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Dr. Michael Orosz, FAZD Center Theme Leader: Information Analysis Systems, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Project Leader for the Risk Analysts’ Workbench. Research focus is developing and fielding prototype systems that address operations risk management, integrated modeling environments, command and control and decision-support.
Dr. Tim Carpenter, Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Davis and Co-Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) His main field is epidemiology with an emphasis on problem solving. Research interests are foot and mouth disease modeling, temporal and spatial cluster statistics, and risk assessment of disease importation and eradication. Published research.
Dr. David Hartley, Georgetown University: An expert in infectious disease modeling. He leads a diverse team at Georgetown's ISIS Center that supports the Global Argus Project research and development program. The team concentrates on linguistics, data mining, decision science, data sharing technology, global information systems, and information representation. Published research.
Dr. Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University, Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. Research focus is on the economics of strategies directed toward Biosecurity event prevention, detection, response and recovery. Nobel Prize, 2007. Published research.
Dr. Bo Norby, Texas A&M University. Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health. Research focus involves validation of diagnostic tests, including design of experimental and field trials used to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of diagnostics tests. Published research.
Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University. Professor in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Forest Science and Director of the Spatial Sciences Laboratory. Research focus is in integration and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing with biophysical simulation models.
