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Biographical Information for Speakers
JACK BEUTH is a professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and co-director of the CMU Next Manufacturing Center, CMU’s Additive Manufacturing Research and Education Center. Beuth received his Ph.D. in engineering sciences from Harvard University in 1992. He has been a researcher in the field of additive manufacturing for more than 25 years and has authored or co-authored more than 120 publications. Beuth’s modeling research in additive manufacturing has led to the development of “process map” approaches for mapping out the role of principal process variables on process characteristics such as melt pool geometry, microstructure, porosity, and build rate. Beuth’s research is allowing unique insights into process control, expansion of process operating ranges, identification of tests needed to characterize a process, and unique comparisons of additive manufacturing processes operating in very different regions of processing space.
GOPI BILLA leads Deloitte’s Market Sensing and Scenario Planning Offering and the Banking & Capital Markets Strategy Consulting practice in the United States. Prior to this role, Billa assumed several leadership positions across Deloitte and Monitor Deloitte, including leading Consulting Services for Deloitte India, heading Monitor Deloitte in India, leading Monitor’s Commercial Leadership team in the Middle East, and heading Monitor’s Scenario Planning practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. For nearly two decades, Billa has worked with multinational corporations, governments, and nonprofit organizations across more than 30 countries on strategic, organizational, and transformational issues. His projects have focused on strategy development, scenario planning, change management,
governance, and large-scale organizational and operational transformation. Billa has a master’s in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a bachelor’s in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
CHARLES (CHIP) BLANKENSHIP is a proven executive leader in aerospace, industrial, and consumer businesses with international experience in more than 40 countries, including significant time working in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Blankenship is currently Montgomery Distinguished Professor of Practice in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia. He is leading transformations in undergraduate education focused on learning at the intersection of engineering and business. He was chief executive officer (CEO) and director of Arconic, Inc., a $13 billion engineered materials company focused on aluminum, titanium, and Ni-base superalloy materials and products for aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications. Prior to that role, he spent 25 years at the General Electric Company (GE), concluding tenure as CEO of GE Appliances and Lighting, an $8 billion business. Blankenship led a reshoring of manufacturing initiative at GE Appliances, rebuilt technical capability, and concluded a strategic sale to Haier for $5.4 billion in 2016. Blankenship began his career with GE in 1992 as a staff scientist at GE’s Corporate Research and Development facility. His technical work resulted in 23 papers published in refereed journals and eight U.S. and European patents. As a program manager, he led a team of scientists and engineers developing alloys and processes for aircraft engines, land-based gas turbines, lighting systems, medical systems, and diesel engines. He then joined GE Aviation, holding positions of increasing responsibility, including program manager for the first GE engine development program with Embraer: a 70-90 passenger jet family from startup through certification and entry-into-service. He also led the GE Aeroderivative Energy business focused on power generation and oil and gas markets prior to returning to GE Aviation as vice president and general manager of Commercial Engines, a $5 billion business.
ANN BOLCAVAGE is an engineering associate fellow at Rolls-Royce and leads the strategic development of critical coating materials and manufacturing technologies for civil aerospace and defense gas turbine engines. Bolcavage joined Rolls-Royce Corporation in Indianapolis in 2006, and her expertise focuses on the development of novel materials, advanced manufacturing processes, and cost-effective repair methods for high-value turbine engine components. Her previous roles have included senior engineering specialist, manager of the Surface Engineering group at Rolls-Royce plc, and chief of materials capability acquisition. Bolcavage is an honors graduate of Lehigh University and received her advanced degrees in metallurgical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
JOSH CRAMER is director of education and workforce development at the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM)/America Makes. Cramer joined NCDMM in 2018 as the education and workforce director for America Makes, providing overall program leadership responsibility for all America Makes’ Education and Workforce initiatives. Previously, he served as the director of educational programs at the SME Education Foundation, monitoring, promoting, and evaluating all its major programs. In addition to those duties, he also served for a time as the interim executive director of the foundation. At the SME Education Foundation, Cramer’s duties entailed actively collaborating with manufacturing partners to assess the knowledge and skillset needs to establish strategic plans while building programs to meet the skills gap needs of manufacturers. Before joining the SME Education Foundation, he was the director of school engagement for Project Lead The Way, a nonprofit organization that provides a transformative learning experience for PreK-12 students and teachers across the United States. Cramer started his education career as an applied engineering instructor for the South Park School District in South Park, Pennsylvania. He holds a master’s in education and a bachelor of science in education as well as industrial technology from the California University of Pennsylvania as well as engineering education certification.
