Appendix B
Biographic Sketches of Workshop Speakers¹⁷

John L. Anderson (NAE) is president of the National Academy of Engineering since July 1, 2019. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and president (2007–15) of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve University (2004–07), following 28 years at Carnegie Mellon University, including 8 years as dean of the College of Engineering and 11 years as head of the Chemical Engineering Department. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University (1971–76). Anderson was elected to the NAE in 1992 for contributions to the understanding of colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport phenomena and was elected an NAE councillor in 2015. His service also includes numerous National Academies activities, such as the Committee on Determining Basic Research Needs to Interrupt the Improvised Explosive Device Delivery Chain (chair), Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (cochair), and Ford Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Review Panel on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering. In addition to his NAE membership, Anderson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was appointed to the National Science Board in 2014 for a six-year term. He received the Acrivos Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and an award from the Pittsburgh Section of AIChE for “Outstanding Professional Accomplishments in the Field of Academics,” and he is listed on the Alumni Wall of Fame at the University of Delaware. In 2012 he received the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. He has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (the Netherlands). He has presented guest lectures at universities throughout the United States and is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in 1967 and PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971, both in chemical engineering.

Michael Bastedo has scholarly interests in the governance, politics, and organization of public higher education, with particular interests in stratification, college admissions, and rankings. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, research director of the Institutes on Public University Governance, and a Ford Foundation Global Policy Fellow at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. His work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Review of Higher Education, Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education. His most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Educational Statistics, has been reported by journalists at The New York Times, The Economist, The Times of London, US News & World Report, The Chronicle of

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¹⁷ Biographies were current at the time of the workshop.

Higher Education, and others. He is affiliated with Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. He holds a PhD in administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.

Bruk Berhane is an assistant professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida International University. Before that he was director of the Office of Undergraduate Recruitment and Scholarship Programs (2011–18) for the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he directed engineering recruitment and scholarship programs (2005–18). During his tenure he oversaw an increase in the admission of students of color and women and supported initiatives that reduce the time to degree for transfers from Maryland community colleges. Early in his career he worked on nanotechnology and microsystems at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (2003–05). As a Mirzayan Fellow at the National Academies he researched methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. The broader implications of his research are informed by his comprehensive experiences as a college administrator. His areas of scholarly interest include broadening participation in engineering through community college pathways, entrepreneurship and the “entrepreneurial mindset” in the context of engineering, and experiences of first- and second-generation Americans in engineering undergraduate programs. He received his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, MS in engineering management from the George Washington University, and PhD in minority and urban education from the University of Maryland.

Michael Brown regularly applies his training in both engineering and education to his role as the School of Engineering Access Programs assistant dean and director for the School’s Educational Opportunity Fund/Engineering Opportunity Program Program, which provides financial and academic assistance to low-income New Jersey residents who show academic and/or creative promise but who lack adequate resources for college. Brown is a block grant facilitator for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) and a Region-A board member of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA). He is the principal investigator (PI) for the National Science Foundation NOYCE Teacher Scholarship Program for engineering and physics students and an advisory panelist for the NSF-funded Preparation in STEM Leadership Program. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering at Rutgers, and holds a PhD degree in science education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

David De Sousa is associate director for the Engineering Academies at Texas A&M University. He has over 19 years of higher education experience with roles in student recruitment, international programs, and retention. It is his privilege to work with students and guide them in making decisions that impact their future. De Sousa holds a BS degree in agricultural development from Texas A&M University, an MBA from Texas Woman’s University and PhD from Texas A&M University in agricultural leadership, education, and communications, in addition to two associate degrees from Blinn College.

