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Tricia Wachtendorf

Director / Professor, Disaster Research Center / Department of Sociology & Criminal JusticeUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Wachtendorf expertise lies in the social, organizational, and decision-making aspects of disasters.

evacuationsMulti-organizational coordination and responses in disastersTransnational crisesImprovisation and adaptationCommunity-based approaches to preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation
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Brian Wolshon

Edward A. and Karen Wax Schmitt Distinguished Professor of EngineeringLouisiana State University

Internationally recognized expert on emergency and evacuation traffic planning and management

Emergency and Evacuation Traffic PlanningHighway Design and SafetyTransportation EngineeringTraffic Control and Operations
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Marla Sokolowski

University Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Toronto

Pioneering behavioural geneticist, revealing how genes and environment shape behaviour, famed for discovering the foraging gene.

GeneticsMolecular BiologyScientific WritingHigher EducationPublic Speaking
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Milos Manic, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer ScienceVCU College of Engineering

Milos Manic, Ph.D., FIEEE., is director of VCU's Cybersecurity Center and an expert in cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection.

Computational Intelligence Techniques (Machine Learning) with Applications in Energy Cybersecurity and Human Machine InterfacesSoftware Defined NetworksFuzzy Neural Data Mining TechniquesEnergy SecurityHuman-machine Interfaces
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Scott Niekum

Associate Professor, Manning College of Information and Computer SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Scott Niekum works to ensure that AI is safe and aligned with human objectives.

AIHuman-Robot InteractionRobotic ManipulationAI SafetyReinforcement Learning
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Elizabeth Barchi, M.D.

Sports Medicine SpecialistChristianaCare

Dr. Elizabeth Barchi is a sports medicine physician who specializes in dance medicine.

Holistic MedicineSports MedicineDance MedicineSports InjuriesPediatrics
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Shana Poplack

Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair (I) in LinguisticsUniversity of Ottawa

Pioneering sociolinguist changing how we understand bilingual speech, code-switching & language variation.

Language IdeologyLanguage PrescriptionAfrican American Vernacular EnglishFrench in CanadaLanguage Contact
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Andrew Palmer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor | Ocean Engineering and Marine SciencesFlorida Tech

Dr. Palmer's research interests include eavesdropping on bacterial 'conversations', Martian farming, and cell wall fragment-based signaling.

AstrobiologyOcean EngineeringBiomedicalMolecular BiologyBiochemistry
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Lisa Platt

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Lisa Platt’s research focuses on using artificial intelligence and dynamic modeling to evaluate designs that reduce risks to human health.

Systems Design for Public HealthPrevention Through DesignHuman Factors SafetyClimate ChangeInterior Design
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Burcu Akinci

Dean, College of EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University

Burcu Akinci focuses on emerging energy technologies and using AI to monitor energy use.

Artifical IntelligenceClimate-resilient Environmental Systems and TechnologiesGrid-interactive, High-performance, and Electrified BuildingsComputer-Aided Design (CAD)Cyberphysical Systems (CPS)