DAMON DOZIER, Materials Research Society (MRS) director of government affairs, joined MRS in September 2014. Based in Washington, DC, his duties include developing government relations strategies and programs, informing members about legislative developments, and serving as a chief advocate on interdisciplinary materials research and technology issues. Prior to joining MRS, Dozier served as the director of public affairs for the American Anthropological Association. He has more than 20 years of government and policy experience, including serving as an assistant advocate for environmental policy with the Small Business Administration, a legislative assistant on the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the director of government and public affairs for the National Small Business Association. Dozier also served as the legislative director for former Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1989 from Howard University in Washington, DC, and is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Association Executives and the Council of Engineering and Social Science Executives.
JEFFREY FERGUS is the associate dean for undergraduate studies and program assessment in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, where he has served on the Materials Engineering faculty since 1992. He earned a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Fergus has been a
member of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) and the American Ceramic Society for more than 30 years and has served on the TMS board of directors as director of professional development. He has been involved in the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a program evaluator (PEV) for TMS and is a lead facilitator for PEV training. He represented TMS on the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and is currently a member of the EAC executive committee as past-chair, having chaired the EAC for the 2019-2020 accreditation cycle. He is a fellow of ABET and of the Electrochemical Society.
LORI GRAHAM-BRADY, chair of the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and associate director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), one of Johns Hopkins University’s (JHU’s) premier research institutes, is a leading global researcher in the field of computational stochastic mechanics, multiscale modeling of materials with random microstructure, and the mechanics of failure under high-rate loading. Graham-Brady’s research provides critical computational modeling needed to understand the connections between material-scale uncertainties and reliability of structures. Her work in direct government and industrial application includes development of a collaborative program funded by and in partnership with the Army research laboratories for implementing multiscale modeling and design of materials for extreme dynamic environments, in particular designing ceramics and composites for armor applications. Graham-Brady also develops correlation-based simulations of complex material microstructures for Corning, Inc., in order to identify quantitative metrics that describe multi-phase materials and to connect these metrics to key material performance. Additional studies in reducing defense threats and improving global security and safety include a 3-year project to create fragmentation models that will help characterize the debris that arises from very high-rate events such as nuclear blast. Her innovations in furthering engineering education include a 7-year study for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) flagship program, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee-ship (IGERT) on modeling complex systems and developing the scientific basis of coupling multi-scale multi-physics models. From 2008 to 2016, Graham-Brady directed the JHU Modeling Complex Systems IGERT for 25 Ph.D. JHU students from six departments, with nearly 50 percent participation by women or members of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics underrepresented minorities. She initiated new professional development courses, a technical course related to modeling, and the program’s foundational peer interaction: a student-run colloquium series. As a key leader of the multidisciplinary HEMI, Graham-Brady’s research and leadership further HEMI’s mission to advance the fundamental science associated with materials and structures under extreme conditions and develop the tools and basic science needed to address future threats and opportunities. Specifically, she oversees HEMI staff and leads HEMI’s internationally recognized
annual Mach Conference. Graham-Brady holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Ceramic Society, and Society of Women Engineers. Her extensive leadership of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) includes currently chairing its Probabilistic Methods Committee and serving on the ASCE EMI awards and nominating committees. Additionally, she has served on the EMI board of governors from 2011 to 2014 and the ASCE EMI Huber Awards selection committee, chaired the communications committee, and co-founded the ASME Committee on Uncertainty and Probabilistics, for which she held an 8-year tenure as vice chair. Her awards include the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and the William H. Huggins Award for Excellence in Teaching. A sought-after reviewer of more than 200 papers for structures and mechanics journals, Graham-Brady has been associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics since 2014, and also serves on the editorial boards of Structural Safety (since 2017) and Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (since 2007). She received her B.E./A.B. in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College in 1990, an M.A. in civil engineering (1990), and a Ph.D. in civil engineering and operations research (1996) from Princeton University.
