Dr. Dani Kirsch is the Research Data Services Librarian at the Oklahoma State University Libraries, where she coordinates several workshop series and provides research data management and sharing consultations, resources, and support to OSU researchers. She is the coordinator of the OSU Carpentries program and a certified Carpentries instructor. She has also been serving as a CADRE co-chair since the fall of 2023.

Patrice-Andre (Max) Prud’homme, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of Digital Curation at the Oklahoma State University Library. He currently provides leadership and management in the areas of digital curation, preservation, and discovery of digital resources, incorporating the application of computational methods and resources to augment the value of digital archival materials.

Clarke Iakovakis is the Scholarly Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University. He provides support to the OSU community in copyright, publishing, open access, and researcher profiles, and is liaison to the History and Political Science departments. He has been a Certified Carpentries Instructor since 2019.

Simon Ringsmuth is a Digital Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University’s Edmon Low Library. He is responsible for maintaining the Library’s suite of digital tools and electronic resources including the Library catalog, the Open Journal Systems publishing platform, EZproxy for off-campus access, and more. He serves on several statewide committees related to librarianship and higher education, and recently gave a presentation about his use of short, targeted video tutorials for patron education a national conference in Rhode Island.

Dr. Tilanka Chandrasekera is the Christine Salmon Endowed Professor, Associate Department Head in the Department of Design and Merchandising, and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab at Oklahoma State University. A trained architect and expert in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in design, his research explores immersive technologies, digital prototyping, and culturally responsive spatial design.  Dr. Chandrasekara's work spans diverse domains from STEM education for underrepresented groups to AI-driven spatial cognition.