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Jennifer S. Martin joined Albany Law School as a Professor of Law on July 1, 2023 from St. Thomas University School of Law. Professor Martin is a nationally renowned scholar in the area of contract and commercial law. She has published many articles on contract and commercial law remedies, wartime and conflict contracting, consumer rights, and lender liability.  Professor Martin is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a co-author of two textbooks, CONTRACTS: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (West Academic 3d ed. with Chomsky, Kunz and Schiltz) and LEARNING SALES (West Academic 2d ed. with Chomsky, Kunz and Schiltz). She is also the author of the American Bar Association’s Annual Survey on Sales Law published annually in THE BUSINESS LAWYER. Her distinguished publications are many and include, Contract Remedies and the Myth of the Expectation Measure, 94 TULANE L. REV. (961 2020), Private Law Remedies, Human Rights and Supply Contracts, 68 AMERICAN L. REV. 1781 (2019) and Opportunistic Resales and the Uniform Commercial Code, 2016 ILL. L. REV. 487 (2016). Professor Martin prepares the annual update to COMMERCIAL AND CONSUMER WARRANTIES (Lexis).
Professor Martin graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, and was an Associate with the international practice group of Baker & Botts, L.L.P., practicing in both the Houston and Dallas offices. A member of the Texas and American Bar Associations, Professor Martin was a Principal Attorney for Houston Industries Incorporated (now Reliant Energy), working on power generation transactions domestically and internationally.

Caitlain Devereaux Lewis joins Albany Law School after almost seven years with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress.  At CRS, Lewis first served as a Legislative Attorney covering international trade and intellectual property law for Congress.  She then served as a Supervisory Attorney managing a team of attorneys covering constitutional, health, intellectual property, international trade, tribal, and veterans law.  In addition to authoring numerous reports and white papers for CRS, Lewis also contributed to the Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, a CRS treatise which provides legal analysis and interpretation of the Constitution based on a review of Supreme Court case law and historical practices.
Prior to joining the legislative branch, Lewis served the federal judiciary for five years, first as Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard K. Eaton ’74 of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, NY, and then as Law Clerk to the Honorable Evan J. Wallach of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
Lewis graduated from Albany Law School as Salutatorian, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Albany Law Review.  Prior to law school, Lewis worked as a librarian and archivist specializing in electronic collections and digitization initiatives, including as Visual Resources Curator at the University at Albany.

Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne is the 19th President and Dean of Albany Law School.

Most recently, she was the Associate Dean for Faculty & Intellectual Life at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Carlarne is a leading international expert in environmental and climate change law policy with a deep commitment to environmental equity and social justice. Her scholarship focuses on the evolution of domestic and international environmental governance, focusing on questions of domestic and international climate change law. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles addressing environmental and climate change jurisprudence, her work includes a book on comparative climate change law and policy with Oxford University Press; a Foundation Press text on climate law with Dan Farber; the Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law; an extensive series of book chapters, editorials and essays exploring questions of domestic and international environmental law; and a textbook on Oceans and Human Health and Well-being. She is on the editorial board for Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press), the academic board for Climate Law (IOS Press), and was the Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Initiative on Climate Change and International Law.

Carlarne served as the Associate Dean for Faculty & Intellectual Life at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law for two years. She joined the faculty at Moritz in 2011 and was named the Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law in 2022. She was the Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford in 2019.
In addition to her leadership roles at the College of Law, Carlarne chaired The Ohio State University Research Committee, served on the Executive Steering Committee for The Ohio State University Sustainability Institute, and The Ohio State University Scholarship Nomination Committee. She also served on University Taskforces on sustainability and faculty matters and was deeply involved in numerous other research, climate, and sustainability initiatives at Ohio State.

Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, Carlarne’s was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law from 2008-11. She was the Harold Woods Research Fellow in Environmental Law at Wadham College, Oxford from 2006-08.

Prior to her career in higher education, she was an associate attorney in the Energy, Land Use, and Environment section at the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld Law Firm in Washington, D.C.

Carlarne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree as a University Scholar from Baylor University before going on to earn a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and a master’s degree in environmental change and management from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar.

