Dr. George Tsatsaronis is Vice President of Data Science at the Operations division of Elsevier, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Prior to joining Elsevier in 2016, he worked in academia for more than 10 years, doing research and teaching in the fields of machine learning, natural language processing, and bioinformatics in universities in Greece, Norway, and Germany.
He has published more than 60 scientific articles in high-impact peer-review journals and conference proceedings in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, primarily natural language processing and text mining.
In Elsevier, Dr. George Tsatsaronis is responsible for the design, implementation, deployment, and quality assurance for several of Elsevier’s machine learning solutions and capabilities.
Shay joined the T&F Publishing Ethics and Integrity team in 2018. He provides specialist advice and support on ethical, research integrity, and policy matters to our editorial teams and authors.
Shay also promotes awareness and the consistent application of ethical principles and best practice in publishing.
Adam Day is the CEO and Founder of Clear Skies.
Clear Skies offers the Papermill Alarm: the industry’s leading in papermill detection service. The Papermill Alarm became the first service dedicated to papermill detection in 2021 and a version of the Papermill Alarm is available through STM’s Integrity Hub.
Adam has extensive editorial and data science experience in the publishing industry having worked for IOP Publishing and Sage prior to founding Clear Skies.
He runs a popular blog on Medium under the handle “clearskiesadam”.
Part of the founding management team at Digital Science, as Director of Portfolio Development Steve has been involved in the majority of Digital Science’s portfolio investments, focussing on taking early-stage startup founders through product and business model validation to launch and growth.
An entrepreneur himself, Steve has been involved in the startup space since the late 90s, working across a variety of industries.
Sean Collins, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital and a Member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
He is a graduate of the MSTP program at the University of Michigan. He went on to complete both an internship in Surgery and a residency in Radiation Oncology at Georgetown University Hospital.
His areas of expertise are Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for which he treats patients using the CyberKnife, a technology that allows for more accurate targeting of radiation therapy.
The focus of his clinical research is to develop treatment protocols using the CyberKnife to minimize the toxicity of radiation dose escalation. To date, he has treated over 1000 cancer patients using CyberKnife technology and has presented his work at major meetings, and published multiple papers on his experience in peer-reviewed journals.
Christopher Erdmann is a community advocate, developer, and experimenter in the areas of Open Science and FAIR.
Prior to joining the Michael J. Fox Foundation as the Associate Director for Open Science, he was the Assistant Director for Data Leadership at the American Geophysical Union where he was responsible for data stewardship and drove programs on open science and FAIR.
He has previously worked for organizations such as the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC, California Digital Library (The Carpentries), North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Christopher holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.
Cherry Murray, Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona, is Deputy Director of Research at Biosphere2.
She obtained B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests evolved from experimental condensed matter and surface physics to nanotechnology, innovation, R&D of telecommunications networks, to science, technology, national security and energy policy, science diplomacy and global sustainable development.
From 1978 to 2004, Murray held a number of research and executive positions at Bell Laboratories, eventually becoming Senior Vice President for Physical Sciences and Wireless Research. She then served at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology from 2004 to 2009. She was dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2009 until 2014.
Murray served as the Director of the US Department of Energy Office of Science, from 2015 until 2017, overseeing $6 billion in competitive scientific research as well as the management of 10 national laboratories. She then became Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics at Harvard until her retirement in 2019.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, treasurer and past co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership, and co-chair of the United Nations 10-Member Group in support of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism, Murray has received the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation as well as the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award and George E. Pake Prize. She is co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences Report Review Committee, a member of the Board and Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Chair of the Board of Governors of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.
Sarah Jenkins is the Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Elsevier. Sarah and her team promote research integrity through policies, best practices, and education, support Elsevier’s Publishing Teams and Editors to investigate and resolve ethics cases and work with experts across Elsevier to build tools and develop processes to detect unethical practices during the manuscript submission and peer-review process.
Sarah began her publishing career at Elsevier working with editors and learned societies in health and medical sciences. Sarah later joined the Physical Sciences group as a Publishing Director where she focused on open access and open science through initiatives that promoted the deposition of code and software, and established links between original research articles and data journals.
Tony Alves has worked in STM publishing since 1990 focusing on digital publishing, online learning products, and workflow management.
Tony is SVP of Product Management at HighWire Press leading a team of product managers and overseeing a suite of platform products addressing the scholarly publishing infrastructure. Tony is involved in promoting industry standardization, system-to-system communications protocols, and other industry-shared services.
Tony serves as co-chair of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach NISO Standing Committee, which defines data and communication protocols for manuscript transfers. He also leads a working group for the International Association of STM Publishers addressing simultaneous and duplicate submissions.
Tony has organized and presented sessions on industry standards, such as ORCID, CRediT, Funder ID, organizational IDs, JATS, and BITS, as well as on interesting editorial services, such as similarity detection, artwork preflight, reference checking and linking, artificial intelligence for manuscript quality assurance, social media, and ethics.
James E. Fowler received the B.S. degree in computer and information science engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University.
He is currently a program director in the Communications and Information Foundations cluster of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering of the US National Science Foundation.
He is on leave from Mississippi State University where he is a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in which he holds a Billie J. Ball Endowed Professorship.
Dr. Fowler was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2017 to 2019. He was previously a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
He is currently the Chair of the Computational Imaging Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and is a former chair of the Society’s Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.