Dan Congreve is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS from Iowa State in 2011 and his PhD from MIT in Electrical Engineering in 2015, where he engineered upconversion and downconversion processes. After a postdoc in Chemical Engineering at MIT where he studied perovskite luminescence, he joined the Rowland Institute as a Rowland Fellow in 2016 before joining Stanford in 2020. Dan is a Moore Inventor Fellow, Sloan Research Fellow, Intel Rising Star, and co-founder of Quadratic3D, a startup commercializing 3D printing technologies. His research interests focus on applying nanomaterials and nanotechnology to challenging applications.

Nilay Shah has held several leadership positions in academia as well as being an entrepreneur in engineering technology. He is a chemical engineer by training and undertakes research on systems modelling and engineering, design and optimisation of low carbon industrial systems, sustainable energy systems, hydrogen economy, e-fuels and chemicals, biotechnology, supply chain modelling, process scheduling and optimisation and plant safety and risk assessment.

Alison Barth is the Maxwell H and Gloria C. Connan Professor of the Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studies the organization and plasticity of neocortical circuits in rodents. Her work centers on how synapses are altered by behavioral experience, where she uses neurophysiological recordings, transgenic mice, and fluorescence and electron microscopy to understand brain function. She has developed numerous tools for visualizing and perturbing brain function, including the fosGFP transgenic mouse and novel fluorescent markers for cell-type specific synaptic quantitation. Dr. Barth is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience, the McKnight Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Leverhulme and Sloan Foundation fellow, and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024. She holds a patent for the fosGFP transgenic mouse, and is an inventor on multiple applications for other neuroscience-related methods and treatments.

Professor Tim Coulson is a British zoologist and evolutionary ecologist. He holds the title of Professor of Zoology at University of Oxford and is a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His research explores how changes in predator populations influence ecology and evolutionary dynamics across systems. His field sites include Yellowstone National Park, the freshwater streams in Trinidad and oceanic islands off Australia. He earned his BSc in Biology from University of York and his PhD from Imperial College London. Tim is also a science communicator, podcast co-host and author of a popular science book.

Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 200 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the President of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008-2011, program co-chair for AAAI 2006, general chair for HLT-EMNLP 2005, and co-chair for ICML 1990. He is a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and ACL and the recipient of the Classic Paper award from AAAI-19 and best paper awards from AAAI-96, KDD-04, ICML-05 and ACL-07.

Dr. Gunsalus earned her BA in Chemistry and Biology and her PhD in Developmental Genetics from Cornell University. Dr. Gunsalus performs research in functional genomics and maintains research groups in New York and Abu Dhabi. Her lab in New York focuses primarily on understanding basic mechanisms of early animal development using the simple animal model C. elegans. In Abu Dhabi, she has developed a high-throughput screening facility, which her group and others are using to identify novel bioactive compounds for potential therapeutic applications. Dr. Gunsalus is Co-Director of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and serves as Faculty Directory of Bioinformatics for NYU Abu Dhabi, where her bioinformatics team supports deep sequencing analysis pipelines for all research groups at the NYUAD campus. In 2020, Dr. Gunsalus co-led a COVID-19 screening and monitoring program at NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus.

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