Participants
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 10–12, 2009
Nicholas Able
Senior Development Engineer
Global Product Managment-Technology Development
Ingersoll Rand
Yves Baeyens Baeyens
Technical Manager
Physical Technologies Domain
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Sumit Basu
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Sandor Becz
Principal Investigator
Thermal and Fluid Sciences
United Technologies Research Center
Elmer Bernstam**
Associate Professor
School of Health Information Sciences
University of Texas, Houston
Dan Belov
Software Engineer
Randall Booker
Senior Engineer
Treatment Process and Planning
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Jason Burdick
Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Ali Butt
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Mark Byrne
Mary & John H. Sanders Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Stephanie Chang**
Associate Professor
School of Community and Regional Planning
University of British Columbia
Thomas Chapman
Development Associate, Materials & Process
Diesel Technologies Development
Corning, Incorporated
Yong Chen
Assistant Professor
Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Tanzeem Choudhury
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Brian Coombe
Project Manager
Bechtel National, Inc.
Dilma da Silva
Research Staff Member
Advanced Operating Systems Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Michael Degner
Technical Leader, Electric Machine Drives
Hybrid Electric Vehicle & Fuel Cell Vehicle Propulsion Systems
Ford Motor Company
Steven Demetropoulos
Staff Services Traffic Engineer
Engineering Department - Traffic Engineering
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
David Dorr**
Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Oregon Health and Science University
Riley Duren**
Chief Systems Engineer
Earth Science and Technology Directorate
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dan Ellis
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
David Erickson
Assistant Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Rene-Jean Essiambre
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Optical Networks Domain
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Eric Furst
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Delaware
Ariel Fuxman
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Senior Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research
Manuel Garcia-Leiner
Research Scientist
Corporate Research
Arkema, Inc.
Claire Gmachl**
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Carla Gomes**
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Computing
Cornell University
Julia Greer
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Mechanics
California Institute of Technology
Andrew Guenthner
Head, Polymer Science and Engineering Branch
Weapons Division
Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center
Stephanie Guerlain*
Associate Professor
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
Seth Guikema*
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Louise Hamlin*
Technical Manager
Next-Generation Image Spectrometers
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jocelyn Hicks-Garner
Research Staff Member
Energy Technologies
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Mark Hilburger
Research Engineer
Research and Technology Directorate
NASA Langley Research Center
Gabriel Hoffmann
Member of Research Staff
Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center
Tracy Honeycutt
Senior Engineer
Nuclear Licensing
Southern Nuclear Operating Company
Arpad Horvath**
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Jilei Hou
Senior Staff Engineer/Manager
Corporate R & D
Qualcomm, Inc.
Gareth Jolly
Director
Manufacturing Engineering General Assembly, Global Bill of Process & Bill of Equipment
General Motors, North America
Ravi Kane
P.K. Lashmet Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jordan Katine
Research Staff Member
Nano Processing and Recording Heads
San Jose Research Center
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
David Kerxhalli
Electromechanical Systems Engineer/System Architect
System Engineering & Integration Group
Xerox Research Center
Youngmoo Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Drexel University
Gerhard Klimeck
Director and Professor
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
Purdue University
Farinaz Koushanfar
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
Michael Krames**
Chief Technology Officer
Soraa, Inc.
Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
Terrence Ladau
Senior Project Leader
Strategic Space Operations
The Aerospace Corporation
Jacob Langelaan
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Blake Larson
Executive Engineer, High Horsepower Engineering
Engine Business
Cummins Inc.
Catherine Leatherdale
Research Manager
Projection Systems Department
3M Company
Eva Lee*
Associate Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michal Lipson*
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
J. Christopher Love*
Texaco-Mangelsdorf Career Development Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tonya Love
Area Manager
Xerox Innovation Group
Xerox Research Center, Webster
Hang Lu
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Helen Lu
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Christian Lutkemeyer
Senior Principal Scientist
Office of the CTO / DSP Microelectronics Technology
Broadcom Corporation
SuPing Lyu
Principal Scientist
Medtronic Strategy and Innovation
Medtronic
Vinothan Manoharan**
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Sara McComb
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
Beverley McKeon
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
Engineering and Applied Science Division
California Institute of Technology
Genevieve Melton-Meaux**
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
University of Minnesota
Edward Miller, Jr.
