Emily Grayek
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bio
Emily Grayek is a postdoctoral researcher and is part of the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. Emily is working with Baruch Fischhoff to research the public perception of biotechnology and technology investments. Her past work focused on medical decision making from the perspective of regulators, practitioners, and patients. Her research interests include public risk perception and risk communication in order to improve how the public can be used to inform policies.
Emily received her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in Bioengineering from University of Missouri - Columbia. Prior to joining CMU Emily worked in Technical Services at Epic Systems maintaining electronic record systems.
Hassan Khan
Executive Fellow, National Network for Critical Technology Assessment
Bio
Hassan Khan is an executive fellow at Carnegie Mellon leading the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment's analytics on semiconductors and supply chains. Previously, Khan was a New Product Introduction Operations Program Manager at Apple in the Home Audio organization where he led new product readiness reviews and ramps in close coordination with engineering, product design, and the broader operations org. Earlier in his career Khan ;worked for McKinsey’s San Francisco Office serving clients in the consumer electronics and semiconductor manufacturing industries, and led development and transfer to manufacturing of a low-temperature front-contact metallization process for Twin Creek's ultra-thin, low-cost, crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells out of Senatobia, Mississippi. Khan received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010 and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in Engineering and Public Policy in 2017. His dissertation focused on the policy challenges facing the semiconductor industry as it approached the end of Moore’s Law in funding and finding a successor to silicon CMOS.
Joel Predd
Executive Technical Director, National Network for Critical Technology Assessment
Mengying (Mandy) Wu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bio
Mandy obtained her doctoral degree in Social and Engineering Systems at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Her research interest lies in environmental economics and public bureaucracy, with a special focus on policy design and institutional management of air pollution and climate change mitigation. Her research seeks to comprehend the factors influencing technological investments and business choices in the international (and particularly Chinese) energy industry, as well as the organizational difficulties that policymakers have when putting sustainability changes into practice.