Dr. Davis's research is broadly in applied ethics, with a current focus on ethical issues surrounding the use of big data technologies by institutions that are typically thought to have justified claims to the use of force—in particular, the criminal justice system, police departments, and the military. His research explores a range of moral challenges posed by the increasing use of algorithms by these institutions, such as the impact on trust and institutional legitimacy, whether specific actors are morally justified in relying on these systems within these institutional structures, and what factors can and should be incorporated into these predictive systems.

Anna Abraham, Ph.D. is the E. Paul Torrance Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and the Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. She is the Program Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Creativity and Innovation (ICCI). She also serves as a Neuroscience faculty member of the Integrated Life Sciences Program (ILS) and is an affiliate of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR). She leads the Creativity and Imagination Lab at UGA.

Dr. Abraham’s educational and professional training has been within the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience. She has worked across a diverse range of academic institutions and departments the world over, all of which have informed her multidisciplinary focus. She investigates the psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying creativity and other aspects of the human imagination, including the reality-fiction distinction, mental time travel, social and self-referential cognition, and mental state reasoning. She has penned numerous publications including the book, The Neuroscience of Creativity (2018, Cambridge University Press), and the multidisciplinary edited volume, The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (2020). She is the Founding Editor of an innovative short book series, the Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination.

Dr. Jooyoung Kim is a Professor of Advertising in Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He is also the Executive Director of the Business and Public Communication Fellows Program in cooperation with Cox International Center for Mass Communication Training and Research. Dr. Kim’s research seeks to advance the scientific knowledge on understanding the interactions between advertising and consumers across the media platforms, including emerging digital media such as the metaverse. His research activities include numerous conference presentations, invited speeches at academic and business venues, and many publications in leading advertising journals such as the Journal of Advertising and the International Journal of Advertising. He was the Secretary of the American Academy of Advertising in 2021-2022 and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interactive Advertising.