Participants
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2007 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 24-26, 2007
Dongchan (Shaun) Ahn
Research Engineering Specialist
Business & Technology Incubator
Dow Corning Corporation
Vitaly Aizenberg
Advanced Scientific Associate
ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences
ExxonMobil Corporation
Carina Maria Alles
Engineering Consultant
DuPont
Matthew Andrews
Member of Technical Staff
Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Center
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Ana I. Antón
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
David A. Bader
Executive Director of High-Performance Computing
Associate Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Randy A. Bartels
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Jennifer T. Bernhard
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joshua Binder
Advanced Structural Analysis Manager
Phantom Works: Materials and Structures Technology
Boeing Company
Jess Brown
Project Manager for Biological Treatment
Carollo Engineers, P.C.
Markus J. Buehler
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barrett S. Caldwell
Associate Professor
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
Wai (Victor) Kin Chan
Assistant Professor
Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jia Chen
Research Staff Member
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corporation
Amy Childress
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Nevado, Reno
Eric Pei-Yu Chiou
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred J. Crosby
Assistant Professor
Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rula A. Deeb
Senior Associate
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Shrikant Dhodapkar
Technical Leader
Process Fundamentals Group, Performance Plastics and Chemicals
Dow Chemical Company
Bruce Dien
Chemical Engineer
National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Peter A. Dinda
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
John Dunagan
Researcher
Distributed Systems and Security Research Group
Microsoft Research
Richard T. Elander
Advanced Pretreatment Team Leader
BioProcess Engineering Group
National Bioenergy Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Michael J. Fasolka
Director, Combinatorial Methods Center
Polymers Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Edward W. Felten
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
Princeton University
Andrew Fernandez
Member of Technical Staff
Agilent Labs
Agilent Technologies
Timothy Fisher
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Raja N. Ghanem
Senior Scientist
Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management
Medtronic Inc.
Reza Ghodssi
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Rajat S. Ghosh
Senior Project Leader
Sustainable Production Technology
Alcoa Inc.
Anouck Girard
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kevin Gluck
Senior Research Psychologist
Air Force Research Laboratory
Samuel Graham
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tyrone W. Grandison
Research Manager
Data Privacy and Mining Technologies
IBM Almaden Research Center
Johney Green
Group Leader
Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michelle L. Gregory
Research Scientist
Computational and Information Science Directorate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
William J. Grieco
Director, Process Development
Alkermes
Gregory A. Hebner
Manager
Lasers, Optics, Remote Sensting, Plasma Physics, and Computer Systems Department
Sandia National Laboratories
John Hecht
Technology Leader, Drying and Mass Transfer
Corporate Engineering
Procter & Gamble
Hugh W. Hillhouse
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
Laurent Itti
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jeffrey S. Kanel
Senior Research Associate
Eastman Research Division
Eastman Chemical Company
Jeffrey M. Karp
Instructor of Medicine
Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard University
Theodore J. Kim
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Navigation, Pointing, and Control Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Fred A. Kish
Vice-President, Research, Development, and Manufacturing
Photonic Integrated Circuit Department
Infinera Corporation
Efrosini Kokkoli
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Technical Leader
Powertrain Control R&D
Ford Research and Advanced Engineering
Michael R. Krames
Director
Advanced Laboratories
Philips Lumileds Lighting Co.
Raj Krishnaswamy
Senior Scientist
Polymer Product Development
Metabolix
Rajesh Kumar
Intel Fellow and Director, Circuit & Low Power Technologies
Digital Enterprise Group
Intel
Sanjay Lall
Assistant Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford University
Matthew J. Lang
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christian Lebiere
Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Eugene J. LeBoeuf
Associate Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
K. Rustan M. Leino
Principal Researcher
Programing Languages and Methods
Microsoft Research
Donald J. Leo
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
College of Engineering
Virginia Tech
Philip Levis
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Mark E. Lewis
Associate Professor
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell University
Ju Li
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Karl G. Linden
Professor and Liebman Faculty Fellow
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer Lukes
William K. Gemmill Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Yiorgos Makris
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
Sanjay Malhotra
Head, Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry
Developmental Therapeutic Program Support
National Cancer Institute
Ajay P. Malshe
21st Century Endowed Chair Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Arkansas
Michele Marcolongo
Associate Professor/Associate Vice Provost for Research
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Drexel University
Wade Martinson
Principal Engineer
Process Solutions Technology Development Center
Cargill Inc.
