Dr. Leo Lo serves as the Dean and Professor at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. He is also the President-Elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).
His work centers on integrating AI into library services and advancing AI literacy. Currently, he leads his university’s AI Empowerment Initiatives, which aim to elevate the community’s AI literacy and teach intelligent, responsible use of the technology.
Dr. Lo holds a doctorate degree in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MLIS from Florida State University, and master’s degrees in both Screenwriting and Survey Research.
Cynthia Hudson Vitale serves as the Director of Science Policy and Scholarship at the Association of Research Libraries.
In this role, she advances the Association’s mission of enduring and equitable access to information through strategic partnerships and advocacy initiatives. Analyzing the global landscape of science and scholarship, she works with research, higher education, information technology, and government agencies on institutional and public policy issues that arise from new and emerging practices in research, teaching, and learning.
Before joining ARL, Cynthia worked in research libraries building and leading computational research services.
With a background in biological sciences from Durham University, Ola has built a career in academic publishing across three Open Access journals over the past five years.
Starting at Springer Nature’s Scientific Reports, she tackled a high workload exceeding 500 manuscripts and had the opportunity to briefly train a team of 10 specialists in India, facilitating system implementation and process improvements.
In 2019, she moved to Frontiers, where she led a team of 6 specialists across three Open Access journals within the Sustainability Program, gaining valuable experience in fostering competitive journal growth while managing a large team.
Currently, as the Publisher at Radcliffe, she directs the department and oversees a portfolio of six Open Access journals in cardiovascular medicine, often representing the organization at relevant conferences, fostering collaboration with researchers and industry partners.
Sarah Elaine Eaton is an associate professor of education at the University of Calgary.
She is a COPE Council member and a member of the United 2 Act Working Group 3, dedicated to researching paper mills.
She researches academic and research misconduct, fraud, and corruption in higher education.
In a long, weird career specializing in metadata, ontologies and discovery, Juliane Schneider has worked in start-ups, industry, publishing and academia. She was the Metadata Librarian for Harvard Medical School and was Team Lead/Data Curator for Harvard Catalyst | Clinical and Translational Science Center. She has coordinated data contributions from 70+ grants dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease and mental disorders for Sage Bionetworks, and is currently working on large language models, data architecture and research infrastructure design at PNNL. Throughout her career, Juliane has seen metadata change from a limited set of descriptors manually attached to an item, to a powerful network of information controlling not only description but data behavior and semantically complex transactions.
Juliane held leadership roles in Special Libraries Association and the Research Data Alliance. She is a certified Carpentries Instructor and taught workshops on data management at libraries across North America and Ireland. She is currently participating in FAIR initiatives and is a member of GO FAIR-US and FAIRPoints.
Tracy Bergstrom is the program manager for collections and infrastructure in the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program at Ithaka S+R. In this role, she collaborates on a variety of projects that examine contemporary challenges relating to the management, access, and discovery of analog and digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations.
Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, Tracy served as the director for the specialized collection services program within the Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame. For many years she was also the curator of the Zahm Dante and early Italian imprints collection at the University of Notre Dame. Tracy holds a BA in art history/ Italian literature from Smith College, an MA in Archaeological Studies from Yale University, an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in the history of Italian printing with the Warburg Institute.
Mr. Eric Amponsah Amoaful is one of the three Research4Life Country Connectors representing the Ghana Library Association. He is responsible for connecting and supporting academic and research institutions in the Southern Sector of Ghana.
He holds an MPhil in Information Studies, an MA in Distance Education and E-Learning, and a BA in Information Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.
He consults as Head of Projects for Aniwa Systems, an information systems development firm. He has worked as a Distance Education Tutor in Information Studies in the School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana, and an Assistant Librarian in the Balme Library. He has served in various leadership roles in the University of Ghana Library System, including, Head of the Electronic Resources Unit, Head of the Students’ Reference Library, Head of the Population and Social Science Library.
He has also served as a resource person for a number of training workshops on library support services, reference management tools, and ICT tools for research for various institutions including the Ghana Library Association, the Pan-African Doctoral Academy (PADA), the Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), the Ghana Library Authority, Elsevier Africa, the Ghana Institution of Engineers, among others.
Alan Schiffres is co-founder and Managing Director of Infolinx.
Before founding Infolinx, Alan spent over 40 years in financial services, including senior positions at Citicorp, Dean Witter, and American Express, where he served as Chief Credit Officer for the firm’s Gold/Platinum Card Division and consumer lending products.
In addition to his work in industry, Alan was Partner/Managing Director at Novantas Inc. where he led the consulting firm’s Consumer Risk Management and Advanced Analytics practices. He was also Managing Director at Portfolio Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in consumer credit risk management.
Throughout his career, Alan’s has been a leader in conceiving, developing and applying advanced data science and analytic solutions to support business decisions and set business policy. Through Infolinx Alan seeks to leverage and apply his decades of practical risk management experience to a new domain – academic publishing — and develop and deploy best-in-class solutions to address the challenges of publishing integrity.
Alan earned a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Before joining Elsevier as a senior advisor, Dr. Ellis was vice president for research and graduate studies at the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), the position from which he retired in 2019.
In previous appointments, Dr. Ellis served as provost at City University of Hong Kong, vice chancellor for research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), director of the division of chemistry at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Jenny Crick works in the Integrity and Ethics team at Canadian Science Publishing.
She has a Master’s degree in plant genetics and worked in private research before coming to scientific publishing.
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