Participants

Andrew Adamczyk

Senior Principal Research Engineer

Corporate Research and Development

Air Products and Chemicals

Gagan Aggarwal

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Google Research

Naoko Akiya

Platform Leader

Packaging and Specialty Plastics Materials Science

Dow Chemical Company

Kevin Alexander**

Vice President

Hazen and Sawyer

Saleema Amershi

Researcher

Microsoft Research

Ines Azevedo

Associate Professor

Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon University

Rajan Bhattacharyya

Senior Research Engineer

Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory

HRL Laboratories

Lars Blackmore**

Principal Rocket Landing Engineer

Guidance Navigation and Control

SpaceX

Robert Braun*

Dean of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Colorado Boulder

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^* Organizing Committee

^** Speaker

Heidi Buck

Director, Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality Lab

SPAWAR Automated Imagery Analysis Group

Space and Naval Space Warfare Systems Center

Qing Cao

Research Staff Member

Physical Science

IBM

Rebecca Carrier

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Northeastern University

Julie Champion*

Associate Professor

School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ranveer Chandra

Principal Researcher

Microsoft

Amy Childress*

Professor

Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Southern California

Ian Clark

Systems Engineer

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jennifer Cochran**

Associate Professor

Department of Bioengineering

Stanford University

Anne Dailly

Staff Researcher

Chemical and Materials Systems Laboratory

General Motors

Seth Darling

Scientist and Co-Lead for Argonne’s Water Initiative

Nanoscience and Technology Division

Argonne National Laboratory

Neil Dasgupta

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan

Alexander Dunn

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Stanford University

Katherine Dykes

Senior Engineer

National Wind Technology Center

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Hoda Eldardiry

Manager, Machine Learning Group

Interaction and Analytics Laboratory

PARC, A Xerox Company

Jeffrey Erickson

Engineer

Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Naval Research Laboratory

Rebecca Erikson

Senior Staff Engineer

Systems Engineering and Integration Division

National Security Directorate

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jo Etter

Product Development Engineer

Software, Electronic and Mechanical Systems Laboratory

3M Company

Kayvon Fatahalian**

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Stacey Finley

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Southern California

Jason Furtney

Senior Engineer

Research and Consulting

Itasca Consulting Group

Kelly Gardner

CEO

Zephyrus Biosciences, Inc.

Phanindra Garimella

Director, Dynamic Systems and Controls

Cummins

Andrew Goodwin

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Colorado Boulder

Kristen Grauman**

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin

Zhen Gu

Associate Professor

Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University

Jin-Oh Hahn

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maryland

Brendan Harley

Associate Professor and Schaefer Faculty Scholar

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amy Herhold

Director, Physics and Mathematical Sciences Laboratory

Corporate Strategic Research

ExxonMobil

Warren Hunt**

Research Scientist

Oculus Research

Mahmoud Hussein

Associate Professor and H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow

Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences

University of Colorado Boulder

Margot Hutchins

Research and Development Engineer

Homeland Security and Defense Systems

Sandia National Laboratories

Darrell Irvine**

Professor

Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DeShawn Jackson*

Business Analyst

Production Enhancement

Halliburton

Leah Johnson

Manager, Advanced Materials

Innovation, Technology, and Development

RTI International

Joseph Kakande

Advanced Photonics Research Technical Staff

Bell Labs, Nokia

Sung Kang

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Amin Karbasi

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Yale University

Laura Kennedy

Assistant Group Leader

Applied Space Systems Group

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Branko Kerkez

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Michigan

Sangbae Kim**

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brian Kirby**

Associate Professor

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Cornell University

Manish Kumar**

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

Pankaj Kumar

Research Engineer

Modern Control Methods and Computational Intelligence

Ford Motor Company

Mariel Lavieri

Associate Professor

Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering

University of Michigan

Daeyeon Lee

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Leight

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Ohio State University

David Lentink**

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Stanford University

Joe Lester

Senior Engineer

Upstream Packaging Process R&D

Procter & Gamble Company

Qizhen (Katherine) Li

Associate Professor

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Washington State University

Jingmei Liang

Director and Process Engineer

Dielectric System & Module

Applied Materials, Inc.

