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Sita M. Syal
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Dr. Sita M. Syal is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and directs EMBERlab at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on studying human influence and embedding equity in sustainable energy and transportation systems. She uses human-centered design methods, builds quantitative models, and engages with communities to co-create a more just and sustainable future.
Dr. Syal’s professional experience spans across energy from biofuels development to topsides process engineering in the oil and gas industry. Prior to graduate school, she served as a topsides process engineer and a rotational operations engineer on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for BP America. She holds a PhD. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Product Design Engineering (“Design Impact”) from Stanford University. A proud Wolverine alumna, she holds an M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering and B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Siti Mubarokah
Research Associate, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Siti is a PhD graduate from Flinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health. She has been involved in molecular medicine research for over 10 years. She joined Childhood Dementia Research Group (CDRG) over 3 years ago whose research commitment is to improve lives of children affected with dementia. She is currently working on establishing new cell model of Sanfilippo syndrome to test and repurpose already approved drugs with the goal of fast-tracking research to clinical trial and providing more accessible treatment to the patients.
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Sitong Michelle (Michelle) Chen
Senior Lecturer in International Business, Auckland University of Technology
My research interest concerns corporate sustainability in international business, sustainable business strategies, circular economy, business ethics and corporate social responsibility. My main research contribution lies in exploring tensions in sustainability and key strategies for managing them in an international business context, in particular between Chinese and New Zealand business partnerships.
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Sixiao Liu
Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Central Florida
Dr. Sixiao Liu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida. As a public health communication scholar with specialized training in health equity and health campaign techniques, Dr. Liu brings a wealth of expertise to her role. Before joining UCF, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Liu’s research program emphasizes the design, implementation, and evaluation of tailored health messages for at-risk populations, including youth and young adults, immigrants, and racial and sexual minorities. Her work employs various message techniques, including framing, emotional appeal, targeting, cultural tailoring, and narrative persuasion. Her proficiency in digital design and implementation enables her to present health messages in various formats, such as posters, ads, textual messages, and videos, and adapt to different platforms.
In her approach to health intervention evaluation, Dr. Liu embraces a mixed-method research design. Her research investigates the behavioral and social determinants of health and scrutinizes the influence of media, marketing, and public health messages on health behaviors and outcomes. The overarching goal of her research is to transform knowledge into culturally appropriate interventions that resonate with individuals from diverse backgrounds, promoting both individual and community well-being. Her areas of focus encompass infectious disease prevention, tobacco and other substance use prevention, and the innovative application of advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, in health message dissemination.
Beyond research, Dr. Liu actively engages in community collaborations and mentoring, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment. She obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her work has garnered support from various funding sources, including the National Science Foundation.
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Siyaxola Gadu
Visiting Researcher, CGIAR System Organization
Dr Siyaxola Gadu has a PhD in geography and environmental sciences (climate change) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Gadu investigated the complexity of evaluating and monitoring the adaptive capacity to climate change of local government institutions in South Africa: A study of the Eastern Cape Province.
Dr Gadu is currently part of CGIAR's Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT team researching the fragility, conflict and migration (FCM), and climate security (Climber) projects in southern Africa.
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Siyi Kan
Research Fellow in Emission and Trade Analysis, UCL
Socioeconomic activities are driving forces of environmental problems. In the context of globalisation, our daily life, whether related to diet, housing, energy use or other basic services, not only has local effects, but can also significantly influence the development and environment of distant regions through global supply chains. Therefore, my research focuses on the impacts of socioeconomic factors (e.g., international trade, consumption, bioenergy policy, urbanization, poverty eradication) on local and global environment (e.g., land use and land cover change (LULCC), carbon emissions and biodiversity loss) from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Slah Boulila
Associate lecturer, Sorbonne Université
I am Geologist at Sorbonne University (Paris, France). I am interested in cyclic climate and oceanic processes encoded in past (paleo) sedimentary records.
