MDPI World Development Information Day 2026 Webinar

University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA;Dr. Prasanthi Sreekumari is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Accreditation Coordinator at the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM), where she also holds the Kitty Degree Endowed Professorship in Computer Science. Her areas of expertise include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, and computer networking. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Pusan National University in South Korea and has extensive experience in teaching, research, curriculum development, accreditation, and student mentoring. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences, and she has led externally funded initiatives in cybersecurity and AI education. Dr. Sreekumari is also actively involved in mentoring students in research, innovation, and technology competitions and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Shreveport Section in IEEE Region 5.

Kansas State University, USA;Jacob Groshek (Ph.D., Indiana University) is the endowed Ross Beach Chair of Emerging Media at Kansas State University and a Research Scientist with the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also the founding Executive Director of the Reset Sports Culture and Media Initiative, a nonprofit advancing youth sports through research, education, and applied tools to improve youth sports culture through media, and mitigate risks such as youth sports gambling. Previously, Groshek held faculty and research appointments at Boston University, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Melbourne in Australia, Iowa State University, the Toulouse School of Economics in France, and he currently is a faculty affiliate at the University of Warsaw in Poland and the Roskilde University in Denmark. His work spans politics, sport, media, technology, artificial intelligence, misinformation, and public health, with a particular focus on how communication systems shape culture, behavior, and decision making.