Dereje Agonafer is the Jenkins Garrett Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and heads two centers: “Site Director of NSF IUCRC in Energy Efficient Systems” and Director of “Electronics, MEMS and Nanoelectronics Systems Packaging Center.” He is a Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers International (ASME) and Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). After receiving a PhD, he joined IBM where he became the IBM Center of Competence for Computer Aided Thermal Engineering. In 1991, the value of his contribution to “Computer Aided Thermal Engineering” was recognized by being awarded the “IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in Appreciation for Computer Aided Thermal Modeling.” Professor Agonafer has published over 200 papers and 10 issued patents. Most recently, he co-authored a book entitled an Encyclopedia of Thermal Packaging, Set 2: “Volume 1: Energy Optimization and Thermal Management of Data Centers.” He currently advises 12 PhDs and 32 MSc students. Since joining UT Arlington in 1999, he has successfully advised over 180 graduate students. He has received numerous awards including the 2008 Thermi Award, the 2009 InterPACK Excellence Award and the 2014 ITHERM Achievement, an award first instituted in 1996, and presented biennially in recognition of significant contributions made in thermal and thermomechanical management of electronics. He has offered numerous international conferences including the opening keynote seminar at the 17th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-17) in Toyama, Japan. In Spring 2015, Professor Agonafer received a million dollars’ worth of state of the art liquid cooled servers by Cisco to bolster his efforts in the area of liquid cooling of data centers. In June 2015, Professor Agonafer received servers from Yahoo for his data center: “Yahoo! Labs delivered 480 computer servers to the UT Arlington College of Engineering on Wednesday, June 24, to further research led by mechanical engineering professor Dereje Agonafer into more efficient systems for cooling essential network equipment.” Professor Agonafer’s former student’s are making significant contributions in industry such as Intel, CISCO, Facebook, Mestex and Future Facilities.

 

Errol Arkilic is a Founder of M34 Capital. M34 is an investment company that focuses on seed and early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Typical investments range from $250,000 to $500,000 and usually represent the first outside capital deployed. M34 focuses on turning science projects into companies and does so across a broad spectrum of technologies and geographies. He is also a founder of USRCA.org, a non-profit with a focus on entrepreneur education for science and engineering graduates. Previously, Errol was the founding and lead program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program. He led the I-Corps effort from its inception until July 2013. Prior to this, he was the lead software and services Program Director for the NSF SBIR program. Before his government service, Errol was founder and CEO at StrataGent Lifesciences (Acquired by Corium International: CORI) and Manager of Product Engineering at Redwood Microsystems. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aero/Astro Engineering from MIT.

 

John Bacon is expert at driving growth through innovation. He is a founder and chairman of iP2Biz LLC which augments the capability of large industrial companies to bring early-stage innovation ideas and technology from the drawing board to the market. The company’s focus is on sustainable energy, materials and environmental technologies. John has spent his entire career involved with early stage technology, creating early markets for emerging technologies. He worked for 17 years with Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. (now Cisco), in a variety of roles culminating as Group Executive of Satellite Communications. During his tenure, revenues increased from $10M to $1B. He was a software entrepreneur for more than 15 years, running several venture capital-backed companies and leading the IPO teams to take two of them public, one in the United States and one in Europe, after raising close to $40 million from venture capital firms. John was CEO at a company which was based entirely upon a body of IP which had been invented at a major research university, but which wasn’t making commercial progress. His experience there in creating a roadmap into commercial markets, coupled with a period of venture investing, created the framework to understand the challenges and opportunities which led to the founding of iP2Biz 14 years ago. At iP2Biz, John has worked with university researchers all over the world and F -1000 senior executives to help them break the “Innovation Logjam”. He has delivered seminars from Seoul to Copenhagen to help corporations understand how to overcome the barriers which prevent disruptive innovation. He is a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation and Chair of Georgia Tech Research Institute. John is proud to be an I-Corps instructor for the node at Georgia Tech.

 

Prakash Balan joined NSF in 2011 as a Program Director leading the Chemical and Environmental Technology funding focus with the Small Business Innovation Research Program. He has 20 years of broad experience spanning R&D, new technology development and commercialization in both large and small entrepreneurial company environments, as well as research funding experience. After a career with ARCO Chemical and Lyondell Chemical Company where he led innovation with several chemical process technologies and was recognized with technology achievement awards for his significant contributions, he co-founded two successful companies, first an environmental engineering technology company and thereafter a biofuels company. Through these companies he successfully commercialized his patents related to industrial multiphase reactors applicable to chemical and biochemical production, as well as energy efficient patented oxygenation technologies for biological wastewater treatment. In energy-intensive biological wastewater treatment, roughly 5% of US wastewater is currently being treated using technologies he developed, achieving 20-30% energy efficiency improvements in each installation. In the biofuels arena, he led the development, engineering design and commercialization of a proprietary process technology and directed the successful construction and commissioning of a grass roots chemical plant with capacity to produce 15 million gallons per year of biodiesel from waste oils and animal fats. Prakash is Program Director for the Industry University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC), Grants Opportunity for Academic Liaison with industry Program (GOALI) and the Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program, all focused on developing industry-academia collaboration and early stage technology development towards commercialization. Prakash holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

