Urmi Duttagupta is the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program and a Professor of the Mathematics Department at New York City College of Technology –City University of New York. She received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics jointly from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from The Ohio State University. Her current research interests include parameter estimation via optimization, infectious disease modeling, applications of graph theory in criminal network analysis and developing and applying bio-math related undergraduate modules in various SENCER related projects. She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and is the recipient of several MAA NREUP grants, a SENCER leadership fellowship, Department of Homeland Security grants, and several NSF S-STEM and PSC-CUNY grants/awards. She also has an extensive experience of mentoring undergraduate students in various research projects. She has mentored more than 45 students in various research projects through Emerging Scholars program, Honors Scholars program, NYC LSAMP grant, CURM mini-grant, MAA NREUP grant, and DHS grant for undergraduate research. She is originally from Kolkata (Calcutta), a cosmopolitan city located in Eastern part of India. As an Asian American, she embraces multiculturalism and diversity. She considers herself a lifelong learner and is always eager to learn from her students about their cultures and traditions. Besides solving math problems, she enjoys reading, painting, writing, singing, whimsical dancing, and enjoys cooking spicy Indian food.

Dr. Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at the CUNY NYC College of Technology. She is Director of the Mathematics Education program, teaches mathematics education classes, and has the privilege of working with future NYC mathematics teachers. She is also a Faculty Research Associate for the CUNY Computer Science Integration in Teacher Education (CITE) Research Practice Partnership, and leads the City Tech Math Education Team, which is part of the CUNY Computer Science Integration in Teacher Education (CITE) — a four-year initiative to support CUNY faculty to integrate state standards and align computing content and pedagogy with CUNY teacher education programs. She is also a CUNY STEM Pedagogy Institute Fellow, and is a Co-PI on the NSF S-STEM grant at City Tech. She enjoys working with students and has mentored more than 45 student teachers and 25 undergraduate student research projects. She is the founding director of the New York City Men Teach (NYCMT) at City Tech, and directed the program from 2016 to 2019. She has also been advising the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, in relation to its mathematics (standard level and high level) curriculum development, assessment, and examiner training since 2007. From 2007 to 2012 she was the Chief Examiner for Mathematical Studies of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, and led the international examination team responsible for writing exams and overseeing examinations, and sat on the Examining Board. Her research interests are in philosophy of mathematics education, dialogic teaching, student STEM identity, teacher professional identity and teacher professional learning.

Dr. Viviana Acquaviva is an astrophysicist with a passion for artificial intelligence, and she currently holds a PIVOT fellowship from the Simons Foundation to apply data science tools to climate models and solutions. She received a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Pisa and a Ph. D. in Astrophysics from the International School of Advanced Studies in Trieste, and she held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and Rutgers University before joining the faculty at the CUNY in 2012. She is currently a Professor in the Physics Department at the CUNY NYC College of Technology and at the CUNY Graduate Center; she has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and she is the author of the textbook “Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy”, published by Princeton University Press in 2023. Viviana is passionate about supporting women and other underrepresented minorities in the pursuit of technology-related careers, and she has been a mentor for over 25 undergraduate and graduate students.She has been widely recognized as a role model for women in STEM with several awards, including the “Mentorship award” and the “100 Technologist to Watch” award by Women Who Code in 2023, the “Tecnovisionarie”award for Italian Women in AI, by Women&Techin 2021, being listed in the “50 women who did or are doing the history of Information Technology” by Wired Italy in 2020, and the “Inspiring 50” Award, recognizing the 50 most influential Italian Women in Tech, in 2018.

Professor Armando D. Solis joined the Biological Sciences Department at City Tech in 2009. He holds a BS degree in Biological Engineering from Cornell University, an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His research interests revolve around the structural bioinformatics of proteins, macromolecules that are critical to all life processes and whose myriad structures display the variety of their functions. Dr. Solis has been involved in questions about how structural information is naturally encoded in the amino acid sequences of proteins, and how this can be exploited in the formulation of strategies to predict protein conformation computationally, as he describes in a series of peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Solis was instrumental in the creation of a new baccalaureate program at City Tech in Biomedical Informatics, and served as its first program coordinator, establishing its curricular, recruitment, and advisement infrastructure. His involvement as senior personnel for the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program and for the NSF S-STEM "Advancing STEM Futures" Program, both at City Tech, highlights his interest in improving advisement mechanisms that are critical to student success. He has also mentored a number of students in research in the Emerging Scholars Program as well as in the culminating Internship Program for Biomedical Informatics.