Professor Chapleau is a part-time Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Albany Law School. He is also an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Law at the College of Saint Rose, where he teaches courses in criminal justice, constitutional law, criminal procedure, evidence, and mock trial. He was Criminal Justice Department Chair from 2017-19. In 2014 he received the Faculty Member of the Year Award from the College's Student Association, the Athletic Department Faculty Appreciation Award in 2019, and the Thomas A. Manion Distinguished Faculty Award from the Alumni Association in 2020.
 
From 2007 to 2022, he served as an Instructor and Educational and Curriculum Consultant to the New York State Office of Court Administration’s Office of Justice Court Support. OJCS is responsible for the continuing judicial education (CJE) training and initial certification to assume the bench of the approximately 2100 Town and Village Justices in New York. In 2018 the role was expanded to cover the development and delivery of mandatory court clerk certification and training (CCCE). In 2017 he was recognized by the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge, for his outstanding service to the Town and Village Courts of the State. He is the author of ten judicial training articles and frequently lectures at the NYS Magistrates Association Annual State Convention. This year he will discuss "At the 2022 NYS Magistrates Annual State Convention held in Saratoga Springs, New York he discussed  "The Trial Judge's Responsibility in Criminal Pro Se Representation Cases."
While teaching at various times as an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, Siena College, and UAlbany, Professor Chapleau served 22 years in the Schenectady County District Attorney's Office, the last 18 years as the Chief Assistant District Attorney, where he took a particular interest in white collar crime and animal abuse prosecutions. During his tenure as Chief Assistant, he supervised over 100 Albany Law students who interned with the District Attorney's Office. He was honored in 2007 by the NYS Human Association for his work in prosecuting abuse cases and training animal abuse investigators.
 
Professor Chapleau began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to several NYS Superior Court Judges. He served from 1984 to 89 as NYS Assistant Attorney General, assigned to complex construction contract litigation. Professor Chapleau is also active as an Attorney for Children in Schenectady County Family Court. 

Dale Margolin Cecka joins the faculty of Albany Law as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Family Violence Litigation Clinic. Prior to this appointment, Prof. Cecka was a Clinical Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of the Family Law Clinic at the University of Richmond School of Law from 2008-2018. After relocating to Atlanta in 2018, Prof. Cecka served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia and as a Senior Staff Attorney for the Cobb County Superior Court, as well in private family law practice.  
From 2004-2006, Prof. Cecka was a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York, where she advocated for pregnant and parenting teenagers and adolescents aging out of foster care, primarily in the Bronx Family Court. At the end of her Skadden Fellowship, Prof. Cecka was awarded a Clinical Teaching Fellowship at St. John's University School of Law, and served as the Interim Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic, where she represented children in all five boroughs of New York as well as in Nassau Family Court.
Prof. Cecka's scholarship focuses on the constitutional rights of parents and inequities in the child welfare and family court systems.  Her articles have appeared in the Catholic University Law Review, the University of South Carolina Law School and the West Virginia University Law School, among others, and she was a contributor to the book, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2016.  Prof. Cecka's articles have been cited in several Supreme Courts across the country. For the past 6 years, Prof. Cecka has also been the lead author of the treatise on Family Law for Virginia (Family Law: Theory, Practice and Forms). Prof Cecka has appeared on National Public Radio and in various podcasts and has published an Op-Ed in The Washington Post related to her advocacy in family law and child welfare.
Prof. Cecka obtained her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1999 and her law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2004, where she was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar.

