Reader and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, The University of Edinburgh
I currently lead up the Gut Research Unit in the Institute of Repair and Regeneration, University of Edinburgh.
I trained in Medicine in Glasgow (MBChB 1997 and MRCP 2000), and moved to Edinburgh for my PhD with Jack Satsangi (2000-2003). I completed my specialty training in gastroenterology and internal medicine in Edinburgh (2003-2008) and was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship award (2009-2015) where I trained under Balfour Sartor in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA focusing on mucosal immunology in IBD. In 2018, I set up the Edinburgh IBD Science group and then the Gut Research Unit in CIR (2019).
With a strategic translational focus on human experimental work, my program supports a comprehensive portfolio of work across Scotland from basic discovery science to Phase 2 clinical trials in adults and children with IBD.
I continue to care for individuals with IBD working as an active consultant gastroenterologist at the Western General Hospital.
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Course coordinator - BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Marketing & BA (Hons) Fashion Design, University of South Wales
Gwyneth has spent more than 25 years working in public relations, marketing and communications. She has worked with a number of international brands spanning many sectors including fashion, technology and construction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Communications from the University of Western Australia and studied Fashion Design and Illustration at East Sydney Technical College (now National Art School).
She has worked as a lecturer in fashion promotion, design and brand development, social media, digital fashion and the digital workplace. She is currently Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Marketing and BA (Hons) Fashion Design courses at the University of South Wales in Cardiff.
Gwyneth has been an active fashion blogger for a number of years at www.cardifffashion.com and is a regular contributor on national radio.
Gwyneth is the author of the Bloomsbury title - Fashion Promotion: Basics Fashion Management 02: Fashion Promotion – building a brand through marketing and communication
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Assistant professor of political science, St. Petersburg College
I hold a doctorate in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA, a MA in Political Science with a concentration in International Development Policy and Administration from the University of Florida and B.sc. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal.
I generally study comparative government and politics, international development policy, and the politics and public administration of sub-Saharan Africa. I am particularly interested in the developmental aspect of politics and public policy as well as transformative political and administrative processes in developing parts of the world.
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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.
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
Björn is a PhD-candidate, researching the intersections of Olympic coaches’ learning and experiences from multiple Olympic cycles. The PhD is focussed on learning in a pedagogical context, with the opportunity to support the coaching pathway towards the Brisbane 2032 Games.
Björn also teaches postgraduate students in the field of sports coaching at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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Visiting Filmmaker, Flagler College
H. James Gilmore is a documentary filmmaker who focuses on issues of history and culture, including the transformation of suburban America (Chronicle of an American Suburb, 2002); the economic collapse of Detroit (Men at Work: Voices From Detroit's Underground Economy, 2012); and the amazing women who broke through the glass ceiling of professional poker (Cracking Aces: A Woman's Place at the Table, 2018). His new feature-length documentary Fielding Dreams: A Celebration of Baseball Scouts recently screened at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and will have its public premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival.
Gilmore worked for a number of broadcast organizations, including The Christian Science Monitor and New Hampshire Public Television. He holds a M.A. in Broadcasting and Film from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science from Kalamazoo College. He is the executive producer of Acadia Pictures, an independent documentary production company he founded in 1995. A retired Clinical Professor of Journalism and Screen Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Gilmore is currently Visiting Filmmaker in the Cinematic Arts program at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
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For the past two decades, my research, supported by NINDS and NIDA, has been focused on understanding the cellular mechanisms of dopamine transmission in both healthy and diseased conditions, including drug addiction, neuropsychiatric disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. A major challenge in treating disorders where brain dopamine levels are dysregulated is identifying the precise molecular mechanisms involved and developing targeted therapies to address them.
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Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada
Dr. Hadi Hemmati is an associate professor at the electrical engineering and computer science department, at York University. Previously he was an associate professor at the electrical and software engineering department at the University of Calgary, AB, Canada. In the past, he was also an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, and Queen’s university. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo, Norway. His main research interests are automated software engineering (with a focus on software testing, debugging, and repair), and trustworthy AI (with a focus on robustness and explainability). His research has a strong focus on pragmatic software/ML solutions for large-scale systems and empirically investigating them in practice. He has been a PI on multiple industry research projects in different domains such as IT, aviation, insurance, urban development, fintech, and beyond.
