Stephanie Jones is Project Associate Manger for the ADA Center at the University of Michigan. Her interests are in special projects, creative graphic/marketing design and event coordination. She received her BFA in Metals and Jewelry Design from Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI.

Achaia Murphy is the Web, Marketing and Media Assistant at University of Michigan. She earned her Master's of Media Design from Full Sail University and her Bachelor's of Interior Architecture and Design from Lawrence Technological University.

Valeria Bertacco is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Dean in the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in computer design, with emphasis on specialized architecture solutions and design viability, in particular reliability, validation and hardware-security assurance. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Padova, Italy.

David Brooks is the Haley Family Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests include computer design at the hardware-software interface.

Todd Austin is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include computer architecture, robust and secure system design, hardware and software verification, and performance analysis tools and techniques. Austin received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1996.

Zachary Tatlock is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington where he is a member of the Programming Languages and Software Engineering (PLSE) group. He received his PhD from UC San Diego and BS from Purdue. His research draws upon proof assistants, SMT solvers, and type systems to improve software reliability and security in domains ranging from distributed systems and compilers to numerical approximation and web browser security.

Gu-Yeon Wei is Robert and Suzanne Case Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University and currently serves as Area Chair for Electrical Engineering. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests span multiple layers of a computing system: mixed-signal integrated circuits, computer architecture, and design tools for efficient hardware.

Thomas Wenisch is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, specializing in computer architecture. His ongoing work focuses on algorithmic accelerators, data center architecture, memory persistency, and accelerators for medical imaging. Wenisch received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sharad Malik is the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering and the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on design methodology and design automation for computing systems. His research in functional timing analysis and propositional satisfiability has been widely used in industrial electronic design automation tools.

Ava Burnham is the web, data, and media manager for the ADA center. Ava majored in film and minored in computer science at The University of Michigan, and has worked in the media and tech industries since graduation.

Magdalena Calvillo provides administrative support to Professor Valeria Bertacco. She has over 15 years’ experience in teaching, interpreting, and administrative roles in the United States and in Poland. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut and an M.A. degree from the University of Gdansk, Poland.