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Biographical Sketches of Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board Members and Staff
JENNIE S. HWANG, Chair, is the chief executive officer of H-Technologies Group and board trustee and distinguished adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve. Her career encompasses corporate and entrepreneurial businesses, international collaboration, research management, technology transfer, and global leadership positions, as well as corporate and university governance. She has held senior executive positions with Lockheed Martin, SCM Corporation, and Sherwin Williams and has cofounded entrepreneurial businesses. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer and long-standing leader in the fast-moving infrastructure development of electronics miniaturization and green manufacturing. Dr. Hwang is an inventor and author of 350+ publications, including the sole authorship of several internationally used textbooks. As a columnist for the globally circulated trade magazines Global Solar Technology and SMT magazine, she addresses technology issues and global market thrusts. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and also has served on the International Advisory Board of the Singapore Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute and as a board director for Fortune 500 and private companies. Over the years, she has taught tens of thousands of professionals and managers in professional development courses, providing continuing education and disseminating new technologies to the workforce. The YWCA’s Dr. Jennie S. Hwang Award was established to encourage and recognize outstanding women students in science and engineering. Her formal education includes the Harvard Business School Executive Program, a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, two M.S. degrees, one in chemistry and one in liquid crystal science, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
KENNETH R. BOFF is principal scientist with Socio-Technical Sciences. From 2007 to 2012, he served as principal scientist with the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology and as scientific advisor to the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (Tokyo). From 1997 to 2007, he served as the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory chief scientist for human effectiveness. In this position was responsible for the technical direction of a multidisciplinary R&D portfolio encom-
passing individual, organizational, and sociocultural behavior and modeling, training, protection, and the bio- and human engineering of complex systems. He is best known for his work on understanding and remediating problems in the transition of research to applications in the design, acquisition, and deployment of systems and the value-centered management of R&D organizations. Holder of a patent for rapid communication display technology, Dr. Boff has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and technical papers and is coeditor of Organizational Simulation (2005) and System Design (1987); he is also senior editor of the two-volume Handbook of Perception and Human Performance (1986) and the four-volume Engineering Data Compendium: Human Perception and Performance (1988). He actively consults and provides technical liaison with government agencies, international working groups, universities, and professional societies. He has organized and facilitated numerous technical workshops in the United States and Europe and along the Pacific Rim focused on contemporary issues in complex sociotechnical systems. He is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association.
MARK EBERHART is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines, where he directs the Molecular Theory Group (MTG). At the MTG, knowledge of bonding is obtained through detailed topological analyses of the spatial distribution of electrons in molecules and solids. Many subtle aspects of the distribution become obvious when viewed from a topological perspective. The accompanying topological formalism gives well-defined, unambiguous, meaningful, and consistent definitions to previously indeterminate quantities such as atomic bonds and basins. His work is based primarily on first principles computations, which provide the electron charge densities, and on topological analysis software developed at the MTG. He is also exploring the topological and geometric origins of the stability of amorphous metallic alloys. In addition to its work on condensed-phase systems, his group has active research programs exploring the relationships between charge density and the chemical properties of molecular systems, both organic and inorganic. Dr. Eberhart holds a B.S. in chemistry and applied mathematics from the University of Colorado, an M.S. in physical biochemistry from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
GEORGE T. (Rusty) GRAY III is a laboratory fellow and staff member in the dynamic properties and constitutive modeling team within the Materials Science Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He came to LANL following a 3-year visiting scholar position at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in Hamburg, Germany, having received his Ph.D. in materials science in 1981 from Carnegie Mellon University. As a staff member (1985-1987) and later team leader (1987-2003) in the Dynamic Materials Properties and Constitutive Modeling Section within the Structure/Property Relations Group (MST-8) at LANL, he has directed a research team working on investigations of the dynamic response of materials. He conducts fundamental, applied, and focused programmatic research on materials and structures, in particular in response to high-strain-rate and shock deformation. His research is focused on experimental and modeling studies of substructure evolution and mechanical response of materials. These constitutive and damage models are utilized in engineering computer codes to support large-scale finite element modeling simulations of structures ranging from national defense (DOE, DOD, DARPA), industry (GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Bettis), foreign object damage, and manufacturing. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, in the U.K., where he was on sabbatical in the summer of 1998. He co-chaired the Physical Metallurgy Gordon Conference in 2000. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a fellow of ASM International (ASM), and a fellow of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS). He also serves on the International
Scientific Advisory Board of the European DYMAT Association. In 2010 he served as the president of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. Starting in 2012 he became the chair of the Acta Materialia board of governors, which oversees the publication of the journals Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia. He has authored or coauthored over 410 technical publications.
