Dr. Shu Liao teaches at the Department of Social Work at Asia University in Taiwan. Her research interests include community service and learning as well as women empowerment. She co-founded the Service-Learning Division of Student Affairs, and Center for Advanced Research of Entrepreneurship (CARE) a transdisciplinary research center in Asia University with Dr. Raymond Yeh and others.

As the Librarian of the university, she envisions the library to be a transdisciplinary platform for the various departments at Asia University. She is a recipient of the social Justice Award in 2001, and a nationa outstanding teacher award in service learning in 2008 among other recognitions.

Dr. Darryl James currently serves as Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness with responsibility to oversee institutional effectiveness for the university. He acts as the institutional liaison with SACSCOC, supervises the institutional effectiveness team made up of the Office of Planning and Assessment and Institutional Research. He also supports the institutions compliance with THECB, SACSCOC and discipline-based accreditor academic standards. He supports the development of new graduate programs.

Dr. James area of expertise is thermal-fluid sciences. His research includes both computational and experimental work in thermal-fluids. Among his research topics are thermal-fluid engineered systems such as solar thermochemical heat engine development and analysis, heat transfer characteristics of pulsed, combined-pulsed, and dynamic radial jet nozzles, dynamic behavior of gas surface adsorption on thin polymer films deposited on surface acoustic wave devices, physical simulation of tornado-like vortices, thermal necrosis in spinal revision surgery, experimental determination of mass transport due to buoyant forces in horizontal enclosures, selective entrainment of immiscible fluids, and preferential ion transport in nanochannels. He is director of VorTECH, the US's largest tornado simulator.

Dr. Fern Wickson is a senior scientist and program coordinator of the Society, Ecology and Ethics Department (SEED) at Genok Centre for Biosafety in Troms¸, Norway. Originally trained in both ecology and political science, Fern undertook an interdisciplinary PhD across the Arts and Science faculties at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her research interests include: the theory and practice of transdisciplinary research, the concept and enactment of responsible innovation, ecophilosophy and environmental ethics, and the governance of new and emerging technologies. She currently has research projects on developing systems-based approaches to sustainable and ethical agricultures, integrating different models biodiversity conservation, advancing responsible forms of science and innovation, and improving the environmental governance of bio- and nano-technologies. As part of her work at Genok, Fern has also been involved in several capacity building courses held around the world on holistic approaches to biosafety assessment and is regularly sought after to give guest lectures and plenary talks on issues such as ethical aspects of science and technology and the management of risks and uncertainties in decision-making on innovation. She is an expert member of the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and a past President of the international Society for the Study of New and Emerging Technologies (S.Net). She has also served on the board of the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) and was recently appointed to a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) examining the diverse conceptualization of values in nature. Dr Wickson is deeply committed to the importance of inter- and transdisciplinary research and not only regularly publishes her work for both social and natural science audiences, but also creates popular science articles, blog posts and short films to communicate with wider audiences. More information about her work can be found on her website (http://genok.no/ansatt/fern-wickson/), her research project blog (www.agriculturesproject.org) and through her Twitter account (@FernWickson).

Dr. Yong Zeng professor of Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) is an interdisciplinary, fundamental research, R&D learning institute, housing state-of-the-art research in wide range of information systems engineering areas, including information systems security, quality system engineering, communication software engineering, data mining, bioinformatics, digital forensics, embedded systems engineering, electronics, multimedia, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and building and construction management. He holds Canada Research Chair in Design Science. Dr. Zeng's research aims at developing robust software tools to enhance the quality and efficiency of innovative product development in manufacturing companies. The foundation of these tools is the formal design science he has developed based on the recursive logic of design he proposed with his collaborator in 1991.

His research includes design process modeling, requirements engineering, design knowledge representation, surface reconstruction, as well as finite element modeling. He has applied his research results to some industry projects, such as intelligent sketching interface for product conceptual design, integrated CAD/FEM radar analysis system, etc. Dr. Zeng and his team are currently exploring the applications of their software tools to manufacturing industry such as aerospace engineering, automotive engineering and biomedical devices manufacturing. Dr. Zeng published numerous technical papers in design science and design applications.

Dr. Stroud graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, in 1978 and accepted a job with E-Systems in Garland, Texas. While at E-Systems, he obtained a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas in 1981. E-Systems was acquired by Raytheon in the 1990s and he remained with the new company following the acquisition. He worked on increasingly complex systems over his time with Raytheon and is now a Senior Engineering Fellow. As part of his duties, he teaches courses in Principles of Systems Engineering (PoSE), the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and the Systems Engineering Technical Development Program (SEtdp). His responsibilities likewise became more diverse and at the present time he is supporting the acquisition of new business by the company.

Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D. is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School and in the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine. She is a scholar in Washington University's Institute of Public Health and serves on its Faculty Advisory Committee. Dr. Gehlert is the Co-Program Leader of the Prevention and Control Program of the Alvin J. Site man Cancer Center, Co-Director of the Transdisciplinary Center on Energetics and Cancer (TREC), and Training Program Director of the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD). Dr. Gehlert serves on the Executive Committee of the university's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (a CTSA) and the Co-Chair of the Center for Community-Engaged Research.