I acquire and use high-resolution geophysical and geochemical data from the sedimentary records (either from outcrops or from subsurface-drilling programs) to address three multidisciplinary, interrelated topics: (1) astronomical calibration of the Cenozoic and Mesozoic time scales, (2) the role of orbitally controlled climate and sea-level changes in the hierarchy of sedimentary sequences, and (3) to which extent the sedimentary record could provide constraints on astronomical modeling. In this latter topic, I am interested in two subjects: (a) constrain tidal-dissipation parameters (and dynamic ellipticity of the Earth) by calculation of the precession frequency (constant, p) from well-preserved sedimentary cycles, and (b) mapping the expression of Myr- to multi-Myr-long astronomical cyclicities in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic strata, esp. their implication for the chaotic behavior of the inner solar system, expressed in these long orbital periodicities as resonant angles.
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Smadar Cohen-Chen
Senior Lecturer in Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex, University of Sussex
I received my PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Sheffield in 2015, supervised by Professors Richard Crisp and Eran Halperin. My postoc was in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Following this, I held a position of lecturer (assistant professor) in the Surrey Business School.
I believe that social and organizational issues cannot be examined without taking into consideration psychological factors and phenomena. On the other hand, I believe psychology loses much of its relevance if it does not address 'real' questions regarding the dynamics between people and groups.
My research focuses on the role of emotions in decision-making, conflict resolution, leadership and management, and negotiations. This includes emotional experiences (when people feel an emotion) and emotional expressions (when people express an emotion). My work spans organizational, social, and political contexts, and examines the way these frameworks are affected by one another.
In addition to researching the effects of emotions on behaviours and attitudes, I examine ways to regulate emotions experimentally using interventions.
In particular, I study the role of hope in social contexts, including conflict and intergroup relations, collective action and civil engagement, negotiations, and decision making. Along these lines, I develop experimental techniques to induce and regulate hope.
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Smita Singh
Senior Lecturer International Business, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Auckland University of Technology
Dr Smita Singh is a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She teaches a range of Entrepreneurship and Management courses at various undergraduate and postgraduate levels and degrees.
Underpinning her research is a passion for illuminating the hidden stories, how venture work and wellbeing are interconnected, focusing on the possibilities of transformation and development that lie within the silent experiences of loss, 'taken-for-granted' cultural taboos, and stigmatized conditions.
Her research has highlighted grief, stigma, and resilience in experiencing entrepreneurial failure. Her research interests also include social entrepreneurship with focus on vulnerable populations' voices and bringing forward conversations on matters often perceived as too unsettling, morbid, or dark and therefore avoided.
She crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore such topics and contexts in entrepreneurs' lives and their enterprises' work. She has published in a number of well known international journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, International Small Business Journal, Management Learning and Third World Quarterly.
Smita serves as an Associate Editor for the Management, Spirituality & Religion Journal. Her research is featured in well-known industry platforms and community engagement invitations, such as a TEDx talk titled 're-imagining failure,' RadioLive, Idealog, and Callaghan Innovation, NZBusiness and NZ Herald.
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Smith Ouma
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Manchester
I am currently a Leverhulme early career researcher at the Global Development Institute. Prior to this role, I was a post-doctoral research fellow with the FCDO-funded African Cities Research Consortium.
With a background in law, my research is inherently interdisciplinary, spanning legal geography, urban politics, urban health, and development studies.
My primary focus lies in understanding the political economy of informal settlements and systems failings in cities, particularly in Africa. As part of this interest, I have engaged with multiple actors to understand how power is performed and how interests emerge and compete in informal settlements contexts. I also look at the everyday practices of marginalised urban residents to understand how agency is exercised, and the different strategies and tools that are employed to realise rights in the city. Additionally, I have strong research and professional interest in the field of land law.