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Lead Research Scientist, University of Technology Sydney
After obtaining my Ph.D. from Australian National University in 2016, for 3 years I have been a senior computer scientist at an American company called VoiceBox. In 2019 I joined the University of Sydney as a senior research scientist. In 2023 I joined the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where I currently work. My official job title is Lead Research Scientist.
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PhD student, University of Texas at Austin
Hae Yeon Lee is a PhD student studying adolescent development at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her research examines individual and environmental factors that contribute to social stress during adolescence. With field experiment and intervention approaches, her research also aims to identify effective psychological means to alleviate adolescent stress.
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Lecturer, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Ph.D. Cancidate, University of Debrecen
Haekal Al Asyari is a lecturer of International Law, at the Law School of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He is also currently a PhD student at the Law Faculty of the University of Debrecen, Hungary.
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Assistant Professor of Management, Drexel University
Areas of Expertise
- IPO
- Knowledge-based View of the Firm
- Technology Entrepreneurship
- Venture capital
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PhD Student in Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore
I am Hafizh Rafizal Adnan. Currently a PhD student at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I was previously a lecturer at Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. My research interest includes information systems adoption, enterprise architecture, e-government, and IS for social good.
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Senior lecturer, Department of Global Value Chains and Trade, Lincoln University, New Zealand
As an applied researcher, I specialise in exploring the multifaceted realm of stakeholder ecosystem relationships, with a central aim of fostering distributive societies. My investigations cover all three sectors - not-for-profit, public, and private - and are underpinned by considering futures/strategic foresight, stakeholder-centric value creation and community embeddedness.
Through collaborative partnerships with individuals and institutions, I embark on a journey to handle real-world challenges and issues. This collaborative approach catalyses meaningful change, bridging the gap between academia and industry to advance scholarship, research, and practical solutions. I aspire to contribute to shaping distributive societies by exploring the convergence of stakeholder ecosystem relationships.
As an educator, I remain dedicated to staying at the forefront of industry knowledge, cultivating invaluable industry connections and actively contributing to the community, underscoring my commitment to the cause of distributive societies.
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Associate professor, EDHEC Business School
- Management de la diversité
- Leadership inclusif
- Egalité Femmes-Hommes
- Violences Sexistes et Sexuelles
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Sleep Psychologist and Researcher, The University of Melbourne
Dr Hailey Meaklim is a sleep psychologist, researcher, and founder of My Better Sleep. She is passionate about improving access to evidence-based treatments for sleep problems, like insomnia.
She works as a psychologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sleep Centre and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She also founded My Better Sleep in 2023, as part of the Melbourne Accelerator Program, to increase access to evidence-based sleep and insomnia information.
Hailey has completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours in Psychology) degree from The University of Melbourne, a Master of Psychology from Swinburne University of Technology and a PhD in Psychology from Monash University. Her PhD focused on translating evidence-based sleep and insomnia knowledge into healthcare training programs.
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Professor of Earth and Environment, Florida International University
Dr. Jiang’s expertise is in satellite remote sensing techniques that can detect various characteristics of weather systems. She successfully applied these technologies to study hurricane rainfall, convection, winds, and warm-core structures. A coherent theme of her research is to advance our understanding of hurricane intensity and intensity change. She developed long-term satellite-based tropical cyclone databases and used these tools to study the climatology of hurricanes and to develop algorithms for estimating current intensity and predicting rapid intensification of tropical cyclones. Her research has been funded by NASA, NOAA, and NSF.
