Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2018 US Frontiers of Engineering
September 5-7, 2018
Chair: Jennifer West, Duke University
QUANTUM COMPUTERS: ARE WE THERE YET?
Organizers:
Grace Metcalfe, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and Jerry Chow, IBM
Quantum Computing—
What It Is, Why We Want It, and How We’re Trying to Get It
Sara Gamble, Army Research Office
Quantum Algorithms: Promise and Perspective
Shelby Kimmel, Middlebury College
Logical Quantum Computing
Sarah Sheldon, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Quantum Simulation
Norman Yao, University of California, Berkeley
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THE ROLE OF ENGINEERING IN THE FACE OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER
Organizers:
Francesca D’Arcangelo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and
Mira Olson, Drexel University
Mapping Technologies During Hurricane Harvey
Julia Moline, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Engineering for the People:
Putting Peace, Social Justice, and Environmental Protection at the Heart of All Engineering
Darshan Karwat, Arizona State University
Bridge of Cards: Combining Formal and Informal Structures in Crisis Response
Willow Brugh, Truss
USAID Approaches to Development Engineering Innovation and Disaster Relief
Marissa Jablonski, USAID
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RESILIENT AND RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Organizers:
Julie Pietrzak, STV Inc., and Iris Tien, Georgia Institute of Technology
Communicating Advanced Infrastructure Resiliency Analytics to Diverse Groups of Stakeholders
Josh Vertalka, Resilient Solutions 21
Identifying Infrastructure Dependencies and Interdependencies
Robert Hanson, Department of Homeland Security
Climate Change and Infrastructure Resilience
Firas Saleh, Jupiter
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THERANOSTICS
Organizers:
Rebekah Drezek, Rice University, and
Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Challenges of Developing Targeted Theranostic Nanoparticles and Potential Solutions That Are on the Horizon
Andrew Tsourkas, University of Pennsylvania
Synthetic Biomarkers for Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
Ester Kwon, University of California, San Diego
Immune Theranostics
Evan Scott, Northwestern University