Nina Farnia is a legal historian and scholar of Critical Race Theory.  Her scholarship examines the role of modern U.S. imperialism in shaping domestic areas of law, with a particular focus on civil, political, and social rights. Her publications explore a variety of related subjects, including the role of U.S. foreign affairs in shaping modern jurisdiction, the formation of the national security state, and the evolution of the First Amendment.
Farnia has published in a wide range of academic journals and popular media outlets, including the Stanford Law Review, UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Geopolitical Economy Report, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.  She currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law & the Humanities.  
Previously, she was an Equal Justice Works fellow and participated on the legal teams for two Supreme Court cases: Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the largest civil rights class action in U.S. history and her fellowship case, Fazaga v. FBI, which challenged the use of government informants in mosques in Southern California.  During law school she clerked for Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi and women’s rights attorney Nasrin Sotoodeh in Iran. Prior to attending law school, she was a community organizer in Chicago.
Farnia earned an A.B. from the University of Chicago where she was a Maroon Key Society honoree, a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law where she was an organizer of the inaugural Critical Race Studies symposia, and a Ph.D. from the Department of History at UC Davis, where she was a Provost’s Fellow and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
At Albany Law School, she teaches Civil Procedure in the 1L curriculum and Constitutional Law II, Critical Race Theory, Employment Law, and a seminar on Critical Legal History to upper level students.  
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Cheryl Packwood is a visiting assistant professor of law at Albany Law School where she is teaching International Business Transactions and Public international Law.  She is completing research on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its application to her varried experiences in Cote d’Ivoire.  
She was the Overseas Representative for the Government of Bermuda and Director of the Representative Office in Washington, D.C. She was responsible for the Americas and Asia with a mandate to build out the foreign commercial and trade component of Bermuda’s foreign representation abroad.  Ms. Packwood was the former CEO and Deputy Chairman of Business Bermuda, where for more than six years she was at the forefront of developing the marketing and business development strategy globally for Bermuda and the financial services sector.  As spokesperson and ambassador for business, Ms. Packwood represented the financial services sector and business before Ambassadors, governors of central banks, government ministers and officials worldwide.  She traveled with the Premier of Bermuda and its ministers routinely on trade missions and business development tours. Ms. Packwood maintained and broadened US and UK/European business for the jurisdiction in key sectors including, asset management, trusts, insurance and reinsurance, together with new business development in Islamic Finance, the Middle East and Gulf and Asia. Prior to joining Business Bermuda, Ms. Packwood held senior positions as the General Manager of Digicel Bermuda and the Director of Legal, Enforcement and International Affairs at the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
Ms. Packwood has extensive international experience having worked in Africa and North America.  She held senior positions with Western Wireless International where she was the Managing Director of Cora, SA in Cote d’Ivoire.  As the first woman managing director of a cellular telphone company on the African Continent, she was at the forefront of developing GSM cellular telephonie in Africa.  Before joining Western Wireless, Ms. Packwood built a thriving legal practice at N’Goan, Asman et Associés in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in international commercial and financial law as well as telecommunications and oil and gas.
She currently sits on the board of CG Coralisle Group International, an international insurance company headquartered in Bermuda with offices through the Carribean.  She served for eight years on the Rhodes Scholarship Board in Bermuda.  She was a founding member of the Bermuda chapter of the International Women’s Forum and currently is a member of the Washington, D.C. chapter.  She has given numerous speeches in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas on topics, including women’s rights, international financial centers, doing business in Africa and historical topics involving Bermuda and the United States.
Ms. Packwood graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors Cum Laude and then Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctorate with honors on her third year thesis. She finished her LLm in Banking and Finance from Boston University School of Law in May 2023 with a 4.02 cumulative average. She is married with three sons and a newly adopted shelter cat.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education in the School of Education and Information Studies (SEIS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is the 2023-2024 President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). 
In addition to being the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair at SEIS, Howard is the director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families and director of the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. A former elementary and high school teacher, Howard translates research into practice in his professional learning work with thousands of P–12 educators across the United States and several other countries each year. His research focuses on the sociology of schools, teacher education, the education of Black boys, urban education, and educational equity.
Howard has published several books including Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms and Expanding College Access for Urban Youth: What Schools and Colleges Can Do. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic publications, included in publications such as Review of Research in Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, and Journal of Higher Education. He has been featured or quoted by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Education Week, and more.
Howard was elected as an AERA Fellow in 2017 and is a member of the National Academy of Education. He served as an elected member of AERA Council from 2015 to 2018. Howard was section co-chair and equity and inclusion officer for AERA Division G—Social Context of Education, served on the AERA Nominating Committee, and currently chairs the AERA Fellows Committee. Division G presented him its Early Career Award in 2007 and Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2017. He has served on editorial boards for AERA’s peer-reviewed journals Review of Educational Research and American Educational Research Journal.
Upon becoming AERA president in 2023, Howard succeeded Rich Milner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Education at Vanderbilt University. Howard assumed the AERA presidency in April 2023, at the close of the association’s 2023 annual meeting.

Areas of expertise:

Financial Aid in College
Student-Parent Conversations about Money
Money Management for College Students
Personal Finance
Financial Policy in Higher Education

With expertise in financial aid and financial policy in higher ed, paying for college and personal finance for college students, Barnett seeks to educate college students and families about smart ways to pay for college. Along with working in financial aid and scholarships, Barnett teaches a class on personal finance each semester.

