AI Applications and Impacts panel discussion

AI is rapidly transforming every aspect of our lives. Join our panel of experts from science, engineering and communication for an engaging discussion of how we can innovate for the future with AI while safeguarding our humanity.

Panelists:

Shenghan Guo
Shenghan Guo is an assistant professor in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks at Arizona State University. Her research centers around knowledge-informed data analytics and AI models. She strives to develop knowledge-informed AI solutions for smart manufacturing processes and systems and aims to advocate for human-centricity in AI and smart manufacturing. She is experienced in statistical quality control, prognostics, and data mining. She has handled multiple research datasets from manufacturing fields, particularly those with complex properties, such as in-situ thermal video and multi-sensory data streams. The current applications of her research include in-situ prognostics, customized additive manufacturing, and manufacturing worker monitoring and training. Her lab hosts an OPTOMEC Aerosol Jet Printer for high-resolution flexible 3D printing, which supports experiments for electronic printing/packaging, human-machine interactions and AI-assisted fabrication of new materials/structures.

Steven P. Garry
Steven P. Garry, PhD studies communication and innovative technology. Currently, his focus is on AI and Public Speaking and conducting an ASU AI Innovation Challenge Project since 2024. Garry has a professional broadcasting background with more than 35 years of combined experience in communication/media and education. He has been teaching communication full-time at the ASU Polytechnic campus for over 15 years.

Thomas Martin
Tom Martin holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics, and is a Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College. He is former chief scientific officer of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company that has since gone public, with drug candidates entering Phase III FDA trials. He has published research articles in journals such as Structure and Nature Structural Biology, as well as popular essays in Seed magazine and The Christian Science Monitor. He was the initial Barrett Faculty Fellow at the Polytechnic campus, and has taught entrepreneurship courses at both Tempe and Poly. He has a master's degree in history and the philosophy of science, and taught HPS 323 History of Modern Science for SoLS for more than twenty years. The bulk of his current teaching is HON 171 The Human Event, where his second semester addresses the relationship between computation and cognition.