VII BRISPE 2024
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Chinasa T. Okolo
Fellow/Expert – Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation
Dr. Okolo holds a B.A. in computer science from Pomona College, a M.S. in computer science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University. She also serves as a Consulting Expert with the African Union, contributing to the development of the AU-AI Continental Strategy for Africa, and as an Ethics Advisor to the Equiano Institute, a research lab focused on steering safe and trustworthy AI in Africa. (https://www.brookings.edu/people/chinasa-t-okolo/)
Speakers in the VII BRISPE Program
Jésus Mena-Chalco
Professor – Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition (CMCC), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), teaching in the Graduate Program in Computer Science and the bachelor’s degree in science, and technology. His work focuses on computer science and information science, particularly in pattern recognition through graph mining, and academic data mining involving bibliometrics and scientometrics. His current research projects aim at discovering knowledge from extensive volumes of academic data. He holds a degree in systems engineering from the National University of San Agustín (2000). His master's thesis was awarded first place at the XIII Latin American Master's Thesis Contest by CLEI/UNESCO-2006, and his doctoral thesis was among the top ten in Computer Graphics and Image Processing at SIBGRAPI-2011. He is a former member of the Research Integrity Office (EIP) of UFABC and current member of the Program Committee of the VII BRISPE. Google Scholar Profile.
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Lex Bouter
Professor – Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity, Amsterdam University Medical Centers|Department of Epidemiology and Data Science|Amsterdam Public Health research institute
Professor and tenured chair in Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. Before taking up the current position he was professor of Epidemiology since 1992. In 1988 he published a textbook on epidemiology, the seventh revised Dutch edition of which appeared in 2016 and the first English edition in 2018. He served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Subsequently, Professor Bouter prepared for a return to science during a sabbatical leave. In 2014 his tenured professorship was broadened to Methodology and Integrity. He is currently involved in teaching and research regarding responsible conduct of research. Professor Bouter has supervised 76 PhD students, of whom to date 16 were appointed as professor. In 2017, Professor Bouter organized the 5th World Conference on Research Integrity in Amsterdam and became chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.
Mario Malički
Associate Director of Stanford Program on Research Rigor and Reproducibility (SPORR)
After finishing School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, I obtained an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK, and then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine in Departments of Medical Humanities and Research in biomedicine and health, where I obtained my PhD in Medical Ethics titled: Integrity of scientific publications in biomedicine. I have been researching publication practices, peer review, research integrity, and medical education. From 2017 to 2019 I have been a postdoc at AMC and ASUS Amsterdam, Netherlands; in 2019 a visiting scholar at the ScholCommLab, and in 2020 I joined METRICS as a postdoc with the focus on meta-research of preprints. Since 2022 I am an Associate Director of Stanford Program on Research Rigor and Reproducibility (SPORR). My other interests include medical ethics, hope, statistics, speculative fiction, Frank Herbert’s opus and Leonard Cohen’s poetry. I am also Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity and Peer Review journal.
Renee V. Hoch
Managing Editor Publication Ethics, PLOS
Renee is a publication ethics specialist and has managed the PLOS Publication Ethics team since 2018. She has 10 years of editorial experience in STM publishing, prior to which she worked in academic research in the fields of developmental genetics, cell signaling, and neuroscience. Renee is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), serves on the COPE Paper Mills Working Group, and previously served on the FORCE 11-COPE Working Group on Data Publishing Ethics. She contributed to COPE guidance for addressing large-scale paper mill issues and has authored blog posts and articles discussing issues pertaining to ethics & integrity issues and related policies.
https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/large-scale-threats-to-research-integrity-10-25-23