Dr. Yohan Lee

Dr. Yohan Lee has led advanced technology organizations for over 20 years in commercial industry, education, and government. He has been privileged to serve as a civil scientist (U.S. National Institutes of Health), Principal Investigator (Google AI), Chief Science Officer (Riiid Labs, Inc.), and CEO (Scaled Entelechy, Inc). His undergraduate and doctoral studies were at UCLA in neuroscience and genomics with a focus on the neurological basis of learning and memory in addition to precision medicine. His doctoral work centered on large scale genomic data for health and distributed computing. In his corporate role, Dr. Lee has led research and business units in industry, public-private partnerships, the federal government, and international academic consortia for enterprise initiatives with Fortune 50 corporations. Most recently, Dr. Lee founded the Silicon Valley AI startup ‘Scaled Entelechy, Inc.’ which was recognized by the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative office for its AI applications to upskill the workforce in AI. Dr. Lee joins Biola University as the Promod and Doris Haque Endowed Chair of Technology and Associate Dean for the School of Science Technology and Health (SSTH). His hopes for the position are to drive the vision of SSTH to be identified among the world’s foremost Christ-centered STEM and health schools.

Dr. Aisha Chen

Aisha Chen, PhD, was born and raised in Pennsylvania where she received her BS in Applied Mathematics. She then moved to Claremont, California where she earned her MS at Claremont Graduate University. She moved to Long Beach to pursue a joint PhD at California State University and Claremont Graduate University.

Aisha focuses her research on signal processing and machine learning related to Gait and Posture. She is passionate about assisting in the diagnostic and rehabilitation processes by evaluating data corresponding to movement. She has presented at conferences such as Biomedical Engineering Society and Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society. She also has a published paper in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics.

Finney Premkumar

Finney Premkumar is the Founder and President of Truth Matters International, a ministry that is focused on equipping the church and engaging the academy. Finney has spoken at numerous academic conferences and delivered lectures at the Academy of Sciences in Poland and the Czech Republic. He was also privileged to be a featured speaker at UNESCO in Belgium. He presented academic papers for 7 consecutive years at Oxford University (Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion) at the invitation of Professor Alister McGrath. Finney regularly addresses issues in philosophy, theology, science, ethics and technology and has spoken at various universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley and Notre Dame, among others. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Birmingham (UK), focusing on the realism/anti-realism debate concerning scientific theories.

Dr. Al Erisman

After earning his PhD in applied mathematics at Iowa State University, Al Erisman spent 32 years at The Boeing Company, starting as a research mathematician. In his last decade there, he was Director of Technology, where he led a 250-person research staff exploring innovation paths for the company. He participated in committees on science and mathematics including the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, and National Institute for Standards and Technology. He is the co-founder of Ethix magazine, exploring business ethics in a technological age. After retiring from Boeing in 2001, he taught in the Business School at Seattle Pacific University until 2017.

Al is currently a writer, speaker, founding board member for KIROS and the Theology of Work Project (chair). He is a senior Fellow for both the Center for Faithful Business at Seattle Pacific University and the Institute for Marketplace Transformation. Since 2015, he has authored or co- authored numerous books including The Accidental Executive: Lessons on Business, Faith, and Calling from the Life of Joseph (Hendrickson, 2015); The ServiceMaster Story: Navigating Tension between People and Profit (Hendrickson, 2020); and Living with Purpose in a Polarizing World: Guidance from Biblical Narratives (with co-author Randy Pope, Hendrickson, 2024).

Al has been at Westminster Chapel in Bellevue WA since 1981 where he and his wife Nancy both served until her passing in June 2024. They have three grown children and seven grandchildren.

Dr. Kutter Callaway

Kutter Callaway is the William K. Brehm Chair of Worship, Theology, and the Arts, as well as associate dean of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies, and associate professor of psychology. He is actively engaged in writing and speaking on the interaction between theology and culture—particularly contemporary media and technology—in both academic and popular forums. Dr. Callaway holds two PhDs, one in theology and the second in psychological science, both from Fuller. Recent books include Theology for Psychology and Counseling: An Invitation to Holistic Christian Practice (2022), and Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era: Becoming Digital Neighbors (2020).

Benny Xian

Benny Xian is the founder of Project AI+C. He is a first-generation college graduate and a first-generation immigrant. From low tech to high tech, Benny grew up in a family-owned super low tech business and ended up working with some of the smartest minds in deep technology. It is the contrast between the low tech world (where human inefficiency is considered a feature) and the high tech world (where any inefficiency is considered a bug) which got him to think about humanity (full of inefficiency but warm) and machines (highly efficient but cold). As technology tends to separate us, it has now become his calling to help bring more human to tech. Benny is passionate about building innovative technology ventures from hardware, software, advanced/predictive analytics (AI), consumer, to enterprise. Many of which focused on disruptive innovations coined by Professor Clayton Christensen at Harvard. Previously, he has played key roles from product engineering (Actel), product (Transmeta IPO: TMTA), to operations (Midori Linux developed by Linus Torvalds), to co-founding and investing (BeyondCore – acquired by SalesForce), to creating Voyadi and Project AI+C. After more than ten thousand hours of building technology companies, he recognizes technology by itself isn’t enough in the era of AI. Compassion, as it turns out, is absolutely essential as machines are becoming more human-like.

He graduated from Stanford University with a MS in electrical engineering and a BSEE with high honors from University of Florida. He enjoys contributing to the local community, whether it is mentoring the next generation entrepreneurs, advising technology startups, interviewing high school students applying to Stanford, or giving times to help others in the community. He believes in thriving together - we thrive by helping others to thrive.

Dr. Richard Doyle

Dr. Richard J. Doyle recently retired from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the role of Program Manager for Information and Data Science. He continues to do technical consulting. His JPL career arc was focused on applying computer science to space missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with specialization in Artificial Intelligence. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He also edited the “AI in Space” department of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine and served as an Executive Council member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Richard is now pursuing a second career as a science fiction author. He has served at Pasadena Covenant Church as a Trustee, where he also chairs a Book Club. His wife Joanne is often active for the church in Theater Arts and Decoration, and their sons Ryan and Brennan perform regularly in the Worship Band. Joanne also chairs the Caltech Playreaders group.

David Beerer

David Beerer is an aerospace engineer working on liquid rocket propulsion and air-breathing engines. He received his BS, MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Irvine. His PhD dissertation was on combustion dynamics and chemistry inside gas turbine engines. As a part of an effort to improve flight safety and reliability, he is currently researching ways that AI can be used to better assess engine performance from ground and flight testing in order to identify potential faults prior to catastrophic failures.