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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 257-263
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Army Research Laboratory to evaluate ballistic protective helmets and other biomechanically based injury risk functions. In recent years Dr.
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Dr. Budinger has authored numerous papers on specific research topics including biomedical electronics, aging and cardiovascular physiology, bioastronautics, image processing and reconstruction, nuclear magnetic resonance, positron emission tomography, reconstruction tomography, and inverse problem mathematics.
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Gupta is currently a Regents professor in the Department of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Shock Physics at Washington State University. He has been studying condensed matter response to shock wave and high pressure loading since 1970, with particular emphasis on examination and understanding of microscopic processes, and has supervised the work of over 90 graduate students and research associates since joining the Washington State University in 1981.
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He conducted research on radar analysis and microwave atmospheric propagation while employed as a research physicist at the Naval Avionics Facility and was on the research staff in quantum electronics at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conducting research in the development of new solid-state lasers and their application as spectroscopic LIDAR probes of the atmosphere. In 1987, he joined the Physics faculty at the University of South Florida and is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric LIDAR and Laser Communication Studies and past technical director of the Technology Deployment Center, working on technology transfer for the university and regional industries.
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Mr. Prather's experience includes planning and conducting experiments to study the effectiveness of protective materials; identifying damage caused by transient deformation of protective materials and developing counteractive measures; assessing the effectiveness of personnel protection devices in response to new threats; and evaluating the ability of new weapons systems and ammunition to incapacitate.
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His current interests are to use the atomic force microscope to investigate the atomistics of crack growth in glasses and ceramic materials with the objective of learning more about the crack growth process and its relation to the microstructure of glass. At the National Bureau of Standards, now NIST Dr.
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, the NAS Panel on Methodological Improvement to the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Agent Risk Analysis (2006-2008) , and the NAS Panel on the Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle (2002-2003)
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