Participants
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 22–24, 2005
Stuart Adler
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Apoorv Agarwal
EVA Engine PMT Leader
Ford Motor Company
Carina Maria Alles
Engineering Consultant
DuPont
Luis A. Nunes Amaral
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Adjo Amekudzi
Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Alyssa Apsel
Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
Treena Arinzeh
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Patrick Barge
Executive Director of Engineering
Cummins Inc./Fleetguard
Peter Belhumeur
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
Serge Belongie
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
John Bettler
Senior Engineer
Com Edison
Sujata Bhatia
Medical Research Scientist
DuPont Central Research & Development
Brian Blake
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
Tracy Camp
Associate Professor
Department of Math and Computer Sciences
Colorado School of Mines
Kurt Casby
Capacitor Development Engineering Manager
Energy and Components Center
Medtronic
Sila Çetinkaya
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University
Jason Chen
Project Leader/Senior Staff Engineer
Alcoa Technical Center
Trishul Chilimbi
Researcher
Runtime Analysis and Design
Microsoft Research
Allan Connolly
General Manager
Power Generation Systems Engineering
GE Energy
Robert Crane
Section Head, Catalyst Manufacturing
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Scott Craver
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Binghamton University
Mary Crawford
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
Kristin Culler
Flight Controls Analysis Engineer
Boeing Space & Communications
Boeing Company
Juan de Bedout
Manager, Electric Power and Propulsion Systems Lab
GE Global Research
Pablo Debenedetti
Class of 1950 Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
Kristian Debus
Senior Engineering Specialist
Bechtel National, Inc.
Michael Deem
John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Rice University
Marina Despotopoulou
Senior Research Engineer
Arkema, Inc.
Ram Devanathan
Senior Research Scientist
Fundamental Science Doctorate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David Doman
Senior Aerospace Engineer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Alexander Driskill-Smith
Advisory Engineer/Scientist
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Marija Drndic
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Richard Elander
Senior Engineer II
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bogdan Epureanu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ireena Erteza
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
Silvia Ferrari
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Gary Fogel
Vice President
Natural Selection, Inc.
Russell Ford
Global Technology Leader
Water Treatment
CH2M Hill
Robert Franceschini
Chief Systems Engineer
Science Applications International Corp.
Juan Gilbert
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University
William Grieco
Program Manager
Emerging Technologies
Rohm and Haas Company
Arun Hampapur
Manager, Exploratory Computer Vision Group
T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corporation
Glenn Hart
Software Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
William Hartt
Technology Leader, Complex Fluid Dynamics
Procter & Gamble
Youssef Hashash
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michael Helmbrecht
President and Chief Executive Officer
Iris AO, Inc.
Mark Hersam
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Cynthia Hoover
Director, Electronics and Analytical R&D
Praxair, Inc.
Scott Humphreys
RFMD Fellow
RF Micro Devices, Inc.
Stephen Intille (unable to attend)
Technology Director, House_n Consortium
Department of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Jones
Associate Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Kammen
Professor in the Energy and Resources Group and Professor of Public Policy, and Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
Department of Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Jay Keasling
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Berkley
Maryam Khanbaghi
Senior Research Engineer, Controls
Corning, Inc.
Erica Klampfl
Technical Expert
Infotronics and Systems Analytics Department
Ford Motor Company
Melissa Knothe Tate
Associate Professor, Director of the Think Tank for Multiscale Computational Modeling of Biomedical and Bio-inspired Systems
Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Kurt Kornbluth
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Davis
David Kosson
Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Ananth Krishnamurthy
Assistant Professor
Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vikram Kumar
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dimagi, Inc.
Christine Lambert
Technical Expert
Scientific Research Laboratory
Ford Motor Company
Daniele Lantagne
Safe Water System Staff Engineer
Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kelvin Lee
Associate Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Jie Liu
Researcher
Networked Embedded Computing Group
Microsoft Research
Zhu Liu
Technical Specialist
AT&T Labs Research
Garrick Louis
Associate Professor
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
Hiroshi Matsui
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
City University of New York, Hunter College
Cary McConlogue
Senior Research Investigator
Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Michael McGehee
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Scott Miller
Chemical Engineer
GE Global Research
Michael Occhionero
Senior Advisory Engineer
National and Homeland Security
Idaho National Laboratory
Marcia O’Malley
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
Jonathan Owen
Staff Research Engineer
General Motors Research and Development Center
Janet Pan
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
Pamela Patterson
Research Staff Member
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Sameer Pendharkar
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Device Engineering, Mixed Signal Technology Development
Texas Instruments, Inc.
Matthai Philipose
Researcher
Intel Research Laboratory
Julia Phillips
Director
Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center
Sandia National Laboratories
P. Jonathon Phillips
Program Manager
Information Access Division-Image Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tresa Pollock
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Vivek Prabhu
Chemical Engineer
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Visvanathan Ramesh
Department Head
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
John Reinker
Leader, Energy and Propulsion Technologies
GE Global Research
George Rittenhouse
Vice President, Wireless Research
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Rodrigo Salgado
Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Sunita Satyapal
Hydrogen Storage Team Leader
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
William Schneider
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Concurrent in Chemistry
University of Notre Dame
Cyrus Shahabi
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Sandeep Shukla
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Stanislav Shvartsman
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
Dan Sievenpiper
Senior Research Staff Engineer
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam
Lead Technologist, Multimegawatt Electric Power Generator
Electromagnetics and Superconductivity
GE Global Research
Amy Smith
Instructor
Edgerton Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christina Smolke
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
James Sowder
Chief Technologist and Technical
Fellow
Northrop Grumman Information
Technology
Abraham Stroock
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Lester Su
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Julie Swann
Assistant Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Aaron Thode
Research Scientist, Undersea Acoustics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Zoltán Toroczkai
Deputy Director
Center for Nonlinear Studies
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thomas Truskett
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Uday Turaga
Associate Scientist
ConocoPhillips Company
Jeffrey Varner
Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Alessandro Vespignani
Professor
School of Informatics
Indiana University
John Vohs
Carl V. Patterson Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Cliff Wang
Program Director
U.S. Army Research Office
Min Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Sophia Zamor
Senior Cross Sourcing Specialist
Cartago Operations
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Julie Zimmerman
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Virginia
Engineer/Program Coordinator
National Center for Environmental Research
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Guests
Daniel Berg
Institute Professor of Science and Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard Buckius
Interim Assistant Director for Engineering Directorate
National Science Foundation
Eduardo Misawa
Program Director, Dynamical Systems
Intelligent Civil and Mechanical Systems
National Science Foundation
Sarah Tegan
Editorial Associate
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
James Tien
Yamada Corporation Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dinner Speaker
Shirley Ann Jackson
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
GE Global Research
Sean Connolly
Event Coordinator
GE Global Research Center
Ingrid Cullen
Technology/Marketing Executive Admin
GE Plastics
National Academy of Engineering
Wm. A. Wulf
President
Lance A. Davis
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Program Officer
Gin Bacon
Senior Program Assistant