Bosch Chair and Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director of Exascale Computing Engineering Center at Stanford University.
Founder of Cascade Technologies Inc (now part of Cadence Systems).
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Teresa Buccheri, Ph.D, is Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training and Co-Chair Research Hub at Notre Dame de Namur University, School of Psychology.
Clinical instructor at Community Institute for Psychotherapy.
Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist (Italian Board Lazio #15428)

Romeo Beccherelli earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome. He worked at the University of Oxford before joining the National Research Council of Italy in 2001, where he advanced to Director of Research and was seconded to UNESCO in 2016.
He has reviewed for the European Commission, Italian ministries, and the IPCEI–Microelectronics program (€2.2B). Author of ~250 papers and two patents, he has led projects funded by the European Commission, ESA, the Italian Government, and industry.
His research spans liquid crystal technologies, photonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces for wireless communications. Since November 2023, he has been Scientific Attaché at the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco.

Alessandra is the C. Kittel Endowed Chair Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the Founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation at UCB. She is also an affiliate of the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute and the co-founder of the startup QuAD (Quantum Advanced Detection).”

Division Deputy for Accelerator Technology and system manager for electronics systems at the ALS-U project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Assistant Professor of Italian Art History at Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History.
Co-Director of the Public Humanities Initiative at Stanford University.

Director of Application Technology at MultiBeam Corporation Sunnyvale CA
World’s First High-Productivity Multicolumn E-Beam Lithography Platform
Previously he has been:
Senior Scientist for Nanofabrication for a stealth mode start-up company in SF.
Lab Manager for the Optics and Display Research Group at Meta Reality Labs in Redmond WA
Molecular Foundry NanoFabrication Facility Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,Berkeley CA
Founder Member of the ISSNAF Bay Area Chapter

Maria Luisa Mandelli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on applying advanced neuroimaging techniques to understand neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental differences, and she collaborates across disciplines while exploring how perspectives from other fields can inform neuroscience.

Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University and the “Ralph Landau” Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Affiliated with NBER, CEPR, IZA, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.