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This list showcases the top United States based Associate operating in the Education space. If you think a Associate is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tim Kraska
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tim Kraska is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Currently, his research focuses on building systems for machine learning and using machine learning for systems. Tim spent the majority of 2017 at Google Research, where he invented the concept of learned index structures with the MLX and Brain teams. Tim was recently selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in computer science. He has also received the 2017 VMware Systems Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, an Air Force Young Investigator award, two Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference best demo awards, and a best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE).
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Aleksander Madry
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aleksander Madry is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the MIT EECS Department and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and, prior to joining the MIT faculty, he spent some time at Microsoft Research New England and on the faculty of EPFL. Aleksander’s research interests span algorithms, continuous optimization, science of deep learning and understanding machine learning from a robustness perspective. His work has been recognized with a number of awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and 2018 Presburger Award.
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Amos Winter
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amos G. Winter is Co-Founder at Global Rsearch Innovation Technology.
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Manolis Kellis
Associate Professor of MIT Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manolis Kellis is Associate Professor of MIT Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Tamara Broderick
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamara Broderick is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Tamara’s recent research is focused on developing and analyzing models for scalable Bayesian machine learning, especially Bayesian nonparametrics. She is a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Tamara has been awarded a Google faculty research award, the ISBA Lifetime Members Junior Researcher Award, the Savage Award (for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in Bayesian theory and methods), the Evelyn Fix Memorial Medal and Citation (for the PhD student on the Berkeley campus showing the greatest promise in statistical research), the Berkeley fellowship, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Marshall Scholarship, and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize (for the graduating Princeton senior with the highest academic average). She holds a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, completed under Michael I. Jordan, an AB in mathematics from Princeton University, a master of advanced study for completion of Part III of the Mathematical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil by research in physics from the University of Cambridge, and an MS in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Adam Chlipala
Associate Professor of Computer Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Julie A Shah
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006) from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from MIT. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing. She has developed innovative methods for enabling fluid human-robot teamwork in time-critical, safety-critical domains, ranging from manufacturing to surgery to space exploration. Her group draws on expertise in artificial intelligence, human factors, and systems engineering to develop interactive robots that emulate the qualities of effective human team members to improve the efficiency of human-robot teamwork. In 2014, Shah was recognized with an NSF CAREER award for her work on “Human-aware Autonomy for Team-oriented Environments,” and by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also recognized by the Technology Review as one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013, and she has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the International Symposium on Robotics, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jeremy Jones
Research Associate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Justin Solomon
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Michael Laub
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Audrey Maclean
Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng. of Stanford University
Audrey MacLean has a unique track record for entrepreneurial success as a founder, CEO, seed investor, and board member. She has been on the Midas Touch list by Forbes, listed by BusinessWeek as one of the 50 most influential business women in America, and is a member of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women group. She was also featured by Forbes in a cover article on Angel Investing. MacLean has four decades of combined experience in the computer and communications industries. She was a founder of Network Equipment Technologies which went public in 1987 and later co-founded and was CEO of Adaptive which merged with NET in 1993. Building on her own entrepreneurial success, MacLean has been instrumental in helping to launch and grow successful companies through her work as a mentor capitalist and as a professor of entrepreneurship. The companies she has seed funded which have gone public include: Pure Software, Pete’s Brewing Company, AdForce, dsl.net, and Selectica. Successful acquisitions include: Skybox/Google, Centrality/Sirf, Ironport/Cisco, Avidia/PairGain, Firefly/Microsoft, InternetMiddleware/NetworkAppliance, Amplitude/CriticalPath, specialtyMD/Chemdex, Gigabeat/Napster, and Achieva/Kaplan. MacLean serves on the Board or Advisory Board of BeyondCore, FollowAnalytics, SouthSuite, Sourcegraph, Andalou, Finesse, mOasis, Solum, Starmaker, Zady, and Oh My Green!. She is also an affiliate and advisor to a number of leading Venture Funds. In her teaching capacity at Stanford, she is a lead professor for the Technology Venture Formation course in the Stanford Technology Venture Program in the School of Engineering. In addition to her work at Stanford MacLean actively supports the development of entrepreneurial studies through her board work at the Kauffman Fellows Program and Maui College University of Hawaii.