JOHN D. JOANNOPOULOS is the Francis Wright Davis Chair Professor of Physics and the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The research of Joannopoulos has spanned two major directions in the field of condensed matter physics. The first is devoted to creating a realistic and microscopic theoretical description of the properties of material systems. This approach is fundamental to predicting geometric, electronic and dynamical structure, ab initio—that is, given only the atomic numbers of the constituent atoms as experimental input. Ab initio investigations are invaluable because they can stand on their own, complement experimental observations, and probe into regimes inaccessible to experiment. He is responsible for the development of numerous theoretical methods to enable tractable and accurate calculations of elementary excitations in complex many-particle systems. In particular, this work has spanned a wide range of topics including the electronic, vibrational, and optical structure of crystalline and amorphous bulk solids, their surfaces, interfaces, and defects. The second major direction, and current major thrust, involves the development of a new class of materials called photonic crystals, which are designed to affect the properties of photons in much the same way that semiconductors effect the properties of electrons. These materials provide new mechanisms in the ability to control and mold the flow of light that are impossible with conventional optics. Efforts include the design of novel channel drop microfilters, high-efficiency LEDs,
low-threshold microlasers, low-loss waveguide bends and intersections, and anomalous light phenomena such as one-way waveguides and other non-trivial topological effects, negative refraction, reversed Doppler-shifts, and reversed Cerenkov radiation. Joannopoulos was chair of applied physical sciences at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2013-2016). He is the author or coauthor of more than 670 refereed journal articles, four textbooks (three on photonic crystals, one on quantum theory of materials), and more than 125 issued U.S. patents. He is also co-founder of six startup companies: OmniGuide Inc., Luminus Devices, Inc., WiTricity Corporation, Typhoon HIL, Inc., Lux Labs, Inc., and Lightelligence. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS), and World Technology Network. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1976-1980), a John S. Guggenheim Fellow (1981-1982), and has been on the Thompson Reuters Web of Science Most Highly Cited Researchers List since 2003, with current Web of Science citations over 76,000 and a 121 h-index. Joannopoulos is the recipient of the MIT School of Science Graduate Teaching Award (1991), the William Buechner Teaching Prize of the Department of Physics (1996), the David Adler Award of the American Physical Society (1997), the Aneesur Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society (2015), and the Max Born Medal Award of the Optical Society of America (2015). He is a former divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters and former member of the editorial board of Reviews of Modern Physics.
CHARLIE KUEHMANN has been a leader in computational materials design since its inception. In creating the first company dedicated to commercializing computational materials design, he has innovated the first materials and alloys from this new technology—high-performance steels for race cars, aluminum alloys for aircraft, gear materials for helicopters, high-temperature alloys for turbine engines, and even bubble-gum. As the computational materials design revolution has gained momentum, and been embraced by government and private research and development (R&D) organizations through the Accelerated Insertion of Materials and Materials Genome Initiative, Kuehmann has brought the technology to the consumer electronics industry and most recently to electric vehicles and spacecraft. Kuehmann currently leads the materials engineering organizations at both Tesla and SpaceX, driving material solutions to enable the world’s transition to a sustainable future, the commercialization of space, and a multi-planetary civilization.
AJAY P. MALSHE is the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Malshe joined the Purdue faculty from the University of Arkansas, where he served as a Distinguished Professor and 21st Century Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering. He has gained a national and international reputation in advanced manufacturing, bio-inspired designing, material surface engineering, and system integration. Malshe has received numerous honors, including fellowships to the International Academy of Production Engineering, American Society of Materials, ASME, and the Institute of Physics. In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineers “for innovations in nanomanufacturing with impact in multiple industry sectors.” Malshe has trained more than 60 graduate and postdoctoral students; published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and received more than 20 patents, resulting in award-winning engineered products applied in energy, aerospace, transportation and electric vehicles, high-performance racing, and other industrial sectors; and delivered more than 100 keynote and invited presentations. He serves multiple professional organizations through his leadership roles on various national and international committees.
