Since 2013, I have been a Lead Project Manager in the Information Services & Technology group at Boston University. In this role, I call upon my eclectic background: degrees in philosophy and admin studies, 15 years in BU’s Research Computing group, and work in smaller non-profit organizations.
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I joined the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in May 2020 as the Assistant Vice-President of Research Computing. In this role, I have been helping expand the hardware and software infrastructure required for research computing.
I am a Health IT data specialist currently working as the Analytics Manager at a San Francisco based startup, Doximity. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at North Carolina State University in 2012, then served in academia (both in Pakistan, my birthplace, and the USA) for a few years before joining the tech industry. I joined Amazon and worked for Prime, where I was a backend engineer for four years. Then I became curious about the world of startup, which brought me to Doximity.
I am a graduate student getting a doctoral degree in Chemical Education at Iowa State University. I grew up in Fresno, California, and moved east for graduate school, drawn to Iowa State’s graduate program. Given my intersecting interests in chemistry, communication and education, The Science Communication Project led by Dr. Dara Wald and others was a particular draw.
I'm a professor at Boston University in electrical and computer engineering, but my trajectory was through theoretical physics. I went a long way as a theoretical physicist, getting a degree from the University of Chicago and then grad school at Stanford, where I was the first Black person earning a Ph.D. in Physics—followed, starting six months later, I’m glad to say, by many more. I then came to MIT for a while and switched to computer engineering in the mid 1980s.
Down, down, baby. Down, down, the roller coaster. Sweet, sweet, baby. I’ll never let you go. Chimmy, chimmy, coco pop. Chimmy, chimmy pow.
As a child, I remember playing this game where the rhyme, rhythm and clapping hands were my instruments during play in the park. Play, a form of communication, is an integral part of human behavior. However, as we advance chronologically, the culture says “play is for kids”—to be taken seriously, don’t play. If you want play as an adult, become a part of the audience―go see the play.
I met Dr. Holmes in an MTBI workshop in 2013, and also did some Professional Development workshops with her, focused on development as a scientist. For a few summers, Dr. Holmes conducted workshops with MTBI, helping students learn how to play and improvise in a collaborative setting. I saw first-hand how much the MTBI students enjoyed the play in the sessions and how the games built ensembles and created community within the group. Dr. Holmes invited MTBI students into conversations as a way of building community.
I have a Ph.D. in physics and have been focused on science education and communication for the last two decades. What I like best about science is sharing it with people, sharing the understanding of the world around us through the lens of science. This made working with Raquell a good and easy fit for me. I began working with her early in the development of improvscience.
I met Raquell Holmes in May 2010, three months before improvscience was born. Raquell had been given a grant to explore combining creativity and science. She began leading workshops to analyze the ideas she was shaping into a company.
