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Roger B. Dannenberg is a Senior Research Computer Scientist and Artist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1982. He is internationally known for his research in the field of computer music. His current work includes research on computer accompaniment of live musicians, content-based music retrieval, interactive media, and high-level languages for sound synthesis. Products based on his computer accompaniment research are used by music students around the world.

Martin Robillard is Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. His current research focuses on problems related to software evolution, architecture and design, and software reuse. He served as the Program Co-Chair for the 20th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) and the 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017). He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and a B.Eng. from École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Christoph Mertz, a Project Scientist in NavLab, is an expert on data analysis, sensor development, surround sensing, intelligent transportation systems, and collision warning algorithms. He earned a doctorate in physics prior to joining the Robotics Institute.

Dr. Noboru Matsuda is a post doctoral fellow at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. Prior to that he was a visiting scholar at the Learning Research and Development Center at Pitt from University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests are at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive theories of learning and teaching.

Jay Aronson is the founder and director of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the History Department. Aronson’s research and teaching focus on the interactions of science, technology, law, media, and human rights in a variety of contexts. He is currently writing a book with Roger Mitchell, Jr., the Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, DC, that addresses significant shortcomings in the way police killings and deaths in custody are recorded and investigated in the United States.

Sarah Spiekermann is an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research work focuses on social and economic aspects of Ubiquitous Computing acceptance. She serves as director of The Berlin Research Centre on Internet Economics and has been leading the TAUCIS study, the technology assessment study on Ubiquitous Computing for the Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research and Education.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston College. She studies individual differences in the phenomenal and psychological aspects of emotional life using multiple experimental methods, including computerized experience sampling procedures.

Bill Fulton is a founder of the User-Testing Group for Microsoft Games, which uses psychological research methods to get feedback that improves the usability and fun of games published by Microsoft. Since 1998, the group has tested 13,000+ gamers playing 100+ different games including Age of Kings, Halo and Zoo Tycoon, to name a few. Prior to working at Microsoft, Bill did 4 years of post-graduate training in Cognitive & Quantitative Psychology at the University of Washington, studying how people form judgments and make decisions, and how to meaningfully quantify theoretical ideas.

Dr. Jonathan Gratch is the Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research at University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technology and a research associate professor in USC’s computer science department. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign in 1995 with a focus on machine learning, planning and cognitive science. His research addresses the creation of virtual humans (artificially intelligent agents embodied in a human-like graphical body) and cognitive modeling.

Kenneth R. Koedinger is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a MS in Computer Science (University of Wisconsin, 1986) and a PhD in Psychology (CMU, 1990). He has authored over 200 papers and has won over 30 major grants. He directs the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (see LearnLab.org) and is a co-founder of Carnegie Learning, a company marketing advanced educational technology.

Daniel Epstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. His work examines how personal tracking technology can acknowledge and account for the realities of everyday life, designing new technology and studying people's use of current technology. Daniel's work has been published in top HCI venues including CHI, Ubicomp, CSCW, and DIS, receiving multiple awards and nominations. He received his Ph.D.

Karen Locke, Ph.D., is W. Brooks George Professor of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary’s school of business. She joined the faculty there in 1989 after earning her Ph. D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Locke’s work focuses on developing a sociology of knowledge in organizational studies and on the use of qualitative research for the investigation of organizational phenomena.