Dr. James P. Grover is Dean of the Graduate School and Distinguished Professor of Biology at UT Arlington. Dr. Grover’s research and teaching has used quantitative and computational to investigate fundamental and applied topics in ecology and environmental biology. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and education, and in professional and career development for students. He has established mentoring programs for graduate students oriented towards both academic and non-academic careers, and he led the early phases of developing a Data Science program in the College of Science.

Dr. Grover has served in several leadership roles at UT Arlington, Associate Dean and Interim Dean of Science, and Interim Dean of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs, prior to his current roles. Dr. Grover has contributed to increasing research capacity at UT Arlington and the effort to obtain recognition by the State of Texas as a Tier One National Research University. Nationally and internationally, Dr. Grover has served on several editorial boards and on grant proposal review panels for the U.S. National Science Foundation and the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Dr. Wendy Casper is a Distinguished University Professor, the Peggy E. Swanson Endowed Chair of Management and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She is also Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Psychology. Based on her scholarly contributions to understanding work-nonwork issues, she was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association and was named one of the top 50 thought leaders on work and family issues by the Work and Family Researchers Network. She has won numerous awards for her research including the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, the International Human Resource Management Scholarly Research Award from the Human Resource Division of the Academy of Management. In 2000 she was awarded the Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring Award from UTA and in 2021 she was elected to UTA’s Academy of Distinguished Scholars. She received her PhD degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from George Mason University, in 2000 and joined UTA later in 2004.

Dr. Das is the Associate Dean for Research, the College of Engineering, a Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (CARIDA), and Director of the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB) at UT-Arlington. Prior to joining UTA in 2004, he has held positions at Microsoft Research, Compaq Corporation and the University of Memphis. He graduated with a B.Tech in computer science from IIT Kanpur, India in 1983, and with a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.

His early research interests were in computational geometry and graph theory. His Ph.D dissertation made several significant contributions to important problems in these areas, including the discovery of greedy graph spanners, the discovery of exclusion regions for minimum weight triangulations, and determining the complexity of convex polyhedral separability. In the subsequent decades, his research interests broadened to all aspects of Big Data Exploration, including data management, data analytics, machine learning and data mining. Some highlights of his contributions have been on keyword search and ranking in databases (e.g., the early DBXplorer system), time series mining, approximate query processing, and Deep Web analytics. He is presently working on areas such as machine learning approaches for approximate query processing, and fairness and explainability in data management systems.

Dr. Das has published over 200 papers, many of which have appeared in premier data mining, database and algorithms conferences and journals. His work has received several awards, including the Communications of the ACM Research Highlights in 2021, ACM SIGMOD Research Highlights in 2019, IEEE ICDE 10-Year Influential Paper Award in 2012, ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention) in 2014 for his former student, and numerous other awards. He has presented keynotes and invited lectures, tutorials and courses at various universities, research labs, and conferences. He has been on the Editorial Board of the journals ACM Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He has served in the organization roles of several major conferences, including as General Chair of ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2018.

His research has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Qatar Foundation, AT&T, Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, Cadence Design Systems and Apollo Data Technologies.

Dr. Paul Fadel’s research focuses on the investigation of neural control of the circulation at rest and during exercise, with a specific emphasis on the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. With over 20 years of experience performing human studies investigating sympathetic control of the cardiovascular system, in health and disease he has a demonstrated record of productivity with consistent NIH funding and over 175 peer-reviewed publications. Studies are conducted with normal healthy young and older subjects, as well as patients with various pathophysiological conditions such as heart failure, Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. A particular area of interest is studying the underlying mechanisms contributing to sympathetic overactivity and impaired vascular function. The goal is to identify targets for the development of therapeutic strategies aimed at minimizing and protecting against the deleterious consequences of these effects.

Dr. Dan Robinson is the K-16 Mind, Brain and Education Endowed Chair and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1993 from the University of Nebraska where he majored in both learning/cognition and statistics/research. His academic stops include Mississippi State University (1993-1997), the University of South Dakota (1997-1998), the University of Louisville (1998-1999), the University of Texas at Austin (1999-2012), and Colorado State University (2012-2015).

Dan served as Editor of Educational Psychology Review from 2006-2015 and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology from 2014-2010. He has also served as an editorial board member of nine refereed international journals: American Educational Research Journal, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Research, & Development, Journal of Behavioral Education, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Education, Reading Research and Instruction, Research in the Schools, and The Open Education Journal.

Dan has published over 100 articles, presented over 100 papers at research conferences, and taught over 100 college courses. His research interests include educational technology innovations that may facilitate learning and team-based approaches to learning. He was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand and was named as one of the most published authors in educational psychology journals from 1991-2002, 2003-2008, and 2009-2014, Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004, 2010, 2015.