Vice President of Research and Development
Applied BioSciences
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC
Subhasish Mitra
Assistant Professor
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stanford University
Jeff Moehlis
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Andreas Molisch
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
William Murphy
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mangapathirao Mynam
Research Engineer
Research & Development
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Vijay Narayanan
Manager, High-K/Metal Gate Process Development
Materials Science
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Alshakim Nelson
Research Staff Member
Advanced Organic Materials
IBM Research, Almaden
Ken Nishimura Nishimura
R&D Program Manager
Agilent Laboratories
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Lukas Novotny**
Professor
Institute of Optics
University of Rochester
Lucila Ohno-Machado**
Professor and Chief
Division of Biomedical Informatics
University of California, San Diego
Patrick O’Mara*
Senior Transportation Engineer
Transportation & Infrastructure-Planning
STV, Inc.
Stephen Paglieri
Technical Staff Member: R&D Engineer
Weapons Engineering Technology
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oskar Painter**
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology
John Palamara
Senior Principal Process Engineer
Global Engineering - Energy Businesses
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Babak Parviz
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Glenn Paskoff
Biomechanics Engineer
Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division
Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command
Naren Ramakrishnan*
Professor and Associate Head
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Meredith Reed
Electronics Engineer/Researcher
Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
William Regli
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Drexel University
Maureen Reitman
Principal
Mechanics and Materials Practice
Exponent - Failure Analysis Associates
Mark Rintoul
Manager
Discrete Math and Complex Systems
Sandia National Laboratories
Nicholas Roy
Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel Sadoulet
Vice President
Engineering
Edmund Optics, Inc.
Marc Schaepkens
Engineering Manager
Global X-ray Detectors
GE Healthcare
Fred Schauer
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Propulsion Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Jon Schell
Principal Mechanical Design Engineer
Cardiac Rythm Management
Medtronic
James Schmiedeler
Associate Professor
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Sudipta Seal
Professor
Advanced Materials Processing Analysis Center, Nanoscience and Technology Center
Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
University of Central Florida
William Slye
Senior R&D Manager - Primary Metals and Metals Fabrication
Industrial Applications & Healthcare R&D
Praxair, Inc.
Kristina Swallow**
Owner
AVP Consulting, Inc.
Nelson Tansu*
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lehigh University
Mark Tompkins
Senior Engineer
Ecosystem Planning and Restoration
CH2M HILL
Eric Tseng
Technical Leader
Powertrain Controls Research & Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Kevin Uptain
Principal Engineer
Process Solutions Technology Development Center
Cargill, Incorporated
Krystyn Van Vliet
Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Walker
Institute Scientist
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Southwest Research Institute
Steven Waller
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Marvin Warner
Senior Research Scientist
Physical and Chemical Sciences-Chemical and Biological Signature Sciences
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Andrew Weiner *
Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Sean Wiggins**
Project Scientist
Marine Physical Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Eric Wilhelm
CEO
Development
Instructables
Ronggui Yang
Assistant Professor and Sanders Faculty Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder
Michael Yu
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Muhammad Zaman
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Huimin Zhao
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan Zimmerman
Director
C4ISR Systems Engineering
Northrop Grumman Electronic System
Dinner Speaker
Bradford W. Parkinson
Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Emeritus
Stanford University
The United States-Mexico Foundation for Science
Fernando Aboites
The Center on Advanced Technology
Carlos Aquirree
CICATA LEG.IPN
Antonieta Garcia
National Polytechnic Institute
Hilario Hernandez
National Polytechnic Institute
Jose Jimenez
National Polytechnic Institute
Javier Sánchez-Mondragón
National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
Guests
Randy Avent
Chief Scientist
Basic Science Office
Department of Defense
Defense Research and Engineering
Bill Hayden
Vice President
The Grainger Foundation
Lisa McCracken
Program Manager, Research
Industry Relations
Sohi Rastegar
Director, Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
National Science Foundation
Robin Staffin
Director, Basic Science
ODDR&E Research Directorate
Phil Szuromi
Senior Editor
Science Magazine
National Academy of Engineering
Lance Davis
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Penny Gibbs
Senior Program Associate