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B Biographical Sketches of Symposium Speakers and Committee Members
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Banks oversees research administration of more than 4,800 projects and $208 million in sponsored research awards. As dean of the Look College and holder of the Harold J
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, the 2012 Alvin Seiff Memorial Award, the 2011 AIAA von Karman Astronautics Award, the 1999 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals, two NASA Inventions and Contributions Team Awards, and nine NASA Group Achievement Awards. He is a member of the NAE, vice chair of the Academies' Space Studies Board, editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, an AIAA fellow, and the author or co-author of more than 275 technical publications in the fields of atmospheric flight dynamics, planetary exploration, multidisciplinary design optimization, and systems engineering.
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Chang spent 15 years in Silicon Valley where he served as the chief technology officer and vice president at Gaming Business of Immersion Corporation. He joined Immersion as employee number 4 and helped transform the venturebacked Stanford University robotics laboratory spinout into a publicly traded licensor of haptics technology embedded in products from Microsoft, Apple, BMW, Samsung, and Electronic Arts.
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At Tufts, she was also PI on a $1.5 million NSF award that funded the Tufts Engineering the Next Steps Project and a $1.75 million award from the NSF Teacher Enhancement Program for a pre-college engineering project for teachers. MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, professor of chemistry, professor of chemical and biological engineering, and professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University; director of the Center for Computation and Theory of Soft Materials; and co-director of the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science.
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. There, he oversaw research activities throughout the USC system, several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the USC Research Foundation and sponsored research programs.
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His awards include a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the John Heinz Prize in Public Policy, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and the Volvo Environment Prize. In December 1995, he gave the acceptance lecture for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists and public figures in which he held leadership positions from 1982 to 1997.
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in 1999.He served as a vice president and chief technology officer at Multimedia Products and Services Group, AT&T Corporation, from 1994 to 1996, senior vice president and chief scientist at NCR Corporation from 1989 to 1994, and led both the repositioning of their computer product family and the product plan for a merger at AT&T. He founded Teradata in 1979, where he served as vice president and chief scientist from 1979 to 1988.
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Energy Efficient Buildings Hub and the advisory board of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering. He is a member of the Academies' Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable and previously served on the Defense Science Board's Task Force on DOD Energy Strategy.
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He also received the President of India Gold Medal in 1977, the IBM Faculty Development award for 1983-1985, the a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Eckman Award of the of the American Automatic Control Council in 1990, the Ragazzini Award for Distinguished Accomplishments in teaching in 2005, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999, and the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International Conference in Computer Vision in 1999, and the C.L. Tien Award for Academic Leadership in 2010.
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DAVID R WALT is a university professor, the Robinson Professor of Chemistry, a professor of biomedical engineering, a professor of genetics, and a professor of oral medicine at Tufts University and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor.
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Her awards and recognitions include the U.S. President's Award for Mentoring Minorities and Women in Science and Technology, the AAAS mentoring award, the IEEE International Undergraduate Teaching Award, the College of Engineering Crawford Teaching Award, and two university-level Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students -- one in student relations in 1992 and one in administration in 2010.
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