Daniel Hoffman

Daniel Hoffman is Jackson School Director and Stanley D. Golub Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Washington. Hoffman, a professor of international studies and comparative history of ideas, joined the UW faculty in 2004. His previous leadership roles at the University have included serving as chair of African Studies and associate chair of the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on militarization in West Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.

Jenq-Neng Hwang

Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang received the BS and MS degrees, both in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983 separately. He then received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California. In the summer of 1989, Dr. Hwang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been promoted to Full Professor since 1999. He served as the Associate Chair for Research from 2003 to 2005, and from 2011-2015. He also served as the Associate Chair for Global Affairs from 2015-2020. He is currently the International Programs Lead in the ECE Department. He is the founder and co-director of the Information Processing Lab., which has won several AI City Challenges awards in the past years. He has written more than 400 journal, conference papers and book chapters in the areas of machine learning, multimedia signal processing, computer vision, and multimedia system integration and networking (my Google citation), including an authored textbook on “Multimedia Networking: from Theory to Practice,” published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Hwang has close working relationship with the industry on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Dr. Hwang received the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Journal Paper Award. He is a founding member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society and was the Society’s representative to IEEE Neural Network Council from 1996 to 2000. He is currently a member of Multimedia Technical Committee (MMTC) of IEEE Communication Society and also a member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served as associate editors for IEEE T-SP, T-NN and T-CSVT, T-IP and Signal Processing Magazine(SPM). He served as the General Co-Chair of 2021 and 2022 IEEE World AI IoT Congress, Seattle, WA. He also served as the Program Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2016 and was the Program Co-Chairs of ICASSP 1998 and ISCAS 2009. Dr. Hwang is a fellow of IEEE since 2001.

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Ray Li

Ray Li is Assistant Vice President of International Advancement, and has been with the University of Washington for 12 years. His prior experience includes serving as the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Advancement for Neighborhood House, working as the Assistant Director of Development for the American Red Cross Greater Hartford Chapter, and supporting the Canadian Red Cross and the American Red Cross Seattle King County Chapter. Ray holds a Master of Nonprofit Leadership from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Biopsychology from the University of British Columbia.

Iman Majd

Dr. Iman Majd is a distinguished healthcare professional with a multifaceted career spanning diverse areas of medicine, education, and research. His journey began at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1996. Subsequently, he pursued a Master of Science in Acupuncture at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA, USA, graduating in 2005. Dr. Majd’s commitment to advancing his expertise led him to complete a Residency in Acupuncture at Bastyr University’s Department of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Majd sought further specialization in family medicine, completing the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals Family Medicine Residency in 2012. Throughout his career, he has held various faculty positions, showcasing his dedication to education. Notably, he served as Clinical Adjunct Faculty at Bastyr University from 2005 to 2021 and as a Clinical Instructor and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washingtons Department of Family Medicine from 2012 to 2021. Dr. Majd has made significant contributions to patient care as an Attending Physician at the University of Washington Neighborhood Clinics – Factoria since 2012 and at the University of Washington Medical Center since 2018. In 2021, Dr. Majd assumed the role of Interim Director at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Washington, later becoming the Director in 2022. He also serves as the Clinic Director at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Washington in Ballard. His exceptional achievements have been acknowledged through numerous awards, including the prestigious Bastyr Mission Honor award in 2018 and the Gold Circle Award from the American Society of Association Executives in 2020. Dr. Majds leadership roles extend to his involvement in various professional organizations, including the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, where he served as the Chair of the Board of Commissioners and Chair of the Executive Committee. In addition to his clinical and administrative roles, Dr. Majd is actively engaged in research, having secured grants such as the Osher Foundation Grant in 2021 and the RapSDI Grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians in the same year. Dr. Majd is an accomplished author with publications in peer-reviewed journals and contributions to educational curricula. He has also delivered invited talks and presentations on acupuncture, integrative medicine, and healthcare practices at national, regional, and local levels. With an unwavering commitment to integrative health and a distinguished career marked by excellence, Dr. Iman Majd continues to impact the field of medicine through his leadership, education, and patient-centered care.

Anita Ramasastry

Anita Ramasastry is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law and the Director of the Sustainable International Development Graduate Program at the University of Washington School of Law. She is an expert in the fields of anti-corruption, commercial law, sustainable development and business and human rights. She is one of the leading academics and a pioneer in the field of business and human rights. She also serves a Senior Advisor for Global Faculty engagement to the University’s Office of Global Affairs.

