CEWIT2017 Conference Speakers

Big Data

Arie Kaufman, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science; Chief Scientist, CEWIT, Stony Brook University

Yuan An, PhD

Associate Professor, College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), Drexel University

Peter Beling, PhD

Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia

Moncef Gabbouj, PhD

Director, NSF IUCRC Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, TUT-Site, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology

Raju Gottumukkala, Ph.D

Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute, University of Louisiana Lafayette

Business

Adam Bazih, PhD

Executive-in-Residence, Kairos Ventures

Thomas Thornton

Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Northwell Ventures

Brian Keil

Managing Director, New York Ventures, Empire State Development

Neil Kaufman

Chairman, Long Island Capital Alliance and Corporate Attorney

Sylvan Schefler

Vice Chairman,Tigress Financial Partners

Lori Hoberman

Founder, Hoberman Law Group

David Calone

President and CEO, Jove Equity Partners

George Likourezos

Partner, Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

Karen O'Connor

Tax Director, Marcum, LLP

Valeri Lantz-Gefroh

Improvisation Program Director, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University

Dan Conley

Shirt Sleeve Angel

Marcene Sonneborn

SBIR & Innovation Specialist, Central New York Technology Development Organization (TDO)

Cybersecurity

Justin Cappos

Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Security, New York University

Steve Cento

Sector Engineering Fellow, Aerospace Systems (NGAS) Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Bruce Willins

Engineering Fellow, Zebra Technologies

Domenick Gandolfo

Co-Founder & Chief Security Strategist, Cybersafe Solutions

Babak Beheshti

Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, New York Institute of Technology

Rick Boivie, PhD

Manager, Advanced Internet and Security Technologies, IBM Research

Warren Axelrod

Research Director, U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit

Health Technologies

Eugene Sayan

CEO, Softheon, Inc.

Robert Beckman

Managing Partner, The Channel Group, LLC

S. Mason Dambrot

Research Fellow, Brain-Machine Interface Consortium, Artificial General Intelligence Society

Nicholas Polosky

Associate Computer Scientist/Engineer I, ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC

Gil Bashe

Managing Partner, Crisis Communication Health, Finn Partners

Wei Lin, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University

Klaus Mueller, PhD

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

Christos Morris

CEO, eVero Corporation

James Powell, PhD

Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine; Medical Director of Developmental Disabilities Institute/Opti-Healthcare Hospital, Stony Brook University Medicine

Elinor Schoenfeld, PhD

Research Professor of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine, Deputy Division Head, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistic; Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University Medicine

Erich Bremer

Director for Cyberinfrastructure, Health Sciences Division of Applied Informatics, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

Internet of Things

Bob DiFazio, PhD

Vice President, InterDigital Labs, InterDigital Communications, Inc.

Yang Qin

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Professor Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China

Songtao Guo, PhD

Department of Computer Science, Southwest University, China

Grace Wang, PhD

Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Sayed Chhattan Shah

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Communication Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Emre Salman, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University

Smart Manufacturing

William Murray

Business Development, Digital & Additive Manufacturing, New York State Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR)

Cindy Chang, PhD

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University

John Wen, Ph.D

Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Randall Sandone

Executive Director, Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Thurston, PhD

Research Professor and Director, Center of Excellence in Advanced & Sustainable Manufacturing, Rochester Institute of Technology

Michael Fornasiero

Program Manager, Workforce Development and SMM Engagement, UI Labs

Smart Urban Systems

Yi Zhong

Professor, School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, ChinaDexter Bailey

Daniel Minoli

Principal Consultant, DVI Communications

Mark Yedlin

Director of Simulation Modeling Services, Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.

Danilo de Freitas Melo

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil

Dan Turissini

Chief Technology Officer, SPYRUS, Inc.

Mahmoud Alahmad

Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Oliver Akinrele

Deputy Director, Panasonic Innovation Center