Appendix B

Biographic Sketches of Symposium Speakers

Alice M. Agogino, PhD (NAE) is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated faculty in the Haas School of Business, Energy Resources Group, Science and Math Education Graduate Group, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. She directs the BEST Lab: Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies | Berkeley Expert Systems Technology | Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities. Dr. Agogino also serves as chair of the Development Engineering Graduate Group and education director of the Blum Center for Emerging Economies. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she worked in industry for Dow Chemical, General Electric, and SRI International. She is serving or has served on a number of university advisory boards including Carnegie Mellon University, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Harvard/Radcliffe, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Dr. Agogino received a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico, MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC, Berkeley, and PhD from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Cynthia J. Atman, PhD is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. She was Director of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, a national engineering education research center that was funded by NSF. Her research focuses on design expertise, engineering

design learning, considering context in engineering design, and the use of reflection to support learning. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Atman has given many invited talks and received numerous awards for her work, including the IEEE Professional Communication Society Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication and the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education. She earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University, an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gilda A. Barabino, PhD (NAE; NAM) is president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, where she is also a Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. She also is the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Previously, Dr Barabino served as the Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of Engineering at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Grove School of Engineering. Prior to joining CCNY, she was Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. At Georgia Tech she also served as the inaugural Vice Provost for Academic Diversity. Dr. Barabino is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease, cellular and tissue engineering, and the role of race/ethnicity and gender in science and engineering. Her many honors include an honorary degree from Xavier University of Louisiana and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and she is a fellow of several scientific societies. She formerly served on the NSF Directorate for Engineering Advisory Committee. Dr. Barabino received a BS from Xavier University of Louisiana and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

William B. Bonvillian, MAR, JD is a Lecturer at MIT in the Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments, and Senior Director for Special Projects at MIT’s Office of Digital Learning, leading research projects on workforce education. Previously, he was Director of MIT’s Washington Office, supporting its science policy activities. He is coauthor of five books on innovation policy and worked for over

15 years on innovation issues as a senior advisor in the US Senate, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. Mr. Bonvillian serves on the National Academies of Sciences’ Board on Materials and Manufacturing and the standing committee for its Innovation Policy Forum, is a member of the Babbage Forum on innovation policy at Cambridge University, is on the Polaris Advisory Council for the US Government Accountability Office’s science and technology policy program, and is on the standing Committee on Science and Engineering Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected a fellow of the AAAS and received the IEEE’s public service award. Mr. Bonvillian received a BA from Columbia University, an MAR from Yale Divinity School in religion, and a JD from Columbia Law School.

Baratunde A. Cola, PhD is an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, he was involved in founding the Nano-Engineered Systems and Transport Lab and Heat Lab. Dr. Cola has received a number of prestigious early career research awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012 from President Obama for his work in nanotechnology, energy, and outreach to high school art and science teachers and students; the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science in 2013; and the 2015 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Cola is the founder and CEO of Carbice Corporation, which sells a leading thermal management solution for the global electronics industry. Cola is also a co-founder of the Academic and Research Leadership Network which supports and provides networking resources minority engineering researchers. He received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Rory A. Cooper, PhD is Assistant Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Professor, and FISA Foundation and Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; and Founding Director and VA Senior Research Career Scientist, Human Engineering Research Laboratories; at the University of Pittsburgh and US Department of Veterans Affairs. He also

holds appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Orthopedic Surgery, and Computer Science (Robotics Institute). From 1997–2018, he served as Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research has centered on the engineering, invention, design, evaluation, and transfer of assistive technologies, including wheelchairs, robotics, and smart devices. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed journal papers and 10 books in the field of rehabilitation science and engineering and holds more than 20 patents. Among his many honors, he has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, and Biomedical Engineering Society. Dr. Cooper earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gregory Deierlein, PhD, PE (NAE) is the John A. Blume Professor and Director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. He is co-Director of the NSF supported Computational Modeling and Simulation Center of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) and is the former Deputy Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. Dr. Deierlein specializes in the seismic design and behavior of structures, computational simulation of buildings and civil infrastructure, and performance-based engineering. Recent projects include the development and application of strength and stiffness degrading models to simulate steel and concrete structures. He has led major collaborative research projects, involving teams from the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan to develop and test innovative composite steel-concrete frame systems, self-centering braced frame systems, and light-frame residential construction. Earlier in his career, he worked as a practicing structural engineer and was involved in the design of the 70-story Bank of China Building (Hong Kong) and other landmark projects. Dr. Deierlein earned his BS in Civil Engineering from Cornell University, MS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Sarah EchoHawk, MNM is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and a citizen

