Appendix N

Committee Biographies

Jill Hruby, Chair

Jill Hruby is the former director of Sandia National Laboratories, having served in that role from July 2015 through May 2017. During her 34 years at Sandia, she served as vice president of the Energy, Nonproliferation, and High-Consequence Security Division; leader of Sandia’s International, Homeland, and Nuclear Security Program; technical director in Materials and Engineering Sciences and in Homeland Security and Defense Systems; and held several leadership positions in materials science, weapon components, and micro-technologies. Ms. Hruby has authored numerous publications and holds three patents. Her awards include an R&D 100 Award, the Suzanne Jenniches Upward Mobility Award from the Society of Women Engineers, the Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary’s Exceptional Service Award, the National Nuclear Security Administrator’s Distinguished Service Gold Award, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. In 2017, Business Insider named Ms. Hruby the second most powerful female engineer. Ms. Hruby was the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s (NTI’s) inaugural Sam Nunn Distinguished Fellow, completing her year-long term in November 2019 and continues with NTI as a part-time Distinguished Fellow. She is a member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, having also previously served on the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and the Committee on Determining Core Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Defense Research and Development. Ms. Hruby is a member of the Defense Science Board, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs Advisory Committee, and on boards or advisory committees for several national laboratories, Ford Motor Company, and numerous nonprofits involved in technology and national security. Ms. Hruby

holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, both in mechanical engineering.

Corey Hinderstein, Vice Chair

Corey Hinderstein is the vice president of international fuel cycle strategies at NTI. From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Hinderstein served as the senior coordinator for nuclear security and nonproliferation policy affairs at NNSA. In this role, Ms. Hinderstein led the Iran Task Force, responsible for the development and implementation of policy and activities related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. She also advised the Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation on other significant policy and communications initiatives and was the Department’s lead for the substantive and logistical preparations for the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit. From 2006 to 2015, Ms. Hinderstein served as vice president for international programs at NTI, working on global nuclear nonproliferation and security. Ms. Hinderstein led the development and launch of the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) and played a significant role in NTI’s initiative to create an international low-enriched uranium bank at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ms. Hinderstein also edited the book Cultivating Confidence: Verification, Monitoring, and Enforcement for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (NTI, 2010) and co-authored the Innovating Verification: New Tools and New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks report series. Prior to joining NTI, Ms. Hinderstein was deputy director and senior analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security. Ms. Hinderstein is the immediate past president of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and serves on the board of directors for WINS and for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. She also chairs the Nonproliferation and National Security Department Advisory Committee at Brookhaven National Laboratory and serves on Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science and Technology Strategic Advisory Committee.

Andrew Alleyne

Dr. Andrew Alleyne is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests encompass the modeling, simulation, and implementation of control systems for complex systems and nonlinear systems. His current focus is on the optimization of energy and power systems using model-based approaches. He has developed simulation tools for understanding and predicting the behavior of complex thermal systems and transitioned that to implementations of control systems for dynamic thermal management. In particular, he works at the interface of electrical and thermal power for mobile systems since many of the thermal management challenges arise from electrical power usage. He established the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems. Additional areas of interest include manufacturing systems where he has

investigated high precision motion control technologies for on- and off-highway vehicles. His academic record includes supervision of more than 80 M.S. and Ph.D. students and more than 400 conference and journal publications. Dr. Alleyne is the recipient of a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation, has been Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a National Research Council associate. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), IEEE, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From ASME, he has received the Gustus Larson Award, the Charles Stark Draper Award for Innovative Practice, the Robert Henry Thurston Award, and the Henry Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award. He was a Fulbright fellow to the Netherlands and has held visiting professorships at TU Delft, University of Colorado, ETH Zurich, and Johannes Kepler University. He is also a recipient of the American Automatic Control Council Control Engineering Practice Award. Dr. Alleyne has held leadership positions for ASME, IEEE, and the International Federation of Automatic Control and been active in external advisory and review boards for universities, industry, and government including the Scientific Advisory Board for the U.S. Air Force and the National Academies Board on Army Research and Development. His record of campus service includes associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and the associate head for undergraduate programs in mechanical science and engineering. Dr. Alleyne received his B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Charles Craft

Charles Craft is a consultant to Sandia National Laboratories, Noblis, Inc., and Zel Technologies, LLC providing mentoring and advice on nuclear forensics and intelligence analyses. He has extensive experience in nuclear monitoring research, development, and engineering technology and technology trends. Mr. Craft was previously a manager and staff member at Sandia for 37 years, leading Sandia’s Field Intelligence Element’s Technical Assessments Department from 1997 until his retirement in 2017. In this role, he was responsible for technical analyses of current intelligence related to foreign nuclear weapons programs. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Craft also served as the chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee. In this role, he led the development of multiple assessments on foreign nuclear programs and led a national study (seven national laboratories and four federal agencies) on fissile material security. In recognition of his exemplary service, Mr. Craft received the Director of National Intelligence’s Seal Medallion Award, the highest Intelligence Community Award given to contractor personnel. Mr. Craft is a member of the Technical Nuclear Forensics Science Panel, an advisory panel to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) National Technical Nuclear Forensic Center. He is also a participant in multiple Air Force Technical Applications Center advisory panels,

serving as chair of both the Nuclear Plant Program Senior Advisory Panel and the Reactor Products Mission Advisory Panel, and member of the Nuclear Debris Collection and Analysis Senior Review Panel. Mr. Craft received a B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University and an M.A. in business management from New Mexico Highlands University.

Joseph R. DeTrani

Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani was most recently president of the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security. He was previously president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Currently, he is on the Board of Managers at Sandia National Laboratories and is a senior advisor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also a professor at the Graduate Department of Security and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University. Ambassador DeTrani joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in 2006, as an Associate Director of National Intelligence and Mission Manager for North Korea. In 2010, he was named Director of the National Counter Proliferation Center and senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence. Prior to joining the ODNI, Ambassador DeTrani served at the Department of State as the Special Envoy for Six Party Talks with North Korea, with the rank of Ambassador, and as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization. Before his service with the Department of State, Ambassador DeTrani had a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, his Washington assignments included leadership positions as the Director of East Asia Operations, Director of European Operations, Director of the Office of Technical Services, Director of Public Affairs, Director of the Crime and Narcotics Center and Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, William Casey. Ambassador DeTrani spent a number of years overseas, primarily in East Asia and China and is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and proficient in French. He is the recipient of numerous awards, to include the Donovan Award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, and the Commandant’s Award. Ambassador DeTrani is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on North Korea and is a fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies. He has published numerous articles dealing with North Korea, China, Iran, cyber security, and nonproliferation issues. He was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and is a graduate of New York University (NYU), where he received his Bachelor’s Degree with honors in economics, and attended NYU School of Law and Graduate School of Business Administration. He received a Certificate in Chinese from the State Department Foreign Language School in Taiwan and attended Harvard’s International Security Program for Executives.

Mona Dreicer

Dr. Mona Dreicer is the former deputy director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Dr. Dreicer

spent 17 years at LLNL, focusing on the laboratory’s nonproliferation programs, including international material protection and threat reduction, verification and safeguards technology, nonproliferation regimes and policy analysis, and international engagement. Prior to joining LLNL, Dr. Dreicer served as Director of the Office of Nuclear Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where she was involved in assessing compliance with nuclear arms control treaties and worked to ensure effective verification of nonproliferation agreements and U.S.-Russia nuclear materials programs. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Dreicer has worked in nuclear-related areas of international security, dose reconstruction, consequence management, environmental risk assessment and protection, and nuclear reactor safety for the U.S. government (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State Department), three U.S. national laboratories (Los Alamos National Laboratory [LANL], LLNL, and the Environmental Measurements Laboratory), the IAEA’s Department of Nuclear Safety, and a French nonprofit research organization (Centre d’étude sur l’Évaluation de la Protection dans le domaine Nucléaire, or CEPN). She has previously served on the National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Committee. Dr. Dreicer holds a Doctorate en Energetique from l’École Nationale Supériere des Mines de Paris (School of Mines of Paris), Centre d’Énergétique (Center of Energy Studies), Paris, France.

Sallie Ann Keller

Dr. Sallie Ann Keller is an endowed distinguished professor in biocomplexity, director of the Social and Decision Analytics Division within the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at University of Virginia and professor of public health sciences. Her areas of expertise are social and decision informatics, statistical underpinnings of data science, and data access and confidentiality. Dr. Keller’s is a leading voice in creating the science of all data and advancing this research across disciplines to benefit society. Her prior positions include professor of statistics and director of the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory within the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech; academic vice president and provost at University of Waterloo; director of the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute; the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering at Rice University; head of the Statistical Sciences group at LANL; professor of statistics at Kansas State University; and Statistics Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Keller is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. She has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, the Committee on National Statistics, and has chaired the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. She is fellow of the AAAS, elected member of the International Statistics Institute, fellow and past president of the American Statistical Association, and member of the JASON advisory group.

Annie Kersting

Dr. Annie Kersting is currently the director of university relations and science education at LLNL and was previously the director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at LLNL, a collaborative research center in radiochemistry and nuclear forensics. Dr. Kersting is a respected scientist in the fields of radiochemistry, isotope geochemistry, and environmental chemistry, and has particular expertise in the geochemical mechanisms that control actinide transport in soil and groundwater. Her particular research interest is to better understand both the mechanistic and transport behavior of contaminants in soil-water-rock systems. In 2016 she was awarded the Garvan-Olin national award by the American Chemical Society for distinguished scientific accomplishment, leadership, and service to chemistry. Dr. Kersting has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Environmental Protection Agency Radiation Advisory Board (2015–present) and the National Academies Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (2010–2015). She is currently an associate editor for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. She has also been a steering committee member for numerous workshops and conferences on radiochemistry and actinide science. Dr. Kersting received her M.S. and Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from the University of Michigan and a B.Sc. degree from U.C. Berkeley in the same field.

