Rishikesan (Rishi) Kamaleswaran is an Associate Professor at Emory University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, with secondary appointments in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. He is the Director of Translational Informatics within the School of Medicine and the Georgia CTSA. He is the Co-Director of the NIH P30 Georgia Cystic Fibrosis Research and Translation Core Center where he oversees a number of clinical informatics research. He also oversees the Emory Real-Time Data Science and Decision Support (RADS2) center that advances AI/ML applications at the bedside. His research is funded by a number of federal and regional agencies including the National Institutes of Health, Veteran's Affairs, Department of Defence, Michael J. Fox Foundation, and the CF foundation.

Kim Tierney has worked in a variety of positions over the years promoting public health both domestically and internationally. Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina Asheville where she double majored in French and International Studies and minored in Africana Studies. She most recently worked as a Program Associate for the International Trachoma Initiative, a program of the Task Force for Global Health. During her time there, she supported the program team through their yearly cycle of country applications, facilitated the distribution and receipt of trachoma monitoring forms in collaboration with the WHO, and helped with meeting support for the Trachoma Expert Committee meetings, as well as regional cross-border meetings in sub-Saharan Africa.

Among other jobs, she has previously worked as a nutrition and culinary instructor for both children and adults with a non-profit that provides increased access to healthy, fresh food; taught yoga and provided communications support for a non-profit yoga studio that offers entirely donation classes; and served as a Communications Manager and French translator for a machinery company operating primarily in Guinea.

When she’s not working, Kim enjoys spending time outside hiking and backpacking, cooking and baking for loved ones, dancing, practicing yoga, and hanging out with her two cats, Sebastian and Linguine.