NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2014 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 11–13, 2014
Amir AghaKouchak
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Leonardo Ajdelsztajn
Principal Scientist
Coatings and Surface Technologies Laboratory
GE Global Research
Andrea Alu
Associate Professor, David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Kristi Anseth*
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Distinguished Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder
Jernej Barbic
Assistant Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Billy Bardin*
Global Operations Technology Director
The Dow Chemical Company
Sarah Bergbreiter
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
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*Organizing Committee
**Speaker
Andrew Blanksby
Associate Technical Director
DSP Microelectronics
Broadcom Corporation
Jasmine Bridges
Advanced Manufacturing Fellow
Advanced Manufacturing Office
US Department of Energy
Heidi Burch
Chemical Engineering Consultant
Polymer Engineering, DuPont Engineering Research & Techechnology
DuPont
Jason Burdick**
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Pinar Cakir Kavcar
Engineering Supervisor
Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals Inc.
Benton Calhoun
Commonwealth Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Virginia
Moises Carreon
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Karen Christman*
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Nikita Chugunov
Program Manager and Senior Research Scientist
Enhanced and Unconventional Recovery
Schlumberger-Doll Research
Claus Daniel**
Deputy Director
Sustainable Transportation Program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael Dickey
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
Jeanette Domber
Principal Payload Systems Engineer
Payload Systems Engineering
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Drapeau
Director
Biologics Research and Product Development
Medtronic Sofamor Danek
Rebecca Dylla-Spears
Chemical Engineer
Physics and Life Sciences
Chemical Sciences Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jonathan Fan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Zhanpeng Feng
Research and Development Lead
Outward, Inc.
Nicolas Fontaine
Member of Technical Staff
Advanced Photonics Research
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Laurie Garrow
Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Gerkey*
CEO
Open Source Robotics Foundation
Nathan Gnanasambandam
Senior Research Scientist and Research Project Manager
Computing and Information Services Lab
Palo Alto Research Center
James Goldbach
Senior Research Scientist
Fluoropolymers R&D
Arkema Inc.
Douglas Graham
Section Head
Corporate R&D—Process Global Capability Organization
Procter and Gamble Company
Timothy Graves
Senior Project Engineer
Space Based Surveillance Division
The Aerospace Corporation
Kelvin Gregory**
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Ramin Haghgooie
Founder
General Fluidics Corp.
Richard Helvick
Senior Engineer
Health, Environment, and Energy Systems
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc
Tara Hemami
Director
Systems Performance Analysis
Cummins Inc.
Rashaunda Henderson
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas, Dallas
Brian Hershberger
Senior Aeronautical Engineering
Advanced Systems Development
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Heiko Hoffmann
Research Staff Computer Scientist
Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory
HRL Laboratories
Dennis Hong**
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Cherian Idicheria
Senior Researcher
Propulsion Systems Research Lab
General Motors Global Research and Development
Stephen Ingram**
Director of Business Development for the Gulf of Mexico
Halliburton
Christopher Jones*
Associate Vice President for Research and New-Vision Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ronel Kappes
Senior Technical Advisor, Flotation Metallurgy and Technology, Processing
Newmont Mining Corporation
Amey Karnik
Research Engineer
Gas Engineering and Aftertreatment
Ford Motor Company
Dina Katabi
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Raghunandan Keshavan
Senior Software Engineer
Strategic Technologies
Catherine Klapperich
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Hadas Kress-Gazit
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Kimberly Kurtis
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship
School of Civil Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tolga Kurtoglu
Vice President and Director of System Sciences Lab
Palo Alto Research Center
Greg Kusinski
Director
DeepStar
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Juha-Pekka Laine
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Group Leader for Sensors and Imaging Systems
Guidance Hardware Division
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Javad Lavaei
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
Barbara Linke
Assistant Professor
Department for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Lipke
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Zhaowei Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Carmel Majidi*
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Masanet
Associate Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Northwestern University
David Mascarenas
R&D Engineer
National Security Education Center
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alvaro Masias**
Research Engineer
Energy Storage Research and Strategy Department
Ford Motor Company
Steven Meier
Team Lead
Reservoir Function
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Shirley Meng**
Associate Professor
Department of NanoEngineering
University of California, San Diego
W. David Merryman**
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Ioannis (Yiangos) Mikellides
Principal Research Engineer
Electric Propulsion
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tina Morrison
Regulatory Advisor of Computational Modeling
Office of Device Evaluation
Food and Drug Administration
Robert Moser
Research Civil Engineer
Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory
US Army Corps of Engineers
Michael Motala
Research Scientist
Kodak Research Labs
Eastman Kodak Company
Todd Murphey
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
Lama Nachman
Principal Engineer
User Experience Research
Intel Labs
Lakshmi Nair
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Connecticut
Felix Nguyen
Principal Research Scientist
Composite Materials Research Laboratory
Toray Composites (America), Inc.
William Nothwang
Team Leader, Sensors and Bioinspired Control
Micro and Nano Materials and Devices Branch, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
US Army Research Laboratory
Allison Okamura**
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Daniela Oliveira
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
Bradley Olsen
Paul M. Cook Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Caroline Pantofaru
Senior Research Scientist
Strategic Technologies
Sonna Patel-Raman**
Consultant II
Halloran Consulting Group, Inc.
William Peter
Senior Research Scientist
Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ashley (Ash) Peterson*
Principal R&D Engineer
Aortic and Peripheral Vascular Group
Medtronic
Rodney Priestley
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
Andrew Quanbeck
Assistant Scientist
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mehrsa Raeiszadeh
Technology and Innovation Leadership Program, Rotational Scientist
Research and Development–Engineered Materials
Celanese Chemicals
Warren Ruder
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Virginia Tech
Jeff Sakamoto*
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Justin Sanchez
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Miami
Kyle Schleifer
Senior Systems Engineer
Life Science and Pathology Instrumentation Laboratory
Agilent Laboratories
Scott Snelling
Supervising Engineer
Structures/Mechanical/Movable Bridges
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc
Sibendu Som
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Energy Systems Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Jonathan Spanier
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Drexel University
Erin Spinner**
Biomedical Research Engineer
Advanced Technologies
Edwards Lifesciences
Eric Stangland**
Principal Research Scientist
The Dow Chemical Company
Daniel Steingart*
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
Sarah Stewart**
Senior Research Engineer
Research and Technology Center
Robert Bosch LLC
Conrad Stoldt
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Akane Suzuki
Senior Scientist
Ceramics and Metallurgy Technologies
GE Global Research
Luke Sweatlock
Research Scientist
Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Labs
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Jaime Teevan
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Chris Urmson**
Head of Engineering, Self-Driving Car Project
Google[X]
MeganValentine
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rui Vogt Alves da Cruz
R&D Director
Exploration and Production, Dow Oil and Gas
Dow Chemical Company
Mitchell Walker
Associate Professor
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Wilcox
Electrical Engineer
Remote Sensing Division
US Naval Research Laboratory
Matthew Williamson**
Director of Technology
Rethink Robotics
Tak-Sing Wong
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Xinyu (Cindy) Xu
Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Apple Inc.
Hakki Yegingil
Principal Scientist
Enabling Technologies
Vesuvius
Pablo Zavattieri
Associate Professor
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Dinner Speaker
Arunava Majumdar
Jay Precourt Professor and Senior Fellow Precourt Institute for Energy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Guests
William Hayden
Vice President
The Grainger Foundation
Shini Somara
Science/Tech Correspondent
Al Jazeera America
National Academy of Engineering
C. D. Mote, Jr.
President
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Vanessa Lester
Program Associate
