Teaching Assistant Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder John has worked at the intersection of multimodal mobility and community development for more than 15 years, including positions with municipal, regional, state, and federal transportation-planning agencies, affordable-housing intermediaries, and universities in Boston, Denver, and Washington DC. John earned a bachelor's degree in sustainable urban planning and a master's degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and a master's degree in real estate development from the University of Maryland - College Park. Living in Colorado since 2016, John enjoys exploring the great outdoors and learning in the living laboratory of great places.
Professor of Public Economics, University of Helsinki Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of public economics at the University of Helsinki and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He conducts research on topics related to taxation and social protection in developing countries. Pirttilä has a doctorate in economics from the University of Helsinki and is a Fellow of the CESifo network. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Journal and the European Economic Review.
Jennifer Frost is a historian of 20th century United States society, culture, and politics at the University of Auckland. She is the author most recently of "Let Us Vote!" Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment. Her work on Hollywood history includes Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism, as well as Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War.
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Juliana is a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on improving the sustainability and circularity of mining operations through innovation. Juliana is a Chemical Engineer from Universidad del Valle (Colombia); she holds a Master of Science and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Juliana worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London in the Horizon 2020 IMPaCT project (2019-2020) and currently holds an Honorary Research Associate position at this institution.
Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell Joshua Long received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice in 2020. He has published research on juvenile drug court evaluations, risk assessment validation, prison classification, and matching treatment to the needs of justice involved clients. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he teaches classes on the corrections system, victimology, and research methods.
Professor of Computer Science, UMass Lowell Prof. Wang's current research interests include text mining algorithms and systems, data modeling and its applications, and combinatorial optimizations. His previous interests included large-scale network dynamics, cloud computing and search over encryption, network security, wireless networks, and computational complexity theory. He is particularly interested in algorithmic problems and mathematical modeling arising from practical applications, including data analysis and applications, intelligent text automation, wireless sensor networks, computational medicine, networking, and online social networks. He worked on computational complexity theory from late 1980's to early 2000's, including structural complexity, average-case complexity, and average NP-completeness.
