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Prof. Peter Rogan, Professor of Genome Bioinformatics at the University of Western Ontario Aug 14, 2020

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COVID - Identifying hotspots, mRNA splicing mutations, the proposed molecular mechanism for severe infections, and possible vaccines, and therapies

Prof. Peter Rogan is a professor of Genome Bioinformatics at the University of Western Ontario. His lab focuses on bioinformatic technologies at the population-scale to address important biomedical challenges in genomics and other areas.

Mr. Lofred Madzou, Project Lead for AI at the World Economic Forum Aug 12, 2020

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence driving the next revolution, Regulatory policy frameworks and pilot projects for policy for AI

Mr. Lofred Madzou is a Project Lead for AI at the World Economic Forum, where he is responsible for managing various global multi-stakeholder AI policy projects. Before that, he was a Policy Officer advising the French Government on AI Policy and Regulation. He has co-written chapter 5 of the French National AI Strategy – entitled “What Ethics for AI?”.

Dr. William H. Frey II, Senior Research Director of the Center for Memory & Aging at the HealthPartners Neuroscience Center Aug 11, 2020

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Intranasal delivery of agents to the brain, Adult stems cells and Insulin for treatment of brain injury and degenerative diseases, Possible effects of COVID-19 on the brain, long term complications, and policy choices.

Dr. William H. Frey II is a Senior Research Director of the Center for Memory & Aging at the HealthPartners Neuroscience Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Frey’s focus has been the use of a non-invasive intranasal method for bypassing the blood-brain barrier to target therapeutic agents to the brain to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders while reducing unwanted side effects. These conditions include Mild Cognitive Impairment, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and other brain diseases. He is also a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. He can be reached at neuroresearch@healthpartners.com / 651-254-3736

Dr. Ralph Chami, Assistant Director, Institute for Capacity Development, the International Monetary Fund Aug 10, 2020

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Remittances, the good, the bad, and the ugly, COVID, a systemic shock with significant negative effects on fragile countries and regions, What is a Whale worth and how can we keep it?

Dr. Ralph Chami is Assistant Director, Institute for Capacity Development, at the International Monetary Fund. He is in charge of capacity development for the Western Hemisphere Region. Before joining the IMF, he was on the faculty of Finance at the University of Notre Dame.

Prof. Ben Albensi, Professor of pharmacology & therapeutics at the University of Manitoba Aug 07, 2020

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Neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of Nuclear Factor kappa B ( NF-kB), Alzheimer's disease, Economic burden of dementia, Brain region and sex-specific alterations in mitochondrial function, Epigenetics and dietary impacts on spatial memory and brain plasticity

Prof. Ben Albensi is a professor of pharmacology & therapeutics at the Univ. of Manitoba. His lab at St. Boniface Hospital focuses on understanding the neurobiological basis of normal memory and how memory gets impaired in dementia. His lab studies nuclear factor kappa B ( NF-kB), which is a key mediator of brain inflammation thought to be involved in Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Allyson Ettinger, Assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago Aug 06, 2020

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Brain waves and Natural Language Processing, N400 amplitude and vector space model behavior, Contextual embeddings in words, Composition in Sentence Vector Representations, and BERT, what it is Not.

Dr. Allyson Ettinger is a computational linguist and an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, working on natural language processing and computational cognitive modeling. Her interdisciplinary work draws on methods and insights from cognitive science, linguistics, and computer science to examine meaning-extraction and predictive processes executed during language processing in humans and in artificial intelligence systems.

Prof. Krishnanand Maillacheruvu, Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction at Bradley University Aug 05, 2020

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Rejuvenation of Rivers and Lakes in India, Policy in environmental choices, Cost externalization, Decentralized and small-scale wastewater treatment, nutrient removal from wastewater, and jumpstarting entrepreneurship through MarketPlaceLiteracy.

Prof. Krishnanand Maillacheruvu is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction at Bradley University. His teaching interests include various areas of civil and environmental engineering, sustainability, ethics, and public policy. In addition to more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences, Krishnanand has co-authored three book chapters in the field of environmental engineering

Prof. Gerry Leisman, Professor of Neuro and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel Aug 04, 2020

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Neurological development of the young brain, The importance of educational process, content, and environment, Left/Right brain specialization, Language, and Mathematics processing in the brain.

Prof. Gerry Leisman is Professor of Neuro and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Haifa and Director of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences in Nazareth, Israel, He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, is a Senior Member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in IEEE and a Life Fellow of the International Association of Functional Neurology and Rehabilitation.

Prof. Martin Kulldorff, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School Aug 02, 2020

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Early detection of localized COVID/disease outbreaks, Age as the dominant consideration in COVID intervention strategy, and vaccine/drug surveillance strategies.

Prof. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert on infectious disease outbreaks. As a biostatistician, he has developed methods for the early detection and monitoring of disease outbreaks, currently used by many public health departments for COVID-19 and other diseases. He has also developed methods for the early detection of drug and vaccine adverse events.

Prof. Sean Smith, Professor of nanomaterials science at the Australian National University Jul 31, 2020

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Computational Materials Sciences, Atomic-Scale Discoveries with Machine Learning, Hydrogen for storage and transport of energy, Hydrogen as the new natural gas.

Prof Sean Smith is a Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the Australian National University and Director of Australia’s national supercomputing facility, NCI Australia. He has extensive theoretical and computational research experience in chemistry, nanomaterials, and nano-bio science and technology. Prior to returning to Australia, he directed the US Department of Energy-funded Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sean has published over 260 refereed journal papers with more than 15000 citations.

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