Dr. Gehlert joined the Brown School in 2009 from the University of Chicago where she was the Helen Ross Professor in the School of Social Service Administration (SSA), the Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Department of Comparative Human development. While at the School of Social Service Administration, Dr. Gehlert served as the Deputy Dean for Research. She was the Associate Director of the University of Chicago NIH-funded Institute for Translational Medicine (a CTSA) and co-chaired its Community Translation Science Cluster. She was also the Principal Investigator and Director of the university's NIH-funded Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research. She directed the university's Maternal and Child Health training Program from 1992-1998 and was Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded community-based study of rural and urban women's health and mental health from 1997-2001. She was Co-Principal Investigator and Core Leader of the Health Disparities and Communities Core of the CDC-funded Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economic from 2004-2007.

Dr. Gehlert's publications focus on social influences on health, especially the health of vulnerable populations. She currently is working on the influences of neighborhood and community violence and unsafe housing on psychosocial functioning among African-American women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, with an eye toward how these factors "get under the skin" to affect gene expression and tumorigenesis. She has a special interest in the biology of women's behavior.

Dr. Gehlert Is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH, which is a federal appointment. She is Co-Chair of the Population Health Advisory Committee of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH. She is a chartered member of NIH's Community-Level Health Promotion Scientific Review Panel and a member of the scientific review panel for Oncology Social Work at the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Gehlert is a Fellow in the American Association of Social Work and Social Welfare. She is Past President of the Society for Social Work and Research and serves on the editorial boards of Health & Social Work, Social Work Research, Social Service Review, Research in Social Work Practice, and Oxford Bibiliographies Online (Social Work).

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Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi received his B.S. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Keio University and the Dr.  Eng.  degree in information Security from Chuo Uni-versity in Japan.  He originally joined NEC Corporation in 1963, in the Computer Software Development Department and has served as the vice president in NEC Soft. LTD. He was a Director of the basic operating systems of a super-computer, large scale computer and personal computer.  He also pioneered the Information Security Research Institute and the collaboration with the Universities in the USA. He worked as a head of the research and development team on the next generation electronic voting system funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.  He was serving as a Visiting Professor in the Bioinformatics Research Institute, Waseda University, Japan since 2004.  Currently he is serving as a Full Professor in the Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Japan.  He served as a President of Software Engineering Society (The SES), and currently serving the research fellow of the Society of Development and Process Science (The SDPS) and a Vice President of Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Study Studies (The ATLAS). He is currently engaged in the research project funded by the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT). He is currently working as a subdirector of the Melt-up Forum participated from Japanese Government, major IT venders in Japan.  His research interests focus upon the cryptographic theory, modern logic cryptology and cognitive science.  He received the best paper award on information sharing on DOD 14th ICCRTS, 2009.  He has been a keynote at several international conferences, such as IEEE-ICTAI, HASE, IEEE-BIBE, SDPS, and Advanced Concept of Information Security Comprehensive Science IEEE-ISM.

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Dr. Derrick Tate is an Associate Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Industrial Design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He aims to impact society through bringing design thinking to areas of strategic importance: assessing the innovative potential of design ideas, developing sustainable approaches for building systems, transportation, and manufacturing; and broadening participation in innovation. Dr. Tate has carried out his research activities at the two ends of the research spectrum where they will have the greatest impact: fundamental research that provides a science base for the future of entrepreneurial engineering design as well as the application of design theories and tools to technology innovation. His recent projects include working with West Texas entrepreneurs on the development of innovative and sustainable designs and a US-Tanzania Workshop: Advancing the Structural Use of Earth-based Bricks, funded by NSF. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University. His S.M and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering are from MIT in the areas of manufacturing and design, respectively.

Prior to becoming Dean of CCOE, Dr. Hyun was Associate Provost at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2008-2013) and led the Office of International and Transnational Affairs. Previously, she also served as Department Chair of Curriculum & Instruction at UMass Boston (2007-2008), Interim Chair, Program Director and Co-Director for various graduate (Ph.D & Ed.D) and undergraduate programs in teacher education, curriculum studies, K-12 leadership, and higher education administration at the Kent State University, Ohio (2001-2007). She was one of the founding faculty members of the Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA, established in 1997 (1997-2001). Dr. Hyun started her first tenure track faculty position, as assistant professor, at the Clarion University, Pennsylvania (1995-1997). She is originally from Seoul, S. Korea with B.S. (1985) and M.A. (1987) in Early Childhood Education from Duksung Women's University. She came to this country in 1987 and become US citizen in 2000.

Dr. Hyun is an established scholar and experienced administrator in higher education. Through her scholarships, Dr. Hyun has widely published in various areas, including curriculum theorizing; transdisciplinary higher education curriculum; developmentally and culturally appropriate practice (DCAP); early childhood education; teacher education; critical pedagogy; gender studies; bilingual education; theory of teacher reflectivity and multiple/multiethnic perspective-taking; inquiry-oriented reflective supervision; technology and young children; environmental education; academic deans' involvement/accountability in college students' academic success; internationalization of higher education institutions; and minority faculty recruitment and retention.

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