Dr. Balogun has over 35 years of teaching and administrative experience in higher education. His educational background includes BS degree in Medical Records Science, MS in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. He also has 18 graduate credits in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation and 18 graduate credits in Data Analytics. Dr. Balogun’s research interests are in intelligent systems design, decision aiding tools design, usability, human-computer interaction and data analytics.

Brian attended San Diego State University where he earned a BS in Civil Engineering. A veteran in the Armed Forces, he served in the U. S. Navy for eleven years. Later on, attended University of South Carolina to earn a Master's in Library and Information Science. Since then worked in library positions, both support staff and professional, at Purdue University and Coastal Carolina University before moving to Georgia to be STEM Reference Librarian at AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Matthew Platt is a political scientist who studies the policy consequences of different strategies for black liberation. His most recent publications examine black members of Congress in terms of how they respond to police brutality and how their quality of representation is shaped by political ambition. Platt earned a PhD in political science from the University of Rochester, and a BA in political science from Morehouse College.

Dr. Teri Platt is currently an Associate Professor of Public Administration, Faculty Associate for the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development, and the Director of the Isabella T. Jenkins Honors Program at Clark Atlanta University. She has over 15 years of teaching experience in public policy, research methodologies, and American government. Dr. Platt actively supports student voter and civic engagement through partnerships and collaboration with the Andrew Goodman Foundation, ALL IN Democracy Challenge, and as a member of the advisory board for the Students Learn, Students Vote coalition. The research of Dr. Platt explores the intersections of social determinants of health, civic engagement, and self-efficacy. Dr. Platt has presented over 25 professional papers on topics ranging from analysis of political leadership, the political implications of demographic shifts in urban areas, and policy analyses of federal and local policies designed to address urban decline.

Dr. Sharma is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Wagner College in New York City. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California under the direction of Dr. Chi Mak. He then taught at Christopher Newport University for 3 years before starting at Wagner College in Fall 2014. His research interests include molecular dynamics simulations, computational chemistry, machine learning, and integration of computing and authentic research experiences in undergraduate education. His integration of teaching with technology led to his partnership with a colleague from philosophy to design a course called, Computing, Guns, and Ethics: Gun violence in the USA. This interdisciplinary and team-taught course for first-year students combines philosophy and computing to explore the social and moral issues surrounding firearm possession, use, and abuse in the United States. The philosophical discussions are augmented by researching and analyzing data through programming in the Wolfram programming language. Students learn exploratory data analysis, functional programming, and visual data representation to support their philosophical arguments.

Sharon Tettegah’s research framework is at the intersection of STEM, Psychology and Education with an emphasis on Black and Ethnic Studies. Her current research focuses on the use of high performance computing to examine broadening participation in STEM and beyond. The focus of her most recent past research examines affective, behavioral and cognitive facets of empathy and empathic dispositions using multiple technologies (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, simulations, games). Her interest and research in empathy, emotions and technology is the result of passion and commitment to the improvement of equity in leadership, teaching and learning.In addition to her research on empathy, she is also involved in the examination of innovation and creativity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields. Her goals as a researcher and practitioner are to broaden participation for students of color in STEM disciplines.

Dr. Urban Wiggins is the Vice Provost for Decision Science and Visualization at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Wiggins also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department. In 2020, he was awarded the Innovative New Spaces for Practice and Rehearsal Teacher Education Computer Science–Artificial Intelligence or INSPIRE CS-AI Fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as the UMES Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) campus champion and the advisor for Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) student organizations.

Unislawa Williams, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA where she teaches courses related to research methodology and data science. Her research interests focus specifically on the growing role of data science in society and research collaboration. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed journals and she has spoken at major meetings and conferences in the field.

David Zeigler is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Sacramento State University. After graduating from Texas A&M University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Science-Based Materials Modeling organization at Sandia National Laboratories. One of his projects is Tahoe, a platform for the development of numerical methods and models for the simulation of complex materials behavior. In 2003 he joined the faculty at Sacramento State. He has managed an REU on statistical modeling and worked with many students on computational projects involving signal processing, hydrodyanmics/contaminant transport, random number generators, and mapping the sea floor off the California coast. Several of his former students have careers in academia, national labs, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street.