Nandika Anne D’Souza is associate dean of engineering and Regents Professor (since 2015) of mechanical and energy engineering and materials science and engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). She is focused on broadening participation in engineering at various levels. She has received $5.7 M in external research funding and coauthored six book chapters, 97 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 100 conference publications. She was recognized as a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers in 2013 and is a life member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). In 2015 she received SWE’s Distinguished Engineering

Educator Award for her efforts to be inclusive. She directs the Diversity and Excellence in Engineering Network at UNT, advised by SHPE-SWE-NSBE students, faculty, industry, and academia. She has a BE in polymer engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, MS in mechanical engineering (materials program) from Auburn University, and PhD in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Tanya Davis Ennis is the Broadening Participation Director for the SpectrumX Center and for the Research Support Office at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. Earlier in her career she worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Denver, and later as a systems engineering, project manager, and staff director for US WEST Communications. She transitioned to the field of education when she saw a great need for improvement in educating high school students in science and mathematics. She taught high school for 8 years and in 2009 joined CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, where she served for 10 years as director of the Engineering GoldShirt Program for students from diverse backgrounds who may need additional support to succeed in engineering. In 2019 she was appointed director of the university’s Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center, which fosters a socially just and equitable educational experience in engineering and applied sciences and aims to support students from diverse backgrounds to earn their engineering degree. She has a bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) in electrical engineering from Southern University and a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, and is now a PhD candidate in the School of Education, studying learning science and human development, at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Thomas N. Farris is dean of the Rutgers University School of Engineering since 2009, overseeing the school’s seven academic departments including 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate degree programs, five nationally recognized research centers, and administrative, budget, and student services offices. Before Rutgers, he was an associate professor and then head of the Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he pursued teaching and research in aerospace structures and materials with a focus on tribology, manufacturing processes, and fatigue and fracture; in 2008 he was named the W.A. Gustafson Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher. He has supervised more than 45 MS and PhD theses, authored or coauthored more than 100 archival publications as well as more than 100 papers and presentations at conferences. Among other honors, he received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Burt L. Newkirk Award. He is fellow of ASME (2001) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2009), member of the board of directors of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education, and past member of the board of directors for Engineers Without Borders–USA and consultant to the Army Science Board. He represented Rutgers–New Brunswick on the New Jersey governor’s Economic Development Transition Team. He received a BSME from Rice University and PhD in applied mechanics from Northwestern University.

Forouzan Golshani is a commissioner with the Los Angeles County Aviation Commission, and professor of computer science and engineering at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where he led the College of Engineering from 2007 to 2020. During his tenure, enrollment nearly doubled and the school launched new educational programs, forged novel industry partnerships, and achieved top national rankings. Prior to CSULB, he was NCR Distinguished Professor and chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Wright State University, a center director and professor at Arizona State University, and research

fellow at Imperial College London. He has authored more than 200 articles and served as editor in chief or editorial board member of IEEE MultiMedia, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and other publications. The holder of 10 US patents, Golshani founded several successful startups, and has been a senior management consultant for Motorola, Intel, Honeywell, McDonnell Douglas Helicopter, and Sperry. He is a fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors. He holds a BS from Sharif University of Technology, and MS and PhD from the University of Warwick, England.

Christine Grant is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State, where for 30+ years she has conducted research in surface and interfacial science and advised postdocs and students ranging from the high school to the graduate level. As the inaugural associate dean of faculty advancement in the NC State College of Engineering, for over 12 years she has been responsible for faculty development, special initiatives, and promotion and tenure. She is currently on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment as a program director in the Engineering Education and Centers Division in the NSF Directorate for Engineering and manages the Broadening Participation in Engineering program. She also interfaces with NSF-wide broadening participation initiatives that include Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU-EIR), Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE), and Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science Initiative (INCLUDES). She is president-elect of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a life member of AIChE, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). A recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mentor Award and the NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring, she has been recognized for broadening the participation, promotion, and retention of underrepresented minorities and women in STEM with awards from the American Chemical Society, Council for Chemical Research, National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) She has been a PI on multiple NSF ADVANCE grants and served on the advisory board or consulted with several ADVANCE schools, including Texas A&M, Cornell, Lehigh, and the Universities of New Hampshire and Cincinnati to promote institutional transformation in STEM fields. She coedited the book Success Strategies from Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2015) and contributed chapters to Growing Diverse STEM Communities: Methodologies, Impact, and Evidence (2019) and Overcoming Barriers for Women of Color in STEM Fields (2020). She obtained her degrees in chemical engineering from Brown University (ScB) and Georgia Institute of Technology (MS and PhD).

