Connie Kasari, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Psychiatry. Since 1990, she has been on the faculty at UCLA where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, and has been the primary advisor to more than 80 Ph.D. students. She is a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment at UCLA. Her research aims to develop novel, evidence-tested interventions implemented in community settings. Recent projects include targeted treatments for early social communication development in infants at a high likelihood of autism, toddlers and preschoolers with autism, and peer relationships for school-aged children with autism. She leads several large multi-site studies focused on personalized interventions for minimally verbal school-aged children with ASD and limited-language toddlers and preschoolers with ASD, and studies aimed at improving implementation strategies to increase equity in access to interventions for low-income, minority children with ASD. She is on the science advisory board of the Autism Speaks Foundation, and regularly presents to both academic and practitioner audiences locally, nationally, and internationally.