DAN E. MARREN is lead for university engagement and workforce development and independent contractor for Scientific Research Corporation for the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). He advises on hypersonic test challenges and helps to develop workforce development strategies for the organization. He is currently assigned to the Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering, Joint Hypersonic Transition Office where he leads university engagement and workforce development strategies. Most recently this has been leading the formation of a new University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics. Prior to retirement in March 2020, Marren was the U.S. Air Force Hypersonics lead at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. He has more than 30 years of testing and program experience for hypersonic systems and has participated in several facility developments. He chaired the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ground test technical committee, participates in national facility studies, and launched an innovative hypersonic workforce development pilot for the TRMC. He has authored related documents such as Advanced Hypersonic Test Facilities, Assessment of Experimental Uncertainty with Application to Wind Tunnel Testing, and Recommended Practice for Successful Wind Tunnel Testing and Aerospace Human Resources for the 20th Century.
JOHN C. MAURO is a professor and associate head for graduate education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Mauro earned a B.S. in glass engineering science (2001), B.A. in computer science (2001), and Ph.D. in glass science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including senior research manager of the Glass Research department. Mauro holds 55 granted U.S. patents and is the inventor or co-inventor of new commercial glasses, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. He joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized leader in fundamental and applied glass
science, materials kinetics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the topology of disordered networks. He is the author of more than 280 peer-reviewed publications, editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, winner of numerous international awards, and a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology. Mauro is co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (2019) and author of the textbook Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (2021).
BRYCE MEREDIG co-founded Citrine Informatics in 2013 to bring data-driven software to materials R&D and manufacturing. Prior to co-founding Citrine, Dr. Meredig earned his Ph.D. in the research group of Chris Wolverton at Northwestern University, where he co-authored 11 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Meredig’s doctoral research focused on developing algorithms and approaches for computational discovery, optimization, and characterization of materials. These ideas form the basis of Citrine’s long-term vision of enabling routine materials informatics for materials researchers everywhere. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Meredig was awarded the Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
DAN MIRACLE is a senior scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He has worked for more than 42 years on a range of structural metals, including high-temperature intermetallics, metal matrix composites, metallic glasses, and advanced Al and Ti alloys. He co-conceived the field of refractory high-entropy alloys and is working on high-throughput methods to characterize structural materials. He is a fellow of TMS, ASM International, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
ANDREAS MORTENSEN earned his engineering diploma in 1980 from the École des Mines de Paris and his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 1986. He is currently a professor and director of the Laboratory for Mechanical Metallurgy and, since 2017 ending in 2020, vice-president for research of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). At EPFL he has also served as dean of doctoral studies, director of the institute of materials, dean for research, and vice-provost for research. Prior to joining EPFL he was, from 1986 to 1996, a member of the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, holding the successive titles of Alcoa assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at Nippon Steel in 1986 and was an invited professor at the École des Mines in Paris. His research focuses on the processing, microstructural development, and mechanical behavior of advanced metallic materials such as metal matrix composites or microcellular metals. He has contributed to our understanding of infiltration processing, composite micromechanics, and to the probing of in situ mechanical properties and
various aspects of embrittlement, fracture or plasticity. He is co-author of two monographs, more than 200 scientific publications, and 15 patents. He has served industry and government on committees or as a consultant and has edited several journals and books. His most recent awards are an ERC advanced grant in 2012 and the 2016 Grande Médaille of the Société Française de Métallurgie.
ADM MICHAEL MULLEN was the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 28th Chief of Naval Operations. Considered perhaps one of the most influential Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in history, Admiral Mullen takes a fresh approach to the most important issues of the 21st century—including America’s global positioning and how business trends and the economic health of the United States directly impact national security. Admiral Mullen, USN (Ret.), is president of MGM Consulting, LLC, which provides counsel to global clients on issues related to geo-political developments, national security interests, and strategic leadership. Admiral Mullen served as the 28th Chief of Naval Operations from 2005 to 2007, and as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Presidents Bush and Obama from 2007 to 2011. He led the military during a critical time of change and transition, overseeing the end of the combat mission in Iraq and the development and implementation of a new military strategy in Afghanistan. Admiral Mullen advanced the rapid fielding of innovative technologies, championed emerging and enduring global partnerships, and promoted new methods for countering terrorism, all of which culminated in the killing of Osama bin Laden. He spearheaded the elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, ushering for the first time in U.S. military history the open service of gay and lesbian men and women. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a distinguished graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, a distinguished alumni of Harvard Business School, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a trustee at Caltech. Since his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 2011, Admiral Mullen joined the boards of General Motors and Sprint, as well as Bloomberg Philanthropies. He actively supports and participates in a wide array of nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the growth, development, recovery, and transition of military veterans and their family members. Additionally, he taught national security decision-making and policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2018, taught leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy in 2019, and holds a master’s degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School.
