Workshop presenters

Meet the people leading the session.

This page introduces the workshop presenters and reserves space for final headshots, credentials, and polished bios. Once you provide the photos and any preferred wording, these profiles can be finalized without changing the page structure.

University of Idaho

Barrie Robison

Workshop presenter

Credentials

Professor of Biology, Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences, and Co-PI on the AI4RA NSF project.

Brief bio

Barrie Robison is a Professor of Biology at the University of Idaho and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences. He leads teams working across software development, databases, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, genomics, bioinformatics, web and mobile app development, and high-performance computing. He has been an active researcher at the University of Idaho for more than 20 years and is actively engaged in deploying generative AI in higher education and research administration contexts.

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University of Idaho

Nate Layman

Workshop presenter

Credentials

Credentials and preferred title to be added.

Brief bio

Nate Layman is presenting as part of the University of Idaho team contributing examples, tools, and workshop framing for the session. Final bio copy will be added here once you provide it.

Southern Utah University

Nathan Wiggins

Workshop presenter

Credentials

Data Scientist, Southern Utah University.

Brief bio

Nathan Wiggins is the Data Scientist for the Sponsored Programs, Agreements, Research, and Contracts (SPARC) office at Southern Utah University (SUU). He specializes in developing advanced spreadsheet systems, assisting with artificial intelligence adoption, and business-process optimization through operations research. Nathan serves as a member of the REACH Community Advisory Board.