Heath Brown is an assistant professor of public policy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has worked at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office as a Research Fellow, at the American Bus Association as a Policy Assistant, and at the Council of Graduate Schools as Research Director. He is the author of three books, including Lobbying the New President, Tea Party Divided, and Pay-to-Play Politics: How Money Defines the American Democracy, available in April, 2016 (http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5175C). In addition to his research, Brown is Reviews Editor for Interest Groups & Advocacy (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/iga/index.html) and hosts a podcast called New Books in Political Science (www.newbooksinpoliticalscience.com), where he interviews new authors about their political science publications. He is also an expert contributor to The Hill. Brown currently a co-leader of the New York City Chapter of the Scholar Strategy Network.
Harriet is a researcher at the Oxford University FMRIB Centre (Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain). She recently moved to the UK from Australia, where she completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Queensland. Her research interests cover a diverse range of topics regarding the brain plasticity and the area of the brain that represents the body (the somatosensory system). In recent studies she has investigated how we can use training to enhance the acuity of our senses - and further - how we can alter brain plasticity to further enhance this learning process. Her work also looks at how plastic changes occur in the brain after removal of sensory input - either through amputation of a limb, anaesthetics or other interventions. Finally, how learning and plasticity can alter the balance of neural excitation and inhibition and receptive field structures. Harriet also loves teaching, and has taught a variety of courses within The University of Queensland and Oxford University on neuroscience, physiology and psychology.
Hugh Martin is the coordinator of the Masters of Journalism Innovation program at La Trobe University. Hugh has worked in a variety of digital editorial and publishing roles with Australia’s biggest news publishers. He was Editor of theage.com.au, Editor of News.com.au at News Corp and General Manager of APN Online, a division of APN News & Media. He received a Walkley Award in 2004, and is a winner of two Melbourne Press Club Awards. In 2014 he was a recipient of the Google/Walkley Foundation Grant for Innovation in Journalism.
I am a Civil Engineer with credentials in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), transport planning and modelling. I have 30 years of engineering experience and have previously held a number of ITS positions including Director, ITS Research Laboratory at the University of Queensland and Director, ITS Australia. My interests are in next generation smart infrastructure systems and the convergence of technology, infrastructure and human elements in our urban environments.
H V Jagadish is the Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His area of work is Data Science.
