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Appendix C: Biographical Information for Workshop Planning Committee Members and Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Information for Workshop Planning Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 103-126
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She connects public and private partners for innovations ranging from improving digital equity, to using data science for environmental justice, to reimagining government work. She founded the Data Science Federation, partnering universities and cities to create innovative solutions such as using artificial intelligence for traffic safety and machine learning to improve air quality.
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JARED L COHON is university professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy and president emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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He serves on the boards of Trane Technologies and four nonprofit organizations, including the Health Effects Institute, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree and PhD in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Lauter is an elected fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the Association for Women in Mathematics, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
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National Climate Assessment, chair of the peer review panel for California's Fourth Climate Assessment, a member of California's Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group, and has been a member of numerous study panels for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including America's Climate Choices and Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate.
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She has pioneered methods to reconstruct urban land use with satellite imagery and has developed novel methods to forecast urban expansion. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Asia, especially China and India; she has conducted urbanization research in China for 20 years and in India for more than 10.
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Slaughter was founder and CEO of MOCA Systems, Inc., a software-enabled construction program management company, and before founding MOCA, she was an MIT professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and earlier, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Lehigh University. She has served on several regional, national, and international advisory committees, and on editorial boards of professional publications.
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City Planning is responsible for the City Planning Commission, Art Commission, Zoning Board of Adjustment, and the Historic Review Commission. Abrams previously served as program officer for equitable development for the Heinz Endowments, a role that focused on infusing equity into the foundation's redevelopment funding initiatives in the Pittsburgh region.
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His current research focuses on model development that links community infrastructure to household and neighborhood sustainability/resilience outcomes and the interpretation of social characteristics in the context of community revitalization efforts. ANITA CHANDRA is vice president and director of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
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Most of the nation's largest tax-exempt fixed income institutional investors, dealers, bond insurance companies, and separate account managers among others are subscribers through CreditScope. Ciccarone has held executive and analytical positions in investment management and municipal bond research as well as the oversight of Merritt Research throughout most of his career, which began in 1977.
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At MnDOT, Cremin focuses on ancillary asset management maturity development for Transportation Asset Management System software utilization (240 asset class codes) , Transportation Asset Management Plan development (12 asset classes)
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Additionally, her research examining hunger relief supply chains has been featured in CNN's Great Big Story and NSF's Discovery article series. She is currently the principal investigator for an NSF-funded National Research Traineeship grant that explores food security and hunger relief using computational data science.
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Dr. Jain earned his BS in civil and environmental engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his MS/PhD from Columbia University as part of a joint IGERT program between civil engineering and urban planning.
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He is currently the chapter lead in writing the Transportation Chapter of the forthcoming Fifth National Climate Assessment. He held previous political appointments as a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology and the California Climate Safe Infrastructure Working Group.
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Dr. Liban has degrees in geology, civil engineering, and environmental science and engineering.
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CEHI's work leverages research, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy to effect environmental policy change. CEHI received the 2008 Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Award.
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Dr. Nock holds a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and an Offshore Wind Energy IGERT Fellow.
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Colonial Cleaning Service has been a family owned and operated business since its beginnings in 1981. Mayor Parham has held several leadership positions in the area including Governor of the Petersburg Breakfast and Lunch Rotary Clubs and Colonial Heights Rotary Club and also President of the Petersburg Breakfast Rotary Club.
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Also, he recently he served as principal investigator for NCHRP Project 19-12 on TAM financial plans, NCHRP Project 08-103 on cross asset resource allocation, and a series of four Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) projects on transit asset management/state of good repair.
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He is currently senior advisor to the National Conference on Citizenship and serves on the Committee on National Statistics Panel to Evaluate the Quality of the 2020 Census. He was co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Working Group on Data Confidentiality and 2020 Census data products and has worked on behalf of the American Statistical Association's Task Force conducting an analysis of 2020 Census data quality.
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Dr. Shmoys is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, INFORMS, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator; and was awarded the 2013 INFORMS Lanchester Prize and the 2018 INFORMS Wagner Prize.
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Dr. Wang's books on information quality include Journey to Data Quality (MIT Press, 2006)
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Dr. Wang has been instrumental in the establishment of the PhD and master's of science in information quality degree program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the Stuart Madnick IQ Best Paper Award for the International Conference on Information Quality, the comprehensive IQ PhD dissertations website, and the Donald Ballou & Harry Pazer IQ PhD Dissertation Award.
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