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Michael Lepech
Associate Professor of Stanford University
Michael Lepech is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Mike’s research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management and finance. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social impacts. Within civil engineering, his research has led to the development of new building materials and building practices for more sustainable built environments. As leader of a new banking initiative at Stanford, the application of his research is rethinking the definitions of value, risk, and innovation within the financial services sector. His research, teaching, and practice have taken him around the world teaching green design and entrepreneurship topics. As a researcher in residence at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU) in Beijing, he is introducing new financial accounting metrics to better balance economic development with environmental protection throughout China. As an instructor, he has taught numerous executive education and professional education courses on topics of finance, leadership, sustainability, and entrepreneurship in the US, Brazil, France, Korea, South Africa, and China. He has co-founded four companies in the US and China based on his research in advanced construction materials. These companies are currently developing and marketing products produced with “bendable concrete,” or Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC). Michael joined the Stanford University faculty from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering (Materials) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, and his MBA in strategy and finance from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
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Euan Ashley
Associate Dean, School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, of Genetics, of Biomedical Data Science of Stanford University
Born in Scotland, Dr. Ashley graduated with 1st class Honors in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow. He completed medical residency and a PhD in molecular physiology at the University of Oxford before moving to Stanford University where he trained in cardiology and advanced heart failure, joining the faculty in 2006. His group is focused on the science of precision medicine. In 2010, he led the team that carried out the first clinical interpretation of a human genome. The article became one of the most cited in clinical medicine that year and was later featured in the Genome Exhibition at the Smithsonian in DC. Over the following 3 years, the team extended the approach to the first whole genome molecular autopsy, to a family of four, and to a case series of patients in primary care. They now routinely apply genome sequencing to the diagnosis of patients at Stanford hospital where Dr Ashley directs the Clinical Genome Program and the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease. Dr Ashley was the first co-chair of the steering committee of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network. He was a recipient of the National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. He is part of the winning team of the $75m One Brave Idea competition and co-founder of two genome scale genetic diagnostics companies: Personalis Inc ($PSNL) and Deepcell Inc. He was recognized by the Obama White House for his contributions to Personalized Medicine and in 2018 was awarded the American Heart Association Medal of Honor for Genomic and Precision Medicine. He was appointed Associate Dean in 2019. Father to three young Americans, in his ‘spare’ time, he tries to understand American football, plays the saxophone, and conducts research on the health benefits of single malt Scotch whisky.
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Chuck Eesley
Associate Professor of Stanford University
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Greg Zaharchuk
Associate Professor of Radiology of Stanford University
Greg Zaharchuk, MD/PhD, is the Co-founder of Subtle Medical and a Professor of Radiology and practicing Neuroradiologist at Stanford University. He is an expert in advanced imaging methods, particularly applied to patients with neurological disease. Greg has received numerous awards and honors for his research and sits on several boards and advisory committees.
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Christopher Flink
Consulting Associate Professor of Stanford University
Chris Flink joined Exploratorium CEO & Executive Director in 2016. Chris Flink is a Director on the Board of Directors at Fiserv, Inc., partner at the innovation and design firm IDEO and a consulting associate professor at Stanford University. With more than 15 years of experience in business innovation and design, Flink has served as a Director since 2012.
