Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. Her research includes elementary particles, fundamental forces and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.
Carol Myers-Scotton is an American linguist. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Linguistics Program and Department of English at the University of South Carolina until 2003.
Celia Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman was Executive Vice President and Provost of Iowa State University from 2007-2012, where she remains as professor of economics. From 2000 to 2005, she was President of the University of Colorado System, where she is President Emerita. She is also a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Searle Center on Law, Regulations, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law, and serves on numerous for-profit and non-profit Boards. She served on the National Science Board from 2002-2008. Her published research is in the areas of Experimental economics, Cliometrics, and Behavioral Economics.
Morton Owen Schapiro is an American economist and the current president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before assuming the Northwestern presidency in 2009, he served as president of Williams College for nine years. Earlier, Schapiro was Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern California.
Judith F. Kroll is a Distinguished Professor of Language Science at University of California, Irvine. She specializes in psycholinguistics, focusing on second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. With Randi Martin and Suparna Rajaram, Kroll co-founded the organization Women in Cognitive Science in 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Psychonomic Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Jennifer Tour Chayes is the University of California, Berkeley Associate Provost for the Division of Data Science and Information and Dean of the School of Information. She was formerly a Technical Fellow and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012. Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs. Chayes has been with Microsoft Research since 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. She received her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton University in 1983. She is Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington, and was for many years Professor of Mathematics at UCLA. She is an author on almost 120 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents.
Sandra Robin Waxman is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist. She is a Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and director of the University's Infant and Child Development Center. She is known for her work on the development of language and concepts in infants and children.
Valerie E. Taylor is an African American computer scientist who is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Her research includes topics such as performance analysis, power analysis, and resiliency. She is known for her work on "Prophesy," described as "a database used to collect and analyze data to predict the performance on different applications on parallel systems."
Elizabeth Lada is an American astronomer whose self-described research interests include "understanding the origin, properties, evolution and fate of young embedded clusters within molecular clouds".
Helen Aristar-Dry is an American linguist who currently serves as the series editor for SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. Most notably, from 1991 to 2013 she co-directed The LINGUIST List with Anthony Aristar. She has served as Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on over $5,000,000 worth of research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She retired as Professor of English Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University in 2013.
Kathleen Thelen is an American political scientist. She is the Ford of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), and a faculty associate at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. She received her B.A. from the University of Kansas before obtaining both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a leading authority on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies.
Beth Elaine Allen is a professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and has served as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in that department. At the University of Minnesota, she teaches Advanced Game Theory and Advanced Topics in Economics. She graduated with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. She specializes in competition, economic theory, economic trends, economics of information and uncertainty, game theory, microeconomic theory, microeconomics, and price-setting. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and was one of very few women to have received tenure in a theoretical field of economics in a top university department by 1993. Her research focuses on the economics of information and uncertainty.
Carla Pedro Gomes is a Portuguese-American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University. She is the founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability and is noted for her pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. She has conducted research in a variety of areas of artificial intelligence and computer science, including constraint reasoning, mathematical optimization, and randomization techniques for exact search methods, algorithm selection, multi-agent systems, and game theory. Her work in computational sustainability includes ecological conservation, rural resource mapping, and pattern recognition for material science.
Georgia Perakis is a Greek-American operations researcher and the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research and Operations Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research is primarily in the areas of dynamic pricing, revenue management and inventory control. In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), in recognition of her lifetime achievement in "variational inequalities, the price of anarchy, dynamic pricing and data analytics," and her "dedicated mentorship of a future generation of OR scholars."
Kai-Mei Fu is an American electrical engineer and physicist. She is an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington where she is the director of the Optical Spintronics and Sensing Lab.
Angelica Stacy is the Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Stacy was one of the first women to receive tenure in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
Leslie Ann Kolodziejski is an American professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on fabricating novel photonic devices after synthesizing the constituent material via molecular-beam epitaxy. She is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and is a fellow of The Optical Society.
Tamar Seideman is the Dow Chemical Company Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She specialises in coherence spectroscopies and coherent control in isolated molecules, as well as nanoplasmonics and mathematical models.
Jennifer Anne Raff is an American geneticist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. She specialises in anthropological genetics relating to the initial peopling of the Americas and subsequent prehistory of indigenous populations throughout North America. She is the President of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics. Alongside her research Raff is a science communicator who writes and gives public talks about topics in science literacy.
Jennifer Dionne is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and director of its TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. She is notable for her work on materials science and imaging.
