Dr. Roger H. French is the Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Case School of Engineering, with secondary appointments in Macromolecular Science, Biomedical Engineering and Physics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio, since August 2010.
He is director of the SDLE Research Center, focused on lifetime and degradation science of long-lifetime environmentally exposed technologies such as photovoltaics. He is the faculty director of the CWRU Applied Data Science Program. Professor French's research focuses on optical properties and electronic structure of optical materials, polymers, ceramics.
Dr. Amila Akagić is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received her Ph.D. in 2013 from Keio University, Japan. Her primary research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Digital Signal Processing.
She leads several research groups at the University of Sarajevo, including Materials Informatics, Natural Language Processing, Accelerated Hardware, Biomedical Imaging, and Plant Phenotyping. She also serves as a Management Committee member and co-leader of the working group Cooperative Development of Materials Informatics Approaches within the European Materials Informatics Network (EuMINe) COST Action.