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Josie Garthwaite
Associate Director Of Communications of Stanford University
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Annelise Barron
Associate Professor of Bioengineering 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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Christos Kozyrakis
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering of Stanford University
Christos Kozyrakis is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST), a research group that investigates hardware architectures, runtime management environments, system software, and programming models for systems ranging from cellphones to warehouse-scale datacenters. His current research focuses on resource efficient cloud computing, energy efficient multicore systems, and architectural support for security. Christos joined Stanford in 2002 after receiving a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His alma mater is the University of Crete in Greece. Christos’ first name in full is “Christoforos”…
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Jin hyung Lee
Associate Professor of Stanford University
The Lee Lab uses interdisciplinary approaches from biology and engineering to analyze, debug, and manipulate systems-level brain circuits. We seek to understand the connectivity and function of these large-scale networks in order to drive the development of new therapies for neurological diseases. This research finds its basic building blocks in areas ranging from medical imaging and signal processing to genetics and molecular biology. Dr. Lee received her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University after her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National 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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Mykel Kochenderfer
Associate Professor of Stanford University
Mykel’s research is on building trustworthy AI systems. He is the director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, creating algorithms and analytical methods for the design and validation of robust decision-making systems. Applications include air traffic control, unmanned aircraft, robotics, and automated driving. His lab has strong ongoing industrial collaborations with a variety of companies, including Allstate, Airbus, Ford, GE, Nvidia, and Toyota. His early research led to the development of the next-generation aircraft collision avoidance system, called ACAS X, which became an international standard in September 2018. Mykel joined Stanford University in 2013, after working as a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in 2003. Prof. Kochenderfer is the director of the SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research and a co-director of the Center for AI Safety. In 2017, he was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. He is an author of the textbooks Decision Making under Uncertainty: Theory and Application (MIT Press, 2015) and Algorithms for Optimization (MIT Press, 2019). He is a third-generation pilot.
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Mykel Kochenderfer
Associate Professor of Stanford University
Mykel’s research is on building trustworthy AI systems. He is the director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, creating algorithms and analytical methods for the design and validation of robust decision-making systems. Applications include air traffic control, unmanned aircraft, robotics, and automated driving. His lab has strong ongoing industrial collaborations with a variety of companies, including Allstate, Airbus, Ford, GE, Nvidia, and Toyota. His early research led to the development of the next-generation aircraft collision avoidance system, called ACAS X, which became an international standard in September 2018. Mykel joined Stanford University in 2013, after working as a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in 2003. Prof. Kochenderfer is the director of the SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research and a co-director of the Center for AI Safety. In 2017, he was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. He is an author of the textbooks Decision Making under Uncertainty: Theory and Application (MIT Press, 2015) and Algorithms for Optimization (MIT Press, 2019). He is a third-generation pilot.
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Claire Zau
Associate and Project Manager of GSV Ventures
Claire Zau is an Associate and Project Manager of GSV Ventures.
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Stephen Barat
Associate Vice President, Non-Clinical Development of Allergan
Stephen Barat is currently the Executive Director of Non-clinical and Translational Sciences – Safety Assessment and Bioanalysis for Allergan. He has 20 years of experience in global drug development and registration, with a specific interest in drug device combinations, the interface of safety assessment and CMC requirements, and extensive experience in the safety assessment of impurities. Dr. Barat is a member of the PQRI – PDP working group and toxicology sub-team as well as the USP Expert Panel for Biocompatability of Packaging Materials.
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Michael Eisen
Associate Professor of University of California Berkeley
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Joan Walker
Associate Professor of University of California Berkeley
Joan Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with an expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations.
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Adam Cohen
Staff Research Associate of University of California Berkeley
Adam Cohen is a research associate at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining the group in 2004, he has focused his research on worldwide carsharing and public bikesharing. He has co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. In 2008, he completed a dual Masters degree in city and regional planning and international affairs from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dual Bachelor’s degree in urban studies and legal studies.
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Irina Conboy
Associate Professor of Bioengineering 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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Joan Walker
Associate Professor of University of California Berkeley
Joan Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with an expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations.
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Irina Conboy
Associate Professor of Bioengineering 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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Corinne Spears
Associate of University Ventures
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Marco Di Maggio
Associate Professor of Business Administration of Harvard Business School
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Eva Ascarza
Associate Professor of Harvard Business School
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Ethan Bernstein
Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration of Harvard Business School
Ethan Bernstein is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has taught the first-year MBA course in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), a PhD course on the craft of field research, and various executive education programs. Professor Bernstein studies the impact of workplace transparency—the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, output, and/or performance—on productivity, with implications for leadership, collaboration, organization design, and new forms of organizing.
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Lauren Landry
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications of Harvard Business School
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Das Narayandas
Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School
Das Narayandas is a Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School.
