Physical & Life Sciences

Scholars dedicating their careers to the study of living organisms and non-living systems

Dipankar Mazumdar

Dipankar Mazumdar

Dipankar is currently a Developer Advocate at Dremio where his primary focus is advocating data engineers/architects/scientists on Dremio’s lakehouse platform & various open-sourced projects such as Apache Iceberg, Arrow, Project Nessie, etc. that helps data teams apply & scale analytics. In his past roles, he worked at the intersection of Machine Learning & Data visualization. Dipankar is a co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book - ‘Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide’. He also holds a Masters degree in Computer Science with a research area focused on ExplainableAI.

Dipankar is currently a Developer Advocate at Dremio where his primary focus is advocating data engineers/architects/scientists on Dremio’s lakehouse platform & various open-sourced projects such as Apache Iceberg, Arrow, Project Nessie, etc. that he... Show more

Laurie Pottmeyer

Laurie Pottmeyer

Community Lead, Microsoft Teams Engineering

Laurie has spent 17 years at Microsoft managing user adoption and pre-release programs for Live Meeting, OCS, Lync, Skype for Business and Teams - helping to build better products and getting people to use them. Laurie's current role as Community Lead within the Microsoft Teams Engineering team is unique and demonstrates the commitment from Teams to understand, listen, and build a high-quality product around the needs of users. She manages the virtual Microsoft Tech Community, creating a robust network of worldwide community events and user groups, and continues to mobilize the MVP Community to share their expertise with community and help shape Microsoft Teams. In 2021, Laurie led the creation of the Women in Teams Community to help support the Women in Technology initiative and bring together experts and passionate Teams users looking to learn and share with others. Laurie's always listening for success stories, looking to make connections, and learning through experience.

@lauriepottmeyer

Community Lead, Microsoft Teams Engineering Laurie has spent 17 years at Microsoft managing user adoption and pre-release programs for Live Meeting, OCS, Lync, Skype for Business and Teams - helping to build better products and getting people to u... Show more

Crhistian Mark Montenegro Valderrama

Crhistian Mark Montenegro Valderrama

Biotechnology student, bioprocess engineering oriented, from Peru, focused on programming applied to make decision, in laboratory.

Biotechnology student, bioprocess engineering oriented, from Peru, focused on programming applied to make decision, in laboratory. Show more

Shalini Thirunilathil

Shalini Thirunilathil

Shalini Thirunilathil is an award-winning technology leader, currently combining two roles at Hargreaves Lansdown - Agile Coach Lead and a Brand and Outreach Lead. She has extensive experience in improving organisational agility, coaching, mentoring, and developing talent in the organisation. Her career has included a diverse range of roles, including Software Developer, Software Tester, Test Manager, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach for various top-notch organisations like Civica, Proactis, IBM, SAP, O2, Springer Nature, Lexis Nexis, and IRIS Software Group. Shalini has spoken at 10+ meetup events and panel discussions, including the 'Agile20Reflect Mini Festival' an international meetup event.

In 2021, Shalini won the Team Leader of the Year (SME) at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards. On International Women's day 2021, the Synapse QA community recognised her as an inspirational leader. In 2019 and 2021, she was one of the finalists for the Role Model of the Year category in the WIT Excellence awards. Outside work, Shalini enjoys music, travel, and cooking. She is also a trained Indian classical and Bollywood dancer and has taken part in dance performances across the UK.

Shalini Thirunilathil is an award-winning technology leader, currently combining two roles at Hargreaves Lansdown - Agile Coach Lead and a Brand and Outreach Lead. She has extensive experience in improving organisational agility, coaching, mentoring,... Show more

Harshdeep Singh

Harshdeep Singh

I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and my area of research includes variational quantum algorithms, tensor networks, and quantum computing. I have plenty of exposure to Python, specifically working with Qiskit, and TensorNetwork. I have already given introductory talks on quantum computing at PyCon Indonesia, Python Ireland, Pycode, Pyjamas, and Scipy India.

I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and my area of research includes variational quantum algorithms, tensor networks, and quantum computing. I have plenty of exposure to Python, specifically working with Qi... Show more

Ivanna Rosendal

Ivanna Rosendal

Transformational leader bend on re-inventing life sciences for the benefits of patients. No patient should wait for innovative drugs due to lack of technology adoption.

Transformational leader bend on re-inventing life sciences for the benefits of patients. No patient should wait for innovative drugs due to lack of technology adoption. Show more

Gisli Olafsson

Gisli Olafsson

Gisli Olafsson currently serves as an executive coach to transformational leaders around the world. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that is helping bring over 1.2 million small-holder farmers out of extreme poverty.

Prior to joining One Acre Fund, he served as a Humanitarian Advisor to NetHope, a consortium of 60+ leading non-profit organizations around the world, and as the Chief Technology Officer of Beringer Finance, the largest technology focused investment bank in Europe. Gisli has been active in the IT industry for over 30 year, ever since he sold his first program at the age of 14. He worked for 10 years at Microsoft, where he was involved in product development, sales, technical evangelism, and most recently as a trusted advisor to national governments and international organizations on the effective use of technology in their operations.

Gisli’s deep understanding of technology, his long-time software product development expertise, and his extensive network inside and outside of the technology industry enables him to quickly provide value to technology companies. Gisli has also over the past 15 years worked closely with the startup community and is an advisory board member and member of board of directors of numerous startups and venture funds. Gisli is also a sought after mentor for innovation accelerators.

Prior to joining Beringer Finance in 2015, Gisli served as the Emergency Response Director of NetHope. Gisli is one of the leading experts in the world on the use of technology in disaster response and is a sought after speaker, trainer, and advisor on the role technology can play in enhancing the response to large scale natural and man-made disasters.

Prior to joining NetHope, Gisli has over 20 years of experience in the field of disaster management and was an active member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, a team of experienced disaster managers which are on stand-by to deploy anywhere in the world on a 6 hour notice to coordinate the first response of the international community to disasters on behalf of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Gisli has participated in disaster field missions in connections with floods in Ghana (2007), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), Hurricane Ike in Texas (2008), Sichuan Earthquake (2008), Pandemic Outbreak (2009), West Sumatra Earthquake (2009), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Japan Earthquake/Tsunami (2011), Horn of Africa Famine (2011), Philippine’s Typhoons (2012 and 2013), West Africa Ebola Outbreak (2014-2015), European Refugee Crisis (2015), Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (2017), and Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique (2019). Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti 2010, Gisli led the first international rescue team that arrived in the country.

The combination of Gisli’s extensive field experience in disaster management and technology background provides Gisli a deep understanding how technology can be applied to solve the most challenging collaboration issues faced in austere environments. This has led him to be appointed to various advisory boards and committees, such as the US State Department’s sub-committee on the use of technology in international disasters. Gisli was named a UNICEF Humanitarian Innovation Fellow and a Technology Partner Network Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2013.

Gisli’s deep experience in leading transformation efforts around the world, made him a sought after executive coach in the field of digital transformations. Leveraging his own experience in leading digital transformation efforts for large organizations, and in serving as a trusted advisor to governments and international organizations, Gisli focuses his executive coaching on working with transformational leaders and helping them tackle the challenges of leading digital transformation journeys.

In 2014, Gisli published the book The Crisis Leader, about the role of leadership in times of crisis, leveraging examples from his missions around the world to provide readers with an insight into the key aspects of leadership critical during chaotic times like disasters. The book has been translated into two languages and been sold worldwide.

Gisli holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Chemistry from Copenhagen University (Denmark 1993), a Diploma in International Development from University of Iceland (2017), and is endlessly writing his Master’s thesis on the use of technology in humanitarian response. Gisli currently lives in Iceland, along with his wife, five children, two grandchildren, dog, and a cat.

Gisli Olafsson currently serves as an executive coach to transformational leaders around the world. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that is helping bring over 1.2 million small-holder farm... Show more

Jeremy Georges-Filteau

Jeremy Georges-Filteau

Jeremy obtained a bachelor’s of bioinformatics from Université Laval during which he did an exchange at Université de Strasbourg in the Master’s of Integrative structural biology and bioinformatics and completed an internship at The Hyve developing a user interface prototype for TranSMART. Following this, he completed a Master’s in computer science at McGill University by developing a machine learning algorithm based on phylogenetic networks that has significant advantages over commonly used genetic assignment methods. Jeremy joined The Hyve in 2018 to pursue a PhD within the context of the AiPBAND project and, more generally, his passion for multidisciplinary science.

The aim of this ESR project is to develop a big-data powered diagnostic infrastructure for brain cancer prediction. The platform will be deployed and run on cloud services . The platform will include a data warehouse for integrating clinical and omics data. This includes data generated by innovative biosensors, developed by WP2. The components of the platform will be designed as flexible microservices. Separation of concerns will facilitate high performance, security and scalability. One of these services will be the prediction algorithms, developed in close collaboration with ESR-11 at IC. Patients, clinician and potential industrial client will gain access via any device to their results on an intuitive user interface.

To achieve these goals, large quantities of health data is required at every step. For both simpy software testing or improving machine learning accuracy, quality data remains hard to get. The scientific opportunities locked-in the massive amounts of health data collected are inestimable. The growing concerns towards data privacy will only only complicate the issue.

Anonymization is generally employed to prevent misuse of private data. Anonymization trades data utility for privacy, but does not fully prevent reidentification. This means accessing data requires eminent academic credentials and resources. If real data is lacking for developments, delays and errors can have consequences on critical health informatics. The alternative is to produce synthetic data, thereby avoiding the privacy issues. Rigid and error prone statistical models have long been the only generative algorithms for this purpose.

Recently, generative adversarial networks have demonstrated their ability to produce indistinguishable synthetic data. Synthetic data has been gaining traction rapidly in medical imaging applications. However, due to certain complexities of observational health, the idea is only starting to gain interest. This project will explore GAN methods to produce synthetic health data that address these complexities. In addition to evaluating they gains provided to the development of the diagnostic platform.

Jeremy obtained a bachelor’s of bioinformatics from Université Laval during which he did an exchange at Université de Strasbourg in the Master’s of Integrative structural biology and bioinformatics and completed an internship at The Hyve developing a... Show more

Sushil Shah

Sushil Shah

Sushil is Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft with specialisation in Data and AI. He specialise in Information Architecture and Data Governance having worked extensively in Financial Services and Life Science Industry.

Sushil is Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft with specialisation in Data and AI. He specialise in Information Architecture and Data Governance having worked extensively in Financial Services and Life Science Industry. Show more

Bjørn Erling Fløtten

Bjørn Erling Fløtten

Software engineer with a passion for start-ups and information management.

Bjørn Erling Fløtten designs system with efficient use of development resources and simplified architecture facilitating multiple areas of use for every component.

Founder and cofounder of in total six companies, five of them within the area of Information technology. One successful exit (so far).

Currently working with Sikom Connect AS (Remote heating, alarm systems, IoT).

Bjørn consulted for Telenor (a telecommunications company) for 17 years, working with reporting and surveillance systems. Bjørn also has experience with other big organizations in the field of data analysis and reporting.

Software engineer with a passion for start-ups and information management. Bjørn Erling Fløtten designs system with efficient use of development resources and simplified architecture facilitating multiple areas of use for every component. Found... Show more

Rachel Lee

Rachel Lee

Rachel C. Lee is Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of the award-winning The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (2014) and a founding editor of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Her current research focuses on frameworks that deepen relationality between individuals with “environmental illness” (including chronic Lyme, MCS, hEDS, and the like) and scholarship in an anti-racist and decolonial vein. Her hybrid essay in a creative-critical mode, on the topic of “moldy minorities” [please do not autocorrect to ‘model’] is forthcoming in Women’s Studies Quarterly (Spring 2026) .

Rachel C. Lee is Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of the award-winning The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (2014) and a f... Show more

Rahul Vats

Rahul Vats

Rahul Vats, a seasoned Apache Airflow contributor with 13+ years of experience, specializes in testing and ensuring the reliability of Airflow 3 and upcoming Airflow releases. His expertise in quality assurance, automation, and system testing plays a key role in enhancing the platform’s stability and functionality. Passionate about driving improvements, Rahul actively contributes to the development and testing of new features, making Airflow more robust and efficient for users worldwide.

Rahul Vats, a seasoned Apache Airflow contributor with 13+ years of experience, specializes in testing and ensuring the reliability of Airflow 3 and upcoming Airflow releases. His expertise in quality assurance, automation, and system testing plays a... Show more

Simon Tichutab Onilimor

Simon Tichutab Onilimor

Simon is a development and applied statistics professional with strong experience in official statistics, food security analysis, labour statistics, and poverty measurement. He works as a data scientist with the Ghana Statistical Service, and his work spans Small Area Estimation (SAE), time-use statistics, and SDG-aligned frameworks, with a particular focus on data for policy and development planning in Africa. He has hands-on experience working with household survey data, labour and spatial statistics, and is increasingly engaged in research on labour markets and human development.

Simon is a development and applied statistics professional with strong experience in official statistics, food security analysis, labour statistics, and poverty measurement. He works as a data scientist with the Ghana Statistical Service, and his wor... Show more

Peter Yeltulme Mwinlaaru

Peter Yeltulme Mwinlaaru

Peter Y. Mwinlaaru is a Data Scientist at the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) specializing in environmental statistics, alternative data sources, and innovative approaches to official statistics production. He leads Ghana's pioneering AIS-based maritime emissions monitoring initiative, applying the IMO Fourth GHG Study methodology to quantify CO₂ emissions from vessels in Ghana's territorial waters—the first such system implemented by a National Statistical Office in West Africa.
His expertise spans the full data science pipeline: from processing millions of AIS vessel tracking records to developing interactive R Shiny dashboards for policy-ready visualization. He is proficient in R, Python, and Quarto, with advanced skills in spatial data analysis, machine learning, and Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP) for transparent and sustainable statistical production.
Peter has extensive experience working with alternative and large-scale data sources, including satellite imagery (night-time lights), Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, and call detail records (CDRs), integrating these with traditional survey and administrative data to expand the scope of official statistics. He was a member of the winning team at the 2023 UN Datathon.
He holds an MPhil in Economics, a Bachelor of Education in Economics and Mathematics, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at the University of Cape Coast. Peter is passionate about building statistical capacity across Africa and believes that open-source tools and knowledge sharing are essential for data-driven climate action on the continent.

Peter Y. Mwinlaaru is a Data Scientist at the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) specializing in environmental statistics, alternative data sources, and innovative approaches to official statistics production. He leads Ghana's pioneering AIS-based marit... Show more

Morgan Littlefield

Morgan Littlefield

Morgan Littlefield is a dynamic leader dedicated to driving organizational growth, fostering strong team culture, and expanding community impact. As the Clinical Operations Leader of The ENT Center of Northwest Alabama, she plays a pivotal role in executing the vision of the practice’s leadership while ensuring operational excellence.

With a strategic focus on business expansion, structural development, and leadership cultivation, Morgan is instrumental in scaling the clinic’s influence and enhancing patient care. She also works closely with Dr. Masterson on philanthropic and investment initiatives, positioning The ENT Center as a cornerstone of both the local community and the broader healthcare industry.

Originally from North Little Rock, Arkansas, Morgan relocated to Florence to pursue her education at the University of North Alabama, where she earned a B.A. in History with a minor in Global Studies. Committed to continuous growth and leadership, she recently completed her M.B.A. at Lipscomb University.

Morgan is passionate about empowering teams, developing sustainable business strategies, and creating meaningful impact through thoughtful leadership.

Morgan Littlefield is a dynamic leader dedicated to driving organizational growth, fostering strong team culture, and expanding community impact. As the Clinical Operations Leader of The ENT Center of Northwest Alabama, she plays a pivotal role in ex... Show more

Letsatsi Lekhooa

Letsatsi Lekhooa

Letsatsi Lekhooa is a Systems Librarian at the National University of Lesotho Library and the Chairperson of the Lesotho Research and Education Network (LesREN). His work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital governance, open knowledge infrastructure, and digital rights within public and academic institutions. He has extensive experience supporting research systems, institutional repositories, data governance frameworks, and digital transformation initiatives in higher education.

He is a Research Fellow in AI in Academic Writing and Publishing and serves on editorial and peer review boards for academic journals. His research and professional engagements examine how emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven systems, affect access to information, privacy, accountability, and intellectual freedom in libraries and knowledge institutions. He has contributed to national and regional discussions on digital policy, open science, and technology governance across Africa.

Letsatsi is actively involved in multi-stakeholder initiatives on climate action, data governance, and digital inclusion, and regularly supports capacity building for librarians, researchers, and policymakers. His current interests include rights-based approaches to AI adoption in libraries, responsible data use, and strengthening public trust in digital knowledge systems

Letsatsi Lekhooa is a Systems Librarian at the National University of Lesotho Library and the Chairperson of the Lesotho Research and Education Network (LesREN). His work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital governance, ope... Show more

Angela Micocci

Angela Micocci

Angela is driven by a deep passion for artificial intelligence, inclusion, and accessibility. At Microsoft, she supports enterprise companies in adopting cloud and AI solutions, blending technological innovation with human connection. With extensive experience in guiding organizations to leverage the cloud in a strategic and transformative way, she demonstrates how technology can be a powerful engine of empowerment—creating positive and lasting change

Angela is driven by a deep passion for artificial intelligence, inclusion, and accessibility. At Microsoft, she supports enterprise companies in adopting cloud and AI solutions, blending technological innovation with human connection. With extensive ... Show more

Beatrice Großjohann

Beatrice Großjohann

Chemikerin, Promotion in medizinischer Biochemie
Geschäftsführerin der Fa. Micromun Institut für mikrobiologische Forschung GmbH
Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin der BioResQ gGmbH
seit 18 Jahren Lehrtätigkeit an der Hochschule Neubrandenburg

Chemikerin, Promotion in medizinischer Biochemie Geschäftsführerin der Fa. Micromun Institut für mikrobiologische Forschung GmbH Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin der BioResQ gGmbH seit 18 Jahren Lehrtätigkeit an der Hochschule Neubrandenburg Show more

Harsha Priya Ganapathy

Harsha Priya Ganapathy

Harsha Priya Ganapathy is an AI/ML Engineer and Research Scholar with a Master’s degree in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. She has published multiple AI research papers and has built real-world AI applications in healthcare, energy optimization, and computer vision.
She actively mentors students in AI and cloud technologies, has delivered technical webinars on hackathon strategy and AI system design, and works at the intersection of applied machine learning and scalable software systems.
Her work focuses on making advanced AI accessible through practical system integration using modern development frameworks.

Harsha Priya Ganapathy is an AI/ML Engineer and Research Scholar with a Master’s degree in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. She has published multiple AI research papers and has built real-world AI applic... Show more

Gábor Mészáros

Gábor Mészáros

Mathematician turned software engineer turned network scientist. I explore how structure and behavior emerge in complex systems — from code ecosystems to large graphs. Passionate about Python, powered mostly by coffee, and firmly in the tabs-over-spaces camp.

Mathematician turned software engineer turned network scientist. I explore how structure and behavior emerge in complex systems — from code ecosystems to large graphs. Passionate about Python, powered mostly by coffee, and firmly in the tabs-over-spa... Show more

Takuya Maeda

Takuya Maeda

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Transpacific Thought at NYU

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Transpacific Thought at NYU Show more

Ramsey Elkholy

Ramsey Elkholy

Ramsey Elkholy is a guitarist, producer, songwriter, and anthropologist who founded the indietronica collective Monotronic in 2016. He conceived the project as a communal platform where instruments interweave into a single expressive force. Rather than spotlighting individual virtuosity, he emphasizes shared intention and group chemistry, encouraging collaborators to shape each track with their own textures, instincts, and creative voice.

Elkholy’s parallel career in anthropology informs that philosophy. He earned a PhD and authored Being and Becoming: Embodiment and Experience Among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra, a study of rainforest foragers in Indonesia. His research explored how identity, environment, and daily practice intertwine. That perspective carries into his music, where rhythm and atmosphere reflect lived experience and collective awareness.

Travel has also played a defining role in his artistic development. After spending three years backpacking across Asia and beyond, studying Indian music in Calcutta, and completing two years of fieldwork in Sumatra, Ramsey Elkholy Monotronic developed a deep sensitivity to polyrhythm and texture. He has described the rainforest at night as a vast, layered symphony. Raised in New York and now based in Los Angeles, he works from a home garage studio.

Monotronic’s 2026 album Waiting for You represents a significant chapter in the collective’s growth. The record features acclaimed bassist Mohini Dey on Close Enough and legendary drummer Omar Hakim throughout the project. Several accompanying videos, including Looking Away and Everything Moves, premiered at number one on VEVO, expanding the band’s reach and visual identity.

The album blends indie rock, pop, and electronic elements into a cohesive, cinematic sound marked by reflective lyrics and polished production. Everything Moves unfolds in a high-energy escape room setting, while Kettle Song pairs dynamic choreography with striking imagery. Many of the songs were written during time spent in Tulum, where coastal landscapes shaped the album’s contemplative mood.

Since releasing their self-titled debut in 2019, Monotronic has earned praise from outlets such as Rolling Stone and Relix. A rotating roster of accomplished musicians has contributed to the project, many of whom have ties to major artists across genres. Singles including Kids of Summer and In Between have drawn a strong critical response, reinforcing Elkholy’s reputation for genre-fluid songwriting and immersive sound design.

Ramsey Elkholy is a guitarist, producer, songwriter, and anthropologist who founded the indietronica collective Monotronic in 2016. He conceived the project as a communal platform where instruments interweave into a single expressive force. Rather th... Show more

Sahara Al-Madi

Sahara Al-Madi

Sahara is a computational linguist and AI security researcher dedicated to building culturally coherent, resilient, and trustworthy technology. Currently a Project Lead for AI Data Operations, she focuses on the frontier of "Linguistic Security", synthesizing computational linguistics, adversarial safety, and open-source collaboration. As a technical builder within the NAMAA Arabic NLP community and a UCLA trained linguist, Sahara translates cultural and script specific nuances into defensive frameworks for more secure AI systems. As a first generation Palestinian-Mexican American, she is committed to architecting digital spaces that are safe, accessible, and technically representative of the global communities they serve.

