinematic Arts and is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Communication Management from USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism.

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Hossein Pourmand

Senior Executive Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations of University of Southern California

As Assistant Director for Physical Sciences & Engineering Technology Commercialization for the USC Stevens Center for Innovation, Hossein Pourmand is responsible for developing and implementing IP and commercialization strategies through licensing and other arrangements. Hossein has over 25 years of industry experience in a variety of engineering, strategy, business development and finance roles. He started his career with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and after that worked with a number of high technology start-ups in various capacities including Venture Capital financing and business development. He has worked closely with innovators and has played a key role in the successful funding and launch of a number of high technology start-ups. Hossein has an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from UCLA.

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Michael Suman

Research Director of University of Southern California

Michael Suman serves as the research director of the Center for the Digital Future, where he manages and coordinates the “Surveying the Digital Future” Internet study and the World Internet Project. Suman is also a member of the UCLA faculty in the Department of Communication Studies. Suman holds a Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA, and has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies in Japan, Korea, China and the Marshall Islands.

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Skip Rizzo

Director of Medical Virtual Reality, Institute for Creative Technologies of University of Southern California

Psychologist Skip Rizzo conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of virtual reality (VR) systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment rehabilitation and resilience. This work spans the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. He is currently designing VR scenarios to address social and vocational interaction in persons with autistic spectrum disorder. Rizzo is currently examining the use of VR applications for training emotional coping skills with the aim of preparing service members for the stresses of combat. He is senior editor of the MIT Press journal, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.

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David Carter

Executive Director of the University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute of University of Southern California

David M. Carter founded the Sports Business Group in 1999 following more than ten years of consulting for the sports and entertainment industries. As a sports business consultant specializing in strategic marketing, Mr. Carter has consulted for corporations, sports organizations, sports and entertainment venues, law firms, municipalities, and individual athletes. Additionally, he is currently the Executive Director of the University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute and is a professor of sports business at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Further, Mr. Carter regularly provides sports-business commentary to national media concerns. He has also authored three books about the sports business industry. Mr. Carter is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he obtained both a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in finance.

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Dave Mawhinney

Associate Director, Donald H. Jones Center of Carnegie Mellon University

Dave Mawhinney is an Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University since 2011.

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Lorrie Cranor

Director of Carnegie Mellon University

Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Director, CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. She has authored over 100 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O’Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O’Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine and in 2014 she was named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to usable privacy and security research and education. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. In 2012-13 she spent her sabbatical year as a fellow in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University where she worked on fiber arts projects that combined her interests in privacy and security, quilting, computers, and technology. She practices yoga, plays soccer, and runs after her three children.

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Ravi Starzl

Director, Starzl Lab, Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University

Ravi Starzl is the Co-Founder and CEO of BioPlx.

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Norman Sadeh

Professor & Director of Carnegie Mellon University

Norman Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where is also affiliated with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and the Heinz College of Management and Public Policy. He currently leads two of the largest US research projects in privacy, the Usable Privacy Policy Project and the Personalized Privacy Assistant Project. Norman is co-founder and co-director of CMU’s Master’s Program in Privacy Engineering, and earlier also co-founded and co-directed the School’s PhD Program in Societal Computing. In the late nineties, Dr. Sadeh served for two years as chief scientist of the EU’s EUR 550M research initiative in “New Methods of Work and e¬Commerce,” which at the time included all pan¬-European cybersecurity and privacy research. He is also a successful entrepreneur, having served as founding CEO and, until its acquisition, as chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a company he ¬co-founded to commercialize anti-¬phishing technologies developed as part of research with several of his colleagues at CMU. Under his leadership, the company grew to become a leading provider of anti¬-phishing and cybersecurity awareness technologies and was eventually acquired for US$225M by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT).

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Matt Gaston

Director, SEI Emerging Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University

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Randy Trzeciak

Technical Manager / Director MSISPM Program / Adjunct Professor of Carnegie Mellon University

Randy Trzeciak is technical manager of CERT’s Enterprise Threat and Vulnerability Management Team and the CERT Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. Randy has 25 years’ experience in software engineering, project management, information security, and database design, development, and maintenance. In addition to his role with CERT, he also has a dual appoint as Program Director for the Masters of Science in Information Security Policy and Management (MSISPM) program and professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management. Randy holds an MS in Management from the University of Maryland and a BS in Management Information Systems and a BA in Business Administration from Geneva College.

