Matthew Miscikowski and Patrick Martin

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Majors: Biology, Psychology Minors: Chemistry, Neuroscience School Affiliations: H-SC Journal of the Sciences, The Tiger Newspaper, Society for Neuroscience, Alpha Chi Sigma, Society for Collegiate Journalism, Eta Sigma Phi, Sigma Xi, Psi Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa Research Experience: I have spent my time at H-SC studying a variety of biological topics ranging from cancer genetics to neurobiology. Among my more interesting experiences was presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience in 2023. In the Summer of 2025 I also worked at the University of Kentucky for two months as a visiting undergraduate in the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center. My proudest achievement over my four years at the college is quite likely the 2025 Journal of the Sciences of which I was the Editor-in-chief. I work diligently to attain that same quality as editor-in-chief of the 2026 edition as well.

Dr. Patrick Martin is a roboticist who develops the algorithms, architectures and systems that support human-robot collaboration in the performing arts. Patrick has 20 years of experience across academic, industrial, and government roles. He is currently an Assistant Professor in University of Richmond's Department of Computer Science and held prior academic appointments at Virginia Commonwealth University, and York College of Pennsylvania. He was also a research scientist and engineer at BAE Systems, MITRE Corporation, and Intelligent Automation, Inc. (now Blue Halo). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Vice Chair of the IEEE Robot Task Representation standard working group. Patrick holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Hampden-Sydney College.

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