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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of
Panel Members and Staff
VIJAY NAIR (Chair) is Donald A. Darling professor of statistics and pro-
fessor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michi -
gan. His past experience includes 15 years as a research scientist at Bell
Laboratories. He has a broad range of interests in statistical methodology
and applications, especially in engineering statistics. He is president-elect
of the International Statistical Institute and president of the International
Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. He is a senior fellow of the
Michigan Society of Fellows and a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Quality, the Ameri-
can Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He
is a former editor of Technometrics and the International Statistical Review.
He has also served as chair of the board of trustees of the National Insti -
tute of Statistical Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University
of California, Berkeley.
CHARLES E. (PETE) ADOLPH is an independent consultant with sev-
eral decades of experience in testing and evaluation and acquisition
management. He began his career with General Dynamics Convair as a
flight test engineer at Edwards Air Force Base; served as a U.S. Air Force
officer; held a variety of civilian engineering and systems acquisition,
technical, and management positions with the Air Force; and served as
the technical director, the senior civilian position at the Air Force Flight
Test Center. He also held several positions in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense, including director of test and evaluation in the Office of
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the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. He also
held senior management positions with Science Applications Interna -
tional Corporation. He received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from
St. Louis University, an M.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineer-
ing from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in systems manage -
ment from the University of Southern California.
W. PETER CHERRY recently retired from his position as chief analyst
at Science Applications International Corporation, where his research
interests included the design, development, and test and evaluation of
large-scale systems with emphasis on network centricity. He has focused
on the development and application of operations research in the national
security domain, primarily in the field of land combat. He contributed
to the development and fielding of most of the major systems currently
employed by the Army, ranging from the Patriot Missile System to the
Apache helicopter, as well as the command, control, and intelligence sys -
tems currently in use. In addition, he contributed to the creation of the
Army’s Manpower Personnel and Human Factors and Training Program
and to the Army’s Embedded Training Initiative. He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering. He has a B.A. from the University
of New Brunswick and an M.A. from the University of Toronto, both in
mathematics. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial and opera-
tions engineering from the University of Michigan.
JOHN D. CHRISTIE is senior fellow at the Logistics Management Insti-
tute. He has an extensive background in U.S. Department of Defense
acquisition policy, program analysis, and resource allocation, having
served as director of acquisition policy and program integration for the
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. In that position,
he prepared a comprehensive revision of all defense acquisition policies
and procedures, resulting in the cancellation and consolidation of 500
prior separate issuances. He also prepared comprehensive acquisition
program alternatives for the secretary of defense that resulted in bud-
get reductions of billions of dollars. He has S.B., S.M., E.M.E., and Sc.D.
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in mechanical
engineering.
THOMAS P. CHRISTIE, an independent consultant, last served as the
director of operational test and evaluation for the U.S. Department of
Defense (DOD). In that position, he advised and consulted with the sec -
retary of defense and senior assistants in setting DOD policy and pro-
cedures for the testing of new weapon systems, weapons support sys-
tems, equipment, and munitions. In his career at DOD, he also served as
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director of program integration for the Office of the Under Secretary for
Acquisitions and Technology and in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense and in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for General Purpose Programs. Previously, he served as director of the
weapon system analysis division at the Air Force Armament Laboratory
at Eglin Air Force Base. In addition to his career at DOD, he worked on
DOD weapons testing at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He holds
a B.S. in mathematics from Spring Hill College and an M.S. in applied
mathematics from New York University.
MICHAEL L. COHEN (Study Director) is a senior program officer for
the Committee on National Statistics where he directs studies involv -
ing statistical methodology, in particular, on defense system testing and
decennial census methodology. He has also recently worked on the pre -
vention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials and data mining
applied to counterterrorism. Formerly, he was a mathematical statistician
at the Energy Information Administration, an assistant professor in the
School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, and a visiting
lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Princeton University. He is
a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has a B.S. in math-
ematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in
statistics from Stanford University.
A. BLANTON GODFREY is dean and Joseph D. Moore professor of tex-
tile and apparel technology and management at the College of Textiles,
North Carolina State University. His research interests include business
management and new product development, quality and productivity
management, strategic planning and deployment, experimental design,
reliability, data analysis, and applied statistics. Previously, he was chair
and chief executive officer of the Juran Institute, Inc., a management
consulting, research, and training organization focused on quality man -
agement. He previously also served as head of the Quality Theory and
Technology Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is a fellow of the
American Statistical Association and of the American Society for Quality
and an elected member of Sigma Xi. He received a B.S. in physics from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an M.S. and a
Ph.D. in statistics from Florida State University.
RAJ KAWLRA is director of dimensional management and strategies for
manufacturing engineering at the Chrysler Group, LLC. His previous
positions at Chrysler included director of manufacturing quality, with
responsibility for quality systems, procedures, and processes, including
vehicle assembly, powertrain, and stamping facilities. His prior work at
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General Motors (GM) included serving as an adviser to the company’s
lean manufacturing core planning team and as the engineering group
manager for the math-based quality systems at the GM Tech Center.
His primary focus has been on the development of new technologies to
improve quality and throughput. He received a B.S. in mechanical engi-
neering from Banaras Hindu University in India; an M.S. in mechanical
engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; an M.S. in indus-
trial engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and
a Ph.D. in industrial and operations engineering from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
JOHN E. ROLPH is professor of statistics at the Marshall School of Busi-
ness of the University of Southern California, where he also holds appoint-
ments in the mathematics department and the law school. Previously, he
was a statistician at the RAND Corporation and head of the statistical
research and consulting group. His areas of expertise include statistics
and public policy and empirical Bayes estimation. He is an elected mem -
ber of the International Statistical Institute, a fellow of the American Sta -
tistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and
a lifetime national associate of the National Academies. He is a past editor
of CHANCE magazine and has served in many other editorial capacities.
He has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
ELAINE WEYUKER is a principal technical staff member at AT&T Lab-
oratories. Previously, she was a professor of computer science at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Her
research interests are in software engineering, particularly software test -
ing and reliability and software metrics. In each of the past 6 years, the
Journal of Systems and Software has rated her as one of the top five software
engineering researchers in the world. She is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers and of the Association of Computing Machinery.
She received an M.S.E. from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in computer science from
Rutgers University.
MARION L. WILLIAMS is an adjunct research staff member at the Insti-
tute for Defense Analyses. Prior to this position, he served as chief scien -
tist and technical director of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation
Center. He previously served as an aerodynamicist at Sandia National
Laboratories and as an adjunct professor in the electrical engineering
department at the University of New Mexico. He has been a member of
numerous scientific panels, including the Defense Science Board study
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on developmental test and evaluation and the Air Force Scientific Advi -
sory Board studies on test and evaluation, modeling and simulation, and
electronic warfare. Among his many awards are the Vance Wanner Award
from the Military Operations Research Society, the Allan Matthews Award
from the International Test and Evaluation Association, and the Air Force
Association citation of honor. He received a B.S. in aeronautical engineer-
ing from Texas A&M University, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from
the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and
management (operations research) from Oklahoma State University.
ALYSON G. WILSON is a research staff member at the Science and
Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses in
Washington, DC. Previously, she was with the Department of Statistics
at Iowa State University, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
and she was a biomedical researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
She also served as a senior statistician and operations research analyst
with Cowboy Programming Resources, where she planned, executed,
and analyzed U.S. Army air defense artillery operational evaluations.
Her research interests include reliability and information combination in
scientific problems, Bayesian methods, and the application of statistics to
problems in defense and national security. She has served on numerous
national panels, including the Sandia National Laboratories’ Predictive
Engineering Science Panel. She is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association. She holds a B.A. in mathematical sciences from Rice Univer-
sity, an M.S. in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in
statistics from Duke University.
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