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Simona Doboli is Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University. She received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2001. Her research interests are in artificial intelligence, neural cognitive modeling, creativity, and computational neuroscience. Her recent work includes developing algorithms for automatic assessment of novelty in short texts, studying interactions between group and individual level creativity, and developing neural cognitive models for idea generation processes. She has 19 journal articles and over 40 conference publications. She has served as an associate editor for the journals Cognitive Systems Research and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. She was the Tutorials Chair for the 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019), Special Sessions Chair for IJCNN 2011, and Workshops Chair for IJCNN 2013. Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office.



Jared B. Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Southern California in 2002, then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2002 until 2005. His research interests include both intergroup relations and group processes. Within intergroup relations, his interests include understanding the predictors of religious, ethnic, and national prejudice as well as prejudice reduction. Within group processes, his interests include the predictors and consequences of ingroup identification, and group coordination, and collective creativity and innovation. His work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office.



Ali A. Minai is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a faculty member in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at theUniversity of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical