Introduction University Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, USA Distinguished Invited Visiting Professor, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Expertise Structural Engineering, Fire Engineering, Fire Resistance Design, High-temperature Behavior of Materials
Research Interests Performance of structural systems under fire, modeling of material properties, structural fire safety, AI/ML applications in engineering
Academic Service Ph.D., Queen’s University, Canada 500+ publications, 25,000+ citations, h-index 89 Founding Director, Center on Structural Fire Safety and Diagnostics Fellow of seven international academies including Royal Society of Canada, ASCE, and Canadian Academy of Engineering
Introduction Carolina Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina Distinguished Guest Professor, Department of English, Ewha Womans University
Expertise Latin literature, ancient philosophy, literary theory, classical reception
Research Interests Latin erotic elegy, satire, French feminist theory, Plato, Foucault, deconstruction, psychoanalysis
Academic Service Vice Provost for International Affairs, University of South Carolina (2014–2020); Visiting Professor at University of Vienna, Paris 13, Beijing Language and Culture University, Ruhr University Bochum; Former Editor, Transactions of the American Philological Association; Author of over 100 articles and multiple books on classical and modern theory
Introduction Professor of Asian Studies and of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Expertise Inner Asian history, Imperial China, medieval Islamic world, Mongol Empire, nomadism
Research Interests Mobility and empire in Eurasia; cross-cultural contacts between China and the Islamic world; history of Central Asia; Qara Khitai; Chinggis Khan; late imperial China
Academic Service Director, Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies; Head, Institute of Asian and African Studies; PI of ERC project “Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia”; Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Co-editor, The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (2023)
Introduction Distinguished Professor, College of Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Expertise Motivational Psychology, Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
Research Interests Human motivation, education, health, work engagement, psychological well-being
Academic Service Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University; Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester; Visiting Professor, Imperial College London; Co-developer of SDT; 500+ publications; multiple lifetime achievement awards
Academic Service B.S. and M.S., Seoul National University Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005) Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2005–2008) Assistant Professor (2008–2014), Associate Professor (2014–present), Cornell University NSF CAREER Awardee (2010–2014), Department of Energy CAREER award (2013-2017)
