Kalaniyot Faculty

Joshua

Angrist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Ford Professor of Economics; Nobel Laureate

Department:

Economics

Research Areas:

Econometrics; Labor Economics

Hagit

Arieli-Chai

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Hebrew Language Coordinator, Casden Institute Visiting Scholar

Department:

Hebrew Language / Jewish Studies

Research Areas:

Hebrew language acquisition & proficiency; communicative competence; Hebrew root morphology; cultural competency in language teaching

Ariel C.

Avgar

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

David M. Cohen Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History; Academic Director of the Center for Applied Research on Work; Academic Director of the National Conflict Resolution Service

Department:

Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR)

Research Areas:

Avgar explores the role that employment relations factors play in the healthcare industry; studies conflict and its management in organizations with a focus on the strategic choices made by firms

David E.

Avigan

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology​, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Medicine for the Study of Oncology

Department:

Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Cancer Vaccines; Multiple Myeloma; Dendritic Cells; Mucin-1; Adoptive Immunotherapy

Yaniv

Bar-Cohen

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Medicine

Department:

Pediatrics / Medicine (Clinical)

Research Areas:

Pediatric cardiology & electrophysiology; fetal micropacemaker device development; arrhythmia management in congenital heart disease

Regina

Barzilay

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health; MacArthur Fellow

Department:

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)

Research Areas:

Developing machine learning methods for drug discovery and clinical AI

Eyal

Ben-Isaac

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Department:

Pediatrics (Clinical Medicine)

Research Areas:

General pediatrics; medical education/residency training; educational curriculum & simulation-based training for pediatric residents

Keren

Bergman

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director, Center for Integrated Science and Engineering

Department:

Electrical Engineering

Research Areas:

Computer Engineering and Computer Systems; Networking and Communications; Nanoscale Structures and Integrated Devices

Rameen

Beroukhim

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Medicine

Department:

Medical Oncology​, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Somatic genetics of cancer

Stephen Charles

Blacklow

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Chair and Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Department:

Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Notch signaling

Lawrence E.

Blume

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics; Professor of Information Science; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Department:

Economics

Research Areas:

Evolutionary processes in markets and games; Economic theory; Game theory

Ari D.

Brooks

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Clinical Surgery; Co-Director, Penn Breast Health Initiative; Chief, Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital

Department:

Surgery dept., Penn Medicine; Pennsylvania Hospital

Research Areas:

Breast Cancer; Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery; Melanoma; Sarcoma

Richard

Brutchey

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Ray R. Irani Chair in Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry

Department:

Chemistry

Research Areas:

Inorganic/materials chemistry; nanocrystal & colloidal synthesis; catalysis, energy storage/conversion

Carl

Castro

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor; Director of Military and Veterans Programs; Director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families; Director of the RAND-USC Epstein Family Foundation Center for Veterans Policy Research

Department:

Social Work; Psychology

Research Areas:

Military/veteran behavioral health; combat trauma & PTSD; suicide/sexual assault prevention; military-to-civilian transition

Fotini

Christia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences; Director, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)

Department:

Political Science

Research Areas:

Civil wars; political violence; identity politics; post-conflict reconstruction; field experiments; big data; Middle East.

Ruth

Cislowski

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Social Work Practicum Education; Assistant Director of Practicum Education

Department:

Social Work (Practicum Education)

Research Areas:

Social work field/practicum education; leadership & management pedagogy; nonprofit program development; social work voter engagement

Tal

Cohen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Postdoctoral Affairs Chair

Department:

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas:

Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Material Growth, Material Instabilities

Pinchas (Hassy)

Cohen

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Distinguished Professor of Gerontology, Medicine and Biological Sciences; Dean, School of Gerontology; William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology

Department:

Gerontology; Medicine; Biological Sciences

Research Areas:

Mitochondrial-derived peptides (humanin, MOTS-c, SHLP2); aging, diabetes, neurodegeneration, cancer

Peter

Decherney

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Edmund J and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Cinema & Media Studies; Director, Penn Global Documentary Institute

Department:

English

Research Areas:

Cinema and Media Studies; Drama and Theatre; Visual Culture

Vitaliya (Vita)

Droutman

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Psychology

Department:

Psychology

Research Areas:

Neuroscience of risky decision-making; adolescent development and substance use; mindfulness training/self-regulation

Lara A.