 

Anthony Boccanfuso (Tony) is President of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) a membership organization comprised of the world’s leading research universities and innovation companies. As UIDP President, he is defining the organization’s strategic priorities, crafting its programmatic portfolio, managing its operations, and representing the Partnership. Tony has served in this role since 2007 and possesses extensive experience in managing research and development activities and facilitating multi-sector collaborations both in the private and public sectors. Tony is recognized as a leading expert on U-I relations, in print and on the speaker circuit, domestically and internationally. Tony holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of South Carolina and a B.S. in Chemistry and Political Science from Furman University. He also serves as a consultant for government agencies, non-profit organizations and corporations, is Chair of the MedStar Health Research Institute and served as an NSF program officer in the Biological, Behavioral and Social Science (BBS) and Education and Human Resource (EHR) directorates.

 

Dr. John Bolte is a professor in School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the director of the Injury Biomechanics Research Center (IBRC), a leader in the field of injury biomechanics, and is an expert in the experimental analysis of human injury tolerance and mechanisms under different conditions. Dr. Bolte received his bachelors in mechanical engineering, a masters and PhD in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University. Dr. Bolte is the site director for the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS). CChIPS is an Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) through the National Science Foundation that is focused on advancing the safety of children, adolescents and young adults. CChIPS is a multi-university center composed of faculty from The Ohio State University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bolte is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Stapp Car Crash Journal, he is an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and is the host for the Injury Biomechanics Symposium in Columbus every year.

 

Dr. Henry Brem, M.D., is the Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins University, director of the Department of Neurosurgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also is a professor of oncology, ophthalmology and biomedical engineering. Dr. Brem has developed new tools and techniques that have changed the field of neurosurgery. He carried out the pivotal clinical study that introduced navigational imaging into the neurosurgical suite. His work led to the FDA’s approval of the first image guidance computer system for intraoperative localization of tumors. Furthermore, Dr. Brem has changed the surgical armamentarium against brain tumors by inventing and developing Gliadel® wafers with Robert Langer of MIT to intraoperatively deliver chemotherapy to brain tumors. His work shows that surgeons can accurately deliver potent therapies directly at the tumor site. Dr. Brem earned his undergraduate degree from New York University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and he trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University. At Johns Hopkins, he has built one of the largest brain tumor research and treatment centers in the world. He reinstituted the Hunterian Neurosurgery Laboratory originally founded by Harvey Cushing, and he has trained researchers who have revolutionized the fields of intraoperative imaging, angiogenesis, immunotherapy and controlled release polymers for drug delivery to the brain. In 1998, Dr. Brem was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2014, The Johns Hopkins University established the Henry Brem Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery. In 2015 Brem was selected to receive a Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence. The award is given annually to five physicians whose dedication, talents and skills have improved the lives of thousands of people throughout the world. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Brem has introduced new therapeutic approaches to neurosurgery. His dedication to patient care, clinical excellence, innovation, teaching and translational science has brought together a unique group of neurosurgeons and investigators and industrialists who are changing the field of neurosurgery.

 

Eric Burger is the Co-Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) and Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University. Dr. Burger has been on the faculty of Georgetown since 2010. His research focuses on cybersecurity, real-time multimedia computing, and Internet policy. Prior to Georgetown, Dr. Burger held CTO, SVP, VP, and Chief Scientist roles at a number of public and private companies, including founding a VC-backed network equipment company and turning around three public and two private equity companies, all with successful exits. He sits on a number of private and non-profit boards. Dr. Burger has 20 issued patents and 18 published IETF RFCs. Dr. Burger holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an MBA, and an SBEE from MIT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and IIT.

 

Christine Callsen is the Director of Outreach and Education for the Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech. The Hume Center leads Virginia Tech’s research, education, and outreach programs focused on the challenges of cybersecurity and autonomy in the context of national and homeland security. Prior to joining the Hume Center in the National Capital Region, Christine worked in contracting for industry, government, and university partnerships at Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where she holds her undergraduate and graduate degrees.)

 

Ken Calvert is Division Director for Computer and Network Systems in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He is there on temporary assignment (since May 2016) from the University of Kentucky, where he is Gartner Group Professor in Network Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Computer Science. He has made contributions in various areas including network topology modeling, active/programmable networks, and future Internet architecture. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a B.S. in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment at the University of Kentucky, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, and served on the faculty in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the ACM.

 

Dorn Carranza is the Director of Strategic Operations for VentureWell. Dorn leads the development and implementation of industry-university-government collaborations and programs that enable powerful approaches to stimulating science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Dorn’s experience prior to VentureWell spans program management and team leadership with a focus on science and technology commercialization, product innovation, technology transfer, seed-funding and entrepreneurship. Dorn’s educational background includes a PhD in Chemistry from Baylor University.