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Smitha Rao
Assistant Professor of Social Work, The Ohio State University
Dr. Smitha Rao’s work at the intersection of environment, development, and social policy is informed by her interdisciplinary background in social work and human geography. Her research interests include: (1) extreme weather events and contextual vulnerability, (2) improving adaptive capacities among communities to deal with climatic and other stressors, and (3) effects of air pollution on environmental health and improving access to clean energy. Dr. Rao has over a decade of macro-practice experience spanning academic and not-for-profit settings. This included post-disaster community-based reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, campaign strategy and design for local and international environmental organizations on climate change, phasing out toxins from industry, and promoting sustainable agriculture practices. Her current work encompasses social vulnerability in the context of disasters and disaster risk reduction to develop knowledge and inform policies centering underserved communities. Her interdisciplinary work touches upon climate change implications for vulnerable groups, energy poverty, anti-oppressive praxis, and ecological justice.
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Smytta Yadav
Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Dr. Smytta Yadav is an anthropologist whose research has primarily focused on labor, precarity, informality, autonomy, global production networks, globalization, urbanization, industrialization, and heritages.
She has held research fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the University of Manchester, Queen's University Belfast, the University of York, and the University of Bristol. Additionally, Dr. Yadav has extensive teaching experience, having taught Anthropology at the University of Sussex and lectured in Human Geography at the University of Brighton. Previously, she also taught Cultural Anthropology, Globalization, and International Development at the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University and at the State University of New York.
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Sneha Shah
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
In my long standing experience as a bench scientist I am skilled in molecular biology, RNA and epigenetic studies, neuroscience, genetics, Ribosome profiling and cell biology. My current focus is studying autism and Fragile X Syndrome in mouse and human patient derived iPSC cells.
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Soeren Mattke
Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California
Dr. Soeren Mattke is a Research Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory. The Observatory work on health system aspects of brain disorders with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease. So far, the Observatory has published analyses of health system preparedness to deliver a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment in 14 countries as well as analyses of diagnostic technologies and the economics of those treatments. Dr. Mattke serves on the Editorial Board of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, on ADI’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel, the CTAD Workgroup on Blood Based Biomarkers and a Consensus Panel for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care. Dr. Mattke has authored over 150 peer reviewed journal papers and technical reports
Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke was a Senior Scientist at RAND Health, a global think tank, where he led the private sector healthcare practice, and worked at the OECD in Paris on benchmarking healthcare systems in industrialized countries, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and got his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.
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Sofia Christidi
Lecturer in Marketing, University of South Wales
I am a marketing lecturer at the University of South Wales and a PhD candidate at Newcastle University Business School. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach, looking at consumption through a cultural lens.
I have conducted research in the area of consumer identity tensions through an interpretive, narrative approach. For example, I have studied the role of material objects in inter-generational relationships characterised by excess. My PhD thesis explores consumption during external instability, looking at consumer meaning-making and self-identity transformation processes during an extended economic transition in the context of the post 2008 Greek financial crisis.
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Sofia Gameiro
Reader at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff University
Dr Sofia Gameiro is a mathematician and clinical and health psychologist. Her academic work aims to support people in all steps of achieving their parenthood goals or, when this proves impossible, in coming to terms with an unfulfilled wish for children. She conducts research and publishes in the best peer-review journals on the topic, trains health care professionals worldwide and participates in multiple events to raise awareness about the emotional aspects of (in)fertility. She chaired the first European evidence-based guidelines for delivering routine patient psychosocial care at fertility clinics, has been on the editorial boards of Human Reproduction (ESHRE) and Fertility and Sterility (ASRM), and coordinated the Psychology and Counselling special interest group of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). She is a certified Clinical Psychologist and a senior lecturer in Health Psychology at Cardiff University.
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Sofia Pantano
Masters Student, Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I have obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Management at Carleton University and starting a MA in Human Kinetics in Fall 2023 at the University of Ottawa. I have numerous years of experience in lifeguarding, swim instructing, teaching first aid training, playing water polo and doing synchronized swimming. Aquatic safety is something that I am very passionate about and my goal is to increase water safety awareness to the greater population.
