Participant Profile

There were 23 participants in the workshop, with non-local participants selected from a body of 64 applications. A distribution of education is provided in Table 1 and of affiliation in Table 2, while Table 3 lists participant names, organizations, and reported current level of education.

Education      Number
Doctorate 7
Postdoctoral Associate 7
Graduate Student 8
Masters Student 1
Total 23

Table 1: Breakdown of Participants and their current educational standing.
Location Number
Academic 22
Government 1

Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations.

 

Name Organization Education
Arvind Balijepalli National Institutes of Health PhD
Rafael Bernardi Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Postdoctoral Associate
Michael Brenner University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD Student
Brittany Burton University of Memphis PhD Student
Shuyi Cao University of Illinois at Chicago PhD Student
Qianyi Cheng University of Georgia PhD
Traci Clymer Duquesne University PhD Student
Parag Arvind Deshpande Northwestern University Postdoctoral Associate
Rachelle Gaudet Harvard University PhD
Monika Golebiowska University of Missouri at Columbia PhD
Zhao Jun University of Akron PhD Student
Hajin Kim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Associate
Irina Koshelev University of Chicago PhD
Marcelo Melo Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Masters Student
Anoosheh Niavaranikheiri California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Steve Singleton Coe College PhD
Pin-Chih Su University of Illinois at Chicago PhD Student
Payman Tohidifar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD Student
Reid Van Lehn Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD Student
Xuefeng Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Associate
Yong Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Associate
Robert Weinzierl Imperial College London Postdoctoral Associate
Scott Wildman Washington University at St. Louis PhD

 

Table 3: Participant Names, Organizations, and Education