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Evgeny Shafirovich

Dr. Evgeny Shafirovich is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Aerospace Propulsion at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1981 and PhD in Chemical Physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1988. Before joining UTEP in 2008, he conducted research at the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS (Orléans, France), the University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. His research interests include combustion of propellants and other energetic materials as well as combustion...Read more

Ferenc Darvas

Dr. Darvas acquired a master's degree in medicinal chemistry, then another in computer sciences, received his Ph.D. for the use artificial intelligence in drug design. Dr. Darvas is a serial inventor and entrepreneur, founder, and president of Darholding, Inc., one of the largest upstream technology networks in the CEE region. The network members export to over 70 countries. The network has affiliates/firms/spinoffs in the USA, UK, IE, with a track record since 1983. Dr. Darvas’s achievements include molecular modeling, process intensification, combinatorial chemistry, flow chemistry,...Read more

Yu-Hui Chiu

Dr. Yu-Hui Chiu is the Director of Applied Sciences at Busek Company in Natick, Massachusetts.  Busek company is a small business specialized in the research and development of space electric propulsion technologies.  She serves as a principal investigator for several SBIR/STTR programs including 3D printing of magnetic alloy, radiation modeling of COTS electronics, oxygen capture based on the metal-organic framework for spacecraft environment, and several applications of ionic liquids in space.   Prior to joining Busek...Read more

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Matthew Napoli

Matthew Napoli is the Vice President of In-Space Operations at Made In Space, Inc. (MIS)

Napoli oversees International Space Station (ISS) payload development and operations at MIS.

He leads all activities associated with the ISS including managing NASA contracts, leading

multi-disciplinary teams, and completing six successful space flight science missions. As a founding member of MIS, Napoli kickstarted the industry of in-space manufacturing by building and operating the first off-world 3D printer: the 3D Printing in Zero-G Experiment. Since joining...Read more

Melissa Kemp

Melissa Lambeth Kemp received her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Washington. Dr. Kemp joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2006 after completing postdoctoral training at MIT. Her expertise is in computational modeling of metabolism and signal transduction, as well as developing statistical modeling tools to examine network relationships in high-dimension datasets. One major aspect of her research program focuses on quantitatively addressing how cells regulate signaling through...Read more

Evan Appleton

Dr. Evan Appleton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Church Lab in the Department of Genetics. He completed his doctorate at Boston University in the Bioinformatics Program. His thesis work focused on building computer-aided design tools for synthetic biology workflows. Dr. Appleton’s current research interests include developmental biology, biosecurity, synthetic biology, and computer-aided design. In the Church Lab, he leads a project for synthetic-biology based shape formation of multicellular masses and a project for identifying potential toxin-creating...Read more

William Hurlbut

William B. Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris.

His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the...Read more

Timothy Nisi

Timothy Nisi is an Applications Analyst at the IU Health Department of Radiation Oncology and is currently studying Computer Science at Purdue. He is Co-Founder of two companies that specialize in 3D-printing patient-specific solutions for the medical industry.

Nisi’s current research is focused on using super-computer-based radiation simulations to identify optimal radiation protection measures for astronauts during deep-space exploration. He is also interested in using machine learning to increase the accuracy of space weather forecasts.

Before starting his career...Read more

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