of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. She has been working on behalf of Indigenous peoples for over 20 years. A national American Indian nonprofit organization founded in 1977, AISES’ mission is to substantially increase the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers. In 2017, Ms. EchoHawk was appointed the President of AISES Publishing, Inc. (API). In her role as President of API, she is responsible for the day-to-day management of the corporation including the management and oversight of its flagship product, Winds of Change magazine. Prior to joining AISES, Ms. EchoHawk was the Executive Vice President of First Nations Development Institute She has served as PI/Co-PI on multiple National Science Foundation grant funded projects. Ms. EchoHawk has an MNM from Regis University and a BA in Political Science and Native American Studies from Metro State University of Denver. She attended law school at the University of Colorado and completed additional graduate coursework in applied communications at the University of Denver.

Susan Estrada, BS is president and CEO of Aldea Communications. Previously, Estrada founded the California Education and Research Federation Network (CERFnet), one of the original regional internet protocol (IP) networks, in 1988. CERFnet served the academic and commercial communities in California. As Executive Director, she took the initial National Science Foundation funding of $2.8 million and grew the network from 25 sites to hundreds of sites. CERFnet was a particularly visible network because of her success in using a small amount of resources to achieve early commercial acceptance of the Internet. The network developed a number of notable firsts for the Internet, including the first deployment of dialup IP, accounting reports for customers, and high-quality service with 24/7 monitoring. Through her leadership and collaboration with Spinet and UUnet, Ms. Estrada helped form the interconnection enabling the first commercial Internet traffic via the Commercial Internet Exchange. Previously, she wrote Connecting to the Internet, An O’Reilly Buyer’s Guide, a Barnes and Noble bestseller. She maintains a deep interest in emerging Internet technologies and making those technologies work to solve real-world problems. Ms. Estrada earned her BS in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Paula T. Hammond, PhD (NAE; NAM; NAS) is the David H. Koch Chair Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and an intramural faculty member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She was the first woman and person of color appointed as head of the Chemical Engineering department. Her research in nano-medicine encompasses the development of new biomaterials to enable drug delivery from surfaces with spatio-temporal control. She also investigates novel responsive polymer architectures for targeted nanoparticle drug and gene delivery. Professor Hammond has published over 330 papers, and over 20 patent applications. She is the co-founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of LayerBio, Inc. and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Moderna Therapeutics. Among numerous awards, Hammond has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship, the ETH Zurich Chemical Engineering Medal, and the American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science. Dr. Hammond earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT, MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, and National Academy of Sciences.

Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD (NAE; NAM) is the Cornelius J. Pings Chair in Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, and Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also Director of the USC Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, and Co-Director of the USC Roski Eye Institute. Dr. Humayun assembled a team of multidisciplinary experts to develop the first FDA-approved artificial retina, Argus II, for sight restoration. He has more than 125 issued patents and over 250 peer reviewed publications. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Retinal Specialists (ASRS), and Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). He is the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award, the 2020 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, the Charles Schepens award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2021. He was named top 1% of ophthalmologists

by U.S. News & World Report. For his extraordinary contributions he was awarded the United States’ highest technological achievement, the 2015 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Dr. Humayun received a BS from Georgetown University, a MD from Duke University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

Kristina M. Johnson, PhD (NAE) is president of The Ohio State University. She has led an ambitious agenda to establish the school as the model land-grant institution for the 21st century—including doubling research investments and creating pathways to eliminate debt for undergraduate students over the next decade. A trailblazer, distinguished innovator, and higher education leader, President Johnson holds more than 100 U.S. and international patents and founded the clean energy hydroelectric generation company Cube Hydro Partners. She previously served as dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering; senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Johns Hopkins University; undersecretary of energy in the U.S. Department of Energy, and chancellor of the State University of New York. In the Obama administration, Dr. Johnson oversaw a $10.5 billion energy and environmental portfolio. She helped the White House pinpoint the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon spill—the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. Dr. Johnson has received a number of awards and recognitions including the inaugural IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus medal, In 2010, the Woman of Vision Award for Leadership by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and the Society of Women Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Johnson received her BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Pramod Khargonekar, PhD is Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He served as Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation and headed its Directorate of Engineering from 2013 to 2016. From 2001 to 2009, he was Dean of Engineering and Eckis Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He is an expert in control and systems theory, cyber-physical systems, and applications to manufacturing, renewable energy, biomedical engineering. Recently, he worked on

