Stuart Jonathan Russell is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California,Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California,San Francisco. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California,Berkeley. He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the most popular textbook in the field of AI:Artificial Intelligence:A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.
Manas K Mandal is a cognitive neuropsychologist serving as the distinguished visiting professor at Indian Institute of Technology –Kharagpur.
Nikolaos (Nick) Stergiou is the founding Chair of the Department of Biomechanics at University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO),where he is also the Distinguished Community Research Chair and Professor. He is also the Director for the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability and Dean of the Division of Biomechanics and Research Development at UNO. Dr. Stergiou is also a professor at the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University,where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell,she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Along with James Gross,she founded the Society for Affective Science.
Daniela L. Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist,Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is a Serbian American biomedical engineer and university professor. She is a University Professor at Columbia University,as well as the Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences. She also heads the laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University. She is part of the faculty at the Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Human Development,both found at Columbia University. She is also an honorary professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy at the University of Belgrade,an honorary professor at the University of Novi Sad,and an adjunct professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University.
Maja Matarić is an American computer scientist,roboticist and AI researcher,and the Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science,Neuroscience,and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics,a new field she pioneered,which focuses on creating robots capable of providing personalized therapy and care that helps people help themselves,through social rather than physical interaction. Her work has focused on aiding special needs populations including the elderly,stroke patients,and children with autism,and has been deployed and evaluated in hospitals,therapy centers,schools,and homes. She is also known for her earlier work on robot learning from demonstration,swarm robotics,robot teams,and robot navigation.
Aviv Regev is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and professor at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Regev is a pioneer of single cell genomics and of computational and systems biology of gene regulatory circuits. She founded and leads the Human Cell Atlas project,together with Sarah Teichmann.
John Matthew Hollerbach is a professor of computer science and research professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. He is the editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research,a Senior Editor of Presence:Teleoperators &Virtual Environments,and a Governing Board member of the electronic journal Haptics-e.
Radhika Nagpal is an American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems,biologically-inspired robotics,and biological multi-agent systems. She is the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is also a Core Faculty Member of the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. In 2017,Nagpal co-founded a robotics company under the name of Root Robotics. This educational company works to create many different opportunities for those unable to code to learn how.
A. Oveta Fuller was an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at University of Michigan Medical School. She served as the director of the African Studies Center (ASC),faculty in the ASC STEM Initiative at the University of Michigan (U-M) and an adjunct professor at Payne Theological Seminary. Fuller was a virologist and specialized in research of Herpes simplex virus,as well as HIV/AIDS. Fuller and her research team discovered a B5 receptor,advancing the understanding of Herpes simplex virus and the cells it attacks.
Naira Hovakimyan is an Armenian control theorist who holds the W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins professorship of the Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was the inaugural director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory during 2015-2017,associated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Rachel Keen is a developmental psychologist known for her research on infant cognitive development,auditory development,and motor control. She is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Dolores C. Shockley was the first black woman to receive a PhD in pharmacology in the United States and one of the first African American students to receive a PhD from Purdue University. After obtaining her PhD she became faculty at the historically black school Meharry Medical College where she subsequently became the first black woman to chair a Pharmacology department in the United States in 1988. Her research contributions included studying the effects of chemical pollutants on the brain and identifying pharmacological agents that interact with drugs of abuse such as cocaine. She was a distinguished scholar and emeritus professor at Meharry Medical College.
Carlotta Berry is an American academic in the field of engineering. She is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program. She is a co-founder of Black In Engineering and a co-founder of Black In Robotics.
Laura Henderson Lewis is an American electronic materials scientist and engineer. She is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University,having previously served as the Department Chair of the Northeastern University Chemical Engineering Department. Prior to her Northeastern University position,she was a research group leader and Associate Department Chair in the Nanoscience Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
Holly Ann Yanco is an American roboticist and computer scientist who works as Distinguished University Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell,and the director of the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) center. She is known for her research in human–robot interaction,and has applied robotics as a way to broaden interest in computer science by schoolchildren,in assistive technology,in manufacturing,and for rescue robots.
Fatma Serap Aksoy is a Turkish–American medical entomologist.
Chelsea Finn is an American computer scientist and assistant professor at Stanford University. Her research investigates intelligence through the interactions of robots,with the hope to create robotic systems that can learn how to learn. She is part of the Google Brain group.
Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist,roboticist,and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute,where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.
