Barney Pell

Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and computer scientist. He is co-founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Moon Express; co-founder and Chairman of LocoMobi; and Associate Founder of Singularity University. He was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft's Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing in Artificial Intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.


John Somers Dines

John Somers Dines (18 June 1885 – 15 May 1980) was an English meteorologist. Dines was born in the Cuckfield district, West Sussex, the son of meteorologist William Henry Dines and grandson of meteorologist George Dines. He graduated from Cambridge in 1906, with a degree in mathematics. He worked with his father, at Pyrton Hill, Oxfordshire, for a year, carrying out investigations of the upper atmosphere. In September 1907, Dines became employed by the Met Office. In 1912, he became responsible for the new branch of the Met Office at South Farnborough, where investigations of wind structure for the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics were conducted. Accompanied by G.M.B. Dobson in autumn 1913, he visited six stations in Germany to see how they dealt with forecasting and aviation work.


Aleksandar Lazarevic

Aleksandar Lazarevic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Лазаревић) is a computer scientist who specializes in research on Data mining. In addition, his research interests include security applications, video surveillance, parallel and distributed computing. He earned B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1997 respectively. In 1997, he went to United States, and in 2001, he received the PhD degree in Computer and Information Science from Temple University in Philadelphia.


Michael Gruninger

Michael John (Mike) Gruninger (born c. 1966) is a Canadian computer scientist and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, known for his work on Enterprise modelling, particularly the work on the TOVE Project with Mark S. Fox, and for his work on Ontologies in information science.


Simon Colton

Simon Colton (London, 1973) is a British computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He previously led a research group of the same name at Imperial College, London in the position of Reader. He graduated from the University of Durham with a degree in Mathematics, gained a MSc. in Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool, and finally a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Alan Bundy.


Zi Wang

Zi Wang (Chinese: 子望, born 14 July 2014, Tianjin, China) is a Chinese actress and model. In 2013, she appeared in the on Kuai GIF (Chinese GIF apps), Ziwang is popular with her humorous clips, so far by June 2016, she has attracted 1.36 million fans on Kuai GIF.On Sina Weibo, Ziwang is also widely acclaimed, by Septemeber, 2016, she has a million fans.In 2015, She was recruited by a talent group "Miss Like" by Like Media and made appearances in many commercials films and television.


Yao Li

Yao Li (要離) was a famed assassin in the Spring and Autumn Period. Native in the state of Wu, he was recommended to King Helü of Wu by Wu Zixu. His mission was to kill Prince Qingji of Wu (慶忌), who was then in the state of Wei. In order to pretend to be a criminal in the state of Wu, Yao Li killed his wife and his mother, and his right hand was cut off by King Helü. After his arrival in the state of Wei, he met Prince Qingji and was able to stay in the same boat with his target. As the boat reached the middle of the river, he killed Prince Qingji with a lance and then committed suicide.


Deepak Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal has worked as a big data analyst, specializing in web application relevance and machine learning, and directing scientific research on complex data problems in systems and computational advertising.


Christos H. Papadimitriou

Christos Harilaos Papadimitriou (Greek: Χρήστος Χαρίλαος Παπαδημητρίου; born August 16, 1949 in Athens) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist, and professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.


Hans Wortmann

Johannes Casper (Hans) Wortmann (born 1950, Emmen) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor of Information Management at the University of Groningen, known for his contributions in the field of risk management and Industry requirements. Wortmann received his MS in 1972 in Business Administration at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where in 1981 he also received his PhD under supervision of W.M.J.


Joseph M. Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein (born 7 June 1968) is professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on database systems and computer networks. He co-founded Trifacta with Jeffrey Heer and Sean Kandel in 2012, which stemmed from their research project, Wrangler.


Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin (Chinese: 林智仁; pinyin: Lín Zhìrén) is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University, and a leading researcher in machine learning, optimization, and data mining. He is best known for the open source library LIBSVM, an implementation of support vector machines.


Deborah L. McGuinness

Deborah Louise McGuinness (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist and Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she holds an endowed chair in the Tetherless World Research Constellation. She is working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust.


Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Michael Hilbe (born December 30, 1944) is an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association(IAA) and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century. Hilbe is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he founded the ISI astrostatistics committee in 2009. Hilbe is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.


H. Eugene Stanley

Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.


Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris John Bertsimas is an applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein is a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents.


Michael J. Kearns

Michael Kearns is an American computer scientist, professor and National Center Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, the founding director of Penn's Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), the founding director of Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences , and also holds secondary appointments in Penn's Wharton School and department of Economics. He is a leading researcher in computational learning theory and algorithmic game theory, and interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational finance, algorithmic trading, computational social science and social networks.


Christiaan Heij

Christiaan Heij (born 1950s) is a Dutch mathematician, Assistant Professor in statistics and econometrics at the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his work in the field of mathematical systems theory, and econometrics.


Herbert Edelsbrunner

Herbert Edelsbrunner (born 1958) is a computer scientist working in the field of computational geometry, the Arts & Science Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Duke University, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), and the co-founder of Geomagic, Inc. He was the first of only three computer scientists to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.