Beth M. Holloway, Committee Member, is assistant dean for diversity and engagement, College of Engineering; the Leah H. Jamieson Director of Women in Engineering; and assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), all at Purdue University. As an advocate for research-informed approaches to engineering education, equity, and policy, as well as student recruitment and retention efforts, she has made significant contributions nationally as well as at Purdue, where she has spent her academic career. Her research areas include women and leadership, particularly in male-dominated careers; differential retention issues for women across engineering disciplines; engineering admissions practices; and diversity and equity. She is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), serves on its board of directors, and was a charter member of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2010–12).

She was president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN; 2006–07) and served on its board of directors (2005–08). Holloway believes in student engagement, and has served as advisor to the Purdue Society of Women Engineers (SWE) since 2001. Her honors include the 2015 ASEE William Elgin Wickenden Award, 2016 WEPAN Founders Award, 2016 and 2018 Purdue Panhellenic Advisor of the Year, 2013 Purdue Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award, 2012 SWE National Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, and inaugural Phi Sigma Rho National Sorority Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She received BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and a PhD in engineering education, all from Purdue University.

Stephanie Luster-Teasley is vice provost for undergraduate education at North Carolina A&T State University, where she was previously professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. She joined NC A&T in 2004 after working in private industry as an environmental engineer. She is driven by a deep commitment and care for her students, and has been lauded for bringing the excitement of real-world, hands-on experience to her engineering courses and mentoring activities. Her honors include the National Women of Color in Technology Educational Leadership Award (2005), Dupont Minorities in Engineering Award at the National American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2014), and Black Engineer of the Year Innovation Award (2018), among others. Luster-Teasley has received funding from the Department of Education to develop a mentoring program for students in STEM disciplines, NSF to develop and implement case studies modules in science labs, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to implement science programs for middle school girls. She is a co-PI on the NC A&T ADVANCE-IT grant, which seeks to increase equity and help implement programs for female faculty to successfully progress through academia from assistant to full professorship. She earned her BS in chemical engineering from NC A&T, and her MS in chemical engineering and PhD in environmental engineering from Michigan State University.

Theresa A. Maldonado, Committee Member, is vice president for research and innovation in the University of California Office of the President. Before coming to UC in March 2020, she was dean and Riter Professor of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Her academic career spans 29 years, including at the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Health Science Center, and UT at Arlington, with nearly 20 years in various research strategic and administrative roles. She was associate vice chancellor for research at the Texas A&M University System and founding director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. Maldonado has extensive experience at the federal level in advancing engineering research, education, and commercialization initiatives. She served was a division director in the NSF Engineering Directorate (2011–14), responsible for a $135M budget in support of interdisciplinary research centers, research translation, innovations in engineering education, special initiatives in support of military veterans, broadening participation in engineering, and workforce development programs. And in 1999–2001 she was a program director in the NSF Engineering Research Centers program and represented the Engineering Directorate on several NSF-wide committees. Before entering academia, Maldonado was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for five and a half years working on optical fiber components and systems. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and earned her PhD, MSEE, and BEE with highest honors in electrical engineering, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kirsten Martin is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics; professor of IT, analytics, and operations in the Mendoza College of Business; and, since July 2021, director of the Technology Ethics Center, all at the University of Notre Dame. She is also

an affiliate of Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity and a member of the advisory board for the Future Privacy Forum. She researches privacy, technology, and corporate responsibility and has received three NSF grants for her work on privacy, technology, and ethics. She has written about privacy and the ethics of technology in leading academic journals across disciplines (e.g., the Journal of Business Ethics, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Business Research) as well as practitioner publications such as MISQ Executive, and is the technology and business ethics editor for the Journal of Business Ethics. She is regularly asked to speak on privacy and the ethics of big data, including her 2022 TEDx talk. She has a forthcoming book, The Ethics of Data and Analytics (Routledge). She earned her BS in engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA and PhD from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.

