The Speakers

Mohamed Abdelhady

Student

Cleveland State University

Sarah Brasiel

Education Research Analyst

Institute of Education Sciences

NCSER

Dr. Karthik Balasubramanian

Professor

Howard University

Bill Byers

Principal

WDB Consulting

CTO

eChemion

Dr. Diane Collins

Associate Professor

Dept. of Occupational Therapy

UTMB

Dr.Jose Contreras-Vidal

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor

Director, NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center UH

Dr. Ted Conway

Professor

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences

Florida Inst. of Technology

Dr. Rory Cooper

Distinguished Professor, FISA/Paralyzed Veterans of America

Rehabilitation Science and Technology

University of Pittsburgh

Jessica Cox

Motivational Speaker & Life Coach

Possible Thinking™ - Achieve the impossible

Becky Kekula

Director, Disability Equality Index, Disability:IN

Dr. Diane Damiano

Senior Investigator

Rehabilitation Medicine Department

NIH Clinical Center

Dr. Bradley Duerstock

Professor of Practice

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

School of Industrial Engineering

Purdue University

Dr. Ayanna Howard

Professor and Dean of College of Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ohio State University

Founder

Zyrobotics

Dr. Luis Favela

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences

University of Central Florida

Larry Goldberg

Head of Accessibility

Verizon Media

Tim Graham

Sr. Principal Engineering Technologist | CSMB Mobile System Architecture

Dell

Xian Horn

writer, mentor, teacher, and positivity activist.

Dr. Theresa Hayes Cruz

Director

National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Dr. Edward Grant

Professor ECE & BME,

North Carolina State University

Petr Kucheryavyy

Sr. Accessibility Manager, Outreach

Charter Communications

Dave Hoffer

Managing Director, Design

PwC

Dr. Audrey Kusiak

Scientific Program Manager

Rehabilitation Research & Development Service

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr.Charlie Kemp

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Georgia Inst. of Technology

Co-Founder

Hello Robot

Melissa Malzkuhn

Founder & Creative Director of Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University

Dr. Raviraj Nataraj

Assistant Professor

Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Maja Matarić

Interim Vice President for Research

University of Southern California

Dr. Don McMahon

Associate Professor

Washington State University

Inutha Sampaath

Research fellow , Defence, Bioengineering and Electromedical laboratory (DEBEL), DRDO , Ministry of Defence , Govt of India

Dr. Edward Metz

SBIR Program Manager

Department of Education

Hetal Parikh

President & Co-Founder

Rangam Consultants Inc.

Dr.Roger O. Smith

Professor, Occupational Sciences and Technology

Director, R2D2 (Rehabilitation Research Design & Disability) Center

Dr.Claudia Rebola

Associate Dean for Research

University of Cincinnati

Dr. Wendy Rogers

Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences

Community Health

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

Dr. David Reinkensmeyer

Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California, Irvine

Mary Babbili

President, LaSaRa Hi-Tech Consulting Inc./Accessibility SME

Dr. In Hong Yang

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science

Assistant Professor

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Laureen Summers

Project Director, Entry Point! American Association for the Advancement of Science

Dr. Simone Stumpf

Reader

Computer Science

City, University of London

Sofia Vergara

Teacher

New Roads School

Co-Founder

Bridges to Inclusion

Dr.Patricio Vela

Associate Professor

Georgia Tech

Carolyn Phillips

Co-Director

Center for Inclusive Design & Innovation (CIDI) Georgia Tech

Dr. Ray Browning

Co-Founder and CEO

Biomotum, Inc.

Dr. Pamela Block

Professor

Anthropology and Disability Studies

Western University

Dr. Vinod Namboodiri

Professor of Computer Science

Wichita State University

Dr. Phillip Beatty

Director of the Office of Research Sciences

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

(NIDILRR)

Dr. Jennifer S. Singh

Associate professor

School of History and Sociology

Dr. Nathan Moon

Senior Research Scientist/Director of Research

Center for Advanced Communications Policy

Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Rua Williams

Assistant Professor

Purdue University

Dr. James Sulzer

Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Austin

Dr.Maria Kett

Associate Professor in Humanitarianism and Disability

UCL

Dr. Nils Hakansson

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Wichita State University

Ann Paradiso

Principal Research Designer

Microsoft Research

Nish Parikh

Co-founder & CEO

Rangam Consultants Inc.

Dr. Kat Steele

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

University of Washington

Dr. Ola Harrysson

Edward P. Fitts Distinguished Professor

NC State Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Dr. Lewis Wheaton

Associate Professor

Georgia Tech

Dr. Jana Remy

Director

Educational Technology

Chapman University

Dr. Carol Moeller

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Faculty Scholar in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Moravian College

Herbert Spencer

Full time professor, e[ad]

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile