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Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, was raised and educated in Warsaw, Poland.  In addition to his position at The University of Texas, Prof. Priebe holds the title of Professor of Chemistry in the Republic of Poland.
     
Prof. Priebe’s research is focused on the chemistry and biology of cancer and the rational design and preclinical development of new treatments for cancer and more recently infectious diseases. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and his work has led to over 60 patents and to numerous licenses by pharmaceutical companies. Prof. Priebe is the founder/founding scientist of 7 biotechnological companies. Four companies after successful IPOs were listed on NASDAQ.  He served on the scientific advisory board of several pharmaceutical companies.

Prof. Priebe is actively involved in facilitating and increasing scientific, cultural, and business exchanges between Poland and United States and is currently involved in several active collaborations with Polish researchers at several different scientific institutions in Poland. Over 40 researchers from Poland were trained and worked in his laboratory.    

He is a member of several national and international societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Association of Cancer Research, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and the American Chemical Society, where he has held various positions that include Chairman and Counselor of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry.
  
In addition to his position at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson, Prof. Priebe holds the title of Professor of Chemistry in the Republic of Poland.  This title was awarded in 2004 in recognition of his seminal contributions to the field of Chemistry and was presented by the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski.  Prof. Priebe’s honors and awards include The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Dean’s Excellence Award in 1995, the Honorary Membership of The Sociedad Argentina de Investigaciones en Quimica Organica (SAIQQ) in 1999, and Sendzimir’s Gold Medal from the Association of Polish Inventors in 2005.  In 2007, he received the Professor Stanislaw Biniecki Memorial Medal to recognize his achievements in the area of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacy. Notably, Prof. Priebe is the winner of the 2009 Wolfrom Award, presented annually by the American Chemical Society, Division of Carbohydrate Sciences.  

In 2013, Prof. Priebe received two prestigious awards: the Polish Academy of Sciences Medal for achievements for Polish and World Science and the Order of Polonia Restituta (Officer's Cross Class) awarded by the President of Poland for extraordinary and distinguished service. 

In 2015, Prof. Priebe has been appointed by the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, to the National Development Council (Narodowa Rada Rozwoju). He also received the "Outstanding Polish Scientist” award (Wybitny Polak) from Fundacja Polskiego Godła Promocyjnego-Teraz Polska in the same year.
     
Prof. Priebe was the organizer and chairman of numerous national or international conferences, including “The First Polish-American Symposium: Strategic Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development in Academia,” Krakow, November, 2006.  He was invited as an expert to participate in “The Second U.S. - Poland Joint Science and Technology Committee Meeting” (JCM2) in May, 2010 — organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the US Department of State. 
    
Through his activity and his inspiration the Sister Institution Agreement was formed on July 2, 2012 at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education between Consortium of Polish Research and Clinical Institutions and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer.  

In addition to his professional activities, he also served as a member of the Houston Mayor’s International Affairs & Development Council.  In 2011, Prof. Priebe was elected the President of the Warsaw University Alumni Association and is current President of the American Friends of Warsaw University Foundation. Since 2017, he is also a Board Member of the Polish American Chamber of Commerce in Texas, a non-profit organization serving to connect and facilitate business interests between Poland and USA.

Prof. Priebe and his wife Dr. Teresa Szwarocka-Priebe reside in Houston, Texas and have two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth, and a son, Christopher.  Currently, Prof. Priebe is the Trustee of the Kosciuszko Foundation and the President of the Texas Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation (TCKF). His wife Teresa is also a very active member of the TCKF directly involved in managing and organizing all of TCKF’s major events.

I am an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. I study humans in a digital environment using cutting-edge computational methods, AI and Big Data. I have published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Machine Learning, Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, that have been cited over 11,000 times. My research inspired a cover of The Economist, a 2014 theatre play “Privacy”, multiple TED talks, a video game, and was discussed in thousands of books, press articles, podcasts, and documentaries. 
I was behind the first press article warning against Cambridge Analytica, research warning against the privacy risks that they have exploited, and research examining the efficiency of the methods they used. You can learn more about the Cambridge Analytica scandal in Steven Levy's book Facebook: The Inside Story. 
I hold a doctorate in psychology from the University of Cambridge and master's degrees in psychometrics and in social psychology. I was the Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, a researcher at Microsoft Research, and a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford's Computer Science Department.