The Formation of ScienceCast Board of Advisors

We are pleased to announce the formation of a Board of Advisors to assist us with strategic planning.  These Advisors include:

Richard Sever who is assistant director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and cofounder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. He also serves as executive editor for the Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives and Cold Spring Harbor Protocols journals and launched the precision medicine journal Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies. Previously he worked as an editor at Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, and Journal of Cell Science. Richard received a degree in biochemistry from Oxford University and a PhD in molecular biology from Cambridge University.

Arsalan Farooq is a Product Leader - Cloud Application Platforms at Google.  He has a deep understanding of the technology landscape, from storage, databases and networking to public and hybrid cloud, microservices and cloud-native architectures.  He combines product vision, deep technical expertise, strategic thinking and focused execution to build innovative products. He has a particular talent for spotting trends early, then driving technology and product strategy to capture whitespace.  He holds a degree in computer science from CalTech and a degree in theoretical physics from Reed College.  He has participated as an investor, advisor and manager of many tech start-ups and serves as a Startup Advisor/Mentor for Alchemist Accelerator in San Francisco, Ca.

Charles Clark is a Fellow and former Co-Director of the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland.  Dr. Clark has held a variety of technical and management positions at NIST and the Office of Naval Research, and received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Australian National University, National University of Singapore and University of Malaya. With our lead co-founder, Dr. Victor Galitski, he co-designed and taught "Exploring Quantum Physics" on the Coursera platform. Clark designed and teaches "Quantum Boot Camp," the introductory course of the University of Maryland Quantum Information Specialization. Dr. Clark is  a Co-Investigator on a recent proposal by ScienceCast to NSF entitled “Proto-OKN Theme 1: Quantum Understanding through Accessible Resource Knowledge Graphs (QUARK).

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