1) Center for Digital Inclusion

Sharon Irish is acting director of the Center for Digital Inclusion at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is active with FemTechNet, a collective of feminists of all genders investigating intersections of technology and culture, as wall as an advisory editor for the journal, Technology and Culture. More about her at http://sharonirish.org/

2) Visualization Lab

Travis Ross manages the Visualization Lab at the Beckman Institute, which is a multi-user facility consisting of 3d technologies, high-speed video, high-resolution photography, and an array of CAE, CAD, and design software’s running on powerful graphics workstations.  Travis has worked here for 6 years, before that he worked in the 3d graphics industry for 14 years doing everything from Sony PlayStation cinematics and film and TV to 3d design consulting in manufacturing and design companies.

1) Beckman Institute

Patty Jones is the Associate Director for Research at the Beckman Institute. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Illinois and the master’s and PhD degrees in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech. In her previous lives, she was an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Illinois and was the Deputy Director for Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Research Center.