Draft:Zachary Axel

Zachary Axel is the creator and founder of the Turing Award Winner Speaker Series at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Turing Award Winner Speaker Series was the first of its kind speaker event where Turing award winners and many other famous scientists came together in 2024 to speak to university students on Zoom; these students attended these sessions from all over the world. The Turing Award Winner Speaker Series was conceived by Georgia Tech Masters in Computer Science students Zachary Axel and Parsa Khazaeepoul, and supported by Emeritus Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Dr. Zvi Galil, as well as the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup.

The speaker series included lectures from many of the most famous and distinguished computer scientists including Dr. Moshe Vardi, Dr. Leslie Lamport(Turing award winner), Dr. Barbara Liskov(Turing Award Winner), Dr. Nir Shavit, Dr. Jeffrey Ullman(Turing Award Winner), Dr. Assaf Shuster, Dr. Jack Dongarra(Turing Award Winner), Dr. Edward Feigenbaum(Turing Award Winner), Dr. Nachum Dershowitz, and Dr. Anthony Leggett(Nobel Prize Winner in Physics).