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Appendix B: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 63-72

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From page 63...
... Cebrian earned a PhD in computer science from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Lorrie Faith Cranor is an associate professor of computer science and of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory 63
From page 64...
... In 2009 to 2010, Dobalian led the development of the first national VA Comprehensive Emergency Management Program Evaluation and Research agenda. The goals of this agenda were to provide a basis for fostering the conduct of VA-based emergency management research, to promote new discoveries and improve care delivery during and after emergencies, and to position VA as a national leader in emergency management research.
From page 65...
... She is a member of CrisisCommons and CrisisMappers. She has presented social media techniques used in disaster relief to the American Red Cross during its Emergency Social Data Summit in Washington, D.C., as well as multiple presentations at the Canadian government's Department of Foreign Trade and International Affairs during its Open Innovation Summit in Ottawa.
From page 66...
... He previously served as chief of staff, deputy director of operations, and manager of MEMA's Office of Domestic Preparedness–Law Enforcement Liaison Group, where he served as the law enforcement/intelligence liaison with all state, local, and federal lawenforcement agencies and oversaw DHS grants totaling more than $10 million. Hopkins previously served as the director of communications with Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services, where he was responsible for external communications with the statewide news media, and developing press conferences, presentations, speeches, and talking points on behalf of former Governor Robert Ehrlich.
From page 67...
... during emergencies in order to inform agency communication strategy. She also coordinates several efforts to evaluate CDC communication outreach activities during emergency health threats, including the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
From page 68...
... And he has decades of experience as a consultant to the private and public sectors in matters related to emergency management, including, for example, utilities with nuclear power plants, federal and state agencies, and local governments. Mileti is currently a researcher with a Department of Homeland Security's national center of research excellence on terrorism at the University of Maryland.
From page 69...
... His current projects include making recommender systems resistant to manipulation through rater reputations, nudging people toward politically balanced news consumption and health behavior change, and crowdsourcing fact-correction on the Internet. Resnick was a pioneer in the field of recommender systems (sometimes called collaborative filtering or social filtering)
From page 70...
... He has published broadly in machine learning, natural-language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning, and learning theory and has developed advanced machine-learningbased tools for natural-language applications that are being used widely by the research community. Roth has given keynote talks at major conferences, including the AAAI's Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing and the European Conference on Machine Learning, and has presented several tutorials in universities and conferences, including at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
From page 71...
... Among his other activities when at OMB, Swire was the White House coordinator for the HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule, led a White House working group on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age, and led a project on public records and privacy. Swire is lead author of Information Privacy: Official Reference for the Certified Information Privacy Professional.
From page 72...
... His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology and Harvard Business Review. He is also the author of three books: Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (Princeton, 1999)


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