the confluence of machine learning for control and estimation. He has received numerous honors and awards including the IEEE Control Systems Award, IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award, the IEEE CSS George Axelby Best Paper Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Service Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and AAAS. He received BTech in Electrical Engineering in from IIT Bombay, an MS in Mathematics, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Karen Lozano, PhD is the Julia Beecherl Endowed Mechanical Engineering Professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Founder/Director of the UTRGV Nanotechnology Center of Excellence. Since 2000, Lozano has creatively combined undergraduate education with state-of-the-art research projects, and she has determinedly led a far-reaching transformation at a once, non-PhD teaching institution. She has provided research opportunities (mostly through National Science Foundation funding such as the CAREER and PREM awards) to hundreds of at-risk students. Dr. Lozano is the recipient of the 2019 US Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a TEDx Speaker, and was awarded the Engineer of the Year by Great Minds in STEM. Lozano’s team has published more than 160 peer reviewed scientific journal articles and more than 400 proceedings/conference presentations. She is a prolific inventor and co-founded a successful company which received several awards such as the R&D 100. Her technology, coined Forcespinning®, is leading industrial production of nanofibers. She outreaches to thousands of K-16 students through summer camps, magic/science shows, and social media. Dr. Lozano earned her BS in mechanical engineering from Universidad de Monterrey and her MS and PhD in that field from Rice University.

Andre W. Marshall, PhD is Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact at George Mason University and President of the George Mason Research Foundation. As the university’s senior research officer, Dr. Marshall provides overall leadership for the portfolio of research, innovation, and economic development activities. Previously, he served as Program Director for the Industry-University Cooperative

Research Center (IUCRC) and Innovation Corps (I-Corps) programs at NSF. During his tenure at NSF, Dr. Marshall advanced NSF’s university-based tech translation and commercialization programs through national initiatives strengthening industry-university engagement and collaboration, new partnerships broadening participation in innovation and tech entrepreneurship, and program virtualization increasing accessibility to the prestigious national I-Corps Teams program. Prior to NSF, he served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering where he founded the Fire Testing and Evaluation Center (FireTEC). Dr. Marshall has served as Associate Editor for the Fire Safety Journal and on the USPTO Working Group for the National Council for Expanding American Innovation. He earned a BME and MS in Mechanical Engineering in from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Gary S. May, PhD (NAE) is the Chancellor of the University of California, Davis. He was previously the dean of the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. From May 2005–June 2011, he served as the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research is in the field of computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits. He has authored over 250 articles and technical presentations in the area of IC computer-aided manufacturing. Dr. May is the founder of Georgia Tech’s Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program, a program designed to attract talented minority students into graduate school. He also is the founder and director of Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science program, which encourages minority engagement in engineering and science careers. Dr. May was a National Science Foundation and an AT&T Bell Laboratories graduate fellow, and worked as a member of the technical staff at the laboratories. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers. Dr. May received his BEE in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Mona Minkara, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University. She heads the

COMBINE (Computational Modeling for BioInterface Engineering) Lab. Dr. Minkara uses computational methods to study biological interfaces at the atomic and molecular scales. Her current research examines pulmonary surfactant, the complex protein-lipid substance lining the alveoli. Before joining the Northeastern University faculty, she held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chemical Theory Center with a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. As a scientist who is blind, Dr. Minkara is committed to making science more accessible and inclusive through designing new tools for blind and partially sighted scientists. She is involved with a number of organizations and committees, including the Chemists with Disabilities division of the American Chemical Society, Writing Science in Braille, and her own initiative, Blind Stem Curriculum. To further her goal of bringing awareness to low-vision independent travelers and thinkers, Dr. Minkara documents her international travel using public transportation in her travel-vlogging YouTube series, Planes, Trains, and Canes. She earned a BA in Chemistry and Middle-Eastern Studies from Wellesley College and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florida.

