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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 124-129
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Professor of Nuclear Engineering and director of the Institute for National Security Education and Research at Texas A&M University. His research has focused on many aspects of computational science and engineering, including discretization methods, itera tive methods, parallel algorithms, and the quantification of predictive capability.
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As a direc tor of the Integrated Design Automation Laboratory, her current research involves issues such as simulation-based design under uncertainty, model validation, stochastic multiscale analysis and design, robust shape and topology optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, consumer choice modeling, and enterprise-driven decision-based design. She is the co-founder and director of the interdisciplinary doctoral cluster in predictive science and engi neering design at Northwestern University, a program aiming for integrating scientific, physics-based modeling, and simulation into the design of innovative "engineered" systems.
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Professor Ghattas's research interests are in the forward and inverse modeling and the optimal design and control of complex systems in the geological, mechanical, and biomedical engineering sciences, with particular emphasis on largescale simulation on parallel supercomputers. He received the 1998 Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence, the Supercomputing 2002 Best Technical Paper Award, the 2003 Gordon Bell Prize for Special Accomplishment in Supercomputing, the 2004/2005 CMU College of Engineering Outstanding Research Prize, the SC2006 HPC [High Performance Computing]
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He is involved with the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics (CRASH) at the University of Michigan, one of five national centers funded under the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing.
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DOUGLAS NYCHKA is the director of the Institute of Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) , an interdisciplinary component with a focus on transferring innovative mathematical and statistical tools to the geosciences.
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in mathematical sciences from Rice University. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recognized expert in statistical reliability, Bayesian methods, and the application of statistics to problems in defense and national security.
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