Estroff

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Chair, Materials Science and Engineering; Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry

Department:

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Areas:

Polymers and Soft Matter; Mechanics of Biological Materials; Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation; Biomedical Engineering; Bioengineering; Tissue Engineering and Biomateria

Maurizio

Fava

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mass General Hospital; Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Department:

Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Depression

David J.

Feller-Kopman

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Medicine; Section Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Department:

Medicine; Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Research Areas:

Interventional pulmonology; Central airway obstruction; Pleural disease; Pulmonary nodules; Mediastinal / hilar adenopathy; Severe emphysema / COPD and asthma; Critical care

Claire O.

Finkelstein

University of Pennsylvania

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; Faculty Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law

Department:

Law

Research Areas:

Criminal Law and Procedure; International and Comparative Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy; Professional Responsibility and Ethics

Jacob

Fish

Columbia University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Director, Initiative for Computational Science and Engineering

Department:

Engineering and Applied Science

Research Areas:

Computational Science and Engineering; Advanced Materials

Gary R.

Fleisher

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Physician-in-Chief, Boston Children’s Hospital; Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Department:

Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Pediatric Care

Lisa

Fox

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Director of Development, First Jobs, and The Edmond & Marielle Safra Director’s Endowed Chair, Business of Entertainment

Department:

Cinematic Arts (staff)

Research Areas:

Ernest

Fraenkel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology

Department:

Biological Engineering

Research Areas:

Developing computational and experimental approaches to search for new therapeutic strategies for diseases

Jeffrey J.

Fredberg

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology, Emeritus

Department:

Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Research Areas:

Physical laws governing the abilities of the cytoskeleton to deform, contract, and remodel

Zvi

Galil

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Computer Scientist and Dean Emeritus of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Department:

Engineering and Applied Science

Research Areas:

Algorithms (particularly string matching and graph algorithms), complexity, and cryptography

Cecilia

Gaposhkin

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professor in History

Department:

History

Research Areas:

Medieval cultural history; French history; Saints and sanctity; Visual culture; Liturgy; Crusades; The History of the Crusades and the Latin East; Kingship; Relics; Paris; The Abbey of St.-Denis

Wendy

Garrett

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Professor of Medicine

Department:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Molecular Metabolism; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

Research Areas:

The interplay between the gastrointestinal immune system and the gut microbiota in health, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and colorectal cancer (CRC)

Glen N.

Gaulton

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Vice Dean and Director of Global Health

Department:

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn Medicine

Research Areas:

Viral pathogenesis, early detection of pathogen infection, and outcomes research in global health

Gad ​

Getz

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Pathology

Department:

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Broad Institute; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Cancer genome analysis

Kaitlin (Katie)

Gold

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor and Susan Eckert Lynch Faculty Fellow

Department:

Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech

Research Areas:

Plant disease detection and epidemiology; Grape pathology; Remote sensing and imaging spectroscopy

Ziv

Goldfeld

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor

Department:

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Areas:

Goldfeld’s research develops the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of machine learning and AI, targeting principled approaches with guarantees on reliability, scalability, robustness, and steerability

Leana

Golubchik

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Stephen and Etta Varra Professor; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Department:

Electrical & Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Areas:

Large-scale distributed systems; hybrid clouds/data centers; machine learning infrastructure & privacy

Yonatan H.

Grad

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Healrth; Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

Department:

Epidemiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health

Research Areas:

How pathogens evolve and spread.

Yuval

Grossman

Cornell University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Professor of Physics

Department:

Physics

Research Areas:

Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

Daphne A.

Haas-Kogan

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Willem and Corrie Hees Family Professor of Radiation Oncology; Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Department:

Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Glioma; Brain Neoplasms; Neuroblastoma; Radiation-Sensitizing Agents; Central Nervous System Neoplasms

Uri

Hangorsky

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Clinical Professor of Periodontics; Associate Dean for Student Affairs; Director of Internal Student Exchange, Penn Dental Medicine

Department:

Periodontics, Penn Dental Medicine

Research Areas:

Periodontics

Or

Hen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Class of 1956 CD Associate Professor of Physics; Associate Director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Department:

Physics

Research Areas:

QCD effects in the nuclear medium; the interplay between partonic and nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclei

Brian

Henick

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, Experimental Therapeutics/Phase I Program, HICCC; Director of Translational Research in Upper-Aerodigestive Malignancies in Medical Oncology at CUMC

Department:

Medicine

Research Areas:

Immunotherapy; Lung Cancer; Mesothelioma; Thoracic Cancer; Thoracic Lung Cases; Thoracic Oncology

Michael C.

