Shkina Halbert joined IDEaS in 2016 to provide Administrative support. In 2019, she was promoted to IDEaS Program & Operations Manager. She has over eleven years of experience in the administrative field. She previously work at a successful immigration law firm that assisted the top partners of the company. She primarily handles planning and coordinating workshops/conferences, department HR duties, department operations, travel and various other tasks to support the team. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts in history.

Dr. Lewis-Strickland is a program planning and implementation professional with over 8 years of experience directing programs that build leadership, professional, and skills capacity for students, alumni, and community members. Currently, she is the Program Coordinator for the South Big Data Hub in the Institute for Data Engineering and Sciences. In addition, she manages the operations of initiatives that support broadening participation in data science through community consortium building. She earned her Doctorate of Education in Organizational Leadership, emphasizing Higher Education Leadership from Grand Canyon University. Her dissertation empowered black women to share their leadership resilience experiences to inspire and support aspiring black women leaders. In addition, Dr. Lewis-Strickland is a member of numerous professional organizations such as the International Leadership Association and the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation.

Charmain M. Alston is the senior grants administrator for IDEaS. She joined the team in 2017 with more than 26 years of experience in the federal government, and 18 years of experience with proposal and financial administration at the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. Charmain has a BBS with a concentration in Acquisition and Contract Management.

Sriram Chockalingam is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). He develops high performance computing algorithms and implementations for IDEaS research efforts and collaborations. Dr. Chockalingam's research interests focus on development of sequential and parallel algorithms for network reverse engineering in systems biology, Bayesian network structure learning and approximate sequence matching with applications in Bioinformatics. He has over a decade of experience in developing software in both industry and academia targeted towards solving data science problems.

Sherri joined the Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business in August 2017 as the Corporate Engagement Manager. She is responsible for identifying, developing and maintaining corporate partnerships that drive collaboration between the Business Analytics Center and the analytics industry. 

Before joining the Business Analytics Center, Sherri worked as a Corporate Relations Manager for the Georgia Tech Master of Science in Analytics Program. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she built a 25+ year accomplished track record in business development, corporate relations, program management and fund raising. Her extensive experience spans multiple industry sectors in Technology, Consumer Products, Education and Nonprofit.

Santanu S. Dey is A. Russell Chandler III Professor and associate chair of graduate studies in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dey holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. 

Dr. Dey's research interests are in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex optimization arising in areas such as electrical power engineering, process engineering, civil engineering, logistics, and statistics. Dr. Dey has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for INFORMS Optimization Society (2011-2013) and has served on the program committees of Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017, 2020. He currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, MOS-SIAM book series on Optimization, is an associate editor for Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming A, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has been as associate editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and an area editor for Mathematical Programming C.

Simon Chung is a research scientist at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests range from UI security, improving the security and usability of authentication systems, to employing the latest hardware features to improve systems security.

Michael Thoreau Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp. His thesis was in the area of probability in Banach spaces, and solved a problem related to the law of the iterated logarithm for empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of probability, ergodic theory, and harmonic analysis. 

His first postdoctoral positions were at the Louisiana State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, Lacey and Walter Philipp gave their proof of the almost sure central limit theorem. 

He held a position at Indiana University from 1989 to 1996. While there, he received a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and during the tenure of this fellowship he began a study of the bilinear Hilbert transform. This transform was at the time the subject of a conjecture by Alberto Calderón that Lacey and Christoph Thiele solved in 1996, for which they were awarded the Salem Prize. Since 1996, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2004, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for joint work with Xiaochun Li. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Dr. John Lawrence Tone is professor of history in the School of History and Sociology.  In the past he has served as interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, chair of the School of Economics and of the School of History and Sociology, and associate dean of undergraduate studies in the Ivan Allen College. He specializes in Spanish and Cuban military history and the history of disease and medicine. He has written several articles and books, including The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain (1995), La guerrilla española (1999), and War and Genocide in Cuba (2006). The Fatal Knot was a selection of the History Book Club and received the Literary Prize of the International Napoleonic Society in 1999.  He was inducted as a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society in that same year. War and Genocide in Cuba received the Society for Military History Prize for the Best Book on a Non-US Subject in 2008. His current research is on the history of yellow fever. He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. He teaches courses on European History, The French Revolution and Napoleon, Intellectual History, Modern Spain, Modern Cuba, and The History of Disease and Medicine.