Speakers
Meghan Anzelc, PhD - Keynote Speaker
Head of Data and Analytics
Meghan Anzelc is a data and analytics product development and deployment executive leader.
Meghan Anzelc, PhD, is an experienced executive driving positive business impact through data, artificial intelligence, and technology. Previously Global Head of Data & Analytics at Spencer Stuart and Chief Analytics Officer at AXIS Capital, Anzelc is skilled at determining how existing and emerging technologies can be applied to business problems and providing jargon-free guidance to senior executives on technology, digital strategy, and decision trade-offs. Read more...
Rob Krauss, DMP
Board Certified Medical Physicist
Cecille Labuda, PhD
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi
Dr. Labuda's research focuses on physical ultrasonics and the biomedical applications of ultrasound. This includes the ultrasonic properties of tissue, the development of tissue-mimicking phantoms, and wave propagation in complex media. Labuda currently studies brain tissue's ultrasonic properties, both directly and through a bone mimic. Learn more...
Panelists
Joji Castillon
Career Specialist - STEM, University of Memphis
Ms. Castillon provides career advising, as well as job and internship opportunities for students majoring in STEM.
Raghav K. Elayavalli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli is an assistant Professor of Physics in the department of Physics and Astronomy since the fall of 2023. The primary question of their research is to chart the space-time evolution of fundamental particles such as quarks and gluons from their liberation during the moment of high-energy collision to their metamorphosis into hadrons. Learn more...
Rebekah Herrman, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Dr. Rebekah Herrman is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 2020 from the University of Memphis with a focus in combinatorics. While there, she studied graph theory games and optimization problems on graphs. Aside from graph theory, her current research interest is quantum machine learning applied to combinatorial optimization problems. Learn more...
Ceecy Reed
Title IC Coordinator & Interim Director, Office for Institutional Equity, University of Memphis
Joanne Rhodes
Associate Professor of Teaching, University of Memphis
Ms. Rhodes joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of Memphis and has been teaching classes in astronomy and conceptual physics here since 2009. In 2016, she received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Briggs Foundation. She incorporates technology into her classroom in ways that are intended to improve students' educational experience. She has developed an online course for Survey of Astronomy and a traditional course, Astronomy II. She continues to enjoy sharing her passion for physics and astronomy with her students and highly values increasing student science literacy in the process. Learn more...
Natalie Ruiz
Education Program Manager, American Physical Society (APS)
Ms. Ruiz's program portfolio includes the APS Bridge Program and the APS Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance (APS-IDEA). In addition to serving administrative roles in these programs, Natalie serves as a community facilitator in an effort to promote diversity and inclusion in the field of Physics.
Andrea Vincent
Senior Data Analyst, Development Analytics ALSAC, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
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