academic Experts

Henny Admoni

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Henny Admoni directs the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab, which develops assistive and collaborative robots and AI.

Kerry Widder, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorMilwaukee School of Engineering

Dr. Kerry Widder's areas of expertise include electrical engineering and computer hardware.

Mike Byers

Vice Chancellor of Administration and FinanceWestern Carolina University

John Hooker

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

John Hooker is a pioneer in the integration of optimization and constraint programming technologies.

Brian Kloeppel

ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Brian Kloeppel's scholarly interests include watershed ecology, carbon and water cycling, forest growth and dynamics.

Reshma Shah

Professor in the Practice of MarketingEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Alice Ba

Associate Chair and Professor, International Relations and Comparative PoliticsUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Ba researches US-China-Southeast Asia relations; institutional cooperation/competition in Asia; and regionalism.

Jonathan Corpus Ong

Professor of Communication and Director of Global Technology for Social Justice LabUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Jonathan Corpus Ong's research areas are global media ethics, digital politics and the anthropology of humanitarianism.

M. Ehsan Hoque

Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and faculty member in the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Rochester

M. Ehsan Hoque is designing and implementing new algorithms to sense subtle human nonverbal behavior

James C. Kaufman, Ph.D.

ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut

Dr. Kaufman's research focuses on creativity and educational psychology.