Beth A. Myers, Committee Member, is assistant vice provost for student success initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder, providing strategic visioning, leadership, and oversight of student success. She also coordinates tutoring, math placement, midterm course alerts, retention/reenrollment campaigns, and various student data and assessment processes for campus. She leads a cross-functional team that uses student data analytics to increase retention and graduation rates using predictive analytics in conjunction with other data sources. She is helping guide multiple projects that will make student data more accessible to campus to enable data-informed decision making and the development of processes and workflows to action based on data insights. She provides expertise on assessing the effectiveness of student success initiatives, academic advising, and student learning outcomes. She was previously director of access and recruiting for CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, and was a strategic member of the team that created the college’s novel diversifying programs (BOLD and GoldShirt), policies, and practices. As a research associate she did program evaluation and assessment for the Integrated Teaching and Learning, Engineering Plus, and Engineering GoldShirt Programs. She has taught a first-year seminar that helps students transition to college. She was recognized in 2019 as the Rising Star for Diversity by the Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) and as the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) Leader in Engineering Education 2020. She earned her BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management, and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Colorado; her dissertation was titled Evaluating Admission Practices as Potential Barriers to Creating Equitable Access to Undergraduate Engineering Education.

Andrew B. Palumbo is assistant vice president for enrollment management and dean of admissions and financial aid at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads a team that includes the offices of Admissions, Student Aid & Financial Literacy, Precollegiate Outreach Programs, and Undergraduate Enrollment Systems & Operations. He joined the WPI community in 2015 after leading admissions teams at Plymouth State University and Russell Sage College. He started his higher education career in admissions at Union College. Palumbo holds a BA in history from Union College and an MS in organization management from Russell Sage College’s School of Management.

Darryll J. Pines (NAE), Committee Chair, became University of Maryland president in July 2020 and is also the Glenn L. Martin Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He arrived on campus in 1995 as an assistant professor, then chaired the Department of Aerospace Engineering (2006–09) before he was appointed dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. As dean, he revamped teaching in

fundamental undergraduate courses, encouraged participation in national and international student competitions, emphasized sustainability engineering and service learning, and expanded innovation and entrepreneurship activities. He made diversity a hallmark of his tenure, increasing the number of faculty and students from underrepresented populations. With his leadership team, he secured a historic $219.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation in 2017 to fund need-based scholarships campus wide, as well as graduate fellowships, faculty positions, infrastructure, and other initiatives. Pines focuses his research on structural dynamics, smart sensors and adaptive, morphing, and biologically inspired structures as well as the guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace vehicles. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Institute of Physics, and chairs the Engineering Advisory Committee for NSF’s Engineering Directorate. He received a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

OiYan Poon is an associate professor of higher education leadership and director of the Race & Intersectional Studies for Educational Equity (RISE) Center at Colorado State University (CSU). Her research focuses on the racial politics and discourses of college access, higher education organization and policy, affirmative action, and Asian Americans. Before joining the CSU faculty, she was an assistant professor of higher education at Loyola University Chicago. Early in her career Poon worked in multicultural student affairs, as the first Asian Pacific American Student Affairs director at George Mason University and the first student affairs officer in Asian American Studies at UC Davis. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Boston College, MEd in college student affairs administration at the University of Georgia, and PhD in race and ethnic studies in education, with a graduate certificate in Asian American studies, at UCLA.

Julie Posselt is an associate professor of higher education in the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education and was a 2015–17 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral research fellow. Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities in higher education and organizational efforts aimed at reducing inequities and encouraging diversity. She focuses on selective sectors of higher education—graduate education, STEM fields, and elite undergraduate institutions—where longstanding practices and cultural norms are being negotiated to better identify talent and educate students in a changing society. She earned her BS (summa cum laude) in history and secondary education and MS in educational policy studies, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her PhD in higher education from the University of Michigan.

Teri Kristine Reed is assistant vice president for research development in the Office of Research and professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati, with a courtesy appointment as professor of engineering education. She is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), former president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. An advocate for research-informed approaches to engineering education and administration, her research interests include statistics education, concept inventory development, assessment and evaluation of learning/programs, recruitment/retention, and diversity/equity/inclusion. Reed helped establish the scholarly foundation for engineering education as an academic discipline through coauthorship of the

landmark 2006 Journal of Engineering Education reports The National Engineering Education Research Colloquies and The Research Agenda for the New Discipline of Engineering Education. She received her BS in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma and spent seven years in the petroleum industry while earning her MBA. She earned her PhD in industrial engineering from Arizona State University.

