in 2015 she was awarded the firm's william barkley parsons fellowship for developing a guide titled "iving toward driverless, a guide for government agencies" regarding how locke cole and regional governments should respond to autonomous vehicles in the short, medium, and in the long term. in addition lauren maintains the blog "driving toward driverless." that's got to be a full-time job. and has presented on this topic at more than 30 industry conferences. she recently did a ted x talk and that's been published in "forbes," "new york times," and the "chicago tribune" among others. lauren has a master's degree in research and industrial engineering and a bachelor's degree in the same discipline from cornell university. so we've placed our two engineers in the center of our panel. and the fun fact about lauren is, well, lauren, congratulations, just got married a few weeks ago. and she was on a mission to get a driverless vehicle at her wedding. emily was recently engaged. emily, i think you're going to have to could the same. she'll get there by lyft. and despite having multiple compa