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Supplier diversity and Carbon footprint, Customer learning in Call centers, Net-metering and utility profits, Blockchain to prevent counterfeiting, and strategic effects of COVID shock on global supply chains. Prof. Jay Swaminathan is the Professor of Operations and Faculty Director of the ReThinc Value Chains Lab at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

Telehealth in primary care and specialties, Home-health technologies aiding telehealth, AI-assisted mammographic examinations, Patient photos aiding detection accuracy, Effects of fatigue on radiology residents, and Optimizing ergonomics for breast imaging. Prof. Elizabeth Krupinski is Professor and Vice-Chair of Research at Emory University in the Department of Radiology. Her interests are in med...

Effect of subscription programs,  price promotions and churn prevention programs on firm profitability, finding nonobvious Key Opinion Leaders to accelerate product diffusion,  and oral and written communications - how the medium shapes the message. Prof. Raghuram Iyengar is a professor of marketing at the Wharton School and faculty director of Wharton Customer Analytics focusing on the...

Medical & health tourism - modalities, and trends, service quality expectations, bundled contracting between employers and providers, and effects of the pandemic on the industry Dr. David Vequist is the founder and Director of the Center for Medical Tourism Research (CMTR) - the very first academic research center devoted to medical tourism research. He is also a Professor of Management in the...

COVID - Identifying hotspots, mRNA splicing mutations, the proposed molecular mechanism for severe infections, and possible vaccines, and therapies Prof. Peter Rogan is a professor of Genome Bioinformatics at the University of Western Ontario. His lab focuses on bioinformatic technologies at the population-scale to address important biomedical challenges in genomics and other areas.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence driving the next revolution, Regulatory policy frameworks and pilot projects for policy for AI Mr. Lofred Madzou is a Project Lead for AI at the World Economic Forum, where he is responsible for managing various global multi-stakeholder AI policy projects. Before that, he was a Policy Officer advising the French Government on AI Policy and...

Intranasal delivery of agents to the brain, Adult stems cells and Insulin for treatment of brain injury and degenerative diseases, Possible effects of COVID-19 on the brain, long term complications, and policy choices. Dr. William H. Frey II is a Senior Research Director of the Center for Memory & Aging at the HealthPartners Neuroscience Center in St. Paul, Minnesota . Dr. Frey’s focus has bee...

Remittances, the good, the bad, and the ugly, COVID, a systemic shock with significant negative effects on fragile countries and regions,  What is a Whale worth and how can we keep it? Dr. Ralph Chami is Assistant Director, Institute for Capacity Development, at the International Monetary Fund. He is in charge of capacity development for the Western Hemisphere Region. Before joining the IMF,...

Neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of Nuclear Factor kappa B ( NF-kB), Alzheimer's disease, Economic burden of dementia, Brain region and sex-specific alterations in mitochondrial function, Epigenetics and dietary impacts on spatial memory and brain plasticity Prof. Ben Albensi is a professor of pharmacology & therapeutics at the Univ. of Manitoba. His lab at St. Boniface Hospital focuses...

Brain waves and Natural Language Processing,  N400 amplitude and vector space model behavior,  Contextual embeddings in words, Composition in Sentence Vector Representations, and BERT, what it is Not. Dr. Allyson Ettinger is a computational linguist and an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, working on natural language processing and computa...

Rejuvenation of Rivers and Lakes in India, Policy in environmental choices, Cost externalization, Decentralized and small-scale wastewater treatment,  nutrient removal from wastewater,  and jumpstarting entrepreneurship through MarketPlaceLiteracy.  Prof. Krishnanand Maillacheruvu is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction at Bradley University. His teaching interests incl...

Neurological development of the young brain,  The importance of educational process, content, and environment, Left/Right brain specialization, Language, and Mathematics processing in the brain. Prof. Gerry Leisman is Professor of Neuro and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Haifa and Director of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences in Nazareth, Israel, He is...

Early detection of localized COVID/disease outbreaks, Age as the dominant consideration in COVID intervention strategy, and vaccine/drug surveillance strategies. Prof. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert on infectious disease outbreaks. As a biostatistician, he has developed methods for the early detection and monitoring of disease outbreaks, curr...

Computational Materials Sciences, Atomic-Scale Discoveries with Machine Learning, Hydrogen for storage and transport of energy, Hydrogen as the new natural gas. Prof Sean Smith is a Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the Australian National University and Director of Australia’s national supercomputing facility, NCI Australia. He has extensive theoretical and comput...

Open Science Grid,  Distributed Computing, Midscale collaborations, South Pole Telescope, ENZO: Adaptive mesh code for Astrophysics, Hydrodynamic simulations, and Fraud Detection. Dr. Pascal Paschos is a computational scientist at the University of Chicago and an instructor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University. Previously he was in academic research at UC California...

Asset pricing methodology confusion, Required Yield Theory (RYT), Connectalism, Mindfulness, and Compassion in Finance Prof. Christophe Faugère is a professor of finance at the Kedge Business School in France. He is the co-inventor of the “Required Yield Theory”, a financial theory that provides more robust insights into the valuation of broad market indexes such as S&P 500 and gold. He has pu...

Personal finance decisions, AI-based behavioral finance interventions, Robo-advising, Framing advisory fees, Funding biases and crowdfunding Prof. Orly Sade  is the  Chair in Business Administration and an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance, School of Business Administration , Hebrew University of Jerusalem . She is a member of the scientific board of the ex...

Mortgage securitization, Measuring Bank Risk, Taxpayer returns from Bailouts, Dividends during a pandemic, and the principal-agent problem in structuring contracts with banks for bailouts.  Prof Amiyatosh Purnanandam is professor finance at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and the chair of the finance area. His research focuses on corporate finance, banking, and fina...

Demystifying the Business of Performing Arts, "Sacred," the movie, Learning from Germany on public media, and Organizations for people that succeed. Prof. William Baker is a Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at Fordham University in NY.  He is also a Professor of media & entertainment at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and President Emeritus of WNET-Thirteen, New York’s public...

Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging , Human Connectome Project for disordered emotional states, Imaging systems for oral cancer screening, and Better camera designs for convolutional neural networks using synthetic images Prof Brian A. Wandell is a professor at the Psychology Department of Stanford University.  He is also a member of Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, and the Graduate S...

History of oil prices and possible future paths Dr. Rouben Indjikian, an adjunct professor of energy, commodities, trade finance, digital economy, and international economics at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Indjikian had a distinguished career of nearly 30 years at UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ) where, as an economist and manager, he was in charg...

Supply chain risk in pharmaceutical manufacturing and the advantages of continuous manufacturing  Prof. Fernando Muzzio is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University and the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center in Structured Organic Particulate Systems. Prof. Muzzio has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers and numerous book chapters and patents. He...

Logistics Manager's Index as a leading indicator of economic activity, Supply Chain Financing, and Effects of COVID on the global supply chain Prof. Dale Rogers is a Professor of Business at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Co-Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab at ASU. Dale is a leading researcher in the fields of reverse...

Cancer - why have we failed, and how can we get better? The quest to find and destroy the first cell to minimize human strife. Prof. Azra Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS ( Myelodysplastic Syndrome) Center at Columbia University. She is a practicing oncologist seeing 30-40 cancer patients weekly. She worked with President Clinton designing Breakthrough Developments in Scienc...

Reasons for the science-policy disconnect, statistical inference, threats to scalability, publication bias, and speculation on global economic effects of COVID.  Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli is the Director of Research at Derasat, a think tank in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Cent...