Dr. Yetunde Folajimi is an Associate Professor  at the School of computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. With a Ph.D. in computer science, her research interests lie in the areas of artificial intelligence, gaming, natural language processing, and recommender systems, and their applications in health and safety education, adult education, Child Education, youth empowerment, and women empowerment. She has served as an advisor to over 100 undergraduate and graduate research projects and has about 20 years of faculty/research experience working with colleagues and students from diverse backgrounds in interdisciplinary fields all over the world and has published over 40 publications, in reputable journals and conferences. She is a recipient of many international awards and recognition from prestigious organizations, such as Schlumberger Foundation and commonwealth institute of international education, MacArthur foundation, and Wentworth institute of technology presidential epic award. She is the pioneer Chair of the Ibadan Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Chapter and has attended and served on roughly twenty conferences and workshops, and journals. With a strong passion to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging, she implements strategies to motivate more girls and women into Computer Science with the objective of actively engaging them in science and technology.  

Dr. Salem Othman is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Othman received a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from two different universities in Libya. He also received a doctorate in Computer Science from Kent State University, OH, USA. Since 2006 he has taught at college level, both in Libya and in the United States.  His research interests include Online Social Network analysis, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Machine Learning, Emojiset Mining, and Epidemiology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed publications on a broad range of topics. These topics vary but can include subjects such as discovering bloom taxonomic relationships between knowledge units using semantic graph triangularity mining to the impact of online social community platforms on the elderly daily activities and automatic extraction of Emojiset. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking; International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, Computing Conference 2021, and SIMULTECH Conference 2021.

Shawren Singh, is the Chair of Department - Information Systems and an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of South Africa, and has spent more than 15 years teaching and researching in the Information Systems space. His research has focused on e-Government, with particular interest in the design and development of these applications. He has developed models for understanding how e-Government applications are designed and developed. He also has an interest in usability of web-based applications. His research has been published internationally and he has presented papers at several conferences. He holds a BComm, an MSc and a PhD.

Dr. Leon Deligiannidis is a full professor and interim dean of the School of Computing and Data Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology. With a PhD in Computer Science at Tufts University and a strong background in industry collaboration,  his research spans human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and emerging technologies.