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Gary Summers, PhD 1700 University Blvd, #936
President, Pipeline Physics LLC Round Rock, TX 78665-8016
gary.summers@PipelinePhysics.com 503-332-4095

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Dr. Jeffrey M. Keisler, PhD, Professor, Management Information Systems, University of Massachusetts Boston
Jeff Keisler is a Professor in the Management Science & Information Systems department at University of Massachusetts Boston. Prior to academic life, he was a decision analyst at General Motors, Strategic Decisions Group and Argonne National Laboratory. He works on many decision and risk analytic topics, with over 80 journal articles and 2 co-authored books as well as the co-edited book Portfolio Decision Analysis for which he shared the Decision Analysis Society publication award. He has a career-long interest in understanding how decision models and processes transform and synthesize information. He has been president of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society as well as of the Society for Risk Analysis specialty group on Decision Analysis & Risk, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair. He serves as an Associate Editor for Decision Analysis, EURO Journal of Decision Processes, and the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, and is a Senior Editor for the Wiley book series on Risk, Systems & Decisions. He earned a PhD in Decision Sciences at Harvard under Howard Raiffa as well as an SM in Engineering Sciences, and also holds a BS from Wisconsin and an MBA in Business Economics from Chicago.

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Dr. Theodore T. Allen, PhD, Associate Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, Ohio State University
Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Integrated Systems Engineering and Computer Science Engineering (Courtesy) at the Ohio State University (OSU). He is a simulation Area Editor for Computers & Industrial Engineering (IF: 5.3), fellow of ASQ, past president of the INFORMS Section for Social Media Analytics, and an inaugural member of the MIT Election Science Laboratory. He is also the President and founder of FactSpread which brings referenced facts to millions. Dr. Allen is also the Chief Content Officer for the Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust and a member of OSU's Security Advisory Board. He is the winner six teaching awards and an OSU College of Engineering Lumely Research Award. He was also a semi-finalist in the 2020 INFORMS Edelman competition for helping DHL supply chain to save $160M with routing software. His applications have helped millions of save hours of waiting time in US elections.

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Dr. Steven Wildman, PhD, JH Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies Emeritus at Michigan State University & Visiting Scholar with the Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Program, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Steve Wildman is Professor & J.H. Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies Emeritus at Michigan State University and a Visiting Scholar with the Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior academic positions include: Professor and J.H. Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies and Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunications Management and Law, both at Michigan State University; Wee Kim Wee Professor (visiting) of Communication, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Program in Telecommunications Science, Management & Policy, both at Northwestern University; and Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. During 2013 he served as the Chief Economist for U.S. Federal Communications. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Wabash College. His research has focused primarily on economics and policy for communication and information industries.

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Dr. Dennis Buede, PhD, Chief Innovation Officier, ITA International
Dr. Buede has over forty years of experience in both the theoretical development and engineering application of decision support technologies. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Engineering-Economic Systems Department of Stanford University and his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He is currently Chief Innovation Officer of ITA International. He has been a Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at Stevens Institute of Technology and Professor at George Mason University. Prior to that he ran his own consulting and research company for eight years. He has done extensive research in the fields of decision and risk analysis, data fusion, machine learning, and systems engineering. In particular, he has pioneered in the development of new decision methodologies in the areas of system design and evaluation, and resource allocation. He has authored The Engineering Design of Systems: Methods and Models, coauthored two books, and authored or coauthored numerous professional and technical papers in the above fields. He belongs to the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, and the International Council on Systems Engineering. He is a Fellow of INCOSE.

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Duncan Klett, Fellow at Kinaxis. Interested in supply chain management and operations research and AI in general. M.A.Sc (Electrical Engineering) from University of British Columbia.




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Dr. Michael Leibman, PhD,
Michael N. Liebman, Ph.D (theoretical chemistry and protein crystallography) is the Managing Director of IPQ Analytics, LLC and Strategic Medicine, Inc after serving as the Executive Director of the Windber Research Institute (now Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine) from 2003-2007. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Drug Discovery, First Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and also Fudan University. He serves on the Advisory Board for the International Park for Translational Biomedicine (Shanghai) and the Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences, Univ Massachusetts(Lowell). Previously, he was Director, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center 2000-2003. He served as Global Head of Computational Genomics, Roche Pharmaceuticals and Director, Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Director of Genomics for Vysis, Inc. He is a co-founder of Prosanos, Inc (now United BioSource) (2000). He was Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Physiology/Biophysics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He serves on 14 scientific advisory boards, and is an advisor in digital health and quantum computing and serves on the Board of Directors of the Nathaniel Adamczyk Foundation in Pediatric ARDS. Michael is Chair of the Informatics Program and also Chair of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics for the PhRMA Foundation and a member of their Scientific Advisory Board. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Society for Translational Medicine and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Translational Medicine, for Clinical and Translational Medicine and for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, for Clinico-Economics and Outcomes Research, Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine and Biomedicine Hub. He is a member of the IUPAC Division on Human Health's Medicinal Chemistry subcommittee. He has served on the External Advisory Board for the INBRE (NIH) program for the state of Delaware since 2000. He is an Invited Professor at the Shanghai Center for Bioinformatics Technology and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on computational models of disease progression that stress risk detection, disease processes and clinical pathway modeling, and disease stratification from the clinical perspective. He utilizes systems-based approaches and design thinking to represent and analyze risk/benefit analysis in pharmaceutical development and healthcare. Current application areas include: multiple sclerosis, heart failure, triple negative breast cancer and prematurity/infant-maternal morbidity and mortality.

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Dr. Gary J. Summers, PhD, Director, Oncology Portfolio Decision Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline
Gary Summers was president of Pipeline Physics LLC, a boutique research center and consultancy that studies how uncertainty affects decisions and business processes. His business simulations, which study how people and teams make risky decisions, received U.S. patents 6,236,955; 6,408,263, and 7,349,838. Dr. Summers earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Management Science from Northwestern University, performed a post-doctoral fellowship at Oregon Graduate Institute (Oregon Health Science University), and was a visiting research professor at Portland State University. At GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Summers helps teams implement decision analysis across drug development.