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Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Consultant, University Professor of Entrepreneurship, Biotech, and Healthcare Innovation
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Economist with experience in transportation, sustainability, resilience, and public policy issues
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Juliana Freire is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University. She was the elected chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), served as a council member of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and was the NYU lead investigator for the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment, a grant awarded jointly to UW, NYU, and UC Berkeley. She develops methods and systems that enable a wide range of users to obtain trustworthy insights from data. This spans topics in large-scale data analysis and integration, visualization, machine learning, provenance management, and web information discovery, and different application areas, including urban analytics, predictive modeling, and computational reproducibility. Freire has co-authored over 200 technical papers (including 11 award-winning publications), several open-source systems, and is an inventor of 12 U.S. patents. According to Google Scholar, her h-index is 61 and her work has received over 16,000 citations. She is an ACM Fellow, a AAAS Fellow, and a recipient of an NSF CAREER, two IBM Faculty awards, and a Google Faculty Research award. She received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2020. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Google, Amazon, AT&T Research, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! and IBM. She received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Dr. Julia Lane is a professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-founder of the Coleridge Initiative. Dr. Lane is an economist and statistician who has been actively involved in the management and linkage of federal, state, and local data as well as producing new data products. She has been involved in founding many successful and accessible data analysis platforms, including the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics program, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s PatentView, the integrated data infrastructure for Statistics New Zealand, the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, and the Coleridge Initiative’s Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute. Her most recent book is Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto, published by MIT Press.
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I am a Professor of Economics at New York University. I am an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. I am also fellow of the NBER, CESS at NYU, and the CEPR. I co-organize of the annual NBER Meeting on Culture and Institutions.
I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. My main academic contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. I have published widely in economics journals. I co-edited the Handbook of Social Economics and the Handbook of Historical Economics.
Finally, I am founding editor of noiseFromAmerika.org and contributed op-eds for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica.
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Sean Thomas-Breitfeld is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-directs the Building Movement Project, with a special focus on BMP’s work on service and social change.
Prior to joining the BMP staff, Thomas-Breitfeld spent a decade working in various roles at the Center for Community Change. At CCC, he developed training programs for grassroots leaders, worked in communications and policy departments where he coordinated online and grassroots advocacy efforts, and lobbied on a range of issues, including immigration reform, transportation equity and anti-poverty programs. Before joining the Center, Thomas-Breitfeld worked as a Policy Analyst at the National Council of La Raza, where he focused on employment and income security issues.
Thomas-Breitfeld received a B.A. in Social Work and Multicultural Studies from St. Olaf College and an M.P.A. from NYU Wagner.
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I am a student in political science (international politics), writing my masters thesis on European coordination in development cooperation through an analysis of several Team Europe Initiatives in sub-sahara Africa.
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I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Aarhus University in Denmark and a Postdoc researcher at the University of Groningen. My research interests lie within Behavioural and Experimental Economics and Development Economics. I have worked on topics such as microcredit, microsavings, community-level health care provision, social norms, social preferences and the social integration of migrants.
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I am an applied labour economicst and I study structural factors underlying inequalities on the labour market with a focus on gender inequalities.
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Oseni Oluwatobi has worked extensively as a Learning Specialist driving digital equity in different Technology Education projects with the United Nations Educational Scientific Organization (UNESCO), GIZ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Code.org, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry(ACCI), Facebook and Microsoft Nigeria #Code2Earn training over 26,000 to Code in one of the most ambitious education projects.
He was recently a Policy Adviser on Technology and Education in the office of the Governor of Imo State in Nigeria.