Bergmeister teaches Social Entrepreneurship.
Bergmeister earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering at California State University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Cornell University.
Bergmeister also retired as a Colonel from the Air Force Reserves after 30 years of service.

Rebecca Brannon is an associate professor in the history department where she teaches courses in United States history that focus on the colonial, revolutionary, and early national period. She is a noted scholar of American Loyalists. Her first book From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists (2016) won the 2016 George C. Rogers Award and was listed by the Journal of the American Revolution as one of the top 100 books on the American Revolution. She is also the editor (along with Joseph S. Moore) of a wide-ranging look at the Loyalist experience in The Consequences of Loyalism, (2019). Her work has brought her to audiences through NPR shows such as With Good Reason and Backstory, TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are?," and Bill O'Reilly's "Legends and Lies: The American Patriots."
She received a doctorate in history from the University of Michigan, and holds a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Amherst College.

Originally from Philadelphia, Marty Cohen attended Tufts University and the Pennsylvania State University getting his B.A. degree in Political Science from Penn State. He then received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2005.
Marty’s research interests are varied. His main focus is on the growing electoral influence of the religious right in the Republican Party. He is also interested in political parties and is a co-author of The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. He is also co-author of the 2011 Perspectives on Politics article “A Theory of Parties” which won the Jack Walker Award for its outstanding contribution to research on political organizations and parties.
Marty regularly teaches classes on religion and politics, as well as the introductory American government course and a class on interest groups and public policy. He also has more than a passing interest in the politics of the 1960s.

Fink can speak about portfolio management issues that affect both professional money managers and individuals, as well as the broader field of personal finance. 
He received his doctorate and master's in economics from the University of Virginia and his bachelor's from Florida State University.

Dr. Kamorski received his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in management from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Massachusetts. He also holds two master’s degrees; one in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont., and another in strategic military studies from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. He earned a doctorate in higher education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Professor Kamorski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 24 years of active duty service, including a combat tour in Afghanistan as the lead investigator for the 82nd Airborne Inspector General and four years at the Pentagon, where his duties included working as the chief of counter weapons of mass destruction, and preparing Congressional testimony for the U.S. Air Force director of operations. He has served on faculty at the US Air Force Academy, the University of Virginia, Liberty University, James Madison University, and Piedmont Virginia Community College. Professor Kamorski retired from military service in 2014 and settled in Maine, where he became a full time faculty member for Husson University in Fall of 2014.
 
While he is an expert in military affairs and criminal justice and could comment on the Russia-Ukraine war, he doesn't have any specific research to share about this conflict. Given his extensive military background and his legal insights as an associate professor in the School of Legal Studies here at Husson University, he could potentially be an outstanding source for reporters working on stories about the rules of engagement, war crimes, and atrocities committed against civilians.

LJI Associate Professor Sonia Sharma, Ph.D., is an expert in using unbiased, genome-scale approaches to unravel innate immunity, the body’s early immune response to microbial pathogens and neoplastic cells. Innate immunity has also been implicated as a common causal factor in many inflammatory, allergic and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Sharma integrates cutting-edge genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, computational and translational approaches to define the key genetic mechanisms regulating cellular innate immunity and determine how they impact human health and disease.
Dr. Sharma has an outstanding record of research accomplishments, including high impact discoveries published in top scientific journals. Her work has made her an internationally recognized expert in the use of high throughput, genome scale approaches, in particular RNA interference and CRISPR/Cas9, to dissect complex cellular signaling pathways and questions of immunological relevance. Her use of these technologies is a powerful tool that can be applied to any cellular pathway or disease process.
Dr. Sharma also directs the La Jolla Institute for Immunology's Sex-Based Differences in the Immune System Initiative, which aims to shed light on why many diseases affect men and women differently.

Dr. Tal Einav’s accomplishments included the development of sophisticated computational methods to understand viral behavior and predict how individuals react to vaccination or infection. This research earned Einav a prestigious Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship and emphasized the importance of pursuing machine learning to analyze big data in immunology.
“We have these tremendous datasets that we’re just barely tapping into,” says Einav. These data allow Einav to understand the immune response in different contexts, from the young to the elderly, from healthy people to individuals who are immunocompromised. All with the goal to discover key patterns that let us understand and harness our immunity. Einav’s work has already demonstrated that blending biophysics and computer science enables researchers to predict the antibody response against new viral variants.
This work paves the way for a fundamentally new form of personalized medicine. For example, Einav imagines tailoring an individualized vaccine strain or dosage based on a patient’s specific antibody repertoire to create a stronger response that lasts for years, if not their entire life.