Ramasastry’ s scholarship has been cited in two major Supreme Court decisions in the United States focused on the issue of corporate accountability for transnational human rights abuses. She has authored numerous expert studies including the groundbreaking, Commerce Crime and Conflict study, which examined civil and criminal business liability for human rights violations in 16 jurisdictions. More recently, Ramasastry chaired an expert panel of jurists to develop the Corporate Crime Principles, focused on when States should investigate and prosecute cross border corporate crimes having significant human rights impacts.

She currently serves as a member of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, having been appointed as a rapporteur by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2016 and she previously served as its chair in 2020. In 2021, Ramasastry also was appointed as the Special Representative on Combatting Corruption at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Ramasastry is a founding co-editor in chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, published by Cambridge University Press. She is the Co-President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association and launched its annual research scholars forum.

From 2017-2019, Ramasastry served as president of the Uniform Law Commission, the 127-year old organization comprised of lawyers from the 50 States that work to harmonize the laws where uniform is desirable. She was previously Chair of its Executive Committee and is an appointed Commissioner from Washington State.

As of 2019, Ramasastry is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She served a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights from 2012–2016. Ramasastry sits on the advisory boards of Transparency International, the Institute of Human Rights and Business, and Global Witness. She also sits on Export Development Canada’s CSR Advisory Committee and is a member of the Port of Seattle’s Ethics Committee. In the past she has advised and worked with development organizations including the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Commission, the Commercial Law Development Program of the US Department of Commerce and USAID. In 2019, she served as a commissioner on the Lichtenstein Initiative Commission on Finance against Slavery and Trafficking.

From 2009 to 2012, Ramasastry served as a senior advisor in the International Trade Administration of the US Department of Commerce, working under the leadership of then Secretary Gary Locke. She directed the ITA’s anti-corruption and trade efforts, and helped to launch new initiatives with the G20, APEC and the OSCE. She developed a new anti-corruption and business and human rights curriculum for US trade officers in embassies worldwide.

In 1998–99, she served as a special attorney and advisor to a special claims resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, established to resolve claims to World War II-era bank accounts. She has been a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College, and University of London and has been a recurrent visiting professor at the National University of Ireland in Galway and the Central European University in Budapest.

She has served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an associate attorney at the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest. She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Ramasastry has been recognized by the students as the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year on numerous occasions. In 1998, she received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award during her second year of teaching, and in 2002, she received the UW Outstanding Public Service Award for her work focused on domestic violence.

Yanfang Su

Dr. Yanfang Su is a health economist with more than ten years of work experience in health systems and policy. Dr. Su holds an MA in Public Management from Tsinghua University and an ScD in Global Health and Population within Health Systems track from Harvard University. During her postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, Dr. Su applied econometric methods to health financing and published papers in The Lancet as co-first author and The Lancet Infectious Diseases as first author. Her publications focus on three areas: 1) economic evaluation of healthcare systems, including analysis of equity, supply, demand, costs, and quality; 2) public policy evaluation; and 3) global health and population measures. Dr. Su is the cofounder and the co-director of a new initiative, Learning for Action in Policy Implementation and Health Systems (LAPIS), in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington. Dr. Su is the founder and Board Chair of a non-profit organization, the East West Alliance for Education and Health, which delivered equitable community services and conducted digital health randomized controlled trials in low-resource settings. Dr. Su worked at Tsinghua University and the Hong Kong Policy and Research Institute in China. Dr. Su has consulted for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and Results for Development on primary health care systems strengthening. Dr. Su is a guest editor for a special issue on policy implementation science in Frontiers in Health Services. Dr. Su is an NIH-funded Implementation Science Scholar (IS-2) and an NIH career development awardee (K01).

Denzil Suite

As Vice President for Student Life, Denzil Suite provides leadership for a wide-range of programs and services that support students in their transition to the university and deepen their out-of-class experiences. These programs and services include: Housing and Food Services, Student Activities, Union Facilities, Student Publications, Recreational Sports, Counseling Center, Disability Resources, Career Center, Ceremonies, Greek Relations, Community Standards and Student Conduct and Health and Wellness.

Jihui Yang

Jihui is a Kyocera Professor in MSE and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering. His research focuses on thermoelectric and energy storage materials with an emphasis on the design, synthesis, testing, and understanding of advanced thermoelectric materials and Li-ion battery materials for energy conversion and storage.

He has authored 100 papers, holds 19 US patents, and has established strong research funding from DOE/EERE in recent years including the partnership on battery research with PNNL. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the Campbell award from GM R&D and the DOE INCITE award.