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Haizea Barcenilla cuenta con un máster en Comisariado por Goldsmiths College, University of London, y es doctora en Historia del Arte por la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, donde es profesora agregada. Sus líneas de investigación se centran en el análisis de la construcción de los discursos históricos desde una perspectiva de género, prestando especial atención a los formatos expositivos y al arte contemporáneo. Es co-investigadora principal, junto con Maite Méndez, del proyecto I+D "Desnortadas. Territorios de género en la creación artística contemporánea" en el que colaboran miembros de la Universidad de Málaga y de la Universidad del País Vasco. Escribe una columna quincenal sobre arte en el periódico Berria y ha comisariado varias exposiciones, entre ellas "Baginen Bagara. Mujeres artistas, lógicas de la (in)visibilidad" en el San Telmo Museoa de Donostia junto con Garazi Ansa y el proyecto "Andrekale" del colectivo Señora Polaroiska.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute, a 2022-23 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and a William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative Critical Methods (AQCM) Scholar of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (2020-23). Dr. Yazdiha received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a former Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow of the Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. Dr. Yazdiha's research examines the mechanisms underlying the politics of inclusion and exclusion as they shape intergroup boundaries, ethno-racial identities, and intergroup relations. This work crosses subfields of race and ethnicity, migration, social movements, culture, and law using mixed methods including interview, survey, historical, and computational text analysis. Her book project is forthcoming in May 2023 with Princeton University Press titled, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement." The book examines how a wide range of rivaling social movements across the political spectrum – from the Muslim Rights Movement to the Nativist Movement - deploy competing interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement to make claims around national identity and inclusion. Comparing how rival movements constituted by minority and majority groups with a range of identities — racial, gender, sexuality, religious, moral, political — battle over collective memory, the book documents how political action becomes directed toward divergent imagined futures. In other research projects, Dr. Yazdiha investigates these questions through three central lines of inquiry. A first strand of research explores how social exclusion is produced in macro-structures like laws, policies, and media. A second strand of research explores how and when groups develop perceptions of ‘groupness’ and collective identity in relation to these broader structures. A third strand of research investigates the collective behaviors that result from perceptions of groupness and their outcomes. This research provides new insights into the relationship between macro-level institutional structures, meso-level group processes of collective identity formation and collective behavior, and micro-level perceptions, emotions, and mental health. This body of research works to expose the covert consequences of institutional practices to show how systems of inequality are reproduced and examine how everyday actors develop strategies to resist, contest, and create social change.
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Liverpool Hope University
I completed my PhD at Hacettepe University (Turkey) School of Social Work in 2006. I worked as executive member of IFSW Europe e.V. (International Federation of Social Workers, European Region) (2012-2015) and EASSW (European Association of School of Social Work) (2015-2019). My research interests cover street children, child labour, child protection systems, social work values and ethics, youth policy, poverty, and social work education. I am currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool Hope University.
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Professor of Economics, Florida International University
Focusing on areas such as COVID-19, international economics, regional economics, macroeconomics, together with growth and development, Dr. Yilmazkuday has published more than 85 articles in refereed journals, some of which focus on understanding the research productivity in the field of economics. He has been named as an FIU Top Scholar in 2016 in the category of Notable Academic Appointments. He has served as the Executive Secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society. He is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute as a research associate. He has been a visiting scholar at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, a consultant to the World Bank, and a contributing partner of the Center for International Price Research at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Yilmazkuday's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Research Associate in Women's Health, Wayne State University
While completing her master's degree, Hala discovered her passion for the vast world of academic and clinical medicine with its endless opportunities. She then graduated with an MD from the American University of Beirut whereby she realized that Women’s health was her primary passion. Thus, she moved to Detroit to join the Office of Women’s Health as a Research Associate with an interest to grow her passion in an environment serving to advance the health and wellbeing of Women and girls.
Hala’s responsibilities at the Office of Women’s Health are distributed over three main pillars:
• Research& Development: Hala coordinates multiple research projects conducted at the Office of Women’s Health including a statewide research network.
• Education & Leadership: Under this pillar, Hala works closely with medical students at Wayne State University to improve their leadership skills through overseeing the Trailblazer Fellowship. Moreover, she organizes the Women's Health Scholarly Concentration for Wayne School of Medicine whereby medical students have an opportunity to participate in research projects on women’s health.
• Implementation Science: Hala coordinates the Well Women's Wednesdays program which is a mobile unit focused on women’s health. She is also involved in the unique Make Your Date campaign aimed at reducing the rate of preterm birth.
Hala ultimately aims to pursue residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and follow her dream of having a long-life career of caring for and empowering women of all ages.
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Associate Professor of the Practice in Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Haleigh Bartos comes to the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) with more than a decade of experience working in Washington, DC to support policy and at various NGOs. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Social Work, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Haleigh’s area of research is sub-Saharan Africa. She has published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
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PhD Candidate, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Haley Stone is a PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute’s Biosecurity Program, led by Professor Raina MacIntyre. Her PhD focuses on Epidemic modelling techniques for respiratory diseases with pandemic potential, specifically avian influenza and COVID-19. In addition, she works as a Research officer for EPIWATCH, an open-source intelligence tool which harnesses the power of AI and open-source data to capture early epidemic signals globally and rapid epidemic detection, leading to the prevention of global spread.
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Hali Kil is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Simon Fraser University. She holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Toronto and MA in Social and Cultural Psychology from the University of Alberta. Dr. Kil has published nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics relating to parenting, children's development of prosocial behaviour and empathy, mindfulness, mindful parenting, and multiracial and immigrant family and child well-being. She is currently an Associate Editor at the journal 'Mindfulness'.
Dr. Kil's research team in the All Families Lab at SFU conducts research on parent-child relationships, mindful parenting, and immigrant and newcomer family adjustment in Canada and abroad.
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Researcher, University of Notre Dame
Halkano Boru is a peace and conflict prevention practitioner and researcher with a decade of experience in the support, development, and implementation of governance, peacebuilding, and conflict prevention, including projects preventing and countering violent extremism in Kenya and Ethiopia. At the Keough School, Halkano studies the intersection of violent extremism, non-state armed groups, organized crimes, migration, illicit financial flows, and state fragility. He is an MGA '24 international peace studies graduate, Keough School of Global Affairs. Halkano graduated from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology with a BS in disaster management and international diplomacy. He has served as peace and cohesion cluster coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme in Kenya, where he worked to implement the Deepening Foundations for Peacebuilding and Community Security program with government agencies.
Halkano is skilled and experienced in conducting participatory research on natural resource management, conflict, governance, and violent extremism. He is also an alumnus of the YALI Regional Leadership Center, East Africa program, a US Department of State initiative that trains young African leaders. As a master of global affairs student, Halkano is the recipient of a Thomas D. McCloskey Peace Fellowship.
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I am an historian of science and technology specializing in the history of the life sciences and the history of information technology. My first book, Life out of sequence: a data driven history of bioinformatics (Chicago, 2013), examined the transformational role of computers and databases in recent biology. I am also the author of Biotechnology and society: an introduction (Chicago, 2016) and the co-editor (with Sarah Richardson) of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome (Duke, 2015).
My work crosses between history and anthropology and more recently I have written about the political and social impacts of artificial intelligence, big data, and surveillance technologies, particularly in an Asian context. I am currently completing a book about the rise of the life sciences in China.
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Chercheur en agronomie , Institut de l'environnement et des recherches agricoles (INERA)
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Professor, Zayed University
Professor Hamdy A. Hassan earned his PhD in comparative politics at Cairo University and Maryland University (1990). He was a Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research advisory board member. In 1999, Professor Hassan was granted the Egyptian State Award in Political Science for his book Issues in the African Political Systems, published in Arabic by the Centre for African Future Studies, Cairo. He served as an elected vice president of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), based in Pretoria, South Africa. From 1999 to 2000, he served as a director of the UNISCO Human Rights Chair, which is located in Jordan. He participated in many regional and international conferences. Currently, he serves as co-chair of RC44 - Security, Conflict and Democratization, International Political Science Association (IPSA).
He was a visiting professor at some Arab and European universities, such as Leiden University (Netherlands), Deakin University (Australia), and al-Al Bait University (Jordan). He serves as a country expert on Comoros and Tanzania for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) at the University of Gothenburg.
He has published many books and articles in both Arabic and English, including:
• Hassan, Hamdy (2023) Asian Soft Power from Hegemony to Partnership: A Study of India's Africa Policy. Brazilian Journal of African Studies, BJAS' 15th issue, July.
• Hassan, Hamdy (2023) . Religion and Politics in Africa, The Forum for Arab and International Relations.
• Hassan, H. A. (2023). Sufi Feminism, Journal of Religion in Africa (published online before print 2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340258
• Hassan, H. A. (2022). Stalled cooperation and the destabilization of the Maghreb. Orient, No 3. pp 18-23. https://orient-online.com/journal/
• Hassan, H. A. (2022). Religion as a Security Threat, Journal of Religion in Africa, 51(3-4), 426-451. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340216.
• Hamdy A. Hassan (2021) The securitisation of COVID-19 in Africa: Socio-economic and political implications, African Security Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2021.1994438
• Steven Ratuva, Hamdy A. Hassan, Radomir Compel (Editors) (2021), Risks, Identity and Conflict: Theoretical Perspectives and Case Studies, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hassan H.A. (2021) Trade and Security Cooperation in the Arab Maghreb Union Region. In: Omeje K. (eds) The Governance, Security and Development Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Hassan, H. (2022). Trends of Violent Conflicts in Africa. African Strategic Series, Issue 4: African Readings. Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt.
• Hassan, H. (2022). Russian African relations and the repercussions of the war in Ukraine. Vol.31, No 338. Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt.
• Hassan, H. (2021). Turkish African Relations from the Middle Power Perspective. Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt
• Hassan, H. A. (2021) "Ethnicity, Insecurity and Geostrategic Transformation in the Horn of Africa" p. 61 – 83. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hamdy-hassan/11/
• Hassan, H.A. (2020.) Sufi Islamic Discourse in Africa: From the Greatest Jihad to the Establishment of the African Caliphate. Religions 2020, 11, 639.
• Hassan, H. (2020) The Impossible State in Africa: Contradictory Paths, Amman: Aalaan Publishing.
• Hassan, H.A . (2020) "A New Hotbed for Extremism? Jihadism and Collective Insecurity in the Sahel" Asian Journal of Peacebuilding Vol. 8 Iss. 2 p. 203 – 222.
• Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hamdy-hassan/3/.
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Assistant Professor in Geochemistry, Curtin University
Dr. Hamed Gamaleldien received his Ph.D. from Curtin University- Australia and followed it up with three years postdoctoral fellowship at the same university and now working as Assistant professor at Khalifa University, UAE. Dr. Gamaleldien is utilizing cutting-edge geochemical technologies to study mantle-derived rocks at global-, regional- and micro- to nano-scales. His breakthrough scientific discoveries shed new light on Earth’s dynamic evolution over its four billion-year history, including aspects related to the evolution of the Earth’s mantle, the early formation of the continental crust, the start of plate tectonics, and the superplume-supercontinental cycles. His work improves our understanding of how the entire Earth system works and has evolved, including knowledge related to mineralization events.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Hamid Akbary is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He was previously a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary where he completed his PhD in sociology (2016-2022) and a Fulbright Fellow at Lehigh University where he completed his MA in sociology (2013-2015). He researches the socio-economic experiences and gender identity reconstruction of ethnic minorities. His work has been published in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy and the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
In addition to his academic affiliation, Hamid Akbary works as an Analyst at the Prairie Regional Data Centre (PRC RDC), Statistics Canada, Government of Canada.
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Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology, Halmstad University
Hamid Sarmadi is an Assistant Professor in Halmstad University, sweden. He has a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Cordoba and a Master's degree in Machine Learning from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has years of experience in the field of Computer Vision including research in top institutes such as Max Planck Institute for informatics and University of Luxembourg's SnT center. His general research interests include applications of computer vision and machine learning.
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Denver
Hamilton Bean, Ph.D., MBA, APR, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He also serves as Director of the University of Colorado Denver’s International Studies Program. He specializes in the study of communication and security. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) – a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. His research has been published in numerous international academic journals and edited volumes, and he has won multiple awards for scholarship from the National Communication Association.
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