STEM-Speaker Series

List of 3 items.

• Andrew Moore, Ph.D.

  Dr. Andrew Moore currently serves as the CEO of Lovelace AI, a start-up developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and solutions to support missions in national security, disaster relief, and other areas where advanced computer science can help keep people safe. He is also an advisor with the United States Central Command.

   

  Previously, Dr. Moore was the general manager and vice president of Google Cloud's AI division and dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.

   

  Dr. Moore has established himself as a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and robotics. He has dedicated his work to how AI can be implemented for good and developed responsibly. In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

   

  He has written over 200 academic papers on AI and co-authored “The Handbook of Biosurveillance.”

   

  Dr. Moore holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cambridge.

• Christopher Mason, Ph.D.

  Dr. Christopher Mason currently serves as the WorldQuant Endowed Professor of Genomics and Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, with appointments at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute.

  
  

  Additionally, he is the director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, co-founder and global director at Biotia, and co-founder and scientific director at Onegevity.

  
  

  Dr. Mason is the author of “The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds” and co-author of “The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk.”

  
  

  Dr. Mason holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in genetics and biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madision and a doctorate in genetics from Yale University.

• William Oliver, Ph.D.

  Dr. William Oliver serves as the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is also the director of the Center for Quantum Engineering and associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. 

  
  

  Dr. Oliver is a principal investigator in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group at MIT, providing programmatic and technical leadership targeting the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies. 

  
  

  Previously, he spent 20 years working with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group within the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, culminating in the role of Laboratory Fellow.

  
  

  Dr. Oliver is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Physical Society (APS) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

  
  

  He serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee and the U.S. Committee for Superconducting Electronics and is a board member for the IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC).

  
  

  Dr. Oliver holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese from the University of Rochester, a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.