Dr. John Bargar is the  leader. His research interest focuses on molecular processes across molecular to pore to field scales that provide new insights into building new tools and models to better understand and simulate Earth system behavior.
For more than 25 years, Bargar has led projects pertaining to both molecular structure and system-scale research with respect to the behavior of essential metal micronutrients and metal contaminants in soils and natural waters. At the molecular level, his research has contributed important findings and models of metal behavior in soils and groundwater. Coordinated laboratory and field work conducted by Bargar and his team discovered that uranium behavior in contaminated soils at legacy DOE sites is controlled by short seasonal “hot moments” when water tables and dissolved oxygen are elevated. At the larger systems scale, his research has focused on understanding how, where, and when molecular reactions occur and interact across larger distances, from floodplains to regions. For example, laboratory model studies coordinated with field sampling performed by Bargar’s team showed that soil organic matter interactions control uranium accumulation and release in soils across the entire upper Colorado River Basin, where these interactions moderate persistent uranium groundwater contamination.
Before joining PNNL in 2022, Bargar led the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory geosciences program, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry Sciences Focus Area project, the SLAC-led multi-laboratory nuclear forensics research program, and the SLAC deep subsurface geochemistry project.
Bargar has participated as a reviewer for numerous geochemistry, hydrology, and chemistry journals, has chaired and organized numerous committees and symposia, and has been published in more than 190 scholarly articles.

Research Interests


Soil molecular processes across molecular to pore-to-field scales
Biogeochemistry, genesis, and transport of natural colloids
Metal micronutrient and contaminant biogeochemistry and reactive transport in soils
Water–rock interactions


Education


PhD in Geology, The Ohio State University
BS in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, U.S. Geological Survey
SLAC Managerial Skill Development Series

Dr. Alessandro Sette has devoted more than 35 years of study towards understanding the immune response, measuring immune activity, and developing disease intervention strategies against cancer, autoimmunity, allergy, and infectious diseases. The laboratory is defining in chemical terms the specific structures (epitopes) that the immune system recognizes, and uses this knowledge to measure and understand immune responses.
The Sette lab’s approach uses epitopes as specific probes to define the immune signatures associated with productive/protective immunity versus deficient immunity/immunopathology. This research will improve understanding of how the body successfully battles infection, and conversely, how pathogens escape the immune system, causing the individual to succumb to disease. Because of the laboratory’s success in its study of immune response, Sette and his team believe their research will lead to development of new therapeutic and prophylactic approaches to fighting infectious diseases. In this area, Dr. Sette’s disease focus has shifted over the years from HIV, HBV and HCV to emerging diseases and diseases of potential biodefense concern to, most recently, diseases and pathogens relevant to worldwide global health, including SARS-CoV-2, Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, malaria, M. tuberculosis, B. pertussis, and shingles. Furthermore, Dr. Sette’s team has adapted the methods and techniques developed in the context of infectious disease to understand the T cell response to common allergens and to discover a cell component in Parkinson’s Disease.
Finally, Dr. Sette has overseen the design and curation efforts of the national Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), a freely available, widely used bioinformatics resource, since its inception in the early 2000s. The IEDB catalogs all epitopes for humans, non-human primates, rodents, and other vertebrates, from allergens, infectious diseases, autoantigens and transplants, and includes epitope prediction tools to accelerate immunology research around the world.

Jay Bardhan is the leader for the . Bardhan joined EMSL in May 2020, after nearly three years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he worked in a number of roles at the intersection of computing, data, and business innovation. Prior to GSK, Bardhan had spent over 15 years researching mathematical and computational models for biomolecule solvation—or the interactions between biomolecules and the surrounding solvent. His interest in solvation stems from both the intersections of his research interests (computing, biology, and physics) and the breadth of applications—environment, energy, and human health. Bardhan was originally an electrical engineer who expected to design circuits in Silicon Valley, but discovered his passion for molecular solvation and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mission space during his PhD, and his postdoctoral fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory.