 

Linda Casey Caudill is the Managing Director of the Wood-Based (WBC) Industry University Cooperative Research Center, IUCRC. She works with Directors Fred Kamke (Oregon State) and Chip Frazier (Virginia Tech), and is responsible for all day-to-day operation of the Center. Prior to her current role, she worked for Weyerhaeuser Company in several management positions, including Technical Director. She maintains contact with industry professionals through interactions with WBC members, professional service, and ongoing consulting work. She holds a M.S. degree in Wood Science & Forest Products from Virginia Tech. Ms. Caudill’s background makes her uniquely qualified to provide the “bridge” between academia and industry critical to the success of any IUCRC, and her industry experience helps her coach students as they prepare to enter the workforce.

 

Connie K. N. Chang is an Evaluation Consultant and Entrepreneur. As an Evaluation Consultant, she serves in the role of NSF IUCRC Assessment Coordinator for the Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation (CCAA) and the newly forming Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science (CARFS), and as an Evaluator for other clients. Connie’s career has taken her from Wall Street where she was a financial analyst for a top investment bank, to the Federal government where her last position was Research Director and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, and full circle back to the private sector. Over the span of her career, Connie has overseen two dozen multi-million dollar, high risk research projects in advanced chemical and materials manufacturing; led major, award winning evaluation and policy research studies to advance the understanding of technology-based innovation; and brought licenses to NASA-owned intellectual property to a live public auction—recognized with national and regional awards by the Federal Laboratory Consortium—as an innovative channel for technology transfer. More recently, Connie has designed and led personal leadership workshops for the U.S. Army, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, private companies, and individuals. You can learn more about her leadership work and read her blog at Unblocked.Life. Find and connect with Connie on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connieknchang

 

T. Charles Clancy is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and directs of the Hume Center for National Security and Technology. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2010, Dr. Clancy served as a senior researcher at the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, a defense research lab at the University of Maryland, where he led research programs in software-defined and cognitive radio. Dr. Clancy received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has over 200 peer-reviewed technical publications. His current research interests include cognitive communications and spectrum security.

 

Tom Flatley is a Computer Engineer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and is currently Branch Head of the Science Data Processing Branch. Prior to this assignment he served as Branch Head and senior researcher in the Science Data Systems Branch (2005-2007), and Chief Technologist and Acting Associate Head of the Microelectronics & Signal Processing Branch and Electrical Systems Branch (2003-2004). From 1998-2002 he served as Chief Technologist and Associate Head of the Ground Systems Hardware Branch, and from 1993-1997 he served as head of the Flight Electrical Systems Section and Flight Component Development Group. Prior to this period he developed numerous flight and ground components and subsystems for various NASA missions, beginning in 1985. Mr. Flatley’s current work includes the coordination of embedded science data processing technology development and hardware accelerated science data processing activities, serving as Principal Investigator on multiple flight processing experiments, with the primary goal of developing re-configurable computing technology and hybrid systems for flight and ground science data processing applications. He is also a key member of the GSFC CubeSat/SmallSat technology working group, manages numerous collaborations with government, industry and academic partners, and serves as liaison between technology developers and end users in the science community. Mr. Flatley received a 2011 NASA “Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal”, the 2012 American Astronautical Society “William Randolph Lovelace II Award”, the 2013 Goddard “Innovator of the Year” award, a 2015 NASA “Silver Achievement Medal”, and the 2015 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement “Stellar Award” for advancing spaceflight and space exploration technology through the development of SpaceCube. Mr. Flatley was named a Goddard Senior Fellow in 2016.

 

Alan George is ECE Department Chair and R&H Mickle Endowed Chair Professor at the University to Pittsburgh (Pitt). Previously, he was Professor of ECE at the University of Florida, where he founded the NSF Center for High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) in 2006, which he moved along with 14 graduate students to Pitt in 2017. His research expertise is in advanced architectures, apps, networks, services, and systems for parallel, reconfigurable, dependable, and distributed computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in reconfigurable and high-performance computing.

 

Dee Hoffman became an Evaluator for the NSF IUCRC program in 2010 and currently serves as Assessment Coordinator for four centers. She has worked as a management consultant for the past twenty-five years and served as a partner with Competitive Human Resources Strategies, LLC.. Prior to that she was employed as an internal organization development consultant with General Electric, with focus on employee involvement and self-regulating work teams, training and empowerment. She also worked for the State of California in the area of Quality Assurance. Her primary practice areas have been in large group reward systems and organization change. She specializes in work design, work team implementation, individual, team, and organization assessment and development. Other areas of specialization include labor-management partnership implementation and gainsharing support. Dr. Hoffman has made presentations at various conferences on topics such as team leadership and team reward systems. She has also co-authored various professional articles and a chapter on team design in Work Group Design (edited by Eric Sundstrom). 
Her experience includes work with the Saturn Corporation, Whirlpool, Carrier, Ciba-Geigy (Novartis), Kennametal, Davol, Alcan and others. She received her doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco.

 

Lawrence A. Hornak is Professor, