Project Experts

Janet Austin

Chief Executive OfficerYWCA Metro Vancouver

Janet Austin is responsible for one of BC’s largest and most diversified non-profits

Non-Profit LeadershipSocial HousingTransition HousingHomeless SheltersGroup Homes

Jayasimha Atulasimha, Ph.D.

Engineering Foundation Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringVCU College of Engineering

Professor Atulasimha researches nanomagnetic/spintronic memory and neuromorphic computing devices.

Spintronics and NanomagnetismExploratory neuromorphic devicesStraintronics: Strian mediated electric field control of magnetismElectric field (VCMA) control of skyrmionsMagnetic and multiferroic materials

Thomas Powers

Associate Professor, PhilosophyUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Powers specializes in ethics in information technology (including AI), ethics in science and engineering and research ethics.

Scientific EthicsBiomedical EthicsEnvironmental EthicsResearch EthicsComputer Ethics

Germany Kent

Hall of Fame Media Pro | National Award-Winning Journalist and Producer | Bestselling Authorhttps://muckrack.com/germanykent

Renowned Global Influencer with by-lines around the world. Award Winning TV Personality, Actress, Humanitarian, Celebrity Host and Pundit.

Multimedia CommunicationsMedia Relations and PublicityCorporate Training & CoachingLeadership Branding Communications Sales MarketingProducing Developing Establishing (Enterprise)

Eric VanEpps

Associate Professor of MarketingVanderbilt University

Expert in consumer behavior and judgment and decision making.

Judgment and Decision MakingConsumer BehaviorMarketing

Leandro de Castro Silva, Ph.D.

Expert in artificial intelligence and natural computingFlorida Gulf Coast University

Leandro de Castro Silva's main lines of research are artificial intelligence, natural computing and machine learning,

Data ScienceArtificial IntelligenceNatural ComputingEntrepreneurship

Amilcar Shabazz

Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American StudiesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Amilcar Shabazz has been a prominent voice in the movement to make reparations to descendants of former enslaved Americans.

Reparations for SlaveryJuneteenthAfrican American Educational History and Public PolicyAfro-Americans in the Caribbean, Central and South AmericaAfrican American Biography