Theme: TEDxRiceU Annual Conference: Challenging Assumption

Looking to broaden your horizons by learning from the best? Tedx@Rice’s Spring 2022 Salon theme is CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS. Come and listen to experts in their fields that will speak about breaking out of comfort zones and creating revolutionary innovations or ideas!

Our speakers are Matthew Brake, Eileen Dong, Jae Chung, and Carlos Jimenez. During this one event, they will cover a diverse range of topics: physics, engineering, gender-based violence, cultural stigmas, economics, business, architecture, and design.

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Carlos Jimenez

Professor of Architecture at the Rice School of Architecture

Carlos Jiménez teaches both undergraduate and graduate studios and a seminar on architecture, film, literature, and music case studies. He began his teaching career at Rice as a visiting critic in 1987 and as full time faculty in 1997. He was a long-term jury member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2001-2011). The work of Carlos Jiménez Studio has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Principal built works include the Houston Fine Art Press, the Central Administration / Junior School Building for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Eileen Dong

Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Ms Texas, Keynote Speaker, Human Rights Activist, Coach, and Expert

Eileen had attained the life many girls dreamed about. Born in Shanghai to a well-educated family, she received her own college education and found a great job. Years later, she was in America all alone, battered and broken, stuck in an abusive relationship. However, Eileen took her trauma and transformed it into action. She broke her silence and became a voice for the voiceless. To date, she has helped over 11,000 people in the United States and internationally.

Jae Chung

Assistant Professor in Marketing; Consumer Psychologist

Jaeyeon (Jae) Chung is an assistant professor of marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. Jaeyeon’s research interest includes ownership, the role of self-identity, digital marketing and new technologies, and time perception in the context of consumer behavior. Her most recent research focuses on behavioral downstream consequences of possessions on consumer performances. Some of Jaeyeon’s ongoing research examines virtual reality and the consumer satiation, the impact of augmented reality on consumer-brand connection, perception of found (windfall) time, news consumption on social news channels (Reddit) and the sharing economy (Airbnb). She runs controlled lab experiments by designing surveys, runs field experiments to test ecological validity of theories and shares her insights with marketers.

Matthew Brake

Assistant Professor at Rice University

Brake has spent the last ten years of his career trying to elucidate the mechanisms of how friction dissipates energy in large structures. Now Brake is a subject matter expert, in addition to his job at Rice University, for various entities including NASA to help them better understand and incorporate friction into their models.