Monday, June 17
Session #01: Transportation
Moderator: Prof. Sarah Fletcher, Stanford University
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| Using street view image data to examine how eye-level visual environment features and macro-scale neighborhood built environment influence travel behavior | Xinying Tan | HKUST | |
| Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains | Anthony Cheng | CMU | |
| Mapping the AI-Enabled Transformation of Labor in Autonomous Taxi Services | Leah Kaplan | GW | |
| The Electrification of Mobility: Exponential Growth and its Implications | Michelle Vaccaro | MIT | |
| Expert assessments of future maritime shipping decarbonization pathways | Imranul Laskar | UBC | |
| Maximizing air quality benefits of organizational climate action: Evidence from electricity purchase and personnel business travel | Yuang Chen | MIT |
Session #02: Cyber/AI
Moderator: Prof. Josephine Wolff, Tufts University
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| Understanding the Tradeoffs of Human-AI Architectures for Meaningful Human Control | Aditya Singh | GW | |
| Reducing misinformation sharing at scale using digital accuracy prompt ads | Hause Lin | MIT | |
| Decoding Barriers: Identifying Disparities in Routing Security Adoption | Deepak Gouda | GaTech | |
| Evaluating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on China’s Information Warfare: Strategies and Policy Implications | Lilly Min-Chen Lee | Tufts | |
| Understanding Americans’ perceived legitimacy of harmful misinformation moderation by expert and layperson juries | Cameron Martel | MIT | |
Session #03: Flash Talks 01
Moderator: Dr. Frank Field, MIT
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| What is the Scaling Potential of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal? | Connor Mack | UCSD | |
| Modeling the varying potential peak loads associated with electrified residential and commercial heating | Seth Blum | MIT | |
| Explaining regional variation in the outcomes of U.S. CO2 sequestration project development processes | Emily Moore | CMU | |
| Rapid Evaluation of Climate Policy Pathways | Chris Womack | MIT | |
| The Devil Is In The Documentation: Security & Safety Assessments of LLMs | Mitakshi Lakhani | MIT | |
| Data-driven policy through cyber incident data | Chelsea Conard | MIT | |
| Using GenAI for developing strategic foresight | Jongmin Han | Porto | |
| Harnessing Natural Language Processing for Enhancing Community Perceptions: Integrating NLP Methods with Qualitative Approaches | Brissa Acevedo | CMU |
Session #04: Flash Talks 02
Moderator: Prof. Noelle Selin, MIT
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| Quantifying Electric Vehicle Mileage in the U.S. | Lujin Zhao | GW | |
| Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation | Peter Heller | MIT | |
| Diets speak louder than words: Investigating the attitude-behaviour gap in reducing meat consumption | Alvin Li | HKUST | |
| The Evolution of Space Policy: Sputnik to Today | Emily Lagarile | Tufts | |
| Adapting drought indicators to climate change in glacier-fed river basins | Keani Willebrand | Stanford | |
| Blessing or Blight? An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Sanctions on China’s High-Tech Innovation Through the Lens of Entity-Listed Firms | Siqi Xie | HKUST | |
| Improved internet infrastructure and depressed youth: Evidence from China | Yanlin Wan | HKUST |
Tuesday, June 18
Session #05: Renewables
Moderator: Prof. Amanda Giang, Univ. of British Columbia
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| A comprehensive government assessment framework for green technologies | Xuan Zeng | HKUST | |
| Optimizing JETP Implementation for Indonesia’s Energy Transition | Kaarthi A Gnapathy | UCSD | |
| Vietnam’s Power Sector Decarbonization Pathway Through The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) | Manh Tri Dao | UCSD | |
| Temporal Limitations of China’s Renewable Energy Scale-Up | Zhenhua Zhang | UCSD | |
| Evaluating climate change impacts on household urban water affordability | Jennifer Skerker | Stanford | |
| Optimizing the Energy Storage Systems for Resilience Enhancement in Offshore Wind Farms | Weijie Pan | GW |
Session #06: Science Policy
Moderator: Prof. Michael Davis, University California San Diego
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| Cooperation and interdependence in global science funding | Lili Miao | IU Bloomington | |
| The cascading and (potentially) lingering impacts of protectionist industrial policies to international trade partners | Amaral Afonso | CMU | |
| Peacocks Fly to the Southeast: How Talent Policies Foster Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies | Ning Luo | HKUST | |
| Varieties of Agglomeration: Differentiating Horizontal and Vertical Agglomeration in the Manufacturing Sector | Nikhil Kalathil | CMU | |
| Value Expressions in Patent Documents: A New Method and Its Applications to Patent Valuation and Direction | Sergio Pelaez | GaTech | |
| Enhancing Environmental Sustainability: The Impact of Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies on Green Innovation and Patent Trends | Felix Kurz | TUM |
Session #07: Decarbonization
Moderator: Dr. Jesse Sowell, University College London
| Presentation Title | Speaker | School | |
| A Circular Refurbishment Framework to facilitate Buildings oriented Circular Economy policies | Joana Fernandes | IST | |
| Harnessing the flexibility of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs): a physics-informed approach | Shiny Choudhury | UCSD | |
| Operational Heterogeneity in U.S. Blast Furnaces | Elina Hoffmann | CMU | |
| Local Labor Implications of Industrial Decarbonization: A Case Study of Southwest Pennsylvania’s Iron and Steel Industry | Jillian Miles | CMU |