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EdukCircle Series of International Conventions

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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

PROFILE

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MR. WIL ENGLUND was an EdukCircle speaker during the 19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication held on April 27, 2021. 

A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Wil is currently a senior correspondent at The Washington Post. He is an Energy reporter for the Financial section and a veteran Moscow correspondent of the Washington Post. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, as well as an Overseas Press Club award and a George Polk award as a co-author of a project on shipbreaking. He also covered the White House for National Journal, and worked as a foreign correspondent and editor at the Baltimore Sun. He was a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University in 2018. Wil earned his degree in AB English from Harvard University, and his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.

PROFILE

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DR. JAMES GROSS discussed Emotion Regulation during the 20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology held on April 20, 2021.

 

He is a Professor at the Department of Psychology in Stanford University. He has received several teaching awards, including Stanford’s highest teaching award, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

 

He has over 450 publications, which have been cited over 140,000 times. James is the founding President for the Society for Affective Science, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Affective Science.

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He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy degree from Yale University and his Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

YALE UNIVERSITY

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Dr. Margaret Clark

John M. Musser Professor, Department of Psychology

How Close Relationship are Initiated, Built and Maintained

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Brian Scholl

Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Program, Department of Psychology

Teaching Seeing: Visual Perception as a Case Study for How to Introduce Students to the Study of the Mind

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Heidi Brooks

Senior Lecturer, Yale School of Management

Change-making in Organizations on the Senior Leadership as well as the Everyday Leadership Levels

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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Dr. Priyadarshini Panda

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Towards Energy Efficient and Robust Neuromorphic Computing: Algorithm and Hardware Perspective

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

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Dr. Adele Goldberg

Professor, Department of Psychology

Conventional Metaphors Are More Engaging Than Literal Paraphrases

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Dr. Michael Graziano

Professor, Department of Psychology

Why Brain-Machines Think They are Conscious

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Mr. Will Englund

Former Visiting Professor, Journalism Program

What to Do When You Can't Trust the Numbers

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

 

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 

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Dr. Daniel Norbert Congreve

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Nanoscale Control of Light and Energy

8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. James Gross

Professor, Department of Psychology

Emotion Regulation

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Jinhwan Kim

Assistant Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Corporate Disclosure Research

22nd EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance

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Dr. Yewon Kim

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Marketing and Ethics: Delivering Value to Customers and Society

21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance

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DR. Elias N. Aboujaoude

Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Internet-Related Technologies and the Illusion of Knowledge

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 

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Dr. Daniel Keum

Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School

Setting the Bar: How Should Individuals and Firms Set Goals

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

 

Mr. Paul Canetti

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School

Technology Trends

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY 

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Dr. Rebecca Lemov

Professor, Department of the History of Science

From Mass to Micro Persuasion in the Age of Big Data

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Ms. Jamieson Lesko

Lecturer, Journalism Graduate Program

Covering Conflict: The Importance of Situational Awareness and Emotional Intelligence 

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Ms. Martha Nichols

Lecturer, Journalism Program

First-Person Journalism: How Do You Make a Personal Voice Believable?

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Ms. June Carolyn Erlick

Lecturer, Journalism Program

Foreign Correspondence from the 70s to the Digital Era

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Gu Yeon Wei

Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Machine Learning at Scale

8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. Minlan Yu

Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Programmable Data Center Networks

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi

Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

TinyML: Machine Learning's Future is Tiny and Bright

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. Lauren Cohen

L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Hidden Alpha

22nd EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance

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DR. Ellen Langer

Professor, Department of Psychology

Mindfulness and the Psychology of Possibility

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Daniel Schacter

William R. Kennan, Jr. Professor, Department of Psychology

Memory and Imagination in Young and Older Adults

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Mr. Matthew Karolian

Lecturer, Journalism Graduate Program

Platforms and The Future of News 

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

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Dr. Julian De Freitas

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles

21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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Dr. Catherine Elgin

Professor, Graduate School of Education

The Ends of Education

11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

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Dr. Paul Harris

Professor, Graduate School of Education

Children’s Imagination

11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

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Dr. Elizabeth Dawes Duraisingh

Research Associate, Graduate School of Education

Beyond Stereotypes and Surface: Strategies for Learning About Culture(s) in the Digital Age

Programmable Data Center Networks

11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

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Dr. Martin Bechthold

Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology, Department of Architecture

The Future of Construction

1st EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering

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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

 

Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology

Understanding and Modulating Mathematical Learning and its

Neural Mechanisms

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Dr. Lisa Holmes

Associate Professor, Department of Education

Knowledge Transfer Across Children’s Social Care Policy and Practice

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Tommaso de Zan

Research Affiliate, Center for Technology and Global Affairs

The Cyber Security Skills Shortage and Public Policy Interventions: the Case of Cyber Security Competitions

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Jonathan Bright

Associate Professor

How Digital Technology Changes Political Participation

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Patricia Lockwood

Medical Research Fellow, School of Psychology

Prosocial Learning and Motivation: Lifespan Changes and Neural Mechanisms

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Jeremy Gibbons

Professor of Computing, Department of Computer Science

Algorithm Design and Functional Programming

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. Charles Spence

Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology

Multisensory Perception

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. David Clark

Professor and Chair, Department of Experimental Psychology

Social Anxiety and its Treatment

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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Dr. Timothy Galpin

Senior Lecturer of Strategy and Innovation

Strategy Formulation and Execution

21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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Dr. Samantha-Kaye Johnston

Research Officer, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, Department of Education

Opportunities and Challenges of Using Digital Technologies to Achieve Quality Assessment Outcomes

11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Jeffrey Bowen

Lecturer, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

“Big Picture” Thinking in Romantic Relationships: A Tool for Managing Conflict

and Separation

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Dr. Christopher Krupenye

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

The Social Minds of Humans and Other Apes

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Dr. Jason Fischer

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Intuitive Physics: How We Understand And Predict the Physical Behavior of Our Everyday Environments

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

 

Dr. Peter Bryant

Associate Professor, School of Business

Leveraging the Complexity of Higher Education in Times of Crisis

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

 

Dr. Timothy Allender

Professor, School of Education and Social Work

Communicating and Mentoring about Historical Thinking in the Digital Age

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Bunty Avieson

Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications

Through Their Eyes: Standpoint and The Ethics of Immersion in Journalism

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Chris Chesher

Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications

Public Identity: From Authorship to Microcelebrity

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Shumi Akhtar

Associate Professor, School of Business

Insights: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

 

Dr. Judy Anderson

Director of the STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy

The Impact of On-going Professional Learning on Teachers' Work

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. David Hirsh

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work

Language Revitalization: Insights from the Asia-Pacific Region

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Alison Grove O’Grady

Towards a Pedagogy of Empathy

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Vincent Gramoli

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering

Making Secure Open Blockchains Scale

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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Dr. Ali Hadigheh

Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering

Resilience and Sustainability in Infrastructures: A Nano-Scale Circular Economy Approach

The EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

 

Dr. Ruben G. Fernandez

Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education

Thinking Through the Orders of Cultural Production: A New Paradigm for Arts Education

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. TL Cowan

Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media

Heavy Processing with Digital Materials: Breaking Up with Compulsory Dispossessivity

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Paul Chow

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Reconfigurable Computing and Its Impact on the Cloud

8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

 

Dr. John Miller

Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education

Working with Contemplative Practices in Higher Education

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Cross-Modal Representations of Real-World Scenes in the Human Brain

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

 

Dr. Jeffrey Dvorkin

Director of Journalism Program

Trusting the News in a Digital Age: What Journalists Need to Tell the Public

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Dr. Arlo Kempf

Assistant Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education

Critical & Grounded Approaches to Mitigating Implicit Race Bias in Education

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Jasmine Rault

Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media

Heavy Processing with Digital Materials: Breaking Up with Compulsory Dispossessivity

18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

 

Mr. Garfield Gini-Newman

Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education

Designing Assessments that Inspire, Inform and Extend Learning

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

 

