Nancy D. Freudenthal is a U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. Freudenthal was born and raised in Cody, WY, and earned both a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate from the University of Wyoming. She worked for former Wyoming governors Ed Herschler and Mike Sullivan, and then was appointed to the State Board of Equalization. She entered private practice in 1995 with the law firm of Davis & Cannon. In 2010, following a presidential appointment and Senate confirmation, Judge Freudenthal became the first woman appointed to the federal court in Wyoming and the seventh federal district judge in the state’s history.
Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., is the Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego. He served as president of the Salk Institute from 2018 to 2023. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Gage’s work concentrates on the adult central nervous system and unexpected plasticity and adaptability to environmental stimulation that remains throughout the life of all mammals. In addition, he studies human neurological and psychiatric disease in vitro using human stem cells. His lab also studies the genomic mosaicism that exists in the brain as a result of mobile elements that are active during neurogenesis. Gage is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the Society for Neuroscience in 2002, and of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2012.
Russ Biagio Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science, and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for HAI (Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence), and past chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. Altman’s research applies computing (informatics, data science, and artificial intelligence) to problems relevant to medicine. He is interested in methods for understanding drug action, efficacy, and adverse effects while integrating molecular, cellular, organism, and population data. His lab has a special focus on how human genetic variation impacts drug response, or pharmacogenomics. He is the founding principal investigator of the Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase (PharmGKB.org). Altman helps lead an FDA-supported Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation and is an associate director of the Stanford Institute for HAI. Altman holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.D. from Stanford Medical School, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford. He received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is a past-president, founding board member, and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and a past-president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT). He has chaired the Science Board advising the FDA commissioner, served on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee, and co-chaired the Institute of Medicine’s Drug Forum. He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and a founder of Personalis. Altman is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Informatics. He directed the Stanford Biomedical Informatics training program from 2000–2018 and currently directs the undergraduate major in Biomedical Computation. Altman received the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching awards in 2000 and 2020 and its mentorship award in 2014. He received the Stanford Alumni Association Kornberg-Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. He is the founding editor of the Annual Reviews of Biomedical Data Science, and hosts a podcast titled The Future of Everything.
David G. Campbell is a Senior U.S. District Judge for the District of Arizona, having served on the court since 2003. Campbell currently chairs the U.S. Courts’ Committee on International Judicial Relations. He previously chaired the U.S. Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which oversees the work of the five Advisory Committees on the Federal Rules of Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy, and Appellate Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. He also chaired the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from 2011 to 2015 and served as a member of the committee from 2005 to 2011. Campbell is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has travelled to Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Turkey, Gambia, Slovakia, South Korea, Bulgaria, the Philippines, and other countries on judicial case
management and rule-of-law projects and has taught civil procedure and constitutional law at the Arizona State and Brigham Young University Law Schools. Following his graduation from the University of Utah Law School, he served as a law clerk for Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Campbell worked as a commercial litigator with the Phoenix, Arizona, law firm of Osborn Maledon before becoming a judge.
Alicia L. Carriquiry is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the President’s Professor of Statistics at Iowa State University. She researches applications of statistics in human nutrition, bioinformatics, forensic sciences, and traffic safety. Carriquiry has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles in corresponding academic journals.
Carriquiry is the lead investigator for the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) program, providing scientific oversight and research expertise. Along with Drs. Hal S. Stern and Michael Daniels, she was among the first to question the probative value of bullet lead analysis. A 2000 report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that suggested the probability of a coincidental match might not be negligible led to the establishment of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) committee to explore the issue. Carriquiry subsequently served as a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Assessing the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database. Overall, Carriquiry has chaired or participated in over 15 National Academies boards, panels and committees and is currently a statistics editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Carriquiry has spoken at many national and international conferences in statistics, forensic science, and nutrition and has been invited to deliver multiple named lectures and seminars. She has served on several subcommittees in the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) and is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Committee on Forensic Science. Carriquiry was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016 and to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 2023. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the International Statistical Institute. She was recently elected fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies at Texas A&M University. Carriquiry received an M.S. in animal science from the University of Illinois, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State University.
Lynn R. Goldman, a pediatrician and an epidemiologist, is the Michael and Lori Milken Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the
Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. She was previously a professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; an assistant administrator for toxic substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she directed the Office of Chemical Safety and Prevention; and the chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control at the California Department of Public Health. Goldman completed a B.S. and M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and pediatric residency at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland.
Goldman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She serves as a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund; a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Environmental Health Matters Initiative; a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health Executive Committee; cochair of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Climate Change and Health Task Force; and a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region.
