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Tim Draelos has been at Sandia for over 32 years and received his Ph.D. at UNM in 1998, focusing on constructive neural networks. He has spent the last ten years conducting deep learning R&D, including work on seismic signal detection, phase identification, and event discrimination. He chaired special sessions on Machine Learning in Seismology at the 2016 and 2017 Seismological Society of America annual meetings and 2017 American Geophysical Union fall meeting. He has taught classes on machine and deep learning and was the founder and general chair of the 1st three Sandia Machine Learning and Deep Learning Workshops, starting in 2017. He has published papers in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Seismological Research Letters, and various machine learning conferences.

Dr. Nancy Brodsky is the Manager of the Geochemistry Department at Sandia National Laboratories and Sandia’s lead for the Fossil Energy Clean Coal and Carbon Management subprogram. She received her PhD in Geophysics from the University of Colorado, and worked for industry (RE/SPEC Inc., Rapid City SD) as a project lead and geomechanics laboratory manager, primarily supporting national nuclear waste isolation programs. She joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1995 to support the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan (WIPP), Yucca Mountain, and other geoscience programs. In 2003 she joined the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), a program sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. She worked with the Infrastructure Complexity R&D Group and the NISAC Fast Analysis and Simulation Team (FAST), serving as the Sandia lead for FAST and as the Sandia NISAC Deputy Project Lead. She has extensive experience working in industry and in government performing and supervising technical work in regulatory environments such as the Yucca Mountain and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant projects, as well as work for the Food and Drug Administration. She was part of a team recognized by the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics (under the auspices of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences) with an Applied Research Award for Significant Original Contribution (1999). In 2017 she became the manager of the geochemistry department.