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Dr. Lum received his PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the University of Washington in 2009. He is currently a research scientist at the University of Washington's William E. Boeing Aeronautics & Astronautics Department and runs the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory. His research interests includes coordinated multi-vehicle searching, automatic target recognition, formation flight of swarms of vehicles, risk assessment of UAS in the national airspace, collision avoidance/deconfliction, and UAS flight operations. He has worked closely with industry partners such as the Boeing Company, Insitu, Aerovel, Hood Technology, and the Washington Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation to implement academic technologies onto deployed platforms. Dr. Lum teaches both undergraduate and graduate course on automatic control, flight mechanics, modeling and simulation, mathematical tools for engineers, sensors and actuators, and other controls related courses. He has been awarded the department's "Instructor of the Year" award twice (2012 and 2013). He is also the faculty advisor to the department's design, build, fly team. He has served as an adjunct professor at Seattle University and as a visiting fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

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Stephanie earned her B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington (UW) in 2001 and her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy in 2006. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the UW College of Education (higher education track) with a research focus on STEM identity development. Most recently she received her certificate of participation from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Management Development Program. Over the years Ms. Gardner has advocated extensively on behalf of access, retention, and graduation for underrepresented populations. Many of her professional experiences have been with federal programs including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Education (DOE). Ms. Gardner has served on a number of committees and has extensive event and public relations experience. As the Assistant Director for the UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) Community and Public Relations (CPR) Unit, she provided leadership, strategic direction, and concept development for programs including: the OMA&D 40-Year Campus Celebration of Diversity, Homecoming Weekend Celebration, Alumni Spring Mixer and served as the Co-Committee Chair for the annual department FEOP Celebration Fundraiser. Additionally, she served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepresented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at the 2013 LSAMP National Conference. Her accomplishments include being selected and featured in the 2009 AKA Calendar-“Seattle Up and Coming Young African American Professionals”, nominated and selected as a UW Pangaea international staff study abroad participant to Paris, France, serving as the former Chair of the Education and Youth Empowerment Committee for the Seattle Urban League Young Professionals, receiving the OMA&D Outstanding Contribution Award in 2007, acceptance into the Alene Moris National Education Women’s Leadership Institute, selection into the Leadership Tomorrow 2016 cohort, and awarded certification through the College Board Summer Institute on Admissions and School Relations. Currently, Ms. Gardner is a member of the National Association for Student Affairs Administrators (NASPA) in Higher Education and serves on the national board for the African American Knowledge Community (AAKC) as the Conference Social Chair, formerly serving as the Best Practices Spotlight Chair. She has volunteered with the organization as a NASPA Region V Awards Reviewer and 2014 NASPA Western Regional Conference Reviewer. Her most recent project includes serving as a founding board member on the first African American Black Political Action Committee (PAC) in Washington State in the capacity of the Membership Coordinator. Ms. Gardner enjoys serving on the Technology Access Foundation (TAF) Board of Directors and as an Advisor to UW Sisterhood.

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Cathryne, UW College of Engineering, Assistant Director of Diversity and Access, Director of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program.
Directing and working with the educational K-20 community, university, public and/or private sector outreach and recruitment programs, she focuses on the recruitment and retention of students pursuing their undergraduate and/or graduate level degree in the STEM disciplines. Focuses on student populations that are traditionally and historically underrepresented within higher education and engineering.
Cathryne earned a BA in Speech Communication, Masters in Public Affairs (MPA), and is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

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Dr Matthew Dunbabin joined QUT as a Principal Research Fellow (Autonomous Systems) in 2013. He is known internationally for his research into field robotics, particularly environmental robots, and their application to large-scale monitoring. He has wide research interests including adaptive sampling and path planning, vision-based navigation, cooperative robotics, as well as robot and sensor network interactions. Dr Dunbabin received his Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and his PhD from the Queensland University of Technology. He started his professional career in 1995 as a project engineer at Roaduser Research International, and following his PhD joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. At CSIRO he held various roles including Principal Research Scientist, project leader and the Robotics Systems and Marine Robotics team leader before moving to QUT in 2013. A strong advocate of robotic systems in civilian applications, Dr Dunbabin is involved in a number of initiatives aimed at promoting, educating and demonstrating autonomous systems to a range of interest groups nationally and internationally.

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