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Alberto Cavallo
Associate Professor of Harvard Business School
Alberto is a founder of PriceStats and the Billion Prices Project. He’s also an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
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Alex Richardson
Senior Associate Director, Alumni Career Management of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Matthew Bidwell
Associate Professor of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Robert Dietrich
Senior Associate Vice President, University Advancement of Northeastern University
Robert Dietrich is Associate Vice President of Interdisciplinary Initiatives & Special Projects at Northeastern University.
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Paul Zernicke
Associate Vice President of Development Individual Giving of Northeastern University
Paul Zernicke is Associate Vice President of Development Individual Giving at Northeastern University.
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Robert Silk
Senior Associate Vice President, Development of Northeastern University
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Dawn Girardelli
Associate Regional Dean of Northeastern University
Dawn Girardelli is an experienced college administrator with expertise in workforce development, continuing/contract education, change management and leading large scale workforce strategic initiatives such as: Diversity in Tech (SF Bay Area); EB-TV CTE Collaborative (SF East Bay); STEM CORE (Salt Lake City) and Entrepreneurial Incubator (Salt Lake City). She also has a successful track record of developing and operating new educational centers centered on workforce development and building effective partnerships with key government, education, business and community leaders. Dawn currently serves as the Associate Dean of Northeastern University-San Francisco Bay Area. In this role, she oversees the programs, services and operations at the San Jose and San Francisco campuses as well as building strategic partnerships within the region that deepens Northeastern University’s commitment and connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, Dawn served as the Dean of FHDA Education Center, CTE & Workforce Development at Foothill College (2013-2018); Director of Off Campus and Community Education Programs & Executive Director of EB/TV CTE Community Collaborative at Chabot College (2013-2018); Director of School of Business and Division of Continuing Ed Programs at Salt Lake Community College (2005-2008); Foundation Officer at iWorlds (2006-2007). Dawn holds a Master of Science Degree in Education and a Bachelor Degree in Psychology each from Cal State University, East Bay. Dawn is married to Mike Girardelli and together they have 3 children: Kevin, Kylie & Kami. Dawn is an avid reader, loves history and enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
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Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor in Bioengineering of Northeastern University
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Maria van Pelt
Dean, School of Nursing – Associate Dean, Bouve College of Health Sciences of Northeastern University
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Amy Lu
Associate Professor of Northeastern University
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Bosley Jarrett
Senior Associate of Red Ventures
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Bosley Jarrett
Senior Associate of Red Ventures
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Samuel Sia
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering of Columbia University
Dr. Sia is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University whose research area includes microfluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, 3D tissue engineering, and implantable devices. He is the Co-Founder of Claros Diagnostics at which he helped the company developed a microfluidic chip to monitor prostate-cancer. He was listed in MIT’s list of top 35 innovators under the age of 35 in 2010.
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Simha Sethumadhavan
Associate Professor of Columbia University
Simha Sethumadhavan is the Associate Professor at Columbia University.
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Mingoo Seok
Associate Professor of Columbia University
Mingoo Seok is the Associate Professor at Columbia University.
