Dr. Jacob Hagelberg is a scholar of trust in socio-technical systems and a responsible AI consultant. His research offers fresh thought leadership on topics such as US-China tech relations, misinformation narratives, tech bias and fairness, the AI regulatory landscape, digital wellness, and macro-economic trends. Currently, Jacob is a consultant for Domelabs, assisting health institutions strategically […]
Nicolas Kourtellis is Head of the Systems AI Lab (SAIL) and Co-Director of Telefonica Research, a 25+ researcher team based in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of South Florida, USA (2012), a MSc in Computer Science from the University of South Florida (2008), and a Meng […]
Nicholas B. Dirks is an internationally recognized historian and anthropologist, and an important leader in higher education. Well-known for his commitment to and advocacy for accessible, high-quality undergraduate education, to the globalization of the university, and to interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration, he was named in November 2012 as the 10th Chancellor of the University of […]
LTC Paul Lushenko is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Special Operations at the U.S. Army War College. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations from Cornell University. He also holds an M.A. in Defense and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, an M.A. in International Relations and a Master […]
Paul Werbos is best known (and most cited) for the original discovery of backpropagation, and for the theorem establishing its validity, as part of his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics for Harvard in 1974. Even before 1974, he had developed backpropagation as one element of a more general approach to reinforcement learning, which combined a new way to […]
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by […]
Dr. David A. Bray is both a Distinguished Fellow and co-chair of the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the non-partisan Henry L. Stimson Center. He is also a non-resident Distinguished Fellow with the Business Executives for National Security, and a CEO and transformation leader for different “under the radar” tech and data ventures seeking to get started in novel […]
Dr. Haniyeh Mahmoudian is the Global AI Ethicist at DataRobot. She provides technical and educational guidance in the area of responsible AI as a member of the Office of CTO. In addition to strategizing the implementation of components of ethics in the product, in her role, she provides thought leadership in responsible AI with a […]