Note: As a first-time BSides speaker, I am excited about working with a mentor to refine this technical briefing for the San Diego security community.

Sahara is a computational linguist and AI security researcher dedicated to building culturally coherent, resilient, and trustworthy technology. Currently a Project Lead for AI Data Operations, she focuses on the frontier of "Linguistic Security", syn... Show more

Franz Josef Schmitt

Franz Josef Schmitt

Head of the advanced physics laboratory at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Head of the advanced physics laboratory at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Show more

Fariba Yazdanpanah

Fariba Yazdanpanah

Dr. Fariba Yazdanpanah is a General Preventive Medicine and Public Health resident at the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center with more than 15 years of experience in clinical medicine and research. She is also board-certified in Cardiology by Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Dr. Yazdanpanah is committed to advancing patient safety and quality of care through the integration of preventive and curative approaches. Her work focuses on developing innovative healthcare strategies and conducting impactful, cutting-edge clinical research within academic and healthcare systems.

Dr. Fariba Yazdanpanah is a General Preventive Medicine and Public Health resident at the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center with more than 15 years of experience in clinical medicine and research. She is also board-certified in Cardi... Show more

Hannah Sari

Hannah Sari

Hannah Sari ist Sozialarbeiterin, Sexualpädagogin und studiert den Master "Gesellschaftlicher Wandel als Gestaltungsaufgabe" an der Hochschule München. Sie arbeitet vor allem zu den Themen Konsens und Awareness.

Hannah Sari ist Sozialarbeiterin, Sexualpädagogin und studiert den Master "Gesellschaftlicher Wandel als Gestaltungsaufgabe" an der Hochschule München. Sie arbeitet vor allem zu den Themen Konsens und Awareness. Show more

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His work includes internationally award-winning publications that helped pioneer the field of AI Security, notably PentestGPT (USENIX 2024, Distinguished Artifact Award Winner). He holds two engineering degrees (EE and CS) completed simultaneously, and a PhD in Robot Cybersecurity from the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).

He is a researcher and an investor in robotics and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in robot cybersecurity and computing architectures for robots, following his contributions to the creation of the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), which powers 95% of the commercial robots worldwide. He has delivered talks at security forums across the globe, including Black Hat Europe, Black Hat USA, USENIX, and others.

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His wo... Show more

Kavach Shah

Kavach Shah

As a AI Research Assistant at Boston University, I’m contributing to cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning research achieving 85.80% accuracy in group classification through custom-built classifiers. Our work, focused on facial paralysis analysis, not only advances healthcare AI but also informs scalable deployment strategies for AI pipelines—aligning with my academic focus on Generative AI, Large Language Models, and their orchestration in containerized environments like KubeVirt.

As a AI Research Assistant at Boston University, I’m contributing to cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning research achieving 85.80% accuracy in group classification through custom-built classifiers. Our work, focused on facial paralysis ... Show more

Aminu Bonifacio

Aminu Bonifacio

Currently associated World Food Forum Chapter Leadership Representative ACUNS Cartography Cryptography Program Futurize Founder Academy returned from Dakar Senegal European Union Landscape Resilience Program Fellowship Africa Rice 2025. Kaizer* Karmah**

Currently associated World Food Forum Chapter Leadership Representative ACUNS Cartography Cryptography Program Futurize Founder Academy returned from Dakar Senegal European Union Landscape Resilience Program Fellowship Africa Rice 2025. Kaizer* Karma... Show more

Tijana Selak

Tijana Selak

Tijana Selak (MSc., P.Biol.) is a biologist, science communicator, and the Wildlife Campaigns & Advocacy Manager at The Fur-Bearers, an animal protection organization involved in conservation, research, advocacy, and education. Her graduate research explored how language and framing influence public attitudes toward urban wildlife, using Calgary as a case study to analyze cross-sector communication trends. Specializing in environmental education and public engagement, her work bridges research, advocacy, and storytelling to promote coexistence and compassionate conservation.

Tijana Selak (MSc., P.Biol.) is a biologist, science communicator, and the Wildlife Campaigns & Advocacy Manager at The Fur-Bearers, an animal protection organization involved in conservation, research, advocacy, and education. Her graduate research ... Show more

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