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Hasan Yasar

Technical Director, Continuous Deployment of Capability of Carnegie Mellon University

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Matt Gaston

Director, SEI Emerging Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University

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Jaime Carbonell

Professor of Computer Science & Director of Carnegie Mellon University

Jaime Carbonell is the Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and his Ph.D.under Dr. Roger Schank at Yale University in 1979. His interests span several areas of Artificial Intelligence, Language technologies and Machine Learning. In particular, his research is focused on areas such as text mining (extraction, categorization, novelty detection) and in new theoretical frameworks such as a unified utility-based theory bridging information retrieval, summarization, free-text question answering and related tasks. He also works on Machine Translation, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT.

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Derek Fray

Director of Research & Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry of University of Cambridge

Derek Fray is the Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry of University of Cambridge.

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Evan Rachlin

Graduate School Director for the Harvard Medical Alumni Association of Harvard University

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Fernando Reimers

Professor of the Practice of International Education/Director Global Education Innovation Initiative of Harvard University

Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Fernando was a senior education specialist at the World Bank. He has extensive experience in the area of international development assistance with the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and other development organizations. Fernando is best known for his theory of “informed dialogue,” an approach to bridge scientific research and education policy through the mapping and mobilization of social networks. Fernando is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, a fellow of the International Academy of Education, a member of the Advisory Board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education. Fernando earned doctoral and master’s degrees in education from Harvard University and obtained a Licenciatura en Psicologia at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters by Emerson College for his work advancing global education.

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Urs Gasser

Executive Director of Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society of Harvard University

Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. His research and teaching activities focus on information law, policy, and society issues and the changing role of academia in the digitally networked age. At Berkman Klein and in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, he co-leads the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, with a particular interest in global governance issues and the broader implications of next-generation technologies, including questions of human autonomy and inclusion. As a long-term research interest, he studies the patterns of interaction between law and innovation, and innovation with the legal system in the digital age.

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Heather Campbell

Director of Analytics & Data Management of Princeton University

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Anne-Marie Maman

Executive Director, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council of Princeton University

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Joe Scanlan

Director of Visual Arts at Lewis Center for the Arts of Princeton University

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Margaret Martonosi

Director, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education of Princeton University

Margaret Martonosi is the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 professor of computer science at Princeton University. She is also director of Princeton University’s Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. Martonosi’s research interests are in computer architecture and mobile computing. Her work has included the development of the Wattch power modeling tool and the Princeton ZebraNet mobile sensor network project for the design and real-world deployment of zebra tracking collars in Kenya. Her current research focuses on hardware-software interface approaches to manage heterogeneous parallelism and system complexity in both classical and quantum computing architectures. Martonosi is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Notable awards include the 2018 IEEE Technical Achievement Award, the 2010 Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award, and the 2013 Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership award. Her research has earned numerous best paper awards, as well as long-term impact awards from ACM SIGARCH, ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SenSys, and IEEE HPCA.

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Lynn Loo

Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment of Princeton University

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Lynn Loo

Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment of Princeton University

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Jeff Shay

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Executive Director – Academic Operations of Babson College

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Janet Walkow

Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer of The University of Texas at Austin

Janet Walkow joined the faculty of the University of Texas in 2008, building on a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, where she led efforts ranging from R&D to corporate strategy. Leading the Drug Dynamic Institute, a collaborative research center, Janet brings together scientists and investigators to work on novel solutions for disease and healthcare issues. The institute partners with university, industry and community leaders to foster collaborations and develop ways to eliminate barriers to commercialization opportunities. Following her pharmaceutical executive career, Janet founded MxV, llc, where she had the opportunity to work in a variety of business settings and lead strategic planning, communications and integration activities for companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Her success and expertise in both scientific and business arenas blends technical, analytical and leadership skills, allowing Janet to effectively manage research programs, develop business strategies and successfully launch products and programs in the marketplace. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Health Promotion Council of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board.

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Ryan Anderson

Director of Outreach and Strategic Partnerships – The Center for Identity of The University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Anderson is the Director of Outreach and Strategic Partners for the Center for Identity, at the University of Texas at Austin, where he works to promote awareness of the Center’s unique research and education missions, and to identify new opportunities for strategic collaboration. The Center for Identity is serves as a center of excellence for identity management, privacy and security, offering research, education and leadership with its “ID360” approach. The Center brings together a variety contributing disciplines (law, policy, business, technology, society and communications) to partner with leaders from impacted market sectors from corporations, government and law enforcement. Ryan brings over 15 years of experience in marketing and business strategy to the Center, with a particular focus on brand development, digital marketing, and technology-focused start-ups.

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Mark McClellan

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy of Duke University

Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, is a doctor and an economist whose work has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve health care, including payment reforms to promote better outcomes and lower costs, methods for development and use of real-world evidence, and approaches for more effective drug and device innovation. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. Dr. McClellan has served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics and medicine at Stanford University where he directed the Program on Health Outcomes Research.

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Geraldine Dawson

Director, Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics of Duke University

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