PRABHAT HAJELA is provost and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include analysis and design optimization of multidisciplinary systems; system reliability; emergent computing paradigms for design; artificial intelligence; and machine learning in multidisciplinary analysis and design. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked as a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, for a year and was on the faculty at the University of Florida for 7 years. He has conducted research at NASA’s Langley and Glenn Research Centers and the Eglin Air Force Armament Laboratory. In 2003, Dr. Hajela served as a congressional fellow responsible for science and technology policy in the Office of U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). He worked on several legislative issues related to aerospace and telecommunications policy, including the anti-SPAM legislation that was signed into law in December 2003. Dr. Hajela is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), and a fellow of the ASME. He has held many editorial assignments, including editorship of Evolutionary Optimization and associate editorship of the AIAA Journal, and is on the editorial boards of six other international journals. He has published over 270 papers and articles in the areas of structural and multidisciplinary optimization and is an author or coauthor of four books in these areas. In 2004, he was the recipient of AIAA’s Biennial Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Award.
WESLEY L. HARRIS is the Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Provost for Faculty Equity, and Director of the Lean Sustainment Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for contributions to understanding of helicopter rotor noise, for encouragement of minorities in engineering, and for service to the aeronautical industry.” He has performed research and published in refereed journals in the following areas: fluid mechanics; aerodynamics; unsteady, nonlinear aerodynamics; acoustics; lean manufacturing processes; and military logistics and sustainment. Dr. Harris has substantial experience as a leader in higher education administration and management. He also has demonstrated outstanding leadership in managing major national and international aeronautical and aviation programs and personnel in the executive branch of the federal government. He is an elected fellow of the AIAA, the AHS, and the NTA for personal engineering achievements, engineering education, management, and advancing cultural diversity.
Staff
LIZA HAMILTON is an associate program officer at the Laboratory Assessments Board (LAB) in the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Since 2002, she has been responsible for managing the administrative aspects of panel formation, panel meetings, report publication and dissemination, and program development. In addition, she has designed newsletters, brochures, covers, and figures for numerous reports prepared by the Division on Life Sciences and DEPS of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Ms. Hamilton earned a 4-year certification in musical theater performance from Pinellas County Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida; a B.F.A. in film studies from the University of Utah; a design certification from Maryland Institute College of Art; and the master of liberal arts from the Johns Hopkins University.
EVA LABRE is the administrative coordinator for the LAB. Since 2009, she has been responsible for assisting in the management of the administrative aspects of panel formation, panel meetings, report publication and dissemination, and program development. In addition, she has been responsible for travel expense accounting. In February 2014, she was promoted and has recently taken on more responsibilities related to financial aspects of the work of the LAB. Ms. Labre previously held administrative positions at the National Academies on the staff of the Committee on International Organizations and Programs in the Office of International Affairs and on the staff of the Research Associateship Program in the Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel. Ms. Labre has a B.A. in art history from George Washington University.
JAMES P. McGEE is the director of the LAB, the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB), and the Committee on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Technical Programs, all within DEPS at the National Academies. Since 1994, he has been a senior staff officer at the Academies, directing projects in the areas of systems engineering and applied psychology, including activities of ARLTAB and projects of the Committee on National Statistics’ Panel on Operational Testing and Evaluation of the Stryker Vehicle and the Committee on Assessing the National Science Foundation’s Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System, the Committee on the Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers, and the Steering Committee on Differential Susceptibility of Older Persons to Environmental Hazards. He has also served as staff officer for the National Academies’ projects on air traffic control automation, musculoskeletal disorders and the workplace, and the changing nature of work. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. McGee held technical and management positions in systems engineering and applied psychology at IBM, General Electric, RCA, General Dynamics, and United Technologies. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Fordham University, both in psychology, and for several years instructed postsecondary courses in applied psychology and in organizational management.
ARUL MOZHI is senior program officer at the LAB. Since 1999, he has been directing projects in the areas of defense science and technology, including those carried out by numerous study committees of the LAB, the ARLTAB, the Naval Studies Board, and the National Materials and Manufacturing Board. Prior to joining the National Academies, Dr. Mozhi held technical and management positions in systems engineering and applied materials research and development at UTRON, Inc.; Roy F. Weston, Inc.; and Marko Materials, Inc. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (the latter in 1986) in materials engineering from the Ohio State University and then served as a postdoctoral research associate there. He received his B. Tech. in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1982.