Herron

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

William Clinton Story Remsen 1943 Professor of Quantitative Social Science; Chair, Quantitative Social Science

Department:

Quantitative Social Science

Research Areas:

Election administration; Statistical methods; Game theory

Susannah

Heschel

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Eli M. Black Professor of Jewish Studies; Chair of Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Department:

Jewish Studies

Research Areas:

Judaism; Nazi Germany; Jewish feminism; Abraham Geiger; Jewish views of Islam

Susie

Hess

University of Southern California

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Social Work Practicum Education

Department:

Social Work (Practicum Education)

Research Areas:

Trauma-informed care, healing-centered engagement; domestic/intimate partner violence, incarceration-affected communities, war-affected populations

Oliver

Hobert

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Biological Sciences and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Department:

Biological Sciences; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Research Areas:

Cell, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental and Circuit Neuroscience

Frank B.

Hu

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology; Chair, Department of Nutrition; Professor of Medicine

Department:

Epidemiology; Nutrition; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health

Research Areas:

Epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle; gene-environment interactions; nutritional omics and precision nutrition; nutrition transitions in low- and middle-income countries

Mireille

Jacobson

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Gerontology and Public Policy; Assistant Dean of Academic Initiativeso-Director, Aging and Cognition Program; Senior Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute

Department:

Gerontology

Research Areas:

Health economics & policy; Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement effects; vaccination incentives; economics of aging

Prasad

Jayanti

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Computer Science

Department:

Computer Science

Research Areas:

Concurrent Algorithms

Jeremy

Kagan

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor

Department:

Film & Television Production

Research Areas:

Directing (film/TV); entertainment-education (behavior-change media); Change Making Media Lab

Naama

Kanarek

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor of Pathology

Department:

Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Folate metabolism

Adam M.

Kleinbaum

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Leadership and Organizations

Department:

Business

Research Areas:

Leadership and organizational behavior

Isaiah

Kletenik

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Department:

Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Agnosia; Imagination; Aphasia; Unconsciousness; Awareness

Anna

Krylov

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences; Professor of Chemistry

Department:

Chemistry

Research Areas:

Theoretical/computational quantum chemistry; open-shell & electronically excited species; spin-flip method; spectroscopy modeling

Daniel​

Kuritzkes

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Chief of Infectious Diseases; Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine

Department:

Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Resistance to antiretroviral drugs, Viral fitness, Viral tropism, HIV-1 persistence and eradication

Alexandra D.

Lahav

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law

Department:

Law

Research Areas:

Civil justice system, complex litigation, tort law

Galit

Lahav

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Professor and Chair, System Biology

Department:

Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Dynamics of cancer pathways in single cells

Douglas A.

Lauffenburger

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Ford Professor of Engineering; Institute Professor

Department:

Biological Engineering

Research Areas:

Integration of experimental and mathematical/computational analysis toward development and validation of predictive models in terms of underlying molecular and cellular network properties.

Jane E. G.

Lipson

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Albert W. Smith Professor of Chemistry; Associate Dean for the Sciences

Department:

Chemistry

Research Areas:

Soft condensed matter; polymers; melt and glass states; mixtures and phase separation; thin films and interfaces; dynamic relaxation

Quan

Lu

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology

Department:

Environmental Health; Molecular Metabolism, Harvard School of Public Health

Research Areas:

Genetic mechanisms of metal neurotoxicity; Integrative genomics of lung physiology and disease (asthma); Novel microvesicle-mediated intercellular communication in lung and environmental diseases

Jeremy R.

Manning

Dartmouth College

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Associate Professor

Department:

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Areas:

Learning, memory, and brain network dynamics

Andrew R.