Anatoliy Skorokhod

Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod (Ukrainian: Анато́лій Володи́мирович Скорохо́д; September 10, 1930 – January 3, 2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011. In 1956–1964 he worked at Kyiv University. From 1964 until 2002, he was at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. At the same time, he was a professor at Kyiv University. Since 1993, he had been a professor at Michigan State University, U.S., and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Tim Roughgarden

Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an Associate professor in the Computer Science and Management Science and Engineering Departments at Stanford University. Tim received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2002, where his PhD was supervised by Éva Tardos. Roughgarden teaches a popular two-part Algorithms course on Coursera.


Whitfield Diffie

Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper "New Directions in Cryptography" was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article also seems to have stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.


Jan Wielemaker

Jan Wielemaker is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is known for being the original author and one of the most extensive contributors to the SWI-Prolog implementation of the Prolog programming language, as well as the SWI-Prolog reference manual.


Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. In 1967 and 1969 Kauffman proposed applying models of random boolean networks to simplified genetic circuits. These were very early models of large genetic regulatory networks, proposing that cell types are dynamical attractors of such networks and that cell differentiation steps are transitions between attractors. Recent evidence strongly suggests that cell types in humans and other organisms are indeed attractors. In 1971 he suggested that the zygote may not access all the cell type attractors in the repertoire of the genetic network's dynamics, hence some of the unused cell types might be cancers.


Dragomir R. Radev

Dragomir R. Radev is a University of Michigan computer science professor and Columbia University computer science adjunct professor working on natural language processing and information retrieval. He is currently working on the fields of open domain question answering, multi-document summarization, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics and Political Science. Radev received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1999. He is the secretary of ACL (2006–present) and associate editor of JAIR.


Lada A. Adamic

Lada Adamic is an American network scientist, who researches information dynamics in networks. She studies how network structure influences the flow of information, how information influences the evolution of networks, and crowdsourced knowledge sharing.


Joan Bresnan

Joan Wanda Bresnan (born August 22, 1945) is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects (with Ronald Kaplan) of the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Bresnan served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1999.


Brooke Anderson

Brooke Victoria Anderson (born May 13, 1978) was a co-host of The Insider, and is now a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Previously, she was a culture and entertainment anchor and producer for CNN and served as co-host for Showbiz Tonight on HLN. Based in CNN's Los Angeles, California bureau, Anderson joined the network in July 2000. Anderson graduated in 2000 with honors from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She is a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.


Jeffrey Dean

Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Google Senior Fellow in the Systems and Infrastructure Group.


Robert D. Kleinberg

Robert David Kleinberg is an American theoretical computer scientist and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.


Florin Popescu

Florin Popescu (born August 30, 1974 in Iancu Jianu, Olt) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică Pricop (gold: C-2 1000 m, bronze: C-2 500 m). He won a total of seven world championship gold medals (and nineteen total) as well as seven European championship golds, making him the most successful Romanian paddler of modern times.


John Tsitsiklis

Dr. John N. Tsitsiklis (born 1958, Thessaloniki, Greece) is Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT.


Geoff Webb

Geoffrey I. Webb (also known as Geoff Webb) is Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, Founder and Director of Data Mining software development and consultancy company G. I. Webb and Associates, and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Before joining Monash University he was on the faculty at Griffith University from 1986 to 1988 and then at Deakin University from 1988 to 2002.


Wolfgang Huber

Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009.


Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli (born on 4 October 1957) is a professor of engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the current president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Succeeding Patrick Aebischer, he will be the president of EPFL from 1 January 2017.


Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau (born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web and organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994.


David Goodsell

David S. Goodsell, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He is especially known for his watercolor paintings of living cells.


Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks.


Martin Gruber

Martin Gruber (born November 11, 1975 in Brixen) is an Italian luger who has competed since 1992. A natural track luger, he won the men's singles silver medal at the 1998 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Rautavaara, Finland. Gruber also won a silver medal in the same event at the 1995 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships in Kandalaksha, Russia.


Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham is a statistician from New Zealand who is currently Chief Scientist at RStudio and an adjunct Assistant Professor of statistics at Rice University. He is best known for his development of open-source statistical analysis software packages for R (programming language) that implement logics of data visualisation and data transformation. Wickham received a Bachelors of Human Biology, and a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in statistics at the University of Auckland in 1999–2004 and his PhD at Iowa State University in 2008 under the supervision of Di Cook and Heike Hoffman. In 2006 he was awarded the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation.


Charles R. Severance

Dr. Charles "Chuck" Russell Severance is an American computer scientist and academic who currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. Severance studied at Michigan State University, gaining his BS in 1984, his MS in 1990, and his PhD in 1996, all in computer science. After graduation, he became an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Michigan State, also serving as Director of the Division of Engineering Computer Services. He left this role in 1999 to become Associate Director for Advanced Technology at the University of Michigan's Media Union, and left the institution entirely in 2001 to serve as Director of Product Development for Strategic Interactive.


Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan (செந்தில் முல்லைநாதன்) () (born c. 1973) is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (with Eldar Shafir). He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He is co-founder of Ideas 42, a non-profit organization that uses behavioral science to help solve social problems, and J-PAL, the MIT Poverty Action Lab. He has made extensive academic contributions through the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also worked in government at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).


Ernesto Estrada

Ernesto Estrada (born May 2, 1966) is a Cuban-Spanish scientist. He is the Chair in Complexity Science, Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a member of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is known by his contributions in different disciplines including chemistry, and the mathematics and physics of Complex Systems.