author Experts

Tom Mills

Lecturer in Sociology and PolicyAston University

Tom Mills is a sociologist with an interest in media and communications, elite institutions and networks, and the use of digital methods.

Sara Mednick

Professor of Cognitive SciencesUC Irvine

Sara Mednick is an expert in memory consolidation, sleep, aging and brain stimulation and author of “The Power of the Downstate.”

Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Hofstein

President & CEOMaRS Innovation

Turning academic ideas into commercial realities

Simon DeDeo

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Simon DeDeo is a cognitive scientist who studies the nature of mathematics, how mathematicians think and reason, and how AI is changing it.

Joshua Grill

Director of the Institute for Memory Impairments and Nerological Disorders at UCIUC Irvine

Joshua Grill directs a major Alzheimer's disease research institute helps lead the national strategy for AD clinical trial recruitment.

Russell Schwartz

Professor and Department HeadCarnegie Mellon University

Russell Schwartz's work focuses developing algorithms and artificial intelligence for understanding complex biological systems.

Ivona Hideg

Assistant Professor of OB/HRMLazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Professor Hideg examines issues of equality and diversity in the workplace, focusing on gender, culture, accent, and socio-economic status

Ryan Hamilton

Associate Professor of MarketingEmory University, Goizueta Business School

LeaAnne DeRigne, MSW, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorFlorida Atlantic University

LeaAnne DeRigne's area of research expertise is in paid sick leave, flexible work, vacation time, and pensions.

Andrew Lubin

Defense Analyst, Author, Embedded JournalistN/a

Dynamic speaker with long experience in global current events with partiular expertise in Iraq, Hait, Afghanistan with US Marines