Thorne Lay

Dr. Thorne Lay is a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is an eminent seismologist who has conducted research on the characterization of underground nuclear explosions as well as on the structure of the Earth’s interior and on the physics of earthquake faulting. Dr. Lay is a highly respected and cited researcher, with an h-index of 72. Dr. Lay was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 for having made fundamental contributions to studies of seismic sources and earth structure. He has served on several National Academies committees and panels since 1988. He is also an elected fellow of the AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Lay has received numerous other honors and awards for his research, including the Harry Fielding Reid Medal from the Seismological Society of America, the Inge Lehmann Medal from the American Geophysical Union, and the Air Force Technical Applications Center Plaque of Appreciation. Dr. Lay received his Ph.D. and M.S. in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology.

Keith Masback

Keith Masback is the owner and principal consultant at Plum Run, LLC, providing advisory and consulting services to leading-edge companies working in geospatial intelligence and related fields. He was named “2019 Geospatial Ambassador of the Year” by Geospatial World Media and is an active early stage investor. Prior

to founding Plum Run, Mr. Masback spent more than a decade as the president / chief executive officer of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Before joining USGIF, he spent more than 20 years combined as an infantry and military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and as a government senior executive civilian on the Army staff and at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Mr. Masback is a councilor and fellow of the American Geographical Society, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Special Operations Forces Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Spy Museum. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Hermeus Corporation, Anno.ai, Inc. and Orbital Insight, Inc. He is the immediate past Chair of the Department of Interior’s National Geospatial Advisory Committee where he remains a member of the Landsat Advisory Group. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Gettysburg College and completed the Post-Graduate Intelligence Program at the National Intelligence University.

Chris A. Pickett

Chris A. Pickett worked at the Oak Ridge sites (ORNL and Y-12) as both as a researcher and technical leader for many domestic and international efforts associated with nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards. From 2016 to 2019 he served as a technical advisor for NNSA’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D Program in Washington, DC. In July 2020, Mr. Pickett retired from ORNL as a distinguished member of the R&D staff and now serves at Spectra Tech, Inc. as the director of Nuclear Safeguards and Nonproliferation Services. Mr. Pickett has 40+ years of experience with many nuclear fuel cycle processes including weapon’s production and has supported multiple international efforts with the IAEA and efforts to secure nuclear material at Russian sites. Mr. Pickett holds three U.S. Patents and has authored or co-authored more than 150 technical papers on safeguards tracking and monitoring technologies, characterization of uranium materials, and sealing methods. His work in tagging, sealing, and tracking technologies is internationally recognized by the IAEA and other nonproliferation communities. In 2001–2002, Mr. Pickett served as the Safeguards Lead on the “DOE/NNSA post-9/11 Task Force for Nuclear Safeguards and Security” and received three DOE Awards of Excellence for the development of technology to safeguard nuclear materials and improve nuclear security at U.S. sites. Mr. Pickett is active in INMM where he served as president of the Central Region Chapter, Chair of the Charles E. Pietri Special Service Award subcommittee, a member-at-large, chair of the MC&A Technical Division, and continues to serve as a member of the Technical Program Committee. Mr. Pickett is a fellow of INMM and served as the Institute’s Secretary (2009–2019). Mr. Pickett holds degrees in physics and electrical and computer engineering from Bowling Green State University and the University of Tennessee. He is member of Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics) and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering) honorary societies.

William Tobey

William Tobey is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at NNSA from 2006 to 2009. There, he managed the U.S. government’s largest program to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism by detecting, securing, and disposing of dangerous nuclear material. Mr. Tobey also served on the National Security Council staff under three presidents, in defense policy, arms control, and counter-proliferation positions. He has participated in international negotiations ranging from the START talks with the Soviet Union to the Six Party Talks with North Korea. He also has 10 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital. He served on the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017, and currently serves on the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He chairs the board of WINS. Mr. Tobey holds a master of public policy degree from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree from Northwestern University.

Ned Wogman

Dr. Ned Wogman is the former chief scientist of the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and continues to assist various programs at the laboratory. He was awarded PNNL’s Laboratory Directors Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science and Technology in 2007 in recognition for his impact in the fields of nuclear and radiochemistry, as well as for his leadership in the development of analytical techniques for radionuclide detection and analysis. In a career at PNNL spanning more than four decades, Dr. Wogman analyzed lunar rocks from the Apollo missions, applied environmental measurement techniques for international organizations such as the IAEA and United Nations, and developed solutions to national security problems that impact U.S. policy. He received an R&D 100 Award in 1999 for the “Development of PUMA Fiber Optic Neutron and Gamma-Ray Sensor.” Dr. Wogman and his group also received multiple Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards over his tenure at PNNL. In addition, he was a key participant in an international team that developed the Wide Area Environmental Study that was used by the IAEA to start their 93+2 program (WAES-321), and served as a nuclear inspector for the UN Action Team in Iraq in 1998. After September 11, 2001, Dr. Wogman worked with the chief scientists from LLNL, LANL, and Sandia National Laboratories to develop the future science needs for what was to become DHS. He then served as the inaugural Director of Homeland Security Programs at PNNL for six years before becoming the Chief Scientist of the National Security Directorate. Dr. Wogman holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from Purdue University and is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.