Marks

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology (in Medicine); Founding Director, Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology

Department:

Physiology & Cellular Biophysics

Research Areas:

Molecular mechanisms regulating contraction of normal and failing cardiac muscle; molecular triggers for cardiac arrhythmias; coronary artery restenosis following stent placement

Mark Alan

McPeek

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor, Biological Sciences

Department:

Biological Sciences

Research Areas:

Evolutionary biology; community ecology; sexual selection; phylogenetic studies; adaptation; population biology

Matthew

Meyerson

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Center for Cancer Genomics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Department:

Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Lung Cancer Biology; Cancer Microbiome; Cancer Genomics; Genome-inspired Cancer Drug Discovery

Josh

Mitts

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

David J. Greenwald Professor of Law

Department:

Law

Research Areas:

Securities Law; Corporate Law; Financial Contracts; Law and Finance; Empirical Methods in Law

Michàlle E.

Mor Barak

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Dean Endowed Professor of Social Work and Business

Department:

Social Work; Business

Research Areas:

Global workforce diversity & inclusion; inclusive workplace theory; diversity climate measurement; work-family balance; corporate social responsibility

Raul

Mostoslavsky

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Laurel Schwartz Professor of Medicine in the Field of Oncology; Scientific Director, MGH Cancer Center

Department:

Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Chromatin; chromatin assembly and disassembly; dna repair; epigenetics; genomic instability; histones; immune system; immunoglobulin kappa-chains; longevity; sirtuin 1; sirtuins

Ari

Ne’eman

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management

Department:

Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Healrth

Research Areas:

Long-term services and supports, disability employment and benefits, public opinion, and bioethics policy

Mitchell A.

Orenstein

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Department:

Russian and East European Studies

Research Areas:

The political economy of transition in Central and Eastern Europe; the role of ideas in economic policy reform; Russia’s hybrid war on the West

Christine

Ortiz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Morris Cohen (1933) Professor in Materials Science and Engineering

Department:

Materials Science and Engineering

Research Areas:

Ortiz’s research focuses on structural or load-bearing biological materials, in particular musculoskeletal (internal) and exoskeletal (external) tissues

Daphna

Oyserman

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Dean’s Professor of Psychology

Department:

Psychology; Education; Communication

Research Areas:

Culture, identity & motivation; identity-based motivation theory; racial/ethnic/social-class gaps in achievement and health

Rafael

Pass

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor, Cornell Tech; Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

Department:

Cornell Tech

Research Areas:

Cryptography and its interplay with Computational Complexity and Game Theory

Mark

Poznansky

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Director of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Mass General Hospital; Distinguished Physician Infectious Disease, Mass General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Department:

Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

hemokine cxcl12; chemotaxis, leukocyte; hiv envelope protein gp120; hsp70 heat-shock proteins; influenza vaccines; receptors, cxcr4; t-lymphocytes; thymus gland

Daryl G.

Press

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Government; Faculty Director, Davidson Institute for Global Security

Department:

Government

Research Areas:

U.S. national security policy; changing technology and warfare; nuclear deterrence

Hanna

Reisler

University of Southern California

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

University Professor, Lloyd Armstrong, Jr.; Chair for Science and Engineering; Professor of Chemistry

Department:

Chemistry

Research Areas:

Chemical reaction dynamics; photodissociation of free radicals/carbenes; laser & molecular-beam imaging techniques; atmospheric/combustion chemistry

Paul G.

Richardson

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Clinical Program Leader and Director of Clinical Research, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center; Institute Physician; RJ Corman Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Department:

Medical Oncology​, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

Multiple Myeloma; Reduction of Regimen-Related Toxicity

Daniel N.

Rockmore

Dartmouth College

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science; Professor of Math and Computer Science; Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science

Department:

Mathematics

Research Areas:

Complex Systems; Machine Learning; Applied Harmonic Analysis

Shmuel M.

Rubinstein

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Visiting Professor of Applied Physics

Department:

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Areas:

Applied Physics

Gary B.

