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Rosalyn Abbott is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Abbott received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont. She was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts University working under the supervision of Professor David Kaplan, where she developed adipose tissue engineered models.

Amit Acharya is the Paul P. Christiano Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of continuum mechanics, theoretical materials science, and applied mathematics. His primary interests are in understanding deformation, flow, and failure of solids and developing mathematical methods for describing and analyzing these phenomena.

Acharya received his PhD in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1994. Subsequently, he completed a post-doctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania.

From 1995-1998, he took a position as a senior research engineer in the ABAQUS Std Development group at HKS, Inc. in Providence, RI (now Simulia, Dassault Systemes). While there, Acharya was the lead developer of the *Hysteresis nonlinear viscoelastic material model and the S4 fully-integrated finite strain shell element. These are still in use in the ABAQUS general-purpose FE code. Between 1998-2000, Acharya was a research scientist at the DOE-ASCI funded Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets at UIUC before joining CMU in 2000.

Peter Adams is the Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, with appointments in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research largely focuses on the development of chemical transport models and their application to decision-making, especially related to PM2.5. His research group has developed and applied two "reduced complexity" air quality models, EASIUR and REACH, for policy evaluation. Adams also has extensive expertise in the simulation of aerosol microphysical processes, ultrafine particles and the formation of cloud condensation nuclei in global climate models. Areas of research have also included air quality benefits of decarbonization, air quality in developing countries, the effects of climate change on air quality, short-lived climate forcers, atmospheric ammonia and particulate matter formation from livestock operations, and the simulation organic particulate matter.

Adams was selected for a Fulbright grant to collaborate with researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Bologna, has been a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and received the Sheldon K. Friedlander Award for outstanding doctoral thesis from the American Association for Aerosol Research. He has previously served on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee and the Allegheny County Health Department’s Air Toxics New Guidelines Proposal Committee as well as service to the American Association for Aerosol Research. He has served on US EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee's PM Review Panel and other EPA advisory panels.

Adams received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Cornell University. He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Applied Science Fellowship for graduate study and received MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He also holds an associated faculty position in the Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon.

Nicky Agate is Associate Dean for Academic Engagement at CMU Libraries and Editorial Director of CMU Press. Her current projects focus on open educational resources for algorithmic, media, and data literacy (POEM, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services until it was cancelled in April 2025); values-enacted leadership training (VELI, funded by the Mellon and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations); and academic culture reform (HuMetricsHSS, funded by the Mellon Foundation).

I am an Associate Teaching Professor of Finance at the Business Administration Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. My work brings together finance education, empirical research, and applied engagement with industry and the broader community. I focus on helping students and practitioners understand how financial decisions are made in real-world settings, particularly across corporate, investment, entrepreneurial, and international finance contexts. Alongside my teaching and research, I actively contribute to student research, community financial literacy initiatives, industry engagement, and institutional service at CMU Qatar.

Laurence Ales is Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Professor Ales is currently the Senior Associate Dean for Education at the Tepper School overseeing all the educational portfolio of the school. He joined CMU in 2008. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research focuses on the design of tax policy and on the labor implication of technological change. Recent work has analyzed how to tax the labor income of highly paid CEOs and how taxes should be designed taking into account location of work and marital status. Looking at the impact of technology Professor Ales has  studied how different types of technologies generate different patterns of task automation. His research has been published in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Theory.  At the Tepper School, Professor Ales currently teaches courses for the MBA program and for Executive Education.

Michael’s teaching experience includes 24+ years in higher education as a full-time (16 years) and part-time (7+ years) non-tenure track faculty instructor. He has extensive experience creating and teaching courses in management, OB, leadership, and their sub-disciplines at the Associate, Bachelor, and Master levels - onsite and online. 

In his roles as an analyst, operations manager, and corporate trainer, Michael used his communication, leadership, and organization management skills to lead teams to operational excellence and stakeholder satisfaction, including creation and execution of training and development programs.

In addition to his university teaching, Michael currently teaches courses with the American Management Association. He is a certified leadership coach and has consulted for a number of clients on leadership development, process improvement, and customer service. These have included global corporations, higher education institutions, not-for-profit businesses, and small business ventures.

George is an Associate Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department, and co-director of the Parallel Data Lab. From 2021 to 2025, he also spent part of his time at Amazon Web Services as an Amazon Scholar. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.