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Katie Shakour is a Research Associate at the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development and Research Assistant Professor in Anthropology. Dr. Shakour’s research has focused on community resilience during, after disasters as well as tools for improving academic continuity, and disaster heritage. She recently published peer-reviewed articles about responses to the pandemic in educational settings and researcher and stakeholder interactions which discuss balancing research and community needs.

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Kapil Chalil Madathil holds the Wilfred P. Tiencken Endowed Professorship at Clemson University. His area of expertise is in applying the knowledge base of human factors to the design and operation of human-computer systems that involve rich interactions among people and technology. He draws on qualitative and quantitative methodologies including ethnography, contextual inquiry and controlled behavioral experiments to understand how humans perceive, make sense of, and interact with human-machine systems. He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than 30 research grants and awards, generating more than $22 million in funding. His research work is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Defense, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Labor, National Institutes of Health and several other industry and state agencies. He teaches courses on human factors and ergonomics and graduate courses on accident analysis, human-centered system design and human-machine interaction. He is the Director of the Center for Workforce Development, a South Carolina Commission on Higher Education-approved, statewide initiative to improve workforce. He serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. He is also the Associate Editor for journals Ergonomics in Design and Human Factors in Healthcare, Program Chair for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s Computer Systems Technical Group, Editorial Board Member for Applied Ergonomics journal, and a technical reviewer for 30 different journals.

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Dr. Gallagher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She holds joint appointments to with joint appointments to the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and to the Department of Education and Human Development. Her research centers equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM through the lens of identity. She has a particular interest in the development of instructional and professional identity among graduate students.

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Rebecca Short is the Director of Operations for the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development (CUCWD) and the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Center for Aviation and Automotive Technological Education Using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES). She has over twenty years of work experience in higher education administration in undergraduate and graduate admissions, academic records, and student affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Public Policy from Auburn University. Before joining the CUCWD and CA2VES, she served as Director of Graduate Admissions & Records at the University of Montevallo in Alabama. Her research interest focuses on public opinion related to federal and state public policy and how outside political interests affect policy agendas and policy implementation.

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Tim Ransom is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering and Science Education department at Clemson University. He has a M.Sc. in Computer science from Clemson and is researching the development of undergraduate professional identity in computing fields through a combination of qualitative and computational methodologies.

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Gayatri Anoop received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2008 and a B.Ed. degree in Physical Science Education from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2011. She is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Clemson University Clemson, SC, USA. with a focus on human factors engineering. She has more than 4 years’ experience in a leading IT
company in India. She also has 1 year of teaching experience in a school in India. Combining her passion for teaching with her experience with computers and consulting, her research interest includes developing engaging learning platforms and digital tools with positive user experience for students and teachers.

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