Weiwei Pan
Data Science Graduate Program Advisor and Lecturer, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Weiwei is a machine learning researcher in the Data to Actionable Knowledge (DtAK) lab at Harvard. Her PhD is in pure mathematics and her current work focuses on building machine learning models with guaranteed properties that align with task-specific desiderata, such as human interpretability, risk-awareness and satisfaction of domain-specific constraints.
Alexander Parker
Cecilia and Dan Carmichael Family Associate Director, Center for Individualized Medicine (Florida)
Alexander Parker, Ph.D., is a professor of Epidemiology and Urology at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Cecilia and Dan Carmichael Family Associate Director of the Center for Individualized Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, which was launched in 2012 to advance research and clinical practice in the field of individualized medicine. Dr. Parkers research aims to improve our understanding of the molecular epidemiology of kidney cancer, with a particular focus on addressing clinical and public health questions. He received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Iowa and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular and genetic epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic.
Jan Pietzsch
Adjunct Professor, Management Science & Engineering
Director, Health Economics & Value, Stanford Biodesign
Jan Pietzschs professional and academic work focus on early-stage technology assessment and strategic decision-support for investors, manufacturers, and research institutions. A primary emphasis is on the early evaluation of the value proposition of new technologies to provide quantitative input into the selection of the most promising technology concepts and their targeted development. This includes model-based assessment of the clinical and health-economic benefit of new diagnostics and therapies.
Dean Plowman
Department Chair/Asst. Professor, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology Departments
Mr. Plowman’s experience encompasses the technical, business, academic, and military worlds. He has taught at Bryant University in the Department of Business Management and at the Community College of Rhode Island in the Engineering Department. He retired as a Full Colonel in the Rhode Island Air National Guard as the Commander of the 281st Combat Communications Group. He has received the Rhode Island Star, Air Force Meritorious Service, and Air Force achievement medals for management and engineering excellence. Mr. Plowman has an Associate in Science degree in Electronics Technology from the Community College of Rhode Island and has taken numerous courses in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Roger Williams College. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UMass Dartmouth and a Master of Business Administration from Providence College.
Deepti Pradhan
Senior Research Analyst, Office of Development
Deepti Pradhan is a Senior Research Analyst in the Yale Office of Development, and a 2015 Public Voices Fellow at The Op-Ed Project. After spending the better part of her career immersed in chemistry, biochemistry, and cell biology, including 13 years on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Pradhan changed direction and moved to the Yale Office of Development in 2008, where she uses her skills in data analysis to enhance donor support for the university. She sustains her passion for science through Tilde Café, an independent not-for-profit science café she founded in 2008.
Vinay Prasad
Vinay K. Prasad, M.D., M.P.H. is a hematologist-oncologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. He also holds appointments in the Division of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and as a Senior Scholar in the Center for Health Care Ethics. He is nationally known for his research on oncology drugs, health policy, evidence-based medicine, bias, public health, preventive medicine, and medical reversal. He is a graduate of The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine.
Matt Prewitt
President, RadicalxChange Foundation
Matt Prewitt is a lawyer and president of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is also part of the Data Co-Ops Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative designing frameworks for data cooperatives.
Heidi Rehm
Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., FACMG is the Chief Laboratory Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM) at the Partners Healthcare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM). She is a board-certified clinical molecular geneticist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School with appointments at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Boston. Dr. Rehm has served as the Director of the American Board of Medical Genetics Clinical Molecular Genetics Training Program at Harvard Medical School since 2006. In addition to running the LMM and the molecular training program, she also conducts research on hearing loss, Usher syndrome, cardiomyopathy, and the use of IT in enabling personalized medicine.
Tim Richards
Morrison Chair of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business
Tim Richards is the Morrison Chair of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he conducts research on quantitative marketing, data analytics, retailing strategy, agricultural labor, and food policy. He also does extensive consulting work in the food retailing and manufacturing industries. Dr. Richards has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Stanford University.
Erin Riggs
Genetic Counselor, Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute
Erin Rooney Riggs, MS, CGC is a certified genetic counselor at Geisinger Health Systems Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute and the co-coordinator of the International Collaboration for Clinical Genomics (ICCG). Previously, she served as a clinical genetic counselor at Emory University School of Medicine, focusing on general pediatrics and lysosomal storage disorders. Her research interests include the identification and characterization of the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders, the effects of gene dosage, and the clinical utility of genomic testing.
Linda Riley
Engineering Program Coordinator and Professor, Engineering
Linda Ann Riley, Ph.D., is the Engineering Program Coordinator and Professor of Engineering for the School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management at Roger Williams University (RWU). Previously, she held the position of Associate Department Head for the Department of Industrial Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU). In addition, she served as the founder and Director of the Advanced Modeling and Simulation Laboratory at NMSU and Director of a university-wide economic development research center funded by the Department of Commerce.
Ravi Sarpatwari
M.D. Candidate, Warren Alpert Medical School
Ravi Sarpatwari is an M.D. candidate at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Ravi is a co-founder of Design+Health, a collaboration between the Alpert Medical School and the Rhode Island School of Design that serves as an incubator for innovative design solutions to improve individual and community health.
Stephen Sheinkopf
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School
Stephen J. Sheinkopf is an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He works as both a clinician and a researcher with expertise is the area of autism and developmental disabilities. Dr. Sheinkopf is also co-director of the Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment and co-leader of the autism research initiative in the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at the Brown School of Public Health.
Leia Stirling
Associate Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Affiliate Faculty, Robotics Institute
Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Affiliate Faculty in the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan. Her research quantifies human performance and human-machine fluency in operational settings through advancements in the use of wearable sensors.
Anjana Susarla
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Eli Broad College of Business
Anjana Susarla is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Her research examines the economics of information systems and artificial intelligence, social media analytics, and how information spreads online. Anjana has a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jon Warman
Jon is an angel investor and Footnote advisor with a background in software engineering. He has experience at large consumer software companies like Amazon and Facebook, as well as small enterprise startups in productivity and finance. At Facebook, he worked on Pages, Profiles, Events, Notifications, and Ads as the product grew from 5 million to 500 million users and the team grew from 50 to 1,500 people. Jon was a co-founder of Footnote, as well as Jackalope, an online, on-demand task outsourcing service for businesses. Most recently, he was a software engineer and head of talent for Segovia, a payment platform for NGOs and global businesses operating in developing markets. Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University.
Bill Wuest
Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator and Associate Professor, Chemistry
In July of 2011, Bill began his career as an Assistant Professor at Temple University and in 2016 was named the Daniel Swern Early Career Professor of Chemistry. In 2017, he then moved to Emory University where he is currently a Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator and Associate Professor of Chemistry. His research focuses on the modification of natural products through total synthesis in an effort to develop innovative, pathogen-specific therapeutics.
Paul Yock
Founder & Director, Byers Center for Biodesign
Paul Yock is a cardiologist, health technology innovator, and professor of medicine and bioengineering at Stanford University. He is the Founder and Director of Stanfords Byers Center for Biodesign, a pioneering innovation training program dedicated to the design and development of medical technologies. He is also the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and Mechanical Engineering and Founding Co-Chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering.
Paul is internationally known for his work in inventing, developing, and testing new devices and has co-founded several medical technology companies. In his academic career, he has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and editorials, textbooks, and over 45 U.S. patents. Paul received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.