Shihong Lin

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vanderbilt University

David Luebke*

Vice President, Graphics Research

NVIDIA

Richard Lunt

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences

Michigan State University

Olav Lyngberg

Scientific Fellow

Advanced Technology, Technical Operations

Johnson & Johnson

Nina Mahmoudian

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics

Michigan Technological University

Elisabeth Malsch

Vice President, Forensic Engineering

Thornton Tomasetti

Joel McDonald

Engineered Materials Product Development Leader

Dow Corning Corporation

Baoxia Mi**

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Jeremy Munday

Assistant Professor

Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

University of Maryland

John Owens*

Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, Davis

Corinne Packard

Assistant Professor

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Colorado School of Mines

Derek Paley**

Willis H. Young Jr. Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Education

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Institute for Systems Research

University of Maryland

Marco Pavone*

Assistant Professor

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Stanford University

Devesh Ranjan

Associate Professor and J. Erskine Love Jr. Faculty Fellow

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Roderick Reber

Senior Engineer

Technical Polymers R&D

Arkema Inc.

Cynthia Reinhart-King**

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Cornell University

Julian Rimoli

Assistant Professor

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Reuben Rohrschneider

Senior Engineer

Mission Systems Engineering

Ball Aerospace and Technologies

Julio Romero Aguero

Vice President, Strategy and Business Innovation

Quanta Technology

Abhishek Roy*

Senior Research Scientist

Energy and Water Solutions

The Dow Chemical Company

Andrea Schmidt

Research Engineer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kelly Schultz

P. C. Rossin Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Lehigh University

Christine Scotti

CFD Technology Leader

Medical Products Division

W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.

Meredith Sellers

Managing Engineer

Materials and Corrosion Engineering

Exponent

Debbie Senesky

Assistant Professor

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Stanford University

Robert Shepherd

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Cornell University

Alexander Simpson

Strategic Operations Leader

Executive Engineering: Aviation Engineering Division

GE Aviation

Thomas Simpson

Chemical Engineering Consultant

DuPont

Christopher Stafford**

Research Chemist

Materials Science and Engineering Division

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Leia Stirling

Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amit Surana

Principal Research Scientist

Systems Department

United Technologies

Zoya Svitkina

Senior Software Engineer

Google Inc.

Joseph-Paul Swinski

Computer Engineer

Flight Software Systems Branch

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Ilias Tagkopoulos

Associate Professor

Computer Science and Genome Center

University of California, Davis

Peter Tessier*

Richard Baruch M.D. Career Development Associate Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Marija Trcka

Technology Sourcing Specialist

Innovation Business Development

United Technologies Corp.

Bao Truong

Lead Nuclear System Engineer

Nuclear Plant Design and Safety

Terrapower

Vassilis Varveropoulos

Drilling Systems Architecture Manager

Schlumberger

Jean Vettel

Neuroscientist and Science Lead

Human Research Engineering Directorate

Army Research Laboratory

Laura Waller

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

University of California, Berkeley

Xuan (Kelly) Wei

Director, R&D

Restorative Therapy Group

Medtronic

Gordon Wetzstein**

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Stanford University

Edward Whalen

Associate Technical Fellow and Flight Engineering Manager

Boeing Company

Gregory Whiting

Staff, Rapid Evaluation

Google[X]

Hans (Chris) Woithe

Communication Systems Software Technical Staff

Bell Labs, Nokia

Paul Wooster

Manager

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

SpaceX

Chang Yuan

Senior Research Manager

Apple

Michail Zavlanos

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Duke University

Dinner Speaker

John Orcutt

Distinguished Professor of Geophysics

University of California, San Diego

Guests

William (Bill) Hayden

Vice President

The Grainger Foundation

Sohi Rastegar

Senior Advisor

Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities

Directorate for Engineering

National Science Foundation

National Academy of Engineering

C. D. Mote, Jr.

President

Alton D. Romig, Jr.

Executive Officer

Janet Hunziker

Senior Program Officer

Sherri Hunter

Program Coordinator