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Phillip Coule, MD

Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, AU Health System & Associate Dean for Clinical AffairsAugusta University

Phillip Coule is an expert in COVID-19 testing, hospital quality & safety, emergency medicine, disaster preparedness, and GRAChIE.

CoronavirusMass Casualty TriageEmergency MedicineHospital Quality and SafetyDisaster Preparedness
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Colin Polsky, Ph.D.

Director of the Florida Center for Environmental StudiesFlorida Atlantic University

Colin Polsky is trained as a geographer, specializing in the human dimensions of global environmental change.

U.S. Climate VulnerabilitiesGeographyHumanities Human Dimensions of Global Environmental ChangeMathematics
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Dominique Halaby

Director, Business Innovation GroupGeorgia Southern University

Dr. Halaby oversees development of Georgia Southern University’s City Center.

Community DevelopmentWorkforce and Economic DevelopmentNon-Profit OrganizationsWorkplace InnovationRural Entrepreneurship
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Gerald Joseph McAdams Kauffman, Jr., PhD.

Director - University of Delaware Water Resources Center. Associate Professor - Biden School of Public Policy & Administration. Interim Director - Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Water Science & PolicyUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Kauffman focuses on drinking water science & policy: water supply, water quality, policy, handling droughts and floods.

Public PolicyWater PolicyWater SupplyWater QualityWatershed Planning
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Anna Nagurney

Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, Isenberg School of ManagementUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Anna Nagurney studies network systems with applications including congested urban transportation networks, disaster relief and supply chains

War in in Ukraine and supply issuesCold Chain LogisticsSupply Chain and Logistics ManagementSustainable Supply ChainsCOVID-19 and supply chains
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Eric Jackson, Ph.D.

Executive Director, CTI, and Director, CTSRCUniversity of Connecticut

Eric Jackson researches driver behavior and vehicle impacts on transportation safety

Autonomous VehiclesSafety data integration and analysisTransportation Data SystemsWeb-based data collection, distributuon, and analysisRemote sensing and geographic information systems
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Adam Frank

Professor of astrophysics, science commentator, and popular authorUniversity of Rochester

Adam Frank is a self-described “evangelist of science,” who writes about intelligent life forms, space exploration, climate change and more.

Star FormationUniverseAtmosphereAsteroidsPluto
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Christopher Mejía Argueta, PhD

Director of International Academic Partnerships for the MIT Global SCALE Network | Director, MIT Graduate Certificate in Logistics and SCM (GCLOG) program | Founder & Director, MIT Emerging Market Economies Logistics Lab | Research ScientistMIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Dr. Mejía-Argueta optimizes last-mile, retail, agri-food supply chains, global transportation and policymaking for emerging market economies

Agrifood Supply ChainsRetail OperationsLast-Mile DeliveryGlobal TransportationInterdisciplinary Research
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Katherine Wikoff, Ph.D.

ProfessorMilwaukee School of Engineering

Dr. Katherine Wikoff focuses her work on user experience, technical communication, humanities and literature.

User ExperienceTechnical CommunicationHumanities LiteratureHigher Education
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Arash Tavakoli, PhD

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental EngineeringVillanova University

Prof. Arash Tavakoli, PhD, leads the Human Centered Cities Lab, focusing on human-centered city design and pedestrian safety.

Smart CitiesHuman Factors in Transportation EngineeringTransportation SafetyHuman Centered DesignNaturalistic Driving