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Keynote Speakers
Director of Research and Co-Host @ Radiolab Host of the Netflix show Connected
Prof. Sinisa Hrvatin
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor of Biology @ MIT
Prof. Alan Whiteside
Author of HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008), AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization
Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre @ Macquarie University in Sydney
Prof. Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal
Associate Professor of Chemistry @ George Washington University
Director, Sustainable Development and Green Chemistry Institute @ American Chemical Society
Co-Director MS Environmental and Green Chemistry Program
Prof. Jakub Kostal
Associate Professor of Chemistry @ George Washington University
Director of the MS Environmental and Green Chemistry Program
Prof. Federico Rosei
Chair Professor of Industrial Chemistry @ University of Trieste, inaugural Editor-in-Chief of RSC Applied Interfaces
Former Junior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003-2013) and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials (2016-2023). UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (2013-2023).
Panel: Innovation at the Intersection
Tiffany McKenzie
Founder @ Curlywags
B.S. Symbolic Systems | Stanford
Dr. Bingyi Wang
Biodesign Innovation Fellow | Cofounder @Skywalk | Knight-Hennessy Scholar & Physicist @Stanford
Physics
Astrophysicist and Software Engineer
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian
Thi Hoang
PhD student in Quantum Optics @ Colorado Boulder
Incoming Quantum Physics PhD Student @ Harvard
Astrophysics PhD Candidate at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
Rohan Kumar
Quantum Computing PhD Student @ Yale
| NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Biology
Elena Tonc
Visiting Assistant Professor
Macalester College
Dr. Melania Strycharska
Lead Scientist, Platform Development @ Protillion Biosciences
PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt | Microbe-Host Interactions program
Clotilde Tournerie
Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Cambridge
Hoang Minh Hieu Nguyen
Cambridge Gates Scholar
Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Computer Science + Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
PhD Student at Boston University
Dr. Bingyi Wang
Biodesign Innovation Fellow | Cofounder @Skywalk | Knight-Hennessy Scholar & Physicist @Stanford
Zhihan Yang
Computer Science
PhD Student at Cornell
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