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Sofia Persson
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
I am a senior lecturer in Psychology. My main research interest is rape mythology, and how this is scaffolded in society, e.g., in the media. My research also focuses on how scientific communication can be used to support sexist stereotyping and myths and misconceptions about sexual violence.
I am an open science advocate.
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Sofia Romualdo
My research focuses on how gameful design – that is, design inspired by game elements and design, applied to non-game contexts – and the resulting game-like experiences have the potential to transform how museum visitors engage with a museum’s physical space. This investigated is supported by a collaborative doctoral award from REACT and Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM). The goal is to develop a framework that can be adapted by museums to inform the creation of rich, interactive, and gameful experiences that engage their audiences in a playful way. This framework will then be tested at the RAMM as part of my investigation, with the creation of diverse gameful experiences, such as museum-hosted game jams, gameful trails, and mixed reality game experiences.
As part of this investigation, I will study different kinds of gameful experiences in museums, from the use of full-fledged videogames as support and educational tools, to gamified platforms, to exhibitions built from the ground up to be game-like, to hybrid reality gameful experiences.
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Sofia Barbosa Boucas
Reader in Psychology, Brunel University London
Dr Sofia Barbosa Boucas is a respected academic with extensive experience in psychology and education. She joined Brunel University London in January 2018, following a distinguished career path that reflects her dedication to research and teaching.
Prior to her appointment at Brunel, Dr Barbosa Boucas held positions at respected academic institutions, where she made significant contributions to the field. She conducted post-doctoral research and served as a Teaching Associate at the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, and the Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy, University of Reading. Subsequently, she held a post-doctoral research position in Allied Health Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.
In 2013, Dr Barbosa Boucas transitioned into an academic role as a Lecturer in Health Psychology at Oxford Brookes University. Her commitment to advancing knowledge in the field of health psychology was evident throughout her appointment. In 2015, she continued her academic journey as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University, where she further honed her expertise in teaching and research.
Currently, Dr Barbosa Boucas holds the position of Reader (Education) in Psychology within the Division of Psychology, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences at Brunel University London. In this role, she continues to contribute to the academic community through her research endeavours and her dedication to providing high-quality education to students.
With her extensive background and commitment to academic excellence, Dr Barbosa Boucas is a valued member of the academic community at Brunel University London.
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Sofya Aptekar
Associate Professor of Urban Studies, City University of New York
I am a sociologist who studies immigration, the military, urban public spaces and gentrification, race and ethnicity, and alternatives to capitalism. In 2023, I am focused on sharing the findings of my new book, Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (MIT Press). The research for this book has allowed me to become an expert on immigrant enlistment in the US military, including through special programs like MAVNI, the role of race, gender, and immigrant status in the experience of military work and separation, and deportation of veterans. I also write about diversity discourse in the military, topical because of SCOTUS decisions on affirmative action in college admissions, which the US military consistently opposes.
With Dr. Hsin, I have examined the experience of undocumented college students in New York. We have published our findings in several articles, focusing on the experience of understudied groups, such as Asian undocumented youth. We have also published our findings on the tensions between college staff's understandings and goals in supporting undocumented students and the students' experiences and needs. We also developed the concept of stratified entry into illegality, analyzing the role of how one becomes undocumented on subsequent trajectories. My first book, The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States (Rutgers) contains a unique analysis of naturalization ceremonies, as well as analysis of why immigrants seek citizenship and inequities in its acquisition.
While much of my recent work is centered on immigration, I have also researched and written about gentrification and public space. My research on community gardens, public libraries, parks, and farmer's markets has been well received, and I continue to engage with these subjects as a reviewer, book review editor, and in the classroom.