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Courtney Cogburn
Associate Professor of Columbia University
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Gail Gottehrer
Associate Lecturer, Law for Knowledge Innovation and Practices of Columbia University
Gail Gottehrer is a partner at Akerman LLP in New York where she is a member of the Labor and Employment Group and the Data Law Group. Gail’s practice focuses on management-side labor and employment litigation, class action defense and other complex commercial matters, including privacy and technology related litigation. She is one of the few defense lawyers to have been involved in the trial of a class action to verdict before a jury. Gail is a frequent speaker on topics relating to the implications of technology on the law, on business operations and on the digital workplace, including data ownership and data privacy, telematics, autonomous vehicles, drones, robots, electronic evidence, usage based insurance, smart buildings, biometrics, wearable technology and the Internet of Things. Gail teaches a course in Law for Knowledge Innovation and Practices at Columbia University and is a Fellow at the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School. Gail is the Director of the Connecticut Chapter of Women in eDiscovery. She is the co-chair of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance’s eDiscovery and ESI Committee and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Executive Women’s Forum. Gail was recently selected as one of the New York Business Journal’s 2016 Women of Influence, as one the Connecticut Technology Council’s 2016 Women of Innovation, and as one of the Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 2016 Women Worth Watching. She is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Greater Hartford Legal Aid Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of The Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice and a Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a former Law Clerk to the Honorable Murray C. Goldman, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County. She is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
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Ramesh Raskar
Associate Professor of MIT Media Lab
Ramesh Raskar is a tenured member of the MIT faculty and director of the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab. He has more than 20 years of research experience in imaging and holds more than 90 US patents across the fields of computational photography, inverse problems in imaging, and human-computer interaction. He has long track record of working with large and small companies, and has transferred many of his patents into commercial products. His recent inventions include transient imaging to look around corners, a novel CAT-scan machine, imperceptible motion capture markers, long-distance barcodes, and touch + hover 3D interaction displays. Raskar received the Technology Review TR100 Award, the Global Indus Technovator Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the DARPA Young Faculty award, and four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. – See more at: http://eyenetra.com/team.html#sthash.CCAMSzI3.dpuf
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Neri Oxman
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences of MIT Media Lab
Designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development and assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems. Oxman coined the term “material ecology” to describe the study and design of products and processes integrating environmentally aware, computational, form-generation processes and digital fabrication. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired by nature, and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies. Areas of application include product and architectural design, as well as digital fabrication and construction.
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Iyad Rahwan
Associate Professor of MIT Media Lab
Iyad Rahwan is the AT&T Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Scalable Cooperation group. A native of Aleppo, Syria, Rahwan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is an affiliate faculty at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS). Rahwan’s work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, with a focus on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the societal aspects of Artificial Intelligence. He led the winning team in the US State Department’s Tag Challenge, using social media to locate individuals in remote cities within 12 hours using only their mug shots. His work appeared in major academic journals, including Science and PNAS, and was featured in major media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
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Hugh Herr
Associate Professor of MIT Media Lab
Hugh Herr is the Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab.
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Webster Jones
Associate of Gradifi, Inc
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Julie Rossman
Associate Design Director of World Science Festival
Julie Rossman is a Associate Design Director at World Science Festival.
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Julie Rossman
Associate Design Director of World Science Festival
Julie Rossman is a Associate Design Director at World Science Festival.
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Sherri Bucher
Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics of Indiana University School of Medicine
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Shiladitya Sengupta
Associate Professor of Medicine of Harvard Medical School
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Jin-Rong Zhou
Associate Professor of Surgery of Harvard Medical School
Jin-Rong Zhou, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory at Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Milenko Tanasijevic
Associate Professor of Pathology of Harvard Medical School
Dr. Tanasijevic is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Clinical Laboratories and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. The BWH and DFCI clinical laboratories include over forty licensed laboratory sites performing more than 10 million tests annually with combined revenues of over $400 million and featuring state-of-the-art lab automation, advanced molecular diagnostics capabilities, fully integrated specimen bio-repository and a Cardiovascular Biomarker Clinical Trial Laboratory. The BWH Clinical Laboratories were recently recognized by the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care as an example of increased system efficiency through application of Clinical Lab Automation and Lean Process Redesign. Dr. Tanasijevic completed his residency training in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1993. He became the Director of the DFCI Clinical Laboratories in 1999 and of both the BWH and DFCI Clinical Laboratories in 2002. Dr. Tanasijevic earned his Medical Degree at the University Cyril and Methodius in Macedonia in 1987 and his Masters in Business Administration at the Boston University School of Management in 2004. Dr. Tanasijevic conducted pioneering studies to identify cardiac troponin-I as the major risk stratification biomarker in patients with acute coronary syndromes. He also developed a novel risk stratification model for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome using fetal lung maturity tests. His current research is focused on computerized clinical decision support, laboratory process improvement and total laboratory automation. Dr. Tanasijevic serves on the College of American Pathologists Instrumentation Committee, CDC / Battelle Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Workgroup and Cardiac Markers Expert Panel, National Quality Forum Clinical Laboratory Steering Committee, and chairs the American Society of Clinical Pathology’s Expert Review Panel. Dr. Tanasijevic is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology and the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. He is a co-founder of Cell Imaging Systems Inc., and consults extensively in the field of in vitro diagnostics.
