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Daniel Acuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  

He has created tools to improve literature search, peer review, and detect scientific fraud.

He has been funded by NSF, ORI (DDHS), Sloan Foundation, and DARPA. In 2021, he organized the Computational Research Integrity (CRI-CONF) conference, and in 2022 the Computational Research Integrity competitions.

Aaron Yaverski joined Turnitin in 2019 with the focus of managing the global alliances team, it was then in 2020 his role transitioned to Regional Vice President of EMEA leading the EMEA GTM Team. Prior to this Aaron’s roles included Managing Director at McGraw-Hill Education and Vice President (legal and capital markets) at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.

Aaron has also held leadership positions with companies including Computer Associates, Gartner, and IBM and has extensive experience in the education, publishing, and technology industries.

Jessica Sebeok, who is based in Washington, D.C., became Wiley’s Vice President for Global Government Partnerships and Public Policy in March 2022. In this role, she oversees Wiley’s efforts – across its research and education businesses – to advocate for favorable legislative, regulatory, and policy climates around the world to enable and then further Wiley’s mission to unlock human potential.

Jessica came to Wiley from Johns Hopkins University, where she served as Director of Policy and Research in President Ron Daniels’ Office. At Johns Hopkins, Jessica successfully helmed numerous projects, including creating the first permanent institution-wide shared governance body, advancing the university’s comprehensive policy initiative, and supporting new DEI and access endeavors. Prior to her time at Johns Hopkins, Jessica worked for seven years as Deputy Vice President for Federal Relations and Counsel for Policy at the Association of American Universities (AAU), a coalition of America’s leading research universities, where she led on matters related to intellectual property, information technology, technology transfer, and tax. In addition, as AAU’s policy counsel, Jessica worked closely with AAU’s General Counsel Committee on complex legal issues facing research universities, including spearheading AAU’s efforts on amicus briefs in a wide range of areas, such as immigration, admissions diversity, and intellectual property. She also made significant contributions in other AAU focus areas, ranging from campus speech and academic freedom and open and public access issues to Title IX, antitrust, and labor relations. Before joining AAU in 2014, Jessica served as Counsel for Policy and International Affairs in the U.S. Copyright Office; as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Department of State; as Assistant General Counsel of Yale University; and as Associate Counsel of Ithaka, a non-profit organization with a mission to make higher education and access to knowledge more affordable, improve outcomes for students and researchers, and to preserve knowledge for future generations.

Jessica is a graduate of the Yale Law School and a member of the New York and D.C. bars. She received her master’s degree in modern history from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She earned her undergraduate degree in history, with highest honors and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago. Jessica is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Marshall Scholars and volunteers as an election judge in Montgomery County, Maryland. She originally hails from Bloomington, Indiana.

Claudia Bauzer Medeiros is full professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, and co-coordinates the eScience and Data Science at FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil), where she coordinates actions associated with Open Science policies, in particular Open Data.

She received several national and international awards for teaching, research, and initiatives to attract women to computing. Member of the boards of   RDA (Research Data Alliance) and vice-coordinator of the  WDS scientific board (World Data System, an  International Science Council  entity dedicated to research data repositories). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences.  

 Conducts research in scientific data management, particularly with challenges associated with data heterogeneity, volume and complexity, for various types of real-world applications.     

Antony Galea, MSc, was appointed Country Manager, Japan of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2021. A position in which he is responsible for increasing engagement with the Japanese and South Korean communities to advance the chemical sciences and disseminate chemical knowledge. Before joining the RSC, he operated a scientific editing services company.

Prior to this he held positions as a researcher and in subsequently in technology commercialisation at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), and as application engineer at photonics startups in Japan and in the UK. This experience has afforded him the opportunity to gain insights into the perspectives of numerous stakeholders in the STI ecosystem. He holds an MSc in Photonics & Optoelectronic Devices from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

He is motivated by a strong interest in science, technology, and innovation.

As a member of the STM Japan Chapter and considering the RSC’s commitment to transitioning to 100% Open Access by 2028 (https://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2022/oct/rsc-oa-commitment), he is interested in interested in work groups concerned with the development of OA models.

Mike leads Wiley’s work in implementing best practices and policy for integrity and ethics in Wiley’s Research journals portfolio; he champions quality and transparency in research publishing. At Wiley, Mike works alongside a diverse group of research integrity, operations, technology, and subject matter experts to resolve integrity and ethics concerns, incorporate best practices in screening, and to develop new tools to uphold research quality.  He engages in conferences, working groups, and other events to share our research integrity vision and expertise with the community.   

Mike has worked in academic publishing since 2004 and has spent a large part of his career working with editors and academic societies in publishing and developing their journals.  He joined Wiley’s Integrity in Publishing Group in 2018 and took on the role as the Director for Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics in January 2022. 

Atul is a Research Integrity Manager in the Publication Ethics and Integrity Team at Taylor & Francis.

He holds a Ph.D. in innate immunity from CDFD in India and has postdoctoral experience in immunology from University of Cambridge.

He is an active member of the STM Image Alteration and Duplicate Detection Working Group.

Dr. Chenggang Tao is a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and did his postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley.

Then he was a faculty at Virginia Tech. His research mainly focuses on emerging 2D materials, energy-related materials, and surface science.

He has published many papers on 2D materials and surface dynamics, including in Science, Nature Physics, PRL, and JACS.

Lisa Boxer received her Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University in 2015. Her Ph.D. research in Dr. Paul Khavari’s lab focused on transcriptional regulation of epidermal differentiation.

She then performed postdoctoral research with Dr. Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School. As a postdoctoral fellow, she studied neuronal gene regulation by the methyl-DNA-binding protein MeCP2, mutations in which cause the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome.

Dr. Boxer joined the Laboratory of Genome Integrity at the National Institutes of Health as a Stadtman Investigator in 2022. Her lab studies the role of chromatin and epigenetics in brain development, and how mutations in chromatin regulators lead to neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer.

Claire Besson joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the George Washington University in 2015.

She is an inorganic coordination chemist, and her research interests focus on the design and synthesis of magnetic molecules for information storage and processing, including molecule-based quantum computing. Her interest in this field was born during her postdoctoral work with Prof. P. Kögerler, when she was embedded in a condensed matter physics group at the Peter Grünberg Institute (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany).

Before that, she did her Ph.D. working in polyoxometalate chemistry in the groups of Prof. Anna Proust (Paris Sorbonne) and Craig Hill (Emory University) and her undergraduate at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.