Speakers

Dr. Harbir Antil (PhD) is the Founder and Director of the Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI) and a Professor of Mathematics at George Mason University. He has held fellowship positions at Brown University and University of Delaware. He is a member of the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group at the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the President of SIAM DC-MD-VA Section.

His areas of interest include algorithmic optimization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, numerical analysis, optimal control, imaging, fluid dynamics, and scientific computing. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Navy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models and is on the editorial board of prestigious journals such as SIAM Reviews, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi is Head of U.S. Federal Civilian Policy at Google, focused on bringing innovative technologies into the government. Prior to Google, he worked for the U.S. government and was a litigator. Omid received his B.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Miami and will receive his LL.M. in Government Procurement from the George Washington University Law School. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife.