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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">IEEE </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SMC-IT 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8th </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">IEEE
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Virtual Conference: July 26-30, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Regular registration now open through to the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Important note: All authors, speakers, and participants should register to obtain proper zoom login/password credentials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">General Information: <a href="http://smc-it.org">
http://smc-it.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Email Inquiries: <a href="mailto:smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu" target="_blank">
smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registration:
<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/smc-it.org/registration__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK_oLd6lG$" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://smc-it.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">
http://smc-it.org/registration</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Agenda: <a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/smcit.ecs.baylor.edu/smcit-agenda.html__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMKxihmF3x$">
https://smcit.ecs.baylor.edu/smcit-agenda.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Every two years, the International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT) gathers system designers, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and space explorers with the objective
of advancing information technology for space missions. The forum will provide an excellent opportunity for fostering technical interchange on all hardware and software aspects of IT applications in space missions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The conference will focus on current information systems practice and challenges as well as emerging information technologies with applicability for future space missions. Information systems in all aspects of the
space mission will be explored, including flight systems, ground systems, science data processing, engineering and development tools, operations, and telecommunications. The entire information systems lifecycle of the mission development will also be covered,
such as conceptual design, engineering tools development, integration and test, operations, science analysis, and quality control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our list of confirmed Keynote Speakers include:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brig. Gen. D. Jason Cothern, Vice Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lt. Gen. Larry D. James (USAF, Ret.), Deputy Director, NASA / JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Juliane J. Gallina, Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Shri M Sankaran, Distinguished Scientist, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Eugene L. Tu, Director, NASA Ames Research Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kevin D. Bell, Vice President, Space Program Operations, The Aerospace Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, NASA / JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Anik De Groof, Instrument Operations Scientist, European Space Agency (ESA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Al Cangahuala, Mission System Manager, Europa Clipper Mission, NASA / JPL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tim Canham, Software and Operations Lead for the Mars Helicopter, NASA / JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Col. Janet Grondin (USAF, Ret.), Vice President of Defense Programs, Stellar Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kalind Carpenter, Robotics Engineer, Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group, NASA / JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Magdy Bareh, Principal Engineer, Flight Systems Engineering, NASA / JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A list of the mini-workshops within SMC-IT includes:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Space-Terrestrial Internetworking (STINT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital Twins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Source for Space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Space Mission Challenges for Digital Engineering Environments/Ecosystems (MBSE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Trusted Artificial Intelligence (TUTORIAL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Machine Learning for Spacecraft Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Accelerating the Use of Autonomy on Robotic Space Missions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3rd Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Realities Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Student Mars CubeSat Mini-Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conference Highlights:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We will have a keynote talk by Brig. Gen. D. Jason Cothern, Vice Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) of the United States Space Force. The Space and Missile Systems Center
is a center of technical excellence, and is involved in the development of highly advanced space systems. Prior to this role, Brig. Gen. Cothern was the Assistant Program Director for development at the F-35 Lighting II Joint Program Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This year SMC-IT will have special talks on the Mars 2020 Helicopter, Ingenuity, and future Mars missions, Commercial Space, the new concept of Digital Twins, the use of Open Source
in Space, and robotic snakes for exploring deep crevasses and caves on icy worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other special themes will focus on space networking protocols for data exchange between space based and terrestrial network nodes that potentially could have very long delays (includes
internationally recognized speaker Dr. Vint Cerf, co-Father of the Internet, and co-designer of TCP/IP and the architecture of the Internet), and another workshop that hopes to answer the question of what is holding back using autonomy in robotic space systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The featured “virtual” banquet speaker is Dr. Kevin Grazier, noted American planetary physicist, author, and science advisor to Hollywood. He is known for his work on the Cassini/Huygens
Mission to Saturn and Titan where he had the dual roles of Science Planning Engineer and Investigation Scientist for the Imaging Science Subsystem instrument. He is an expert in computational methods and planetary dynamics, and performs large scale, long term
simulations of early Solar System evolution, dynamics, and chaos. He is also the science consultant for several television series and movies, most notably the series
<i>Defiance</i>, <i>Battlestar Galactica</i>, and <i>Eureka</i>, and the films <i>
Gravity</i> and <i>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Interested in exhibiting or providing sponsorship through a corporation grant? Corporate donors get group registrations, a daily breakout room for targeted talks, and other promotional opportunities. Interested companies
should contact us at <a href="mailto:smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu" target="_blank">smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are a full-time student and have an interest in volunteering to help with conference operations, please drop us an email at
<a href="mailto:smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu">smc-it-chairs@baylor.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you online in July 2021!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CONFERENCE CHAIRS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">General Chair: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yogita
Shah (yogita.shah“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/jpl.nasa.gov__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK_aY3z-f$" target="_blank">jpl.nasa.gov</a>)
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Co-General Chair: Michelle Carter (michelle.carter“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/aero.org__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK-vD9r6G$" target="_blank">aero.org</a>)
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Finance Chair: </span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">James Oyama (James.Y.Oyama“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/jpl.nasa.gov__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK_aY3z-f$" target="_blank">jpl.nasa.gov</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advisors to the General Chair: Dr. Larry Bergman (Larry.Bergman“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/ieee.org__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMKwIwG4jB$" target="_blank">ieee.org</a>)
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Amalaye Oyake (Amalaye.Oyake“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/outlook.com__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK2ze8p6d$" target="_blank">outlook.com</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Dr. Michael Campbell (michael.l.campbell“at-sign”<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/aero.org__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK-vD9r6G$" target="_blank">aero.org</a>)
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Program Chair: Dr. Michael Lowry (michael.r.lowry"at-sign"<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/nasa.gov__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK1i9AmN5$" target="_blank">nasa.gov</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Program Co-Chair: Dr. Ivan Perez (ivan.perezdominguez"at-sign"<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/nasa.gov__;!!OvyHrJTNo7faK-qlAog!evpIWiyjakpNCGvKVpH-OftoCOPqImDHpVcBZs_Zoi35v5Ps8Hthq3aMK1i9AmN5$" target="_blank">nasa.gov</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. María Dolores Rodríguez Moreno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Keith Schubert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Michela Munoz Fernandez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brian Duncan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Luke Lucas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Ernesto Gomez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">STEERING COMMITTEE:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Richard Doyle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Rupak Biswas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jana Roche<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Chris Mattman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Yisong Yue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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