Scott Watson

Founder & Managing Director · Summit Consulting & Training Limited

Leadership Enabler, Emotional Intelligence Expert & Keynote Speaker

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Management Teamwork Motivation

Julia Christensen Hughes

Dean · Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship

Dean of the College of Business and Economics providing strategic leadership at the University of Guelph.

Leadership Development Higher Education Leadership Strategic Human Resource Management Transformational Learning Improving the Quality of Teaching & Learning

Po-Shen Loh

Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education and health care.

Combinatorics Mathematics Math Education Probability Theory‎ Computer Science

Renee Miller

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track; Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program · University of Rochester

Miller examines sex differences in brains and behaviors. She is author of "Cognitive Bias in Fantasy Sports."

Fantasy Football Fantasy Sports and decision making Neuroscience Cognitive Bias Neurobiology

Rebeca Acevedo

Chair and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures - Spanish · Loyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Spanish Linguistics USA Spanish Linguistics Romance Linguistics Spanish Education

Robert Leonard

Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics · Hofstra University

Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics

Woodstock music festival Forensic Linguistics Language and the Law Linguistics and Threat Assessment 1960s rock n roll

Alexis Black

Assistant Professor of Acting Movement · Michigan State University

Alexis Black is an educator, fight, movement and intimacy director, performer, and director.

Fight Choreography Intimacy Direction Theatre Performance Pedagogy Movement

James Reichard

Chair and Professor · Georgia Southern University

Professor Reichard focuses on applied hydrologic research on the Georgia coastal plain

Coastal Ecology Modelling Environmental Geology Geology Hydrogeology

Dustin Hahn

Associate Professor · Texas Christian University

Dr. Hahn's research examines the presence and use of production elements (such as statistics) in sports media and their effects on fans.

Sports Fanship Statistics in Media Sports Media Sport and Social Media

Scott Dodson

Associate Dean for Research & Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law · UC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: dodsons@uchastings.edu / 925-285-1445 / Room 356

Civil Procedure Federal Courts Comparative Civil Procedure Class Actions

Robert McCann

Professor · University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics

Professor McCann's research focuses on optimal transportation and its applications within and outside mathematics.

Mathematical Physics Mathematical Economics Convex Analysis Geometry Optimization

Gary Elkins, Ph.D., ABPP

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience (Core Clinical Faculty) · Baylor University

Dr. Gary Elkins' areas of specialization are clinical psychology, health psychology, and hypnotherapy.

Clinical Psychology Health Psychology Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy for Hot Flashes Breast Cancer Survivors

Shawn Humphrey

Associate Professor of Economics · University of Mary Washington

Associate Professor of Economics at University of Mary Washington

Welfare and Poverty Economics Pedagogy Microfinance

Robin Coulter, Ph.D.

Department Head, Professor of Marketing · University of Connecticut

Professor Robin Coulter is an expert in consumer behavior issues with strategic marketing implications.

Visualization Consumer Research Numerical Cognition Branding Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior

Erin Westgate

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Erin Westgate studies boredom, interest, and thinking (...and why it's so hard for so many people).

Happiness Boredom Emotion Social Psychology Social Cognition

Joaquín Noguera

Assistant Professor · Loyola Marymount University

Department of Educational Leadership and Administration

Critical pedagogy Urban Education K-12 Teaching and Learning Healing-Centered Engagement Trauma-Informed Practice

Lorynn Divita, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Apparel Design and Merchandising · Baylor University

Leading fashion researcher focuses on fashion forecasting, trend contagion & textile, apparel and retail industry topics

Contemporary Culture and Fashion Fashion Contagion Fashion Forecasting Textile Sciences Apparel

Emily Deering Crosby

Assistant Professor of Communication · University of Mary Washington

Emily Deering Crosby is a rhetorical critic of popular culture with research concentrations in feminist criticism.

Popular Culture Feminist Criticism Critical Sport Study Digital Rhetoric Women in Country Music

Ananya Sen

Assistant Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Ananya Sen's research interests centre around platforms with a special focus on the media, innovation and more broadly the digital economy.

Digital Economics Media Digitization Platforms Education

Stephen S. Fong, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering · VCU College of Engineering

Bioengineer who modifies micro-organisms to produce chemicals (e.g. from beer to fuel).

Systems Biology Synthetic Biology Evolutionary Biology Metabolic Engineering Molecular engineering