Lev is an education innovator, with a strong interest in science and cross-cultural education.  He spent ten years developing unique digital science education experiences for Arizona State University.  Before that, he experimented with unconventional assignments for his students during his geoscience and astrobiology doctorate at Pennsylvania State University.  Having grown up in a dual-culture household and traveled the world extensively, he is keenly aware that what works in one culture doesn’t necessarily translate to another culture.  Language, conceptual, and even technological barriers can prevent a good idea from taking root as deeply and widely as it should, especially without a concerted effort to leap those barriers.  His current work focuses on enabling that leap.

Swathi leads global product strategy at Verogen.  She spent 8 years with Illumina, the global next-generation sequencing market and technology leader with roles in technical, sales, and product leadership.  She has also managed the growth and expansion of BaseSpace, the largest cloud based solution for secure genomic data management and analysis.  Swathi holds a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, where she applied a combination of genomic, epigenetic, and multivariate statistical approaches to understand the molecular basis of gene regulation.  She worked and published on inquiry based digital learning solutions that enabled students to design and execute complex lab experiments in simulated environments.