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Anne Louise Oaklander
Associate Professor of Neurology of Harvard Medical School
Dr. Oaklander is Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Pathology (Neuropathology) at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Cornell University and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After neurology residency at UMDNJ, she undertook postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins and joined their Neurosurgery faculty until moving to MGH, where she attends for the neurology service and directs the neurodiagnostic skin-biopsy service. Dr. Oaklander directs an NIH, DoD, and foundation-funded laboratory that studies causes of chronic pain and itch.She is known for discoveries on post herpetic neuralgia and pruritis. Her group was among the first to identify nerve injuries in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I. Small-fiber polyneuropathies are another interest. She has more than 75 publications and serves on the editorial board of the journal PAIN. She is a member of the American Neurological Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. She serves on advisory and review panels for the NIH, the VA, and the Institute of Medicine
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Scott Campbell
Associate Professor of Urban Planning of University of Michigan
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Kevin Fu
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Michigan
Kevin Fu is associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security and the SPQR group. His research investigates how to achieve trustworthy computing on embedded devices with application to health care, commerce, and communication. His most recent contributions appear in computer science and medical conferences and journals such as USENIX Security and IEEE Security and Privacy. Kevin received his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT where his doctoral research pertained to secure storage and web authentication. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, Fed100 Award, and best paper awards from various academic silos of computing. The research is featured in articles by the NYT, WSJ, and NPR. Kevin was named MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year for work on medical device security. Kevin has testified in Congress on health matters and has written commissioned work for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He served as a visiting scientist at the Food & Drug Administration, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School, Microsoft Research, and MIT CSAIL. Previous employers include Bellcore, Cisco Systems, HP Labs, and Holland Community Hospital. He is a member of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy and the NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Prior to joining Michigan, he served on the Computer Science faculty at UMass Amherst. Kevin also holds a certificate of achievement in artisanal bread making from the French Culinary Institute.
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Zhongming Liu
Associate Professor of University of Michigan
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Vicki Ellingrod
Associate Dean for Reserach and Graduate Education of University of Michigan
Vicki L. Ellingrod, Pharm.D., FCCP is The John Gideon Searle Professor of Clinical and Translational Pharmacy in the Clinical Pharmacy Department in the College of Pharmacy, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. She obtained her BS and PharmD from the University of Minnesota and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychopharmacology/pharmacogenetics at the University of Iowa. She then joined their faculty and completed a K08 training grant funded by NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health). In 2006, she joined the University of Michigan. Her research has primarily been funded by the NIMH, FDA, and industry sources and her work focuses on the pharmacogenomics of mental health treatments. Vicki Ellingrod is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists and a full member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). She also serves as scientific editor for Pharmacotherapy and is an editor on the DiPiro text book Pharmacotherapy, a pathophysiologic approach.
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Tomoko Matsukawa
Senior Innovation Associate of Acumen
Designer of +Acumen Courses: http://plusacumen.org/courses/ Facilitator of +Acumen Global Chapter community: http://plusacumen.org/chapters/
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Jessica Martin
Senior Innovation Associate of Acumen
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Micah Clasper-Torch
Business Development Associate of IVY
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Andreea Minca
Associate Professor of 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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Faith Gunning
Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Psychology of Cornell University
Gunning is the Vice Chair of Psychology and Director of Neuropsychology. In addition she is a co-PI on an NIMH funded study focused on using therapeutic video games to treat cognitive and mood symptoms.
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Robin Dando
Associate Professor of Cornell University
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Christopher Mason
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University
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Christopher Mason
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University
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Urmimala Sarkar
Associate Professor in Residence of University of California, San Francisco
Urmimala Sarkar is Associate Professor in Residence at University of California San Francisco.
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Duygu Tosun-Turgut
Associate Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging of University of California, San Francisco
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Michael Blum
Associate Vice Chancellor for Informatics of University of California, San Francisco
Michael Blum is the Chief Digital Transformation Officer at University of California, San Francisco.