Brian W. Kernighan is the William O. Baker ‘39 Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University. He received his B.A.Sc. in engineering physics at the University of Toronto in 1964 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969. Kernighan was a member of technical staff and department head in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories from 1969 until 2000 and was named a Bell Labs fellow in 1990. He joined the Princeton Department of Computer Science in 2000. Kernighan is a co-creator of several programming languages, including AWK and AMPL, and of a number of tools for document preparation. He holds five patents, and is a co-founder of AMPL Optimization Inc. Kernighan’s research areas include programming languages, tools, and interfaces that make computers easier to use, often for non-specialist users. He is the co-author of a number of widely used computer science books, including The C Programming Language (with Dennis Ritchie) and The Unix Programming Environment (with Rob Pike). He has also written books on technology for non-technical audiences: Understanding the Digital World; Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers; and Unix: A History and a Memoir. Kernighan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
Pramod P. Khargonekar, Ph.D., is Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research and teaching interests are centered on confluence of machine learning and control; advanced manufacturing; energy
system decarbonization; climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience; and societal impacts of technology. Previously, after serving briefly as Deputy Director of Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in 2012–13, Khargonekar served, until June 2016, as the head of the Directorate of Engineering at the National Science Foundation. From 2001 to 2009, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida and was the Eckis Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the university until 2016. Khargonekar was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2001, where he also held the position of Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science. At the University of Michigan, he received the Claude Shannon Chair and Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. Khargonekar has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. He is a recipient of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Control Systems Award, IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize, National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellowship, World Automation Congress Honor, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award, the IEEE CSS George Axelby Best Paper Award, the Hugo Schuck American Control Conference (ACC) Best Paper Award, and distinguished alumnus and distinguished service awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Khargonekar is an inaugural member of the Hall of Fame, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, and a fellow of IEEE, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. He was nominated by Governor Jerry Brown and sworn into office in 2011 and retained by the electorate in 2014 and 2022. Before joining the state’s highest court, Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His areas of expertise span constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession. Liu is an elected member and chair of the board of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and American Philosophical Society, in addition to having served of the board of numerous service organizations and academic institutions. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Liu grew up in Sacramento and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University, master’s degrees in philosophy and physiology from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge David S. Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. His accomplished career also includes practicing at O’Melveny & Myers, serving in the U.S. Department of Education, and helping launch the AmeriCorps national service program.
Shobita Parthasarathy is Professor of Public Policy and Women’s and Gender Studies, and co-founder and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the political economy of innovation and innovation policy focusing on equity and justice, and the politics of knowledge and expertise in public policy making and law. She often takes a cross-national or international perspective in her research, and has published widely on genetics and biotechnology, intellectual property, innovation policy, inclusive innovation, and artificial intelligence/machine learning in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and India. Parthasarathy is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books: Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (MIT Press, 2007) and Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017). The former influenced the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that determined human genes were not patentable; the latter won the 2018 Robert K. Merton Award from the American Sociological Association. She writes frequently for public audiences including in The New York Times, Boston Review, Slate, Issues in Science and Technology, Scientific American, and Nature and co-hosts The Received Wisdom podcast on issues at the intersection of science, technology, policy, and society. Parthasarathy regularly advises policy makers around the world. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies, American Bar Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and the Wellcome Trust. She holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in science and technology studies from Cornell University, and an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Chicago.
U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris is a graduate of Radcliffe College ’73 and Harvard Law School ’76. She clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and, when Senator Edward M. Kennedy became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she worked as his staff counsel. She later became an assistant U.S. attorney and eventually served as chief of the Civil Division. In 1986, Saris became a U.S. magistrate judge. In 1989, she was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 1994, she was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Clinton, and she served as chief judge from 2013 to 2019. She served as Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission from January 2011 until January 2017. Saris has been active on various judicial committees, including the Budget Committee, and the Defender Services Committee (2002–2005), which she chaired in 2005. Saris currently teaches as a lecturer at Harvard Law School. Saris has received awards for judicial excellence from the Boston Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Patent Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association. She is a recipient of the Harvard Medal and has received an award for her work in reducing federal sentences for drug offenders.
Thomas D. Schroeder is a U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, having taken his oath of office on January 8, 2008. He served as chief judge from 2017 to 2023. Schroeder attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and received a B.S. in Business Administration from Kansas University in 1981. He received his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1984 and served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Law Review. Following law school, he served as law clerk for the Honorable George E. MacKinnon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then practiced law for more than 22 years with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC (now Womble Bond Dickinson [US] LLP), where he handled litigation and trials involving a variety of business and product liability matters, many in the capacity as national counsel and frequently involving expert scientific evidence. Schroeder is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He has served as a vice president of the North Carolina Bar Association (2014–15) and co-chair of its bench/bar liaison committee. From 2017 to 2023, he served on the Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States and chaired the subcommittee that resulted in the 2023 amendments to Rule 702. He has periodically co-taught a class in pretrial litigation as a senior lecturer at Duke University School of Law and is a member of the boards of directors of the Notre Dame Law Association (president, 2021–23) and the Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inn of Court (president, 2016–18).
