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Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he directs the EmPRISE Lab. He completed his Ph.D. in robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology and was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He wants to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations with activities of daily living. His work spans the fields of human-robot interaction, haptic perception, and robot manipulation and focuses on addressing the fundamental research question of how to leverage robot-world physical interactions in unstructured human environments to perform relevant activities of daily living. 

David S. Bindel is a professor of computer science and director of the Center for Applied Math. He works at the interface of computational science and engineering, and his research mixes mathematical analysis, application modeling, and software design. Active research areas include: optimizing stellarators, verified numerics, kernel methods, parallel surrogate optimization, spectral network analysis, nonlinear eigenvalue bounds, and nonlinear waves in resonant MEMS. Bindel received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.S. in math and computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a SIAM Fellow and Sloan Fellow.

Ken Birman is the N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science. His research is on reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems. Current projects include Vortex, a platform for speeding up AI and ML inference or knowledge retrieval tasks by fully leveraging cutting edge hardware accelerators and reimplementing key data paths to reduce or eliminate copying and other delays; Cascade, an exceptionally performant storage framework for Vortex; and Derecho, a highly optimized library for accelerating communication that leverages RDMA when available. Jointly, these three elements enable dramatic improvements in the cost of ML hosting and sharp reductions in ML latencies. In more entrepreneurial roles, Ken founded a series of companies. One focused on software fault tolerance and created a variety of cloud computing infrastructure solutions. Another architected and implemented the core of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, the Swiss Exchange, the French Air Traffic Control System communication platform, and created a secure, high-speed data sharing capability for the U.S. Navy AEGIS warship. Ken received his Ph.D. and master's degrees in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. in computer science from Columbia University, is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, and won the IEEE Tsutomo Kanai award for his innovations in distributed computing.

Claire Cardie is the John C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science. She was the founding chair of the Department of Information Science and led the development of its academic programs. Cardie works in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on topics ranging from information extraction, text summarization, and noun phrase coreference resolution, to the automatic analysis of opinions, argumentation, and deception in text.