Speakers & Panelists
Speakers & Panelists
Meet Our Speakers & Panelists
Erwin Gianchandani
Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), NSF
Luna Acosta
Director of Technology Transfer,
Arkansas State University
Director, Catalyst Innovation Center
Dr. Suzan Anwar
Assistant Professor and Computer Science Department Chair, Philander Smith University
Dr. Branden Brough
Director, United States National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO)
Dr. Zeeshan Habeeb
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
John Hardin
Executive Director,
Office of Science, Technology & Innovation (OSTI)
North Carolina Department of Commerce
Paul Kodzwa
Associate Director, Strategic Technologies & Partnerships
Business Development – DOD Programs
RTX Technology Research Center
Argelia Lorence, Ph.D.
James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor
Lead, A-State Phenomics; Co-Lead Wheat and Rice Center for Heat Resilience (WRCHR)
Arkansas State University (A-State)
Dr. Tina Moore
Director of Workforce Development,
Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) Division of Higher Education
Craig Scott
Professor and ASME Foundation Swanson Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering
Morgan State University
Joseph W. Thompson, MD, MPH
President & CEO, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement; Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Lenore Trammell
Chief Administrative
Chief Compliance Officer
General Counsel,
Big River Steel
John P. Verboncoeur
Vice President IEEE Technical Activities
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
Michigan State University
Weston Waldo, MBA
Austin Technology Incubator
Director, NSF I-Corps Southwest Region Hub