David S. Tatel served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1994 to 2024, succeeding future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After graduating from the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago Law School, he served as the founding director of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and then director of the National Lawyers’ Committee. He headed the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Carter administration and then founded and led the education practice at Hogan Lovells, where he is now senior counsel. Tatel, along with Dr. David Baltimore, co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law from 2016 to 2023. He also chaired the boards of The Spencer Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Tatel is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice (Little Brown, 2024).
Anne-Marie Mazza, Ph.D., is the founding director of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology,
and Law. She has served as the study director on more than 20 National Academies reports on topics ranging from science and national security to governance of academic research and emerging technologies to voting technologies to science and the courts. Mazza was the senior staff director for three international summits on human genome editing and has served as senior director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy; the National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable; and the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program. She has also served as a senior advisor to the president of the National Academy of Sciences and the president of the National Academy of Medicine. Mazza served in the White House as executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2021–2022) and as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1999–2000). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from The George Washington University.
Elizabeth C. Wiggins, J.D., Ph.D., has been on the research staff of the Federal Judicial Center since 1989 and the director of the Center’s Research Division since 2020. Among her areas of study are research methods for the study of legal systems, civil case management, bankruptcy law and procedure, judicial workload measurement, court performance standards and assessment, judicial performance feedback, workplace environment surveys, courtroom technology and digital evidence, and access to justice and self-represented litigants. She has helped numerous international judiciaries undertake empirical work to assess the quality of justice and court administration they deliver. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and of the American College of Bankruptcy. She holds a B.S. in psychology and administration of justice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Ph.D. in social and quantitative psychology from Johns Hopkins University, a J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, and an LL.M. from Vermont Law School. Prior to joining the Center, she was on the faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University and a post-doctoral fellow in quantitative psychology at the Ohio State University.
Joe S. Cecil, J.D., Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the Civil Justice Research Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. In 2021, Cecil retired from the Research Division at the Federal Judicial Center. While at the Center, Cecil focused on the role of scientific evidence in federal courts, conducting empirical research projects on expert testimony and admissibility of scientific evidence in civil and criminal litigation and the role of court-appointed experts. He developed the first edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence and has worked with teams of scholars to develop subsequent editions. Cecil was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, and has served on several National
Academies’ committees, including study committees that issued consensus reports on eyewitness identification and forensic science. He received his J.D. and a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.
Steven Kendall, Ph.D., is a senior program officer for the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has contributed to numerous National Academies’ reports, including Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance (2024); Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance (2021); The Emerging Field of Human Neural Organoids, Transplants, and Chimeras: Science, Ethics, and Governance (2021); Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018); Optimizing the Nation’s Investment in Academic Research (2016); Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification (2014); Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009); and the third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (2011). Dr. Kendall has been a staff officer for the National Academies’ National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable since its inception in 2020. Prior to joining the National Academies in 2007, he worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Huntington in San Marino, California. He received an M.A. in Victorian art and architecture at the University of London and completed a Ph.D. in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jason A. Cantone, J.D., Ph.D. is a senior research associate at the Federal Judicial Center. His Center research addresses scientific evidence, civil rules and litigation, federal and state courts, alternative dispute resolution, and court administration/case management. He has also worked with foreign judiciaries on such topics as the rule of law, judicial education, legal psychology, program evaluation, and mediation. Before joining the Center in 2011, he was a U.S. Air Force civilian at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Outside of his Center role, he is an adjunct professor, represented the American Psychology-Law Society on the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, and currently serves on the APA Committee for the Advancement of General and Applied Psychology. Dr. Cantone is an APA Fellow and received an APA Presidential Citation for his work related to the criminal justice system. His non-Center research focuses on psychology and legal decision-making and has been published in numerous social science journals and law reviews. He recently published his first co-edited book through Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Legal Decision-Making (2024).
Meghan A. Dunn, Ph.D., is a senior research associate at the Federal Judicial Center. Her Center research includes survey construction, shared administrative
services, workplace conduct, and the use of courtroom technology and social media by jurors and attorneys. She has co-authored peer reviewed manuscripts on the use of computer animation and juror decision-making and co-authored a social psychology workbook. As part of her work with the Center, she assisted with previous editions of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Dr. Dunn holds a B.A. in history and psychology from Williams College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University.
Renee Daly was a senior program assistant with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL). Before coming to CSTL, Daly worked with the Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation, and Research (formerly known as the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research) in the National Academies’ Division of Earth and Life Studies. She received a master’s degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science from Virginia Tech.
Dominic LoBuglio was a senior program assistant in the U.S. Science and Innovation Policy Theme at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine until February 2023. In addition to his work for the policy theme, LoBuglio provided administrative support for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. Prior to joining the National Academies in 2019, LoBuglio developed outreach and science education programs within the fundraising department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Previously, he also worked in the science and technology division at the Los Angeles office of the Japan External Trade Organization, a section of the Japanese government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. LoBuglio holds a B.A. in Japanese language and culture from the University of California, Santa Barbara.