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Dr. Shihong Lin is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He did his undergraduate at Harbin Institute of Technology (China), his PhD at Duke University (with Mark Wiesner), and his postdoc at Yale University (Menachem Elimelech). He currently directs a research group with a general interest in advancing aqueous separation process to address critical challenges at the water-energy-food nexus.

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Dr. Xing Xie is a Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and has held this position since 2017. He did his undergraduate at Tsinghua University (Bejing, China), masters atTsinghua University and Stanford University, and Ph.D. at Stanford University. During his schooling he was a research assistant and research fellow at Tsinghua and Stanford. He continued his career as a post-doctoral scholar at CalTech and as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech.

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Dr. Hyatt Sutton is the current Medical Director of Lifecare at Hickory Woods and has been serving in this role since July 2012. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Harding University and medical degree from University of Alabama School of medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University in 1997, where he would stay and become Chief medical resident from 1997 to 1998.

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Dr. Scott Harris is the Vice President of Church and Global Engagement with Mission Increase. Mission Increase equips faith-based non-profits in organizational health. Scott’s specific role is to help non-profits and churches around the globe work better together to disciple God’s people to reach all peoples. Born in San Jose, California, Scott grew up in the Caribbean and then worked in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong as a student minister and church planter with the International Mission Board (IMB).

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Hud Croasdale most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Norfolk State University Research & Innovation Foundation, a 501(c)(3), affiliated with Norfolk State University to support the research mission of the institution, promote applied research and contribute to the economic strength of the region. He previously worked at Virginia Tech University developing and managing strategic partnerships with private sector organizations and research universities.