OMKARAM (OM) NALAMASU is senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Applied Materials, Inc. He brings extensive experience and passion to the role of CTO, where he leads the development of disruptive products to address new markets and businesses in partnership with the broader technology ecosystem. He
has built a world-class team to support Applied’s leadership in materials engineering. He also serves as president of Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, where he oversees strategic investments in early- and growth-stage companies. A world-renowned expert in materials science and one of industry’s most respected forward-thinkers, Nalamasu has championed a renewed focus on Applied’s global innovation culture through various internal development programs and open innovation methods. He has solidified strategic relationships with universities, government organizations, and research institutes around the world. Nalamasu joined Applied in 2006 after serving as an NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he also served as vice president of research. He has held key R&D leadership positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems, Inc., and was director of Bell Laboratories’ Nanofabrication Research Laboratory, microelectromechanical systems and waveguides research, and condensed matter physics organizations. His research interests include nanomanufacturing, nanopatterning, electronic and photonic materials, and lithography, with special emphasis on applying patterning and materials expertise for device fabrication for electronics, photonics, and energy applications. Nalamasu has made seminal contributions to the fields of optical lithography and polymeric materials science and technology. He has received numerous awards; authored more than 180 papers, review articles, and books; and holds more than 120 worldwide issued patents. In 2017, Nalamasu was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for technical innovation spanning materials development, atomically controlled thin-film fabrication, and commercialization in microelectronics and energy generation and storage. He is a member of the board of directors of the Tech Museum in Silicon Valley and serves on several national and international advisory boards. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
JULIA PHILLIPS retired from Sandia National Laboratories in 2015, serving in various positions including vice president and CTO. Her responsibilities as CTO included leadership of Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, research strategy development and implementation, and intellectual property protection and deployment. As director of the nuclear weapons science and technology programs, she was responsible for programs in high-performance computing, engineering sciences, high energy density physics, and dynamic materials and for sustainment of Sandia’s mission-critical facilities. Prior to that she served as director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center, which performs fundamental research and technology development in nanoscience and nanotechnology, compound semiconductors, radiation effects, and remote sensing. Areas of particular emphasis that emerged during her tenure include the science and technology of solid-state lighting, nanoscience (including the U.S. Department of Energy
[DOE] Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies [CINT]), and quantum computing. In 2005–2007 she served concurrently as director of CINT, a DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences nanoscale science research center at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Phillips joined Sandia as manager of a materials science organization in 1995 after spending 14 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a staff member and technical manager. Her research was in the areas of epitaxial metallic and insulating films on semiconductors, high-temperature superconducting, ferroelectric and magnetic oxide thin films, and novel transparent conducing materials. Phillips is a member of the National Science Board (NSB) and the NSB Executive Committee. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, MRS, AAAS, and APS.
K.T. RAMESH, the Alonzo G. Decker, Jr., Professor of Science and Engineering at JHU, is known for research in impact physics and the failure of materials under extreme conditions. Ramesh also is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and holds joint appointments in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the founding director of HEMI, which addresses the ways in which people, structures, and the planet interact with and respond to extreme environments. HEMI brings together experts from Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as scientists and engineers from other universities, government, and industry. Ramesh’s current research focuses on the design of materials for extreme conditions, the massive failure of rocks and ceramics, impact processes in planetary science, and impact biomechanics. In one project, his laboratory is developing a detailed digital model of the human brain to help address how brain injury results from head impacts. Other current projects include the use of laser shock experiments to study the deformation and failure of protection materials for the U.S. Army, the use of data science approaches in materials design, the development of a hypervelocity facility for defense and space applications, and modeling the disruption of asteroids that could hit the Earth. He has written more than 200 archival journal publications and is the author of the book Nanomaterials: Mechanics and Mechanisms. Ramesh has received numerous research awards including the Murray Medal and the Lazan and Hetenyi awards, all from the Society for Experimental Mechanics. He is a recipient of the JHU William H. Huggins Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ramesh is a fellow of AAAS, the American Academy of Mechanics, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, and ASME. He served as president of the Society of Engineering Science and has played a leadership role in other professional societies. He holds memberships in a number of scientific societies, and provides scientific advice to national and international advisory bodies. Ramesh received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Bangalore University, in India, in 1982. He
then studied at Brown University, where he received an Sc.M. in solid mechanics in 1985, an Sc.M. in applied mathematics in 1987, and a Ph.D. in solid mechanics in 1988. Ramesh completed postdoctoral work in solid mechanics at the University of California, San Diego, before joining the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 1988. He served as chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1999 to 2002.