Eve Riskin is professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington (UW). She is also faculty director of the UW STARS program, which is based on the GoldShirt program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an IEEE fellow and member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, the IEEE Harriet B. Rigas Award, and a 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. She got her BS in electrical engineering from MIT and, from Stanford University, two master’s degrees—in electrical engineering and operations research—and a PhD, also in electrical engineering.

Diane Rover is a University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). She also coleads the IINSPIRE LSAMP Program, RED and S-STEM projects in the department, and the NSF Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (led by the University of Missouri). She has served as ISU’s associate dean for academic and student affairs and associate chair for undergraduate education. Previously, at Michigan State University, she was director of the computer engineering program and interim department chair. A fellow of IEEE and ASEE, her professional service includes the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities, IEEE Education Society Board of Governors, Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (past), and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Education and (previously) the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education. She received a BS in computer science in 1984, and MS and PhD in computer engineering in 1986 and 1989, from ISU.

Sriram Sundararajan is a professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering. His research areas encompass multiscale tribology (friction, lubrication, and wear) and engineering education. Dr. Sundararajan serves on the steering committee of the International Conference on Wear of Materials. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves the society on their Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Committee and as an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commissioner. He is also an executive committee member of the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education. Sundararajan received his BE degree in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), followed by MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Ohio State University.

Conrad Tucker is the Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering. His research focuses on the design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large-scale, disparate data. He has served as PI/co-PI on grants funded by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Army Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research (via the NSF Center for eDesign), and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2016 he was invited by NAE president Dan Mote to serve on the Advisory Committee for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. He received his PhD, MS (industrial engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his BS in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Brad Weiner is director of data science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has spent nearly two decades in higher education administration. Through his academic research, consulting, and campus-based work he has touched many corners of campus including enrollment management, admissions, undergraduate education, international strategy, and advancement. He is currently focused on building out the structures and open source tools that enable data scientists to span boundaries in modern university settings. He infrequently posts to a blog about Data Science in Higher Education at bradweiner.info and can be reached via Twitter @brad_weiner. He holds a BA from the University of Kansas, an MEd from Vanderbilt University, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

Michelle Whittingham has been in enrollment management for 27 years, including 14 years as associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with administration and faculty to engage students, families, educators, and communities, locally and globally, in the college search process. She and her team provide information, resources, programs, and services to help students in the decision-making and transition process. Her goal is to ensure that students attend a campus that will support their success and help them realize their full potential, while at the same time helping to shape the enrollment of future alumni the campus desires. She earned a BA in international affairs and an MS is communications studies from Eastern Washington University.

Andrew B. Williams, Committee Member, is associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Kansas and the Charles E. and Mary Jane Spahr Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was previously a professor and the John P. Raynor, SJ, Distinguished Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Marquette University (2012–16), where he directed the Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics Lab. He joined Marquette University in 2012 after serving as department chair in Computer and Information Sciences at Spelman College and as a research affiliate at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Human-Automation Systems Lab. Williams was senior engineering diversity manager at Apple Inc. under Steve Jobs. He authored the book Out of the Box: Building Robots, Transforming Lives (Moody Publishers, 2009). He earned a PhD in electrical engineering with an emphasis in AI from the University of Kansas in 1999, MS in electrical & computer engineering from Marquette in 1995, and BS in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1988.

Han Mi Yoon-Wu is executive director of undergraduate admissions for the University of California system and has worked in the UC Office of the President (UCOP) for the last 20 years. During her tenure at UCOP, she has played a vital role in developing and implementing UC admissions policies and provided leadership on several technology projects. As a first-generation college graduate, she has dedicated her professional career to promoting access to higher education for students from all walks of life. Ms. Yoon-Wu holds a BS in finance from Drake University and an AM in higher education policy from Stanford University.

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