Research Interests


Modeling biomolecule-solvent interactions
Numerical algorithms and optimization
Boundary-integral equations and partial-differential equations
Multiscale modeling


Education


PhD in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006)
MS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)
BS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)
Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing, Argonne National Laboratory (2006 – 2008)


Awards and Recognition


Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, DOE (2002 – 2006)
Frederick A. Howes Scholar (2007)


Affiliations and Professional Service


Subcommittee Member, “Exascale Transition” for Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (2019 – 2020)
Member, Technical Program Committee (Applications Area), 2020 Supercomputing Conference
Vice-Chair, Technical Program Committee (State of the Practice Area), Supercomputing Conference (2017)
Member, Technical Program Committee (State of the Practice Area), Supercomputing Conference, (2014, 2015)
Screening and Selection Committee, Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, DOE (2008 – 2020)

Dr.鈥疪atna Saripalli, PhD in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is the chief data officer of the . With over 20 years of technology leadership experience shipping enterprise data platforms and products, Saripalli leads EMSL's high-performance computing and data platform infrastructures. She works closely with platform and software engineers, data architects, computer scientists, and cybersecurity engineers to develop and deliver EMSL's overall digital infrastructure vision and strategy.  
As a technology leader and software engineer, she has industry experience in conceiving, implementing, and managing artificial intelligence, machine learning, data engineering, and analytics products and platforms. Before rejoining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), she served as the vice president of technology at Berkeley Lights, in charge of developing computational methods for large datasets such as gene expression, metabolomics, and proteomics. Before that, she was a senior global director of data science at GE HealthCare for three years, developing world-class artificial intelligence products to revolutionize health care and improve clinical outcomes. She won the GE HealthCare Key Innovator award twice and has contributed to several patents and publications. She served at Microsoft for 11 years in various lead roles, helping ship Bing AdCenter, Office365, and Windows Data Science and Engineering products. Before joining Microsoft, she was a research scientist at PNNL for six years, contributing to global research projects pivotal to genomics and life sciences. 

Research Interests


Scalable, efficient deep reinforcement learning methods for health care and life sciences鈥� 
Artificial intelligence/machine learning model compression methods鈥� 
High-performance computing and distributed big data management platforms 


Education


MBA, University of California  
PhD in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Colorado State University 
MS in biomedical informatics, Stanford University


Patents


Michael D. Grafham, Kent D. Mitchell, Pei Li, and Venkata Ratnam Saripalli. Attribute Collection and Tenant Selection for Onboarding to a Workload. U.S. Patent US10387212B2, filed 15 June 2017, and issued 20 August 2019. . 
Venkata Ratna Saripalli, Gopal Avinash, Min Zhang, Ravi Soni, Jiahui Guan, Dibyajyoti PATI, and Zili Ma. Medical Machine Time-Series Event Data Processor. U.S. Patent US11404145B2, filed 27 November 2019, and issued 02 August 2022. . 


Publications

2021
Dong, X., T. Tan, M. Potter, Y.-C. Tsai, G. Kumar, and V. R. Saripalli. 2021. "To raise or not to raise: The autonomous learning rate question."鈥痑rXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08767. . 
Dong, X., M. Potter, G. Kumar, Y.-C. Tsai, and V. R. Saripalli. 2021. "Automating Augmentation Through Random Unidimensional Search."鈥痑rXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08756. . 
2020
Saripalli, V. R., D. Pati, M. Potter, G. Avinash, and C. W. Anderson. 2020. "Ai-assisted annotator using reinforcement learning."鈥疭.N. Computer Science鈥�1 (6): 1–8. . 
2019
Soni, R., J. Guan, G. Avinash, and V. R. Saripalli. 2019. "HMC: a hybrid reinforcement learning based model compression for healthcare applications." In鈥�2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 22–26, 2019. . 
Pati, D., C. Favart, P. Bahl, V. Soni, Y.-C. Tsai, M. Potter, J. Guan, X. Dong, and V. R. Saripalli. 2019. "Impact of Inference Accelerators on hardware selection."鈥痑rXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03060. . 
Dong, X., J. Hong, H.-M. Chang, M. Potter, A. Chowdhury, P. Bahl, V. Soni, Y.-C. Tsai, R. Tamada, G. Kumar, C. Favart, V. R. Saripalli, G. Avinash. 2019. "FastEstimator: A Deep Learning Library for Fast Prototyping and Productization."鈥痑rXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04875. .