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Primary/Host Speaker
Matthew Gunkel
Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at UC Riverside
As Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer for UC Riverside, Matthew Gunkel is charged with enabling the support of strategic priorities and collaborative partnerships, as well as strengthening ITS through improvements to IT services that directly support teaching, learning, research, and working at the university. Before arriving to UCR, he was at the University of Missouri, where he served as Chief Online Learning and Technology Officer. There, he led the digital vision, educational technology, learning analytics, and online roadmap for the four campuses that comprise the public university system for the state of Missouri. Under his leadership, the university combined over 300 academic programs into a cohesive online presence, complete with an enhanced technology platform.
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Rodolfo Torres
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at UC Riverside
Rodolfo H. Torres is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development (VC-RED) at UC Riverside. As VC-RED he provides a broad vision and executive leadership for campus-wide research initiatives and is responsible for inspiring and managing a diverse portfolio of research as well as economic development activities in coordination with the region, state, and other external partners, via technology transfer, commercialization of intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and affiliations with established companies.
Torres specializes in the study of singular integrals, function spaces, and decomposition techniques and is most recognized for his work with various collaborators on several foundational aspects of the multilinear Calderón-Zygmund theory. He has collaborated with biologists to explain structural coloration phenomena in the tissues of animals, a work that received considerable scientific media attention including articles in The New York Times, Science Magazine, and Discovery Channel on-line.
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