Veena Misra, PhD is Director of the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Advance Self-Powered Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST). She is also MC Dean Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University and a 2021 IEEE Fellow. In addition, she is also a distinguished lecturer for IEEE Sensors. After working at the Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratories, Motorola, Inc. Austin TX, she joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 1998. She has authored or coauthored over 200 papers in the areas of state-of-the-art low-power CMOS devices, power devices, alternative high-mobility substrates, nanoscale magnetics, and energy-harvesting. In 2022, she was named for a three-year term to the DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council to identify new areas of development in micro-systems science and technology. Dr. Misra was the recipient of the 2001 NSF Early Career Award, the 2011 Alcoa Distinguished Engineering Research Award, the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Research Award, and the 2016 RJ Reynolds Award. She also served as the general chair of the 2012 IEEE International Electron Device meeting. Dr. Misra received a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Harriet B. Nembhard, PhD is dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa and holds the Roy J. Carver Professorship in Engineering. As dean, Nembhard is the college’s chief executive officer, providing strategic vision and oversight for its academic programs, research initiatives, and administrative infrastructure. Previously, she held academic leadership positions at Oregon State University and Penn State University. Her scholarship in the areas of manufacturing and healthcare systems engineering has been recognized by election as a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, the American Society for Quality, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Throughout her career, she has advanced a community of inclusive excellence where diversity, equity, and opportunity create a welcoming environment that enables everyone to flourish. She has led and participated in efforts in this regard across the academy and professional societies including NSF ADVANCE, NSF LATTICE, NSF TECAID, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Society of Women Engineers. She earned a BSE in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, a BA in Management from Claremont McKenna College, and a MS and PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Albert P. Pisano, PhD (NAE) is the dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Pisano holds the Walter J. Zable Chair in Engineering and serves on the faculty of the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering and electrical and computer engineering. Prior to his appointment at UCSD, he served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 30 years where he held the FANUC Endowed Chair of Mechanical Systems. Dr. Pisano was the senior co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center), director of the Electronics Research Laboratory (UC Berkeley’s largest organized research unit), and faculty head of the Program Office for Operational Excellence, among other leadership positions. Previously, he was a program manager for the MEMS Program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr. Pisano’s research interests include micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) wireless sensors for harsh environments (600°C) such as gas turbines and geothermal wells; and additive, MEMS manufacturing techniques. He is a co-inventor listed on more than 36 patents in MEMS and has co-authored more than 400 archival publications. Prior to joining academia, he held research positions with Xerox

Palo Alto Research Center, Singer Sewing Machines Corporate R&D Center and General Motors Research Labs. Dr. Pisano earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Sarah Rajala, PhD (NAE) is the dean of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University. Rajala is an internationally known leader who has served on many academic and association boards. She is a past president of the American Society for Engineering Education and past chair of the Global Engineering Deans Council. In 2016 she was presented the National Engineer of the Year award by the American Association of Engineering Societies; and received the 2015 national Harriett B. Rigas Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Society honoring outstanding female faculty. Dr. Rajala’s previous leadership positions were at Mississippi State University as dean of engineering from 2008-13, and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department prior to being named dean. She also served at North Carolina State University as associate dean for research and graduate programs and associate dean for academic affairs in the college of engineering. She had a distinguished career as a professor and center director prior to moving into administrative positions. Dr. Rajala is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ABET, American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She earned her BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rice University. Dr. Rajala is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Larry Rohrbough, MS is the Executive Director of the TRUST Science & Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining TRUST, Mr. Rohrbough was ESCHER Research Institute’s Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Rohrbough has over 20 years of experience in software engineering, technology consulting, program management, and business development for commercial, military, and government customers. He has expertise in the Telecommunications and Department of Defense industries, Science and Technology research and development initiatives, and large-scale Operations Support System (OSS) development, deployment, and support. Prior to joining ESCHER, Mr. Rohrbough held technical and management positions with CACI International, Accenture, and Delex Systems. At CACI International, Mr.

Rohrbough provided technical program management support to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this role, he managed the day-to-day activities of multiple research and development programs valued at more than $100M. Earlier, Mr. Rohrbough was a manager with Accenture leading major engagements for communications and high-tech clients and a software engineer with Delex Systems. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. Mr. Rohrbough holds a BS in Systems Analysis from Miami University and an MS in Software Systems Engineering from George Mason University.

S. Shankar Sastry, PhD (NAE) is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali, India and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute at CITRIS Berkeley. Dr. Sastry served as chair of the EECS department from January 2001 through June 2004. Earlier, he served as Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA and, from 1996-1999, was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, an organized research unit on the Berkeley campus conducting research in computer sciences and all aspects of electrical engineering. Previously, he was the NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and held faculty appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, EECS and Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley. Prior to joining the EECS faculty in 1983 he was a professor at MIT. Dr. Sastry received his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, a MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Science, a MA in Mathematics and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Sheri D. Sheppard, PhD, PE is the Richard W. Weiland professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching design-related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on fracture mechanics and applied finite element analysis, and on how people become engineers. Previously, she was the Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition, she served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and as Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Education. Dr. Sheppard was co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, and to form the Center for the Advancement

