NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 9–11, 2015
Amir AghaKouchak*
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Alina Alexeenko
Associate Professor
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University
Andrea Alù**
Associate Professor, David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Jorge Arinez
Lab Group Manager
Manufacturing Systems Research Lab
General Motors Research & Development
David Baek
Senior Staff Engineer
Qualcomm
Debasish Banerjee
Principal Scientist
Materials Research Department
Toyota Research Institute of North America
Jeremy Banik**
Senior Research Engineer
Space Vehicles Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Behnam Bastani
Lead Staff Display Engineer
Display Division/Google [X]
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*Organizing Committee
**Speaker
Sarah Bedair
Electronics Engineer and Team Leader Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
Power Components Branch
Army Research Laboratory
Peter Bermel
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Barron Bichon
Manager, Probabilistic Mechanics
Materials Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineering Division
Southwest Research Institute
Jonathan Black**
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Virginia Tech
Lars Blackmore
Principal Rocket Landing Engineer
Guidance Navigation and Control
SpaceX
Jose Blanchet
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
Alexandra Boltasseva**
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Robert Braun*
David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
David Brumley*
Associate Professor
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Alberto Giovanni Busetto
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Candler
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Krystel Castillo
GreenStar Endowed Assistant Professor in Energy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio
Judy Cha
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Yale University
Julie Chambon
Engineer
Geosyntec Consultants
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Ann Chiaramonti Debay
Materials Research Engineer
Material Measurement Lab
Applied Chemicals and Materials Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Duncan Coffey
Technical Manager
Industrial Biosciences
DuPont
Andrea Corrion
Research Staff Scientist
RF MMIC Technologies
HRL Laboratories
Jeffrey Czajkowski**
Senior Research Fellow
Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
University of Pennsylvania
Samantha Daly
Associate Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Anthony D’Amato
Research Engineer
Modern Control Methods
Ford Motor Company
Michael DePierro
Process Engineering Specialist
Silanes Process Engineering
Dow Corning Corporation
Shana Diez
Manager for Reusability Development
Vehicle Engineering
SpaceX
Jennifer Dionne*
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Jennifer Donahue
Associate
Geosyntec Consultants
James Done*
Project Scientist II and Willis Research Fellow
NCAR Earth System Laboratory
Ramakrishna Dontha
Director, Advanced Controls Development
Cummins Emission Solutions
Cummins Inc.
Adam Engler
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Anna Erickson
Assistant Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Larry Fahnestock
Associate Professor and CEE Excellence Faculty Fellow
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Waleed Farahat
Director of Mechatronics and Control
Rethink Robotics
Philip Freeman
Technical Fellow
Advanced Production Systems
Boeing Company
Kevin Fu**
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Yun Fu
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Jeannette Garcia
Research Staff Member
Chemistry and Advanced Materials Research
IBM Almaden Research Center
Kevin Geary
Senior Research Staff Engineer and Department Manager
Apertures Department, Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory
HRL Laboratories
Christopher Geiger
Market Segment Chief Engineer
Enterprise Test Solutions
Lockheed Martin
Brian German
Langley Associate Professor
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Julia Greer**
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Eric Guyer
Principal Engineer and Office Director
Materials and Corrosion Engineering
Exponent, Inc.
Javier Guzman
Research Associate
Corporate Strategic Research
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Karl Haapala
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University
Xue Han
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University
He (Helen) Huang
Associate Professor
UNC-NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
DeShawn Jackson
Marketing Manager
Product Enhancement
Halliburton
Jennifer Jordan
Program Officer, Dynamic Materials and Interactions
Engineering and Information Sciences Branch
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Christine Keenan
Program Manager
Graphics Communication Program Management Group
Xerox
Jeffrey Lee
Member of Technical Staff
Bell Laboratories/Alcatel-Lucent
Li Li
Associate Professor
Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Zhuo Li
Software Architect
Digital Signoff Group
Cadence Design Systems
Chien-Chi Lin
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Indiana University – Purdue University
Ning Lin**
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
Sarah Lipscy
Principle Engineer
Systems Engineering
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Jennifer Listgarten
Researcher
MSR New England
Microsoft
Haowei Liu
Staff Research Engineer
Perceptual Computing
Intel
Amy Lo**
Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Hussam Mahmoud
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Colorado State University
Christienne Mancini
Systems Engineering Lead
Civil Systems Division, Information Systems Sector
Northrop Grumman
Megan McCain
Gabilan Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Bryan McCloskey
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Elia Merzari
Principal Nuclear Engineer
Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science and Nuclear Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory
Jeetain Mittal
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Lehigh University
Rebecca Moore**
Engineering Manager
Google Earth Engine
Patrick Norris
Product and Technology Development Engineer
Cardiovascular Products
W. L. Gore & Associates
Grace O’Connell
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Daniela Oliveira*
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
Timothy Ombrello
Research Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace Systems Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
David Parkes
George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Bryan Payne**
Engineering Manager
Platform Security
Netflix
Lisa Poyneer
Research Engineer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jeff Putnam
Technical Director
Broadband Communications Group
Broadcom Corporation
Jun Qu
Senior R&D Staff Scientist
Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Varun Raghunathan
Research Engineer
Life Science and Pathology Instrumentation
Agilent Research Laboratories
Mabel Ramirez
Technical Staff
Air and Missile Defense Technology Division
Advanced Concepts and Technology Group
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Franziska Roesner**
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
John Rose
Engineering Manager and Chief of Staff, Engineering
The Boeing Company
Scott Saponas
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Dmitry Savransky**
Assistant Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Sara Seager*
Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Science
Departments of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie Shah
Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maryam Shanechi
Assistant Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Sameer Sonkusale
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tufts University
Christopher Spadaccini**
Principal Investigator and Research Engineer
Center for Micro- and Nanotechnology
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Todd Stewart
Manufacturing Technology Senior Engineer/Scientist
DuPont Protection Technology
DuPont
Luke Sweatlock*
Research Scientist
Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Laboratory
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Stephanie TerMaath
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
University of Tennessee
Peter Tessier
Richard Baruch M.D. Career Development Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tomas Vagoun**
Cybersecurity R&D Technical Coordinator
National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology R&D
Mario Valenti
Lead Structural Engineer
Transportation and Infrastructure Division
STV Inc.
Jason Valentine
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Anthony Vamivakas
Assistant Professor
Institute of Optics
University of Rochester
Peggy Van Eepoel
Associate Principal
Structures
Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
Mandana Veiseh
Senior Scientist
Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
Enrique Vivoni
Professor
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
Richard Vuduc
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
School of Computational Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mitchell Walker*
Associate Professor
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chonggang Wang
Member Technical Staff/Senior Manager
Innovation Lab
InterDigital Inc.
Joshua White
Research Scientist
Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Laurent White
Research Associate
Corporate Strategic Research
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Kathryn Whitehead
Assistant Professor
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Kristin Williams
Principal Engineer
Fabric and Home Care
Research and Development
Procter and Gamble Company
Guihua Yu
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Roseanna Zia
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Stephen Zingelewicz
Senior Engineer
Software Sciences and Analytics
GE Global Research
Dinner Speaker
Corale Brierley
Principal
Brierley Consultancy LLC
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
Alton D. Romig, Jr.
Executive Officer
Janet Hunziker
Senior Program Officer
Sherri Hunter
Program Coordinator
