Research & Learning Symposium Speakers
Opening Keynote
Erica Jiang
Venture Partner - Loyal VC
Keynote Address
Dr. Nicol Turner Lee
Director – Center for Technology Innovation (CIT)
Senior Fellow – Governance Studies
Funding the Future of AI Panelists
Jing Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Education Policy
University of Maryland, College Park
Elizabeth Albro, Ph.D.
Commissioner
National Center for Education Research
Institute of Education Sciences
U.S. Department of Education
Brad Bower, Ph.D. (virtual)
Chief AI and Data Science Officer
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki
Director, AI and Data Strategies
Bezos Earth FundResearch Lightning Talks
Marine Carpuat
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Veronica Kang
Assistant Professor, Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Cornelia Fermüller
Research Scientist, UMIACS and University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing
Amanda Lazar
Associate Professor, College of Information
Zubin Jelveh
Assistant Professor, College of Information & Criminology and Criminal Justice
Shevaun Lewis
Assistant Director, Language Science Center and Director, UMD Autism Research Consortium
Hernisa Kacorri
Associate Professor, College of Information and UMIACS
Chunyan Yang
Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Course Development Grant Panelists
Alexis Lothian
Associate Professor
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Brian Kim
Assistant Research Professor
Joint Program in Survey Methodology
Alireza Vaziri
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Jessica Grimmer
Lecturer
College of Information
Amanda Chicoli
Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Rodolphe Gentili
Associate Professor
College of Information