Andrew A Chien, University of Chicago
Andrew A Chien is the William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratories. He has led the Zero-carbon Cloud project since 2015, and is well-known for his research on datacenters, renewable energy and sustainability, cloud resource management and software, large-scale system architecture, and graph computing architecture. He is leader of the IARPA funded "UpDown System Project", designing breakthrough scalable graph analytics systems. Chien has received numerous recognitions for his research. Dr. Chien currently serves on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee, NSF OAC Advisory Committee and DARPA ISAT. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He served as EiC of Communications of the ACM, 2017-2022, and Vice President of Research at Intel Corporation from 2005-2010. He has served on the Faculty of the University of Illinois and as SAIC Chair Professor of University of California, San Diego. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tamar Eilam, IBM
Dr. Tamar Eilam is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist for Sustainable Computing in the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York. Tamar is leading research aiming at drastically reducing the carbon footprint associated with computing across infrastructure, systems, and software, data and AI. Tamar complete a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in the Technion, Israel, in 2000. She joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York as a Research Staff Member that same year. She was recognized as an IBM Fellow in 2014.
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University
Akshaya Jha is an Associate Professor (without tenure) of Economics and Public Policy at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Jha's research interests lie at the intersection of energy and environmental economics and industrial organization. His research uses a combination of economic modeling and causal inference techniques to quantify the economic and environmental costs and benefits of a wide range of policies impacting wholesale electricity supply. In recent work, he has examined the introduction of financial trading to California's wholesale electricity market, the phase-out of nuclear power in Germany, the dramatic growth of rooftop solar capacity in Western Australia, and the determinants of electricity blackouts in India. He received a BS in Economics and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
Kieran Levin, Framework
Co Founder and Lead System Architect at Framework Computer, a startup reshaping consumer electronics to reduce e-waste and increase reuse by designing award winning laptops that can be easily upgraded, repaired and customized. Previously he worked at Oculus designing custom VR calibration equipment, software and processes for volume production. He has 20 patents related to modular computing, display and system calibration of VR devices. He has a MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Christine Ortiz, MIT
Christine Ortiz, the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a distinguished professor, engineer, scientist, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in science, engineering, research, and technology innovation. She has expertise in biotechnology, biomaterials, orthopedic materials, nanomechanics, nanotechnology, polymer physics, and computational modeling of materials, among others. Dr. Ortiz has given invited talks in 25 countries, published over 210 scholarly articles, and supervised research projects for more than 300 students, postdocs, and researchers from various disciplines. She has received over 30 national and international honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Ortiz founded Station1 Laboratory Inc., a nonprofit higher education and research institution, and has partnered with over 70 technology-focused start-ups. She currently serves on the board of directors of two public companies, Mueller Water Products and Enovis. Recognized as a "2023 Director to Watch" by Directors & Boards magazine, Dr. Ortiz is celebrated for her leadership in strategic technology management, innovation, and environmental, social, and governance issues.
Carole-Jean Wu, Meta
Carole-Jean Wu is a Director of AI Research at Meta. She is a founding member and a Vice President of MLCommons - a non-profit organization that aims to accelerate machine learning innovations for the benefits of all. Prior to Meta/Facebook, Dr. Wu was a professor at ASU. Dr. Wu's expertise sits at the intersection of computer architecture and machine learning, with a focus on performance, efficiency, and sustainability optimization. She is passionate about pathfinding and tackling system challenges to enable efficient and responsible AI technologies. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University.
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Northeastern University
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México in 1998 and a PhD degree in optical sciences from the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona in 2004. In 2005 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology were he worked as Principal Research Scientist until 2021 when he joined Northeastern University. His research interests lie at the intersection between electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering and material science. He currently focuses on developing sustainable power-autonomous sensing systems based on organic semiconductors.
Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rina Ghose is an interdisciplinary scholar with over 25 years of expertise in translational research, focusing on urban poverty, socio-spatial inequalities, and health disparities. She combines qualitative methods like observation, interviews, and discourse analysis with quantitative techniques including deep learning and spatial analysis. Ghose has cultivated sustainable collaborations with African American and Hispanic community organizations, emphasizing trust, respect, and ethical conduct. Her community-engaged projects encompass promoting collaborative decision-making through Public Participation GIS, addressing food insecurity for policy interventions, advancing community gardening for sustainability, analyzing the opioid crisis to inform treatment and policy, and exploring the impacts of structural racism on mental and physical health for actionable policies.
Yannis Ioannidis, ACM and University of Athens
Yannis Ioannidis currently serves as the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an Associated Faculty at the "Athena" Research and Innovation Center. Previously, Ioannidis held the position of President and General Director at "Athena" for 10 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests span Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Recommender Systems, and Interactive Digital Storytelling. Ioannidis has published over 170 articles and holds four patents. He has led initiatives like OpenAIRE, the European Human Brain Project, and EOSC Future and has been involved in numerous European and national research projects. A recognized expert, Ioannidis is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and has received several research and teaching awards. He represented Greece in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and currently co-chairs the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alfonso Morales (PhD Sociology, Northwestern) is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Chair of the Department. Originally from rural New Mexico with roots in family farming, there and in west Texas, he is a researcher, advocate, and practitioner/consultant on food systems and public markets. He is PI, Co-I, or Key Participant of more than $40m in grants and contracts from NSF, USDA, NIH, and others. He co-created the USDA Local Food economics toolkit and cofounded farm2facts.org (from the USDA AFRI Metrics and Indicators for Impact award), a suite of tools for collecting, analyzing, and reporting on local foods data. His seven books and more than 70 articles and chapters mark him as a leading scholar of foodsystems. He lectures on marketplaces and foodsystems, nationally and internationally.
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania
Rahul builds safe autonomous systems at the intersection of formal methods, machine learning and controls. He applies his work to safety-critical autonomous vehicles, urban air mobility, life-critical medical devices, and AI Co-designers for complex systems. Rahul received the 2016 US Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) from President Obama for his work on Life-Critical Systems. He also received the 2016 Department of Energy's CleanTech Prize (Regional), the 2014 IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award, 2013 NSF CAREER Award, 2012 Intel Early Faculty Career Award and was selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the 2012 and 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering. He is the Penn Director for the Department of Transportation's $20MM Safety21 National UTC [2023-2028] which focuses on technologies for safe and efficient movement of people and goods. Rahul is the Director of the Autoware Center of Excellence for Autonomous Driving, a consortium of 70+ companies and universities focused on open-source AV software for open-standards EV platforms. He has won several ACM and IEEE best paper awards in Cyber-Physical Systems, controls, machine learning, and education.