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Dr. Henry Leitner is a Senior Lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also serves as associate dean for information technology and chief innovation officer for the Division of Continuing Education (DCE) at Harvard University. He served as acting dean of DCE for three months, June-September, 2019, and later served as Interim Dean of DCE from January, 2020, until mid-July of that year. At Harvard Extension, he created the Master of Liberal Arts in information technology degree, a graduate program of study in which adult learners are exposed to modern software engineering methodologies, theoretical and formal areas of computer science, advanced topics such as cryptography and nanoscale science, digital media arts and sciences, as well as the latest trends in IT management, data science, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and enterprise computing. There are currently more than 600 degree candidates matriculated toward the degree.
As senior lecturer on computer science, for over three decades Leitner has taught large introductory computer science courses and other advanced courses for Harvard Extension and Summer Schools, as well as at Harvard College. In 1999, he received the Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 2006 he was honored for 25 years of teaching at the Extension School. For the past 3 years, Dr. Leitner has also been teaching at Harvard’s Online Business Analytics Program, courses that focus on AI and data analytics.
Dr. Leitner co-founded Articulate Systems, Inc., a company that pioneered the use of voice recognition technology on the Apple Macintosh computer. Leitner has oversight responsibility for the pedagogical, software engineering, and technical support teams for online teaching and learning at DCE, a campus-based computing lab, as well as a growing collection of continuing and professional education courses that collectively enroll thousands of on-campus and on-line students annually. His current research is focused on the field of learning engineering, which involves the application of a principled set of evidence-based strategies to the continual re-design of educational experiences to optimize their effectiveness and efficiency.
Dr. Leitner currently serves on the leadership council of the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC), a university group whose mission is to create a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that will become the standard for storing, displalying and verifiying digital academic credentials.
Dr. Leitner earned his master's degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Prof. H. T. Kung is William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. He conducts research on topics related to the application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing and healthcare, AI accelerators, VLSI design, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, computer
architectures, and computer networks. Professor Kung is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering for introducing the idea of systolic computation, contributions to parallel computing, and applying complexity analysis to very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) computation. In addition, Professor Kung is a Guggenheim Fellow, an elected member of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, as well as the
president and co-founder of the Taiwan AI Academy, a non-profit organization which has cultivated over 10,000 AI talents for industries since 2019. Professor Kung received the 1990 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the 1991 Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the Year Award, the 2015 ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame Award, and the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for his contributions to
concurrency control and systolic arrays in distributed systems . Professor Kung received his bachelor's degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1968. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973. He taught at Carnegie Mellon for 19 years before joining Harvard in 1992.
Prof. M. A. Abido is currently a Distinguished University Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Abido has published three books and more than 500 papers in reputable journals and international conferences. He has granted 23 patents registered in US. He participated in 80+ funded projects. Dr. Abido has accumulated 21,000+ citations with h-index of 632 and i10-index of 226 according to Google Scholar accessed in October 2023. Dr. Abido is the recipient of KFUPM Excellence in Research Award, 2002, 2007 and 2012, KFUPM Best Project Award, 2007, 2010, and 2020, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010, 2014, and 2018, KFUPM, Excellence in Advising Award, 2009 and 2015, KFUPM, Best Project Award, 2007, 2010, and 2020, First Prize Paper Award of the Industrial Automation and Control Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2003, Abdel-Hamid Shoman Prize for Young Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, 2005, Best Applied Research Award of 15thGCC-CIGRE Conference, Abu-Dhabi, UAE, 2006, and Best Poster Award, International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ’13), Bilbao, Spain, 2013. Dr. Abido has been awarded Almarai Prize for Scientific Innovation 2017-2018, Distinguished Scientist, Saudi Arabia, 2018 and Khalifa Award for Education 2017-2018, Higher Education, Distinguished University Professor in Scientific Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2018. He has been ranked 5th in Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists in Saudi Arabia, 2023.
Prof. Mohamed Gamal El-Din is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the fundamentals of advanced and innovative treatment approaches for water and wastewater (municipal and industrial such as oil and gas). Since 2011, he has held an NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment. He is also one of the Theme Leads of the Future Energy Systems (FES) theme on Resilient Reclaimed Land and Water Systems. Because of his contributions in the area of oil sands process water treatment/reclamation, in 2017, Dr. Gamal El-Din received the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation Award for Innovation in Oil Sands Research. In 2019, he became a Jinshan Distinguished Professor at Jiangsu University. In 2020, he was awarded the Research Chair in Environmental Engineering at Tongji University in China. In 2023, Dr. Gamal El-Din was appointed the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Sustainable and Resilient Wastewater Treatment for Reuse. Additionally, he was named the UofA Engineering Research Chair in Community-Based Wastewater Management, with a focus on advancing a circular economy. Dr. Gamal El-Din was also selected to serve as the Director of the Water Research Centre (WRC). His groundbreaking research and unparalleled expertise make him the perfect candidate for these critical roles. Dr. Gamal El-Din’s research has resulted in 317 refereed journal papers and 404 conference and workshop presentations, among other publications. Currently, Dr. Gamal El-Din’s h-index is 67, with 14,996 citations as per Google Scholar.
Dr. Daniel Donaldson is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Birmingham where he is Deputy Head of the Resilient Systems and Climate Action Research Group. Dr. Donaldson received the BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from California Baptist University, USA in 2012. From 2011 to 2018, he worked for Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest electric utilities in the United States in roles spanning Distribution Engineering, Transmission Planning, and Demand & Distributed Energy Resource Forecasting. While at SCE he completed his MEng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho (2015), and also was licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of California (2015). In 2018, he left SCE to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, where his research focused on resilience assessment of electrical power systems with wildfires and low-carbon technologies. He completed the PhD and took up the post of Assistant Professor in 2022. His main research interests include electricity distribution system planning, forecasting, power system resilience, and climate adaptation of interdependent critical infrastructure. He is also an IEEE Senior member, Secretary of the IEEE working group on Modern and Future Distribution System Planning, and Industry Liaison for the UK and Ireland IEEE PES Chapter.