Ruvkun

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Nobel Laureate; Breakthrough Laureate

Department:

Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Research Areas:

microRNA and RNA interference mechanisms, bacterial and animal genetic analysis of microbiome interactions, neuroendocrine control of detoxification, immunity, and aging, life on other planets

Gennady

Samorodnitsky

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies; Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor in Productivity

Department:

Operations Research and Information Engineering

Research Areas:

Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation; Applied Probability; Financial Engineering; Networks; Statistics and Machine Learning

David

Scadden

Harvard University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Founder-Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mass General Hospital

Department:

Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Areas:

Blood Diseases; Cancer

Robert L.

Schiller

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts

Department:

Film & Television Production

Research Areas:

Directing (sitcom, drama, theatre); composition for film/TV/theatre; practitioner-based directing pedagogy

Sara L.

Schwartz

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Teaching

Department:

Social Work

Research Areas:

Social worker burnout/engagement; child welfare workforce research; visual social work methods; research & evaluation methodology

Michal

Sela-Amit

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Teaching Professor

Department:

Social Work

Research Areas:

Child/family social work; intra-familial child sexual abuse; arts & expressive practices in social work; international social work (China, Israel)

Hélène L.

Seroussi

Dartmouth College

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Engineering

Department:

Engineering; Earth Sciences

Research Areas:

Glaciology; ice sheet modeling and ice sheet contribution to sea level; ice-ocean interactions; climate science; data assimilation and inverse modeling in geosciences

Yossi

Sheffi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems; Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics; Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering; Professor, MIT Institute of Data Science and Society (IDSS)

Department:

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Research Areas:

Systems optimization, risk analysis, supply chain management

Michael

Sipser

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Donner Professor; Professor of Applied Mathematics; MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Department:

Mathematics

Research Areas:

Algorithms; Complexity Theory

Lou J.

Soslowsky

University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Fairhill Professor; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Associate Dean for Research Integration

Department:

Medicine

Research Areas:

Orthopaedic research, orthopaedic biomechanics and tissue engineering, tendons and ligaments, shoulder and elbow

Clifford S.

Stein

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Wai T. Chang Professor of IEOR and Computer Science

Department:

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Areas:

Machine Learning & Analytics; Optimization

Melissa S.

Stockwell

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Felice K. Shea Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Population and Family Health; Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Department:

Pediatrics

Research Areas:

Pediatric Care, Primary Care

Elad

Tako

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor

Department:

Food Science

Research Areas:

Nutrigenomics; Trace Mineral Bioavailability; Dietary Mineral Deficiencies; Physiological Biomarkers; Bioactive Compounds; Microbiome; Functionality and Morphology of the Small Intestinal Brush Border Membrane

Eli

Tziperman

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Pamela and Vaco McCoy, Jr. Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Department:

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Research Areas:

Climate, Atmosphere, and Oceans

Haim

Waisman

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor and Chair, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Department:

Engineering and Applied Science

Research Areas:

Structural Engineering; Sustainable Infrastructure; Dynamics and Vibrations; Solid Mechanics; Computational Mechanics; Dynamic Behavior of Structures; Mechanics of Advanced Materials; Multiscale Modeling and Simulation; Nonlinear Mechanics; Soft Materials Mechanics; Biomechanics; Fracture and Damage Mechanics; Finite Element Methods; Multiphysics Problems; Design and Topology Optimization; Scientific and Parallel Computing

Cheryl Jan

Wakslak

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor of Management and Organization

Department:

Business

Research Areas:

Psychological distance & abstraction; power and language; organizational/managerial decision-making

Alan E.

Willner

University of Southern California

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Distinguished Professor; Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professorial Chair

Department:

Electrical & Computer Engineering; Physics & Astronomy

Research Areas:

Optical fiber communications; free-space optical communications; photonics

Amir

Yacoby

Harvard University

Chapter Head

Academic Role:

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics

Department:

Physics

Research Areas:

Spin Qubits; Topo QED; NV centers in diamonds; Layered materials

David B.

Zax

Cornell University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Associate Professor

Department:

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Research Areas:

Study of novel solid materials using solid state magnetic resonance

Assaf

Zeevi

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Kravis Professor of Business

Department:

Business

Research Areas:

Operations Research, Statistics, and Machine Learning

Tian

Zheng

Columbia University

Faculty Board Member

Academic Role:

Professor of Statistics; Deputy Director, NSF STC LEAP

Department:

Statistics

Research Areas:

Applied Statistics and Data Science; Statistical Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Research-Education Integration