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Alvin Huang
Associate Professor of Architecture of University of Southern California
Alvin Huang, AIA is the Founder and Design Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture. He is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice. This exploration of “digital craft” is identified as the territory where the exchange between the technology of the digitally conceived and the artisanry of the handmade is explored. His wide ranging international experience includes significant projects of all scales ranging from hi-rise towers and mixed-use developments to bespoke furnishings. His work has been widely published and exhibited and has gained international recognition, including being selected to represent the UK at the Beijing Biennale in 2008 along with numerous awards including a 2014 ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award, 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award (Honorable Mention), 2014 AIA Small Projects Award, 2014 Autodesk Small Business Innovation Award, 2013 Time Magazine’s 20 Best Inventions of the Year, 2013 AIA|LA NextLA Design Award, 2013 AIA California Council Merit Award, and 2009 D&AD Award for Environmental Design. Alvin received a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) in London and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California (1998) in Los Angeles. Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he gained significant professional experience working with Amanda Levete Architects, Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and AECOM. In addition to his work at SDA, Alvin is currently an Assistant Professor at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles, Co-director of the Architectural Association Visiting School Los Angeles, and Co-chair of the 2014 ACADIA Conference. He has also taught design studios and master classes at the Architectural Association (London), University of Texas.
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Andy Pavlo
Associate Professor of Databases of Carnegie Mellon University
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2018 and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation award in 2014.
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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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Pradeep Ravikumar
Associate Professor of Carnegie Mellon University
Pradeep Ravikumar is an assistant professor who leads the Statistical Machine Learning group in the Department of Computer Science. He is also affiliated with the ICES Computational Visualization Center and UT’s Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation. He received his B.Tech. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Ph.D. in machine learning from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He was then a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Patrick Tague
Associate Teaching Professor of Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick Tague is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University with appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Information Networking Institute, and he is also the Associate Director of the INI. Patrick leads the Mobile, Embedded, and Wireless Security group at the Silicon Valley Campus of CMU, and the group is affiliated with CMU CyLab. Patrick’s research interests include wireless communications and networking; wireless/mobile security and privacy; robust and resilient networked systems; and analysis and sense-making of sensor network data. He received PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington as a member of the Network Security Lab and BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Patrick received the Yang Research Award for outstanding graduate research in the UW Electrical Engineering Department, the Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the UW Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, and the NSF CAREER award.
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Zico Kolter
Associate Professor of Carnegie Mellon University
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Golan Levin
Associate Professor of Computation of Carnegie Mellon University
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer and educator interested in the exploration of new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Presently he is Associate Professor of Electronic Art and, since 2009, Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
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Stratos Idreos
Associate Professor Of Computer Science of Harvard University
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Maggie McGrath
Associate Editor of Forbes Magazine
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Paul Gauthier
Associate Research Scholar of Princeton University
Paul Gauthier is an Associate Research Scholar in Plant Physiology, Horticulture and Ecosystem Modeling at Princeton University. For the past two years, Paul`s work has focused on studying the sustainability and feasibility of producing food in cities using Vertical Farming. His current work aims to study the adaptability of crop species to hydroponics and vertical set-up in the context of increasing yield and feeding a growing population. Placing food production in the context of countries’ energy independence and sovereignty helps in understanding the upcoming challenges. Paul´s priorities are to give decision-makers sustainable options to feed the growing urban population with diverse and nutrient-rich fresh food by 2050.
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Curtis Hillegas
Associate CIO, Research Computing of Princeton University
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Joanna Smith Ramani
Associate Director of The Aspen Institute
Joanna Smith-Ramani is the Associate Director at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, leading the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), a first-of-its-kind initiative in the field of consumer finance designed to accelerate knowledge synthesis and problem solving among a wide cross section of experts from applied, academic, government, and industry settings working on critical dimensions of financial security. Prior to joining FSP, Joanna served as Senior Innovation Director at the D2D Fund, leading the unit that designs, tests, and evaluates promising financial service innovations. Joanna has led national and state legislative campaigns, resulting in the passage of a federal law and over 10 state laws expanding a savings innovation. Joanna holds a master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She serves on the Baltimore and Maryland CASH Board.
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Silvana Konermann
Salk Research Associate of Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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