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Appendix C: Workshop Planning Committee Biographical Information
Pages 88-94

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... He also serves as WRI director of the Coalition for Urban Transitions, Special Initiative of the New Climate Economy, a global partnership of eight economic and policy research institutes, of which WRI is the managing partner. The coalition is a major international initiative to support decision makers in unlocking the power of cities for enhanced national economic, social, and environmental performance, including reducing the risk of climate change.
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... . His honors and awards include the Institute of Industrial Engineers Medallion Award, the INFORMS Fellows Award, the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society Distinguished Fellow Award, the Harold W
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... Dr. Ehlig-Economides has successfully introduced a freshmanlevel energy course that was approved for the core curriculum as a natural science elective and an Energy Engineering Certificate program.
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... Distinguished Lecture, 1997–1998; and numerous posts as chair or member of SPE committees and task forces. She recently co-chaired a steering committee for the Middle East Colloquium in Petroleum Engineering Education, was the program chair for the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, and is currently co-chairing an SPE Talent and Retention Workshop on Dual Career Couples in the petroleum industry.
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... Kontokosta is part of the CUSP founding leadership team, setting the center's strategic priorities and leading the design and implementation of its academic programs in urban data science. He serves as faculty engineer-in-residence at the NYU Tech Incubators, where he mentors clean tech and smart city startup companies from early-stage idea refinement to technology demonstration and deployment.
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... Dr. Kontokosta's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, NPR, Fast Company, CityLab, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, APS Physics, and the American Society of Civil Engineers' Civil Engineering Magazine, among other national and international media outlets.
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... He is working in the new area of big data and network science, with particular emphasis on distributed decision and inference in networked systems and graph-based data. Research projects include signal processing on graphs and analytics for big data, distributed detection in sensor networks, robust detection and imaging by time reversal, bioimaging, SPIRAL, DSP on Graphs, SMART, and image/video processing.
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