Participants
Sarah Absher
Front End Innovation Process Development Leader
Skin and Personal Care, Research & Development
Procter & Gamble
Khurram Afridi**
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
James (Brad) Aimone
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Data-Driven and Neural Computing
Sandia National Laboratories
Adolph (Miller) Allen
Director, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Transistor and Interconnect Group/Metal Deposition Products
Applied Materials
Elma Avdic
Director
EBU On-Highway Product Engineering
Cummins Inc.
Gregg Beckham
Group Leader
National Bioenergy Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Julie Bert
Area Manager
Electronics, Materials, and Devices Lab
PARC, A Xerox Company
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* Organizing Committee
** Speaker
Mariana Bertoni**
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
Rajan Bhattacharyya*
Senior Research Engineer
Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory
HRL Laboratories
Griselda Bonilla
Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager
Semiconductor Technology Research
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Bouchra Bouqata**
Senior Analytics Product Manager and Senior Scientist
GE Renewable Energy
GE Global Research
Jordan Boyd-Graber**
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Danielle Braje
Assistant Group Leader
Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Robert Braun*
Dean
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Kristen Brosnan
Technical Operations Leader
Metals Discipline
GE Global Research
Emma Brunskill**
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Otger Campas
Assistant Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Systems Biology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Liling Cao
Vice President
Forensics and Advanced Analytics
Thornton Tomasetti
John Gunnar Carlsson
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Jose Carmena**
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Nurcin Celik
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Miami
Vikas Chandra
Senior Principal Research Engineer
ARM
Junho Cho
Member of Technical Staff
Optical Transmission Subsystems Department
Nokia Bell Labs
Jerry Chow
Manager, Experimental Quantum Computing
Research
IBM
Louis Christen
Director, Advanced Communications and Electronics
Applied Research and Technology Development
Northrop Grumman
Francesca D’Arcangelo
Technical Staff
Homeland Protection Systems
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Katherine Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Ying Diao
Assistant Professor and Dow Chemical Faculty Scholar
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Dyer
Chief Engineer
Terra Bella (Skybox Imaging)
Katherine Dykes*
Senior Engineer
National Wind Technology Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Azita Emami**
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Randy Ewoldt
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew Facchine
Advanced Systems Architect
Advanced Concepts and Technology
Northrop Grumman
Anne Fischer
Program Manager
Defense Sciences Office
DARPA
Gregory Fritz
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Materials Science and Engineering
Draper Laboratory
Cynthia Ginestra
Research Engineer
Long Range Research
Shell
Sidhant Gupta
Researcher
Microsoft Research NExT
Maria-Paz Gutierrez*
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Xue Han*
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Tim Heidel**
Deputy Chief Scientist
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Florian Herrault
Senior Research Staff Engineer
Microelectronics Laboratory
HRL Laboratories
Laura Hiatt
Research Scientist
Information Technology Division
Naval Research Laboratory
David Hoelzle
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ohio State University
Marcus Holzinger
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kun Hu
Research Manager
Accelerated Discovery Lab
IBM
Anya Jones
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland
Amit Kanvinde
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis
Sinan Keten
Associate Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Oleg Komogortsev
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
Konrad Kording**
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Venkatesh Krishnan
Director, Product Management
Technology Licensing
Qualcomm
Ana Maria Kupresanin
Applied Statistics Group Leader
Engineering
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Duygu Kuzum
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Gabe Kwong
Assistant Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Markita Landry
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Alvin Lin
Master Engineer
Wireless Connectivity Combo
Broadcom
Erin MacDonald
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Jonathan Malen
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Schuyler Marsh
Chemical Engineering Consultant
Engineering Research and Technology
DuPont
Claude Matalanis
Principal Research Engineer
Thermal and Fluid Sciences
United Technologies Research Center
Ellis Meng**
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Grace Metcalfe
Physicist
Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
US Army Research Laboratory
Jeremy Munday*
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Viswanath Nagarajan
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Abhijit Namjoshi
Application Development and Technical Services Leader
Polyurethanes
Dow Chemical Company
Osama Nayfeh
Engineer
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific
Caleb Nelson
Research Specialist
Corporate Research Laboratory
3M
Stephen Nichols**
Associate Director, Passenger Experience Segment
Global Engineering
Otis Elevator Company
Mira Olson
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Drexel University
William Osborn
Materials Research Engineer
Material Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Carla Pereira
Senior Researcher
R&D - Process Technology
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Dimitrios Peroulis
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Julie Pietrzak
Civil Engineer
Buildings and Facilities Division
STV
Michael Ramage**
Architectural Engineer and Senior Lecturer
Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge
Karthik Raman
Research Scientist
Amanda Randles
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Sujith Ravi
Staff Research Scientist, Technical Lead Manager, and Head of Graph Machine Learning Group
Debora Rodrigues
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Houston
Tim Rupert
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Jenny Sabin**
Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
Cornell University
Dareen Salama
Director of Technical Services
Lehrer LLC
James Salvador
Staff Researcher, Energy Storage Materials
Chemical and Materials Systems Lab
GM Global Research and Development
Kelly Sanders
Assistant Professor
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California
Suchi Saria**
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Will Scott
Software Architect
Accessibility Technology and Innovation
IBM Research
Onome Scott-Emuakpor
Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace Systems Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Maryam Shanechi*
Assistant Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Mikhail Shapiro
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Hadley Sikes
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Min-Sun Son
Manager
Biomedical Engineering
Exponent, Inc.
Wil Srubar
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
Cui Tao
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas at Houston
Iris Tien
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Marija Trcka*
Technology Sourcing Specialist
Innovation Business Development
United Technologies Corp.
Sara Tucker
LiDAR Staff Consultant
Systems Engineering
Ball Aerospace
Robert Visco
Lead Machinery Engineer
Operational Excellence Technical Team
Air Products and Chemicals
Helen Wang
Scientist
Altuglas
Arkema Inc.
Nora Wang
Engineer
Building Energy Systems – Energy and Environment Directorate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Renee Wegrzyn
Program Manager
Biological Technologies Office
DARPA
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Senior Researcher
Microsoft
Xiaobo Yin
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
Yan Zhao
Principal Research Engineer
Energy Process Industry R&D
Air Products and Chemicals
Joshua Zide
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Delaware
Dinner Speaker
David Parekh
Corporate Vice President, Research and Director
United Technologies Research Center
United Technologies
Gregory J. Hayes
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
United Technologies Corporation
J. Michael McQuade
Senior Vice President, Science and Technology
United Technologies Corporation
Guests
William (Bill) Hayden
Vice President
The Grainger Foundation
Sohi Rastegar
Senior Advisor
Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
William Regli
Special Assistant to the Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
National Academy of Engineering
C. D. Mote, Jr.
President
Alton D. Romig, Jr.
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Sherri Hunter
Program Coordinator
