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I am a personality researcher with extensive expertise in data analysis and quantitative methodology. I have 7+ years of research experience, and have performed a wide range of analyses including: structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, factor analysis, (logistic) regression, and ANOVAs.

I am a marketing professor who specializes in augmented/extended realities, metaverse marketing, brand storytelling, and influencer marketing. I am a public speaker and consultant who helps your brand thrive in today's and tomorrow's new realities. <br> \~ ⨏ \~ <br> MY PASSION is to explore augmented reality’s strategic potential for marketing: I published the first-ever conceptual article on AR marketing, which won Article of the Year award and is one of the most-cited publications about this topic. I have taught AR since 2015 as part of my social media and digital marketing courses at Cal Poly. At Brock University, I developed and teach the world’s first dedicated Augmented Reality Marketing courses for undergraduate as well as MBA students. <br> \~ ⚬ \~ <br> MY RESEARCH combines ethnographic methods with socio-cultural frameworks to cut through the complexities of marketing and consumption: I explore how augmented reality can deepen consumer/brand relationships, how it helps customers feel more competent and autonomous, how Pokémon GO players co-create and transport into hybrid-realities, how managers can deploy AR initiatives, and how various types of augmented realities offer different strategic opportunities for brands. My social media research explores how marketers can build their brands in today’s polarized and tribal societies by fighting back against online critics. <br> \~ × \~ <br> I LOVE building bridges between academia and the broader business community: I'm a member of Adweek's Academic Council and serve on the advisory board of Schulich’s Future of Marketing Institute. I regularly publish research-driven insights in Adweek, MKTGsquad, and other AR-specific publications. I provide expertise for marketing agencies and consult wine, CPG and technology companies in the US and Canada on branding and augmented reality marketing. I decipher the babel and help people see the big picture. <br> \~ 🦊 \~

Jim Samuel is an Associate Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Informatics Program at the Bloustein School. He is an information and artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, with significant industry experience in finance, technology, entrepreneurship and data analytics. Dr. Samuel’s primary research covers human intelligence and artificial intelligences interaction and information philosophy.  Dr. Samuel’s applied research focuses on the optimal use of big data and smart data driven AI applications, textual analytics, natural language processing and artificially intelligent public opinion informatics. His expertise extends to socioeconomic implications of AI, applied machine learning, social media analytics, AI education and AI bias. Dr. Samuel completed his Ph.D. from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College – City University of New York, and he also has M.Arch and M.B.A (International Finance) degrees.  Dr. Samuel has worked with large multinational financial services corporations, and advises businesses and organizations on data analytics and AI driven value creation strategies. He is passionate about research driven thought leadership in AI, information philosophy, analytics and informatics. 

Our research group focuses on the discover of science and the development of technologies for Abrupt Climate Change (ACC) mitigation, with particular interest in physics-based, adaptive technologies informed by Energy Meteorology and Energy Climatology.

Chemical engineering expertise focused on polymer-based material synthesis, modification, and application and experimental and computational transport (momentum, heat, and mass) modeling. Specialties: material synthesis and characterization: bulk and surface initiated polymerization, stimuli responsive polymers, renewable polymers (bioplastics), lung simulation, transport modeling, nano- and micro-particles, and surface modification FTIR, XPS/ESCA, TGA, DSC, GPC, CA, AFM, T/SEM, LS

After graduating in mineralogy from Leipzig University in 2007, Sabine Langkau received her PhD in the field of metal silicide clusters in solar silicon in 2011. She was a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010 and has been a Research Associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Competence Center “Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems“ since 2013. Since 2020, she coordinates the business unit “Sustainability Innovation and Policy“.

Ryan’s primary research focuses on the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence and digital technology. He has published numerous papers on the topic, and has presented his work at various international conferences. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). Mark was previously a researcher at KTH University (Stockholm), the University of Twente (the Netherlands), and the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland). While at Twente, he worked on an interdisciplinary  project (SHERPA), involving 11 partners from 6 European countries. This project was a European Union Horizon 2020 project (2018-2021, budget €3 million) and focused on the ethical, social and human rights implications of smart information systems (data analytics and artificial intelligence) within a European context. He has published on topics, such as the ethics of smart cities, self-driving vehicles, agricultural data analytics, social robotics, and AI. In his previous research, he has also published a 2016 monograph: Human Values, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability.

Lea-Rachel Kosnik is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She received her BA and MA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on renewable energy and climate change, and she is considered a leading expert on the topic of hydroelectric energy generation in the U.S., and hydropower regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In recent years her research has expanded to include analyses of the academic economics profession itself, including with a focus on gender issues and DEI initiatives. Methodologically, her skill set includes textual analysis and natural language processing, along with traditional econometric techniques. In 2016 she received an honorable mention for article of the year from *Contemporary Economic Policy*, and in 2022 she gave the keynote address to the Illinois Economics Association. Dr. Kosnik is perhaps best known (in a service capacity) as the Association of Environmental and Resource Economist’s (AERE’s) Midwest representative, annually organizing the full track of AERE-sponsored environmental sessions at the Midwest Economic Association meetings. Dr. Kosnik has also served as President, Past-President, and Board Member of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG), and as a Department Chair.

I am a bioinformatician and researcher in computational biology. My research focuses on the application of machine learning and data analysis to understand the molecular basis of disease. I also work on developing novel software tools for data management and analysis.

Dr. Anna Young-Ferris is a sustainability and climate change accounting specialist bringing two decades of academic (research and lecturing) and corporate experience. She worked as a climate change and sustainability professional at Ernst & Young and joined academia in 2010 to pursue her research in the field and was awarded her PhD in Responsible Investment in 2014. Her award-winning PhD study examined the integration of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) accounting information in mainstream investment decisions, and she continues to focus and publish her research in the fields of responsible investment, corporate sustainability, and responsible management education. Anna has presented her research at numerous international settings including Harvard University, the London School of Economics and HEC Paris.

Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Environmental Law, Comparative Law

Tensie Whelan is the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability. Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and was a Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern. Her research interests include ESG investing and sustainable business.

Wesley R. Hartmann is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, and his MA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. He also holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.