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Solangel Maldonado
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
I am a tenured professor with over 20 years of experience teaching in the areas of family law, race and the law, gender and the law, and torts. I am the author of the forthcoming book The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (NYU Press May 2024). I am also the co-editor of two casebooks: Family Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2019) (with Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman, and Philomila Tsoukala) and Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law (Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2015) (with D. Marianne Blair, Merle H. Weiner, and Barbara Stark). I have also published numerous law review articles in the areas of race and family law and I am an Associate Reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Children & the Law.
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Soma Chatterjee
Associate Professor of Social Work, Associate Member, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Canada
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Somali Cerise
Practice to Research Associate, UNSW Institute for Global Development , UNSW Sydney
Somali is a gender equality expert with an international profile with over 15 years experience in research and policy in Australia, the UK at the OECD and United Nations. Some key career achievements include:
- Leading the 20 and 25 year global review of implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for action for UN Women and the UN Secretary General
- Developing and co-authoring the first global monitoring report for the Sustainable Development Goals from a gender perspectives
- Leading the review and analysis for the 2012 OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index, measuring gender inequality in over 100 countries and working with national statistical offices in India, South Africa and Uganda to tailor the index to their specific contexts.
At UNSW, Somali is leading a project on Gender and Just Transitions which aims to envision how a transition to a carbon neutral future can also accelerate progress on gender equality.
Somali is also an Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, and a board member of ACON. She has a BA (UTS) and a Master of Science (Human Rights) (London School of Economics and Political Science).
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Somayeh Sadegh Koohestani
PhD student, University of Technology Sydney
Somayeh is a PhD scholar at the University of Technology Sydney
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Somdip Dey
Embedded Artificial Intelligence Scientist & AI Music Producer, University of Essex
Somdip Dey, FRSA, also professionally known as InteliDey, is an Embedded Artificial Intelligence scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, AI art & music creator and TED speaker. Dey is the CEO of Nosh Technologies, the CTO of Blockway Technologies, a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Essex, and a Lecturer of Data Science at the York St John University. He is also the Danah Zohar Professor of Quantum Philosophy & Professor of Practice (AI/ML) at Woxsen University, India. He has more than 13 years of industrial experience including working for Microsoft and Samsung in developing technological products that are currently used by billions of users in different ways. For contributions to improving society through applications of embedded machine learning Dey is elected a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, named an MIT Innovator Under 35, an Outstanding Achiever in Education, Science & Innovation at the 2023 India UK Achievers Honours and a 2022 World IP Review Leader.
Dey was born on December 13, 1990, in Kolkata, India. Dey is the only child of a painter mother, Soma Dey, and a commercial artist father, Sudip Dey. He attended South Point High School in Kolkata, India and went to study bachelor's in Computer Science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, where he graduated with a first-class degree (2012). After graduating with a Computer Science degree Dey pursued a career of an engineer, a scientist and an entrepreneur. In 2012, Dey invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates.
In 2013, he moved to the U.K. to pursue a master's study and while pursuing his MSc at the University of Manchester in 2014, his parents had a car accident that made him the family's sole breadwinner. Sending money to his family to support them left Somdip with an empty bank account and he was left to collect food waste from dumpsters. This led him to co-found Codeepy, a start-up committed to co-developing the world's first crowd food-sharing platform, which was made open source. It won the 3Scale API Award at the Koding's 2014 Global Hackathon & inspired entrepreneurs around the world to develop similar solutions.
In 2020, when the pandemic took over the world and people started to overbuy groceries to adapt to the changing shopping schedule, it ran the risk of increased food wastage at home. Dey co-developed an award-winning AI powered food management app - nosh - to help users reduce food waste in the household. In 2021, Dey co-founded Nosh Technologies (nosh tech inc. - US & Nosh Tech Ltd. - UK), which provides the nosh app solution to reduce food waste at home, and he also assumed the role of the CEO & Chief Scientist of the company.