Dr. Avni Shah

Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management

The Death of Cash, the Growth of Debt? How Shifts in Financial Technology Affect Our Spending

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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Dr. Daeho Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering

Toward Co-Robotic Construction: Visual Site Monitoring & Hazard Detection To Ensure Worker Safety

1st EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering

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BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Miguel Moital

Principal Academic, Business School

Managing Attendee Circulation at Exhibition

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Dr. Adele Ladkin

Professor, Business School

Sustainable Tourism Destinations: A Human Resource Perspective

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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Dr. Julia Hibbert

Lecturer

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Jukka Laitamaki

Clinical Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Hospitality and Tourism Industry Trends Pre-Corona Virus Pandemic

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Dr. Vanja Bogicevic, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Clinical Assistant Professor

Navigating the Future: How Virtual Reality Can Aid Tourism and Hospitality

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Ms. Dianne Devitt

Adjunct Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Embracing the Future of Conferences and Events

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Dr. Christopher Gaffney

Clinical Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Global Tourism Risk Index - A Systematic Analysis of Risk Exposure in the Tourism Industrial Complex

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Dr. Bruno Eeckels

Clinical Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Global Tourism Risk Index - A Systematic Analysis of Risk Exposure in the Tourism Industrial Complex

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Mr. Ronald Castro Sanchez

Adjunct Instructor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Positioning: The Art and Science of Differentiating Your Product in the COVID-19 Era

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Alexandra Coghlan

Associate Professor, Griffith Business School

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Tourism: What are the Benefits?

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

 

Dr. Margarida Abreu Novais

Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Destination Competitiveness: A Supply-Demand Approach to Its Assessment 

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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INSEAD

 

Dr. Amitava Chattopdhyay

Chair Marketing Area, and Professor, INSEAD Singapore

Doing Business in Emerging Markets

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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Dr. Abhishek Borah

Assistant Professor, INSEAD France

Generating Customer Insights and Managing Brand Crisis Using Unstructured Data

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

 

Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Industry 4.0: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

 

Dr. Armin Gerhard Aberle

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Status of Solar Electricity

9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

 

Dr. Usha Goswami

Professor and Director for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology

Music, Rhythm and the Brain: Improving Phonology in Developmental Dyslexia

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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CORNELL UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Chekitan S. Dev

Professor, SC Johnson College of Business

Challenges in Contemporary Hospitality Branding

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

 

Dr. Berkeley Dietvorst

Associate Professor, Booth School of Business

Algorithm Aversion

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Ann-Lynn T. Reyes

Senior Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Depression: Understanding the Silent Pandemic

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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Dr. Sharmila Chatterjee

Academic Head, Enterprise Management, Sloan School of Management

Business-to-Business Marketing

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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GLION INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SWITZERLAND

 

Dr. Barbara Czyzewska

Interim Academic Dean

The Role of Guest Experience in Luxury Hospitality Branding

14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

 

Dr. Karla Boluk

Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies Department

Turning ‘Business as Usual’ on its Head: Centering Purpose in the Pursuit of Sustainable Tourism

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON

 

Dr. Gayle Jansen Brisbane

Assistant Professor

Preparing Journalism Students for the Digital News World

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication

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DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, MANILA

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Dr. Roy Francis Navea

Associate Professor, Electronics and Communications Engineering Department

NeuroRobotics Technology

8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology

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HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

 

Dr. Emi Makino

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

The Secret of Expert Entrepreneurs

20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE

 

Dr. Sonny Ben Rosenthal

Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Creating Presence and Connection in Video Lectures

10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies

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HOTEL RISILIENT, GERMANY

 

Dr. Bijan Khazai

Chief Executive Officer, Hotel Resilient

Supporting Resilience in Accommodation in the Face if Crisis

13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality

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PLDT

 

Mr. Chito Franco

Vice President and Head, Corporate Relationship Management, PLDT Enterprise

Pivoting to Beyond Normal: Digital Transformation Journey

19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business

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