ANGUS ROCKETT is head of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and an emeritus professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois. He was president in 2011 and is a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). He was the general chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in 2016 and has held many positions with both the PVSC and the AVS. He received his B.S. in physics from Brown University and his Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Illinois. His research involves defects in semiconductors, primarily focused on synthesis and characterization of solar cell materials and theory and modeling of solar cell materials. He has applied a wide variety of materials microanalysis methods to study semiconductors. His group has done density functional theory, continuum elasticity, lattice Monte Carlo, and drift-diffusion modeling of materials and devices. He has also worked with reactive sputtering of nitrides and other materials. He is the author of one book (The Materials Science of Semiconductors), five book chapter contributions, and more than 170 publications in archival journals; holds three sputtering- and/or photovoltaics-related patents; and has given more than 140 invited talks. He teaches courses in electronic materials and processing in addition to general materials science courses. He has presented short courses and tutorials in sputtering, materials microanalysis, and solar cells and solar cell materials for a variety of professional societies and organizations around the world.
JOSEPH ROY has more than 10 years of data science and higher education expertise. He currently directs three national annual data collections at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) of colleges of engineering and engineering technology that gather detailed enrollment, degrees awarded, research expenditures, faculty headcounts, faculty salary, and retention data for the engineering community. He is principal investigator (PI) of an NSF Advanced Technological Education funded grant to build a national data collection for engineering-oriented technician degree and certificate programs at 2-year institutions. Prior to joining ASEE, he was the senior researcher at the American Association of University Professors and directed their national Faculty Salary Survey. He also developed a technical curriculum to train analysts for a national survey of languages in Ecuador while he was at the University of Illinois as a linguistic data analytics manager and
member of their graduate faculty. He has a B.S. in computer science and mathematics, an M.S. in statistics from the University of Texas, San Antonio, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Ottawa.
SAM SHAMES is a co-founder and chief operating officer of Embr Labs, the first thermal wellness company and maker of the Wave bracelet. Shames has been with Embr Labs since inception and has held a variety of functional roles from R&D, engineering, and manufacturing to fundraising, finance, and sales operations. For his work at Embr Labs, he has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30. Shames received his bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from MIT in 2014.
SUBRA SURESH is president and a Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has previously served as dean of MIT’s School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering, director of NSF, and president of CMU. As a scientist, Prof. Suresh researches the properties of engineered and biological materials, and their connections to human diseases. He has more than 300 published research articles, 25 patent applications, and three books. Prof. Suresh is an elected member of all three U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is an elected member of 15 science and/or engineering academies based in the United States, China, France, India, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Spain. He has 18 honorary doctorates from universities around the world and in 2020 was awarded the ASME Medal, the highest recognition given by the ASME to one of its members.
