Cultivating Cross-Culture Collaborations: Opportunities, Challenges, and Examples (an earlier program referred to this session as The Wisdom of Gandalf) SEAIP. 2025 February 23. 9 am to 10:30 am
Introduction
Each panelist comments on charge (no more than five minutes)
Discussion with questions from the audience
Goal of the Session
Identify approaches and practices to enhance cross-cultural collaborations.
Note:
The next session is a discussion on SEAIP’s future. Ideas raised in this session might provoke recommendations in the next. This can also inform the panel session on February 24, “The Era of Impact-based Collaborative Research.”
Charge to PanelEach panelist will be invited to address the first two points (and more if they’d like):
Describe your experience or involvement in cross-cultural collaborations or projects.
What experience-based advice can you give the audience for new or existing cross-cultural collaborations to strengthen the activities? What are the challenges and opportunities?
Bonus 1: What is your favorite Gandalf quote (and how it applies to their experience)?
Bonus 2: Are there similar icons as Gandalf in your culture (literatures/tales/etc.)? Today?
Panelists
Hen-Biau King, former Director General, Taiwan Forest Research Institute, Taiwan
Jose Fortes, Professor, University of Florida, USA
Beth Plale, Michael A and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering, Indiana University, USA
Shinji Shimojo, Professor, Aomori University, and President, Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC), Japan
Uwe Wössner, Head, Visualization Department, High Performance Computing Center, U Stuttgart, Germany
Mohd Zamir Pakhuruddin, Associate Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Ummi Azizah Rachmawati, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology, Universitas YARSI, Indonesia
Hui Ping Tsai, Associate Professor, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, YARSI University, Jakarta, Indonesia. My research interests are e-Health, Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing.
I am on the faculty of the ECE Department of the U. of Florida. I work on distributed computing, cyberinfrastructure and biodiversity informatics. I am the Founding Chair of the CENTRA Steering Committee.