Katherine McMahon
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Swarup Medasani
Senior Research Engineer
Information Systems and Sciences Laboratory
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Greg Morrisett
Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University
Wilbur L. Myrick
Assistant Vice President, Senior Analyst
Intelligence, Security, and Technology Group
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Priya Narasimhan
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Ravi Narasimhan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Roseanna M. Neupauer
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado
Sissy Nikolaou
Associate
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Burak Ozdoganlar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Jianbiao Pan
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
California Polytech State University
Alexander Parkhomovsky
Senior Engineering Manager
Motor Design Division
Seagate Technology, LLC
Julia M. Phillips
Director
Physical and Chemical Sciences Center
Sandia National Laboratories
Arshan Poursohi
Staff Researcher
SunLabs
Sun Microsystems
Lisa Purvis
Research Lab Manager
Xerox Innovation Group
Xerox Corporation
Marcus Quigley
Associate
Water Resources Engineering
Geosyntec Consultants
R. Michael Raab
President and CEO
Corporate Development and Research
Agrivida, Inc.
Rama Ranganathan
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Carol R. Rego
Vice President
CDM
Lee Rosen
Manager, Combustion Applications R&D
Research and Development
Praxair, Inc.
Rachel A. Segalman
Charles Wilke Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Shands
Engineering Specialist
Information Assurance Technology Department
Aerospace Corporation
Samuel Sia
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Vijay Singh
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John E. Smee
Senior Staff Engineer, Manager
Corporate Research and Development
QUALCOMM, Inc.
Diana K. Smetters
Senior Member of the Research Staff
Computer Science Laboratory
PARC
Vanessa L. Speight
Associate
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Randy Stiles
Principal Investigator
ATC Modeling, Simulation & Information Sciences
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Michael S. Strano
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Szczerba
Staff Researcher
Vehicle Development Research Lab
General Motors Corporation
David N. Thompson
R&D Engineer III
Department of Biological Sciences
Idaho National Laboratory
Jean W. Tom
Director
Development Engineering/Process RD
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Michael van Lent
Research Assistant Professor and Project Leader
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
Sundeep N. Vani
Technical Director
Bioproducts Division
Archer Daniels Midland
James Scott Vartuli
Chemical Engineer
Optical Materials Lab
GE Global Research
S. Travis Waller
Associate Professor
Fellow of Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Annemarie Ott Weist
Global Lead, Gas Recycle and Recovery
Advanced Technology
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc
Mei Wen
Research Scientist
Functional Additives
Arkema Inc.
Paul K. Westerhoff
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Arizona State University
Joan Wills
Technical Advisor
Controls and Diagnostics, Advanced Engineering
Cummins, Inc.
Robert Wray
Chief Scientist
Soar Technology
Rebecca N. Wright
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Deputy Director, DIMACS Center
Rutgers University
Lifang Yuan
Senior Systems Engineer/Analyst
Systems Engineering Department
Defense Systems Division
EDO Corporation
Randy Zachery
Director
Mathematical and Information Science Directorate
U.S. Army Research Office
Xin Zhang
Associate Professor
Department of Manufacturing Engineering
Boston University
Victor Zhirnov
Research Scientist
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Guests
Douglas H. Fisher
Program Director, Robust Intelligence Cluster
CISE/IIS
National Science Foundation
Robert Herklotz
Program Manager, Software and Systems
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Igor Vodyanoy
Program Officer
Life Sciences Research Division
Office of Naval Research
Dinner Speaker
Henrique (Rico) Malvar
Managing Director
Microsoft Research
National Academy of Engineering
Charles M. Vest
President
Lance A. Davis
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Gin Bacon
Senior Program Assistant
Microsoft
Richard Rashid
Senior Vice President
Research
Jane Prey
Program Manager
External Research and Programs
Beth Winkler
External Research and Programs
