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Dr. Ian Haworth is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences at USC. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Liverpool, UK, and then spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, before joining USC in 1992. His research work lies at the interfaces of chemistry, biochemistry, and computational prediction of molecular structure. This work involves development and utilization of algorithms for prediction of drug-protein molecular interactions and simulation of ADME properties of drugs. Dr. Haworth's laboratory has published about 100 scientific articles on this work. Current projects include examining the relationship of affinity with solvation at drug-protein interfaces; prediction of ionic solubility for utilization in ADME models for prediction of drug delivery; and use of molecular informatics in prediction of peptide delivery. Dr. Haworth also has a major role in teaching of medicinal chemistry and biopharmaceutics in the Pharm.D., Ph.D. and Masters programs at USC, and he has lectured and taught courses on this content worldwide. He is also currently Co-Director of the International Summer Program in the USC School of Pharmacy. Dr. Haworth has utilized problem-based learning and active learning in teaching of Pharm.D. science courses for many years, and he has published and presented widely on these educational approaches. Dr. Haworth is also interested in utilization of computational methods in evaluation of educational outcomes, including new approaches to curriculum mapping and assessment.

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Dr. Krishna Kallury:
Krishna Kallury obtained his Ph.D. from Osmania University, India, at the age of 22. He served as Assistant and Associate Professor at the same University for 10 years and produced several Ph.D. students. He did post-doctoral work at University of Adelaide, Australia; University of London, London, U.K. and University of Toronto, Canada where he also taught undergraduate courses and supervised graduate students. After over 20 years of teaching/research at academic institutions, Dr. Kallury switched to the industrial sector and served as R&D Manager, Applications Manager and Project Scientist at Supelco, Varian/Agilent, Phenomenex and BioScreen Testing/Analytical Services, respectively, before retiring a couple of years ago. He published over 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals, written several book chapters and holds six U.S. and International patents. He is an Executive Committee member of SCALACS since 2015 and served as its Chair during 2019.

Ingredients for Life – Chemistry of Healthy Foods

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Tyrone Jacobs, Jr., 26 years old, was born in Chicago, IL. He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Tyrone strives to become the best speaker, engineer, leader, man, and person that he can be. His mission is to give hope to the hopeless. He aims to show people that, regardless of their past circumstances and environment, that, they can become successful and accomplish their wildest goals and dreams.

Maggie Fox is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA researching 2.5D batteries and energy-efficient materials. She received her B.S. in Materials Chemistry from SUNY Binghamton in 2018. While there she did research abroad in Grenoble, France as a visiting research assistant through the LSAMP iREU program. Outside of the lab, Maggie works on several STEM education initiatives, serves as a Mentorship Coordinator for the Society of Women Engineers Graduate Leadership Team, is an avid baseball fan, and is training for her next marathon!

Khushbu Patel is the Avionics HITL Engineer at Relativity Space | STEM Chair at AIAA Los Angeles/ Las Vegas Chapter. She waas Avionics Simulations Engineer in Virgin Orbit and GN&C Intern in Odyssey Space Research, LLC. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbupatel/

Marty Waldman

BD & Intellectual Property Director / Space Systems
Architect for Space Information Labs (SIL) www.SpaceInformationlabs.com
-NDIA Southern Nevada Chapter Founder/1st President, Jan 2018-2020
https://ndia-snv.org/
-Las Vegas Chapter Chair of the Los Angeles/Las Vegas AIAA
https://www.aiaa-lasvegas.org
-Las Vegas Spaceport Project Lead @LasVegasSpaceport
-Co-founder of the Endeavour Institute STEM outreach organization, Vandenberg AFB, CA
-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-waldman-6868368/

Mr. Waldman brings over 43 years of DoD Navy and Air Force Program Management experience to SIL from his technical involvement with Cruise Missile, Space Shuttle, Titan IV, Minuteman, Peacekeeper and Eastern/Western Range Data Acquisition and Processing Systems. Having successfully authored and prosecuted numerous Patents, Mr. Waldman’s insight and understanding of what’s necessary to bring a product to the commercial/military market is continually demonstrated via the fielding of these and other key technologies at SIL.

Leading SIL projects include the Vehicle Based Independent Tracking System (VBITS) Patent # 5739787, Military Grade Small Satellites, Space Rated Battery/Power Systems, Vehicle Based Independent Range System (VBIRS), Patent Publication # US20170328678A1, granted as Patent #10,302,398 on 28 May 2019. All systems support Missile, Rocket, Hypersonic, Satellite, Aircraft and UAV operations.

Mr. Waldman is also a key team-member with the Small Modular Nuclear Reactor/Microgrid development for Nevada test & implementation: https://ndia-snv.org/reactors-%2F-microgrids B.S. Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University. 34+ Years of Navy/Air Force Civil Service prior to his current Private Sector Service.