NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2012 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 13-15, 2012
Pieter Abbeel
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Kristi Anseth*
Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor of Surgery, and HHMI Assistant Investigator
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder
Andrea Armani
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California
Muhannad Bakir
Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Billy Bardin
R&D Director
Feedstocks and Energy Division
The Dow Chemical Company
Halil Berberoglu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Phaedra Boinodiris**
Serious Games Program Manager
IBM
Alexandra Boltasseva
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
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*Organizing Committee
**Speaker
David Brumley
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Karen Burg*
Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Clemson University
Xi Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia University
Li-Te Cheng*
Software Engineer
Gian Colombo
Metallurgist
Research and Development
Carpenter Technology
Xiquan Cui
Senior Engineer
MEMS Research and Innovation Center
Qualcomm Inc.
Michael Degner*
Senior Technical Leader, Electric Machine Drives
Electrification Research and Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Frank DelRio
Mechanical Engineer
Material Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
Senior Research Scientist
Energy and Environment Directorate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer Dionne
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Nathan Domagalski
Senior Research Investigator II
Development Engineering, R&D
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ayman EL-Refaie
Senior Engineer
Electrical Machines Lab
GE Global Research
Michael Escuti
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Joelle Frechette
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Yan Fu
Technical Specialist
Passive Safety Research and Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Weiying Gao
Research Associate, Electrical Engineer
Materials Science and Engineering
DuPont
David Garrett
Associate Technical Director
Office of the CTO
Broadcom Corporation
Brian Gerkey
CEO
Open Source Robotics Foundation
Matthew Gevaert**
CEO & Co-founder
KIYATEC Inc
Sayata Ghose
Materials, Process and Physics Engineer
Boeing Research and Technology
Boeing Company
Jordan Green
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Piyush Gupta
Member of Technical Staff
Mathematics of Networks and Communications Research
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Robert Hampshire
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University
Jessica Harrison
Principal Consultant
Electricity Transmission and Distribution
DNV KEMA Energy and Sustainability
Steve Hartmann
Senior Engineering Manager
Medtronic Navigation
Medtronic
Reed Hendershot
Senior Principal Research Engineer
Merchant Gases R&D
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Elizabeth Hillman
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Elizabeth Hoegeman
CFS WW Manufacturing Leader
Cummins Fuel Systems
Cummins Inc.
Jeremy Hollman
R&D Propulsion Group Lead/SUAS Group Lead
Cambridge Research and Development Center
Aurora Flight Sciences
Mona Jarrahi
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
Michael Jewett
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Suzette Johnson
Technical Fellow
Cyber Intelligence Division
Northrop Grumman
Christopher Jones**
New-Vision Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Anupama Kaul
Program Director
ECCS Division, Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
Ali Khademhosseini*
Associate Professor
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard University
Eli Kintisch**
Contributing Correspondent
Science Magazine
Scott Klemmer
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
LaShanda Teresa Korley
Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor
Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Ben Kravitz**
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Christopher Kruegel
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
T. C. Michael Law
Associate
Geotechnical Engineering
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Chunhao Lee
Staff Researcher
Propulsion Systems Research Lab, GM Global R&D
General Motors
Steven Little
Chair, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Associate Professor, and Bicentennial Faculty Fellow
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, and The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Xiang Liu
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Optical Transmission Systems Research
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Helen Lu**
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Jason Lyons
Research Scientist
Functional Additives R&D
Arkema, Inc.
Brian MacCleery
Principal Product Manager for Clean Energy Technology
Product Management
National Instruments
Arindam Maitra**
Senior Project Manager
Power Delivery and Utilization
Electric Power Research Institute
Rahul Mangharam**
Stephen J. Angello Chair and Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Richard Marks**
Senior Member
US R&D
Sony Computer Entertainment
Youssef Marzouk
Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kristyn Masters
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Meagan Mauter
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Jason May
Research Staff Engineer
Microwave Technology, Microelectronics Lab
HRL Laboratories
J. Rhett Mayor
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy McKnight
Chairman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Seed Money Program
Office of Institutional Planning and Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael McMickell
Technical Manager
Engineering
Honeywell Aerospace
W. David Merryman
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Rahul Mital
Global Technical Specialist
Aftertreatment-Diesel, GM Global Powertrain Engineering
General Motors
Mohammad Mofrad
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Nathan Moody
Project Leader and Technical Staff Member
High Power Electrodynamics
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sanjeev Naik*
Engineering Group Manager
Advanced Engine Controls
General Motors
Tse Nga Ng
Senior Research Scientist
Electronic Materials and Devices Lab
Palo Alto Research Center
Elisabeth Nguyen
Engineering Specialist
Software Systems Engineering Department
Aerospace Corporation
Nicholas Peters
Senior Scientist
Broadband Optical Networking Department
Applied Communication Sciences
Desiree Plata
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke University
Zoran Popovic**
Professor and Director, Center for Game Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
David Reeder
Principal Engineer
Process Solutions Technology Development Center
Cargill, Inc.
Kate Riggins
Principal Engineer
Personal Care Research and Development
Procter & Gamble Company
Lynn Russell**
Professor
Climate Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jeff Sakamoto**
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State University
Ben Sawyer*
Co-founder
Digitalmill
Wallace Sawyer
Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Florida
David Schaffer**
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
Charles Schroeder
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Stephanie Severance
Technical Project Leader
Off Highway Engineering
Cummins Inc.
Behrouz Shafei
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
David Sholl*
Michael Tennenbaum Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Leena Singh
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Algorithms and Software
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Armin Sorooshian*
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of Arizona
Shukri Souri
Principal and Practice Director
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Exponent, Inc.
Kurt Squire**
Associate Professor
Educational Communications and Technology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joshuah Stolaroff
Environmental Scientist
Global Security
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tong Sun
Principal Scientist
Xerox Innovation Group
Xerox Webster Research Center
Stuart Thomas
Global Technology and Licensing Manager
DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol
Industrial Biosciences
DuPont
Kevin Turner
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Kimberly Turner
Professor and Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris Urmson
Head of Engineering, Self-Driving Car Project
Google [X]
Peter van Beek
Principal Researcher
Systems, Algorithms and Services
SHARP Laboratories of America, Inc.
Sergei Vassilvitskii
Senior Research Scientist
Strategic Technologies
Kuansan Wang
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
Microsoft
Kevin Wasson
Senior Project Engineer - Precision
Advanced Engineering
Corning, Inc.
Ulrike Wegst
Associate Professor
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Matthew Willard**
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Jianzhong Wu
Professor
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Miao Yu
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland
Dinner Speaker
Alan Taub
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Guests
Laura Adolfie
Director, STEM Development Office
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Andrew Chraplyvy
Vice President
Optical Networks Research
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
William Hayden
Vice President
The Grainger Foundation
Rosemarie Wesson
Acting Director
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
National Science Foundation
General Motors
Mark Verbrugge
Director, Chemical Sciences and Materials Systems Laboratory
GM Research and Development
Lerinda Frost
Executive Communications and Business Support
GM Research & Development