NARESH THADHANI is a professor and chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1992, after 6 years in the Center for Explosives Technology Research at New Mexico Tech and 2 years as a post-doc at Caltech. He received his B.E. in 1980 from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology in Jaipur, India, an M.S. from South Dakota School of Mines, and a Ph.D. from New Mexico Tech, all in metallurgical engineering. Thadhani’s research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of physical, chemical, and mechanical changes under high-pressure shock-compression, and the deformation and fracture response of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites subjected to ballistic impact and high-strain-rate loading. He has led significant advancements in the understanding of shock-induced phase transformations and mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses; design, development, and characterization of structural energetic materials; and the shock-compression response of highly heterogeneous (granular) materials through meso-scale computational simulations and experimental studies using novel optomechanical pressure sensors
and interferometry approaches. At Georgia Tech, he has developed a state-of-the-art high-strain-rate laboratory that includes 80-mm and 7.62-mm diameter single-stage gas-guns, and a laser-accelerated thin-foil set-up, to perform impact experiments at velocities of 70 to 1,200 m/s. The experiments employ time-resolved diagnostics to monitor shock-initiated events with nanosecond resolution employing piezoelectric and piezoresistive stress gauges, multi-beam VISAR interferometry, multiplexed Photonic-Doppler-Velocimetry, and high-speed digital imaging, combined with the ability to recover impacted materials for post-mortem microstructural characterization and determination of other properties. He also has computational capabilities employing continuum simulations for design of experiments and development and validation of constitutive equations, as well as for meso-scale discrete particle numerical analysis (using CTH and ALE3D codes) to determine the effects observed during shock compression of heterogeneous materials. Thadhani has advised 15 visiting scientists/post-docs, 25 Ph.D, and 18 M.S degree students; and mentored more than 50 undergraduate researchers. His current group includes seven Ph.D. students, one research engineer, and four undergraduate research assistants. He has attracted research funding exceeding ~$20 million from federal agencies, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Office of Naval Research, and NSF, as well as from several national DOE and U.S. Department of Defense laboratories and industries. He has co-edited 12 books/proceedings, published more than 170 papers in refereed journals (including several invited review articles) and 150 in conference proceedings, and presented more than 150 invited talks/seminars. He has served or is serving on review boards including the National Academies panel at the Army Research Laboratory (2015, 2016, and 2018), and academic program reviews at Pennsylvania State University, the Universities of Texas (Austin, Dallas, and El Paso), University of Notre Dame, University of Florida, and the University of California multi-campus national laboratory collaborative research program review. Thadhani is recipient of the 2018 TMS Leadership award, fellow of ASM International and APS, and academician of EuroMediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences.
KATSUYO THORNTON is the L.H. and E.F. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on computational studies of the evolution of microstructures and their effects in a wide range of materials. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Michigan, she held postdoctoral and research assistant professor positions at Northwestern University and visiting lecturer and scientist positions at MIT. She has served in a leadership role as the inaugural Chair of the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Committee and a
long-time member of Materials Innovations Committee within TMS and as a co-organizer of the 2013 ICME Congress and the 2018 Computational Design and Simulation of Materials. She founded the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education in 2011, which has been held nine times. She is a fellow of ASM and is the recipient of the TMS Brimacombe Medal, the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Service Award, the TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Carl Sagan Excellence in Teaching Award.
KRISTA S. WALTON is the associate dean for research & innovation in the College of Engineering and Professor and the Robert “Bud” Moeller Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received her B.S.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, in 2000 and obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2005, working with Prof. M. Douglas LeVan. Prof. Walton completed an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University in 2006 under the direction of Prof. Randall Snurr. Her research program focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional porous materials for use in adsorption applications including CO2 capture and air purification. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and presented dozens of plenary lectures, keynotes, and invited seminars. Prof. Walton currently serves as an associate editor for the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, and is the director and lead PI of Georgia Tech’s DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, UNCAGE-ME. Prof. Walton’s accomplishments have been recognized by many prestigious awards, including the AIChE FRI/John G. Kunesh Award for Excellence in Separations Research (2016), the ACS Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award (2015), the inaugural International Adsorption Society Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Society (2013), and the PECASE (2008).
LEI ZHU received his B.S. degree in materials chemistry in 1993 and M.S. degree in polymer chemistry and physics in 1996 from Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. degree in polymer science from University of Akron in 2000. After a 2-year postdoctoral experience at the Maurice Morton Institute, University of Akron, he joined the Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Connecticut as an assistant professor. In 2007, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure. In 2009, he moved to the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University as an associate professor. In 2013, he was promoted to full professor. His research interests include high κ polymer and organic-inorganic
hybrid nanomaterials for high energy density capacitor applications, electroactive piezoelectric and electrostriction polymers, and supramolecular self-assembly of discotic liquid crystals. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, DuPont Young Professor Award, and Rogers Teaching Excellence Award. He is author and co-author of 200 refereed journal publications and 7 book chapters. He delivered more than 180 invited talks and 45 contributed presentations, and he has been cited ~10,300 times with an h-index of 57 (Google Scholar).
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