In 2022, Dey co-developed a machine learning based platform to reduce scams and malicious behavior in blockchain projects while empowering on-chain marketing. This led him to cofound Blockway Technologies (Blockway Tech Inc.).
Dey is a member of the technical program committee and reviewer of several top technical conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Design Automation fields such as AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ASAP, IEEE EdgeCom, IEEE CSCloud, etc. He is also an editor of numerous academic journals.
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Somin Lee
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Applied Physics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
Somin Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Applied Physics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. She is a member of IEEE and SPIE. Her research is in light-matter interactions to image below the diffraction limit and to control nanoscale objects in the fields of nanophotonics, super-resolution and plasmonics.
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Sona Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University
Dr. Sona Kumar is a postdoctoral scholar at Purdue and her work focuses on the development of STEM learning and motivation in early childhood, investigating how caregivers like parents and teachers can best support children’s early engagement and sense of belonging in STEM.
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Sonal Choudhary
Sonal Choudhary, MD is a dermatology trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2015 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology.
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Sonali Campion
Doctoral Researcher in Politics, University of East Anglia
Sonali holds a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. Her PhD research at the University of East Anglia is funded by an ESRC SeNSS studentship and explores the concept of capacity in the context of election management bodies.
Sonali previously worked in international electoral assistance and has supported observation missions and training in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Pacific. She is an affiliated researcher with the Electoral Integrity Project, and in summer 2023 was a visiting scholar at International IDEA in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Sonali Das
Full Professor, University of Pretoria
Prof Sonali Das holds a PhD in Statistics (University of Connecticut, USA), and is a Full Professor in the Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria. She is a C-rated SA NRF researcher, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2020 Prof Das was the recipient of the Mujeres Por Africa (MxA) award from Spain to pursue collaboration with Spanish Universities. In 2018 she was the Chair of the Women in Science Without Borders conference. Her work is transdisciplinary in nature where her interest lies in deciphering the underlying data generating process to answer relevant questions. She publishes widely, and supervises a group of motivated post graduate and doctoral students.
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Sonam Thakchoe
Senior Philosophy Lecturer, University of Tasmania
I hold a PhD in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy from the University of Tasmania (2003), Masters's Degree (Acharya) in Advanced History, Philosophy and Hermeneutics in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with a double major from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS, 1998) and a Bachelors Degree (Shastri, 1996). I am one of the very few Australasian scholars in the field—and, indeed, the only Asian-born philosopher with significant experience in an in-depth study of Indo-Tibetan philosophy in close collaboration with Western colleagues. I am making significant contributions to research in this field at the University of Tasmania, and my work has received international recognition. I am the key person in the Philosophy Program at the University of Tasmania responsible for research activities on the topics of Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhist philosophy. I am one of a small coterie of researchers in the field of Buddhist philosophical studies in Australia, and my research activities have significantly contributed to the internationalisation of the research culture of the School of Humanities at UTAS. Previously dominated by the Western Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions, the style of thinking and research focus in the School has now transformed into a significantly more expansive cross-cultural, interdisciplinary philosophical exchange by way of integrating the philosophical methods of Asian, comparative and intercultural thought.
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Song Shi
Associate Professor School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
Song received his Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree in 1991 from Southeast University, China and completed his PhD in Property Studies in 2009 from Massey University, New Zealand. His PhD thesis has been included in the Dean's List of Exceptional Doctoral Theses.
In 2011, Song won the prestigious national Property Institute of New Zealand Academic Award. In 2013, Song was invited to Tsinghua University, China for a scholar visit of 3 months. In 2017, Song left school of economics and finance at Massey University and joined UTS in the school of built environment. He teaches property finance, investment and financial analysis subjects at UTS.
Song has widely published his research work in top academic journals, including Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment and Finance, and Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management.
He is the board director of Global Chinese Real Estate Congress and currently on the editorial board of Pacific Rim Property Research Journal and International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.
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