of Engineering Education. Dr. Sheppard is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Before coming to Stanford University, she held several positions in the automotive industry, including senior research engineer at Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Lab. Dr. Sheppard earned a BS in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Michael B. Silevitch PhD is the Robert D. Black Professor of computer and electrical engineering at Northeastern University. He is director of Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence; director of the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS), an NSF Engineering Research Center; and research translation leader of the Puerto Rico Testsite to Explore Contamination Threats program. Previously, Dr. Silevitch directed the Center for Electromagnetics Research, an NSF Industry-University Center and the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, a graduate program that provides an innovative model for training engineering leaders. Dr. Silevitch’s other accomplishments include leading a university-industry team on a $4.7M, 2-year Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded effort to demonstrate new detectors and imaging algorithms for a nuclear material detection tool, ASHERD, enabling rapid inspection of cargo containers and vehicles. After successful testing, Silevitch provided guidance for a DHS industrial contract on an Advanced Spectroscopic Portal. Dr. Silevitch has authored over 65 publications and 90 presented papers spanning several research disciplines including collaborations with scientists from the United States, France, Sweden, Finland and Austria. He received the BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Arlyne Simon, PhD is a solutions architect at the Intel Corporation’s Health, Education, and Consumer Industries group. She is also the Founder of Abby Invents, LLC, a K-5 invention education company. At Intel, she advises medical imaging companies about which computer hardware to use in their machines in order to obtain a better view of the human body. As part of her doctoral work, she invented a blood

test that detects when cancer patients reject bone marrow transplants. Her passion for healthcare has led her to design syringes, train clinical lab technologists in Kenya, and design ultrasound imaging systems. Dr. Simon is one of the founding members of InventionLIT.org, a professional development workshop series that shows K-5 educators how to use children’s literature as a launchpoint for invention education. She has written award-winning picture books, Abby Invents Unbreakable Crayons and Abby Invents the Foldibot, aimed to inspire the next generation of inventors. Dr. Simon is an American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassador and a nation STEM role model for girls. She earned her BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology and her PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Kon-Well Wang, PhD is the Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988, where he has served as the William E. Diefenderfer Chaired Professor, Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, and a founding member and Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics & Vibration. Previously, Dr. Wang was the department chair of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wang’s main technical interests are in the emerging field of structural dynamics and intelligent structural and material systems, with focuses on vibration, acoustics and wave controls, energy harvesting, and structural sensing & monitoring. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the ASME Journal of Vibration & Acoustics. Before entering academia, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the General Motors Research Laboratories. Dr. Wang earned his BS from the National Taiwan University, and his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Maia Weinstock, BA is the deputy editorial director at MIT News. Maia previously served as the editorial director at BrainPOP, and as a staff member at Discover, SPACE.com, Aviation Week & Space Technology, and Scholastic’s Science World. Maia writes often on the his-

tory of women in STEM and on diversity in STEM media. She is the author of Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT Press), which has received praise from outlets including Physics World, Science, Nature, and Publishers Weekly. She is also internationally known for her custom LEGO projects including Women of NASA, a LEGO Ideas-winning and Amazon best-selling toy, Women of Computing, a LEGO Ideas finalist, and the Legal Justice League, a set featuring the first four women of the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to her editing work, Maia has also been an MIT lecturer on the history of women in STEM and has been involved in efforts to reduce the gender gap among editors and articles that occur on Wikipedia. This work includes working at edit-a-thons such as Ada Lovelace Day. Ms. Weinstock earned a BA in Human Biology from Brown University.

Thomas S. Woodson, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University. He investigates the effects of technology on inequality throughout the world and the causes/consequences of inclusive innovation. For the past several years he has studied the effectiveness of scientific funding to have broader impact, and ways to improve diversity in STEM fields. His recent work assesses inequalities in NSF’s broader impacts criteria through an immediacy inclusion criterion he developed. He is currently the director of the $4 million State University of New York Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (SUNY LSAMP) and the $1 million S-STEM Scholarship Academic and Social STEM Excellence for Transfer Students (ASSETS) programs. These NSF sponsored programs help low-income, and underrepresented minority students persist and succeed in STEM majors and careers. Previously, Dr. Woodson was a visiting research fellow at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) where he designed, built, and tested an earth-air heat exchanger for rural West Africa villages. Dr. Woodson received his BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and his PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology.