TEDxWeber School Youth

Speakers

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• Aaron Young

  Aaron Young is an Associate Professor and Woodruff and James R. and Sarah R. Borders Faculty Fellow in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech and has directed the Exoskeleton and Prosthetic Intelligent Controls (EPIC) lab since 2016. Dr. Young received his MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on neural and rehabilitation engineering from Northwestern University in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He received a BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University in 2009. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan in the Human Neuromechanics Lab working with lower limb exoskeletons and powered orthoses to augment human performance. His research area is in advanced control systems for robotic prosthetic and exoskeleton systems for humans with movement impairment. He combines machine learning, robotics, human biomechanics, and control systems to design wearable robots to improve the community mobility of individuals with walking disability.

• Amy Bruckman

  Amy Bruckman is Regents’ Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on social computing, with interests in online collaboration, social movements, and content moderation.

• Anna Ivanova

  Anna (Anya) Ivanova is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies the relationship between language and thought in people and in AI systems.

• Gabe Goodhart

  Gabe Goodheart is a 15-year-old aspiring technologist with an interest in medicine and artificial intelligence.

• Georg Von Manstein

  Georg von Manstein is a high school grad in San Francisco exploring what’s next in ml/ai + hci — what he calls “Thinking Machines”. He is especially excited about machine learning, interface & product design, and scaling laws.

• Matthew Gombolay

  Dr. Matthew Gombolay is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, where he leads the CORE Robotics Lab. His research focuses on human-centered AI, studying how autonomous systems interpret intent, make decisions, and interact with people in high-stakes environments.

• Yaron Waksman

  Yaron Waksman is the co-founder and CEO of HaGal Sheli, an Israeli nonprofit dedicated to empowering at-risk youth and trauma survivors through surfing as an educational and therapeutic tool. Since co-founding the organization in 2012, Yaron has led HaGal Sheli’s growth into a nationwide effort that supports more than 5,000 participants annually. Under his leadership, the organization has reached more than 20,000 graduates and now operates 12 centers along Israel’s coastline.