John Sall

Founder and Chairman, JMP
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, SAS

John Sall heads JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS, which creates interactive and highly visual statistical discovery software designed for scientists and engineers. As a co-founder of SAS, he designed, developed and documented many of its earliest analytical procedures. Sall is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Reflecting his passion for global conservation and environmental issues, he served on a variety of boards, including the World Wildlife Fund, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and The Nature Conservancy. Sall is a former trustee of North Carolina State University.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D., is a biologist and neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University, where she is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences (and a big fan of JMP!). Her research focuses on what different brains are made of; what that matters in terms of cognition, energy cost, and longevity; and how the human brain is remarkable, but not special, in its makeup. She is the author of The Human Advantage (MIT Press, 2016), in which she tells the story of her discoveries on how many neurons different species have—and how the number of neurons in the cerebral cortex of humans is the largest of them all, thanks to the calories amassed with a very early technology developed by our ancestors: cooking. She spoke at TEDGlobal 2013 and TEDxNashville 2018 and is an avid communicator of science to the general public.

Hannah Fry

Professor in the Mathematics of Cities

Professor Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL where she studies patterns in human behaviour. Her research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism. She is a mathematician, a best-selling author, an award winning science presenter and the host of numerous popular podcasts and television shows.

Her critically acclaimed BBC documentaries include Horizon: Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now, Britain’s Greatest Invention, City in the Sky (BBC Two), Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths, The Joy of Winning, The Joy of Data, Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic and Calculating Ada (BBC Four). She also co-presents It’s A Numbers Game (BT Sport), The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry (BBC Radio 4) and The Maths of Life with Lauren Laverne (BBC Radio 6).

Hannah is the author of Hello World , The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas and The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation.