Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2016 US Frontiers of Engineering
September 19-21, 2016
Chair: Robert Braun, Georgia Institute of Technology*
PIXELS AT SCALE: HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND VISION
Organizers:
David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, and
John Owens, University of California, Davis
Computational Near-Eye Displays:
Engineering the Interface to the Digital World
Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University
Frontiers in Virtual Reality Headsets
Warren Hunt, Oculus Research
First-Person Computational Vision
Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin
A Quintillion Live Pixels: The Challenge of Continuously Interpreting and
Organizing the World’s Visual Information
Kayvon Fatahalian, Carnegie Mellon University
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* Currently at the University of Colorado Boulder.
EXTREME ENGINEERING: EXTREME AUTONOMY IN SPACE, AIR, LAND, AND UNDER WATER
Organizers:
DeShawn Jackson, Halliburton, and Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Autonomous Precision Landing of Space Rockets
Lars Blackmore, SpaceX
Avian Flight as an Inspiration for Drone Design
David Lentink, Stanford University
MIT Cheetah: New Design Paradigm for Mobile Robots
Sangbae Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Autonomy Under Water:
Ocean Sampling by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Derek Paley, University of Maryland
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WATER DESALINATION AND PURIFICATION
Organizers:
Amy Childress, University of Southern California, and
Abhishek Roy, The Dow Chemical Company
Water Desalination: History, Advances, and Challenges
Manish Kumar, Pennsylvania State University
Scalable Manufacturing of Layer-by-Layer
Membranes for Water Purification
Christopher Stafford, National Institute of Standards and Technology
New Materials for Emerging Desalination Technologies
Baoxia Mi, University of California, Berkeley
High-Recovery Desalination and Water Treatment
Kevin Alexander, Hazen and Sawyer
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING CANCER
Organizers:
Julie Champion, Georgia Institute of Technology, and
Peter Tessier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
How Cancer Cells Go Awry:
The Role of Mechanobiology in Cancer Research
Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornell University
Advances in Detecting Rare Cancer Cells
Brian Kirby, Cornell University
Engineered Proteins for Visualizing and Treating Cancer
Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University
Engineering Immunotherapy
Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
