Scientia Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney I lead an internationally recognised research group investigating molecular mechanisms underpinning rapid evolution and invasion success, contributing to innovative solutions for the management and control of invasive species, and improving the management of conserved species. I am the current President of the Genetics Society of Australasia.
Director of Computing Informatics and Applications Research Group, Anglia Ruskin University Dr Lakshmi Babu Saheer is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications to different domains including climate change, sustainability, air quality, healthcare, image processing, natural language processing, speech, audio and many more. She leads several AI modules at the MSc AI course at Anglia Ruskin University and is the director of the Computing, Informatics and Applications Research group at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Lakshmi completed her Doctoral studies in AI at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland in 2012. She has been working on applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in both Industry and academia for over 20 years. She has worked with several international companies in different locations around the world including Siemens (India), Sony Ericsson (Sweden), V-Enable (USA), Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) and Audio Analytic (UK). She has several awards including the Google Anitaborg Award and acquired Hasler Innovation funds of over £150,000 to run a start-up, Geneemo in Switzerland. She has worked in several roles including Research Engineer, Project Manager to Scientific Collaborator and CTO. Currently, she leads applied AI research mainly on sustainability, climate change and healthcare at the School of Computing, Information Sciences at the Anglia Ruskin University and is the director of the research group that applies AI to different domains. She works with several national and international collaborators from different fields and local authorities as stakeholder partners.
Principal Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University Dr Lydia Harkin is an applied health researcher and Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Her main teaching and research interested are in cyberpsychology, health psychology, the social psychology of health, and the health psychology of chronic illness and older adulthood. Dr Harkin's research has explore new digital technologies and their impact on health and wellbeing, typically considering ways to promote positive wellbeing through technological features. She has also examined how people impacted by health conditions and in older adulthood use technologies for their benefit. This has spanned online communities and communication online, online health information sites, videos, and podcasts, and digital applications for wellbeing. Her current research project include, amongst others, qualitative explorations of ways patients use online social media to advocate, and mixed methods examinations of trends in health and technology beliefs over time.
Senior Statistician and Research Lead, Vanderbilt University Luke Plutowski is a Senior Statistician at LAPOP Lab at Vanderbilt University, where he coordinate nationwide surveys in four countries, lead data visualization tasks, present results for non-technical audiences, and head lab research on statistics and survey methodology.
Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds Luke Brunning is Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds where he co-established the Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships. He previously worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He works on topics in the philosophy of love, sex, and relationships, the emotions, and ethics and applied ethics. His previous books include the trade book Does Monogamy Work? (Thames & Hudson) and the book Romantic Agency (Polity). He has written widely on intimacy with articles on nonmonogamy, asexuality, jealousy and compersion, envy and loving admiration, as well as several articles exploring the ways we stop blaming each other. His other writings have featured in the Times Literary Supplement, the Times Higher Education, The Independent, Aeon, and a range of independent publications.
Dosen dan Peneliti Kajian Media, London School of Public Relation (LSPR) Jakarta Dosen dan Peneliti di Institut Komunikasi dan Bisnis LSPR, dengan peminatan pada kajian media, isu perempuan dan anak, serta komunikasi politik.