Participants
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 21–23, 2006
Alexis Abramson
Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Stephanie G. Adams
Assistant Dean of Research
AAAS/NSF Science and Engineering Fellow
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Apoorv Agarwal
EVA Engine PMT Leader
Scientific Research Laboratories
Ford Motor Company
David V. Anderson
Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark H. Anderson
Associate Scientist
College of Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ana I. Antón
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Robert Axtell
Associate Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
George Mason University
George D. Bachand
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
Qing Bai
Member of Technical Staff
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Matthew Barth
Director
Center for Environmental Research and Technology
University of California, Riverside
Bradley R. Bebee
Vice President, Systems Software
Information Systems Worldwide Corporation
Chandra R. Bhat
Professor
Department of Civil, Architechtural, and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Stephan Biller
Lab Group Manager
General Motors
M. Brian Blake
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Georgetown University
Richard K. Boger
Application Engineer
ABAQUS, Inc.
Marcel P. Bruchez
Program Manager, Technology Center for Networks and Pathways
Visiting Associate Research Professor, Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
David Bruemmer
Principal Research Scientist
Idaho National Laboratory
Bryan Cantrill
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems
Kimberly A. Chaffin
Principal Scientist
Medtronic, Inc.
Jane P. Chang
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Jia Chen
Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Aref Chowdhury
Member of Technical Staff
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Zissis Dardas
Group Leader
United Technologies Research Center
Jarrett Datcher
Engineer/Scientist
Boeing–Phantom Works
Moses M. David
Lead Senior Research Specialist
Corporate Research Process Research Laboratory
Matthew DeLisa
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Timothy Deming
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Tejal A. Desai
Professor of Physiology/ Bioengineering
University of California, San Francisco
Brenda L. Dietrich
Director, Mathematical Sciences
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Anne C. Dillon
Senior Research Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Scott W. Doebling
Program Manager
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rebekah Anna Drezek
Associate Professor
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
Rice University
John Dunagan
Researcher
Systems and Networking Group
Microsoft Research
Richard Elander
Advanced Pretreatment Team Leader
Bioprocess Engineering Group
National Bioenergy Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ye Fang
Research Associate
Science and Technology Division
Corning Inc.
Andrei G. Fedorov
Assistant Professor
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
David B. Fogel
Chief Executive Officer
Natural Selection, Inc.
Suresh V. Garimella
Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Michael J. Garvin
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Irene Georgakoudi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University
Cindie Giummarra
Senior Engineer
Alcoa Technical Center
Christine S. Grant
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Paula Hicks
Principal Scientist
Cargill
Ron Ho
Senior Research Scientist
Sun Microsystems Research Labs
Mani Janakiram
Principal Engineer
Intel Corporation
Michael P. Johnson
Associate Professor
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Paul C. Johnson
Professor and Executive Dean
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
Ruben Juanes
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Jack W. Judy
Associate Professor and Director of the NeuroEngineering Program
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Krishna Kalyan
Principal Staff Engineer
Motorola
Deepak Khosla
Senior Research Scientist
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Steven Kou
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Columbia University
Olga Anna Kuchar
Research Scientist 4
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David A. LaVan
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
Christian Lebiere
Research Faculty
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Philip LeDuc
Assistant Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Lorraine H. Lin
Senior Engineering Specialist
Bechtel National, Inc.
Melissa Lunden
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Teng Ma
Associate Professor
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Florida State University
Surya K. Mallapragada
Professor
Department. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Iowa State University
Rajit Manohar
Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
Hiroshi Matsui
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College
Lawrence Megan
Manager
Advanced Control and Optimization R&D
Praxair
Matthew M. Mehalik
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Nafaa Mekhilef
Senior Research Scientist
Arkema, Inc.
Sergey Melnik
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Risto Miikkulainen
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Josh Molho
Staff R&D Engineer
Caliper Life Sciences
Jeffrey Montanye
Research and Development Director
Dow Automotive
Dow Chemical Company
Kumar Muthuraman
Assistant Professor
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
Timothy R. Nolen
Senior Research Associate and Lab Head
Eastman Chemical Company
Eric A. Ott
Senior Engineer
GE Aviation
Julia M. Phillips
Director
Physical and Chemical Sciences Center
Sandia National Laboratories
Jonathan Preston
Technical Fellow
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
William D. Provine
Research Manager
Central Research & Development
DuPont Company
Adam Rasheed
Aerospace Research Engineer
GE Global Research
Carol Rego
Vice President
CDM
Jennifer Ryan
Senior Lecturer
Management Department
University College Dublin
Todd Salamon
Member of Technical Staff
Math and Algorithmic Sciences Research Department
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Andreas Schäfer
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge
Andreas Schell
Office of North American Operations
DaimlerChrysler
William F. Schneider
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Concurrent in Chemistry
University of Notre Dame
Alan Schultz
Director
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
Corey J. Schumacher
Senior Research Aerospace Engineer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Kenneth Shepard
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
Abhijit V. Shevade
Member of Engineering Staff
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michael Siemer
President
Mydea Technologies
Vijay Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign
Sanjiv K. Sinha
Corporate Director
Environmental Consulting & Technology Inc.
Lawrence Snyder
Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
Hyongsok Soh
Assistant Professor
Biomolecular Science and Engineering & Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Morley O. Stone
Principal Research Biologist and Biotechnology Lead
Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Air Force Research Lab
Julie Swann
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Margarita P. Thompson
Senior Research Engineer
Delphi Research Labs
Sammy Tin
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
Manuel Torres
Section Manager and Assistant Vice President
Advanced Concepts Business Unit
SAIC
Aditya Tyagi
Senior Water Resources Engineer
CH2M Hill
Michiel Van Nieuwstadt
Technical Leader
Scientific Research Laboratory
Ford Motor Company
Mark Wang
Senior Physical Scientist
RAND Corporation
Michael L. Washington
Industrial Engineer
National Immunization Program
Immunization Services Division
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lloyd Watts
Founder, CEO, and CTO
Audience Inc.
Paul K. Westerhoff
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Arizona State University
Colin S. Whelan
Senior Principal Engineer
Raytheon Company
Christopher Wolverton
Technical Leader
Ford Motor Company
Gerard Wong
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign
Robert Wray
Chief Scientist
Soar Technology
Aleksey Yezerets
Technical Advisor and Leader
Catalyst Technology Group
Cummins Inc.
ChengXiang Zhai
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Jingren Zhou
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Susan Zielinski
Managing Director, SMART
Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society
University of Michigan
Guests
Adnan Akay
Division Director
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
Marshall Lih
Senior Advisor
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
Mary Lou Maher
Program Director
Human-Centered Computing Cluster
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
National Science Foundation
Dinner Speaker
Dr. W. Dale Compton
Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering, Emeritus
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
National Academy of Engineering
Wm. A. Wulf
President
Lance A. Davis
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Gin Bacon
Senior Program Assistant
Ford Motor Company
Gerhard Schmidt
Vice President, Research and Advanced Engineering
Haren Gandhi
Ford Technical Fellow and Manager, Chemical Engineering Department
Barb Rutkowski
Administrative Assistant to Haren Gandhi
John Markee
Manager, Business Operations
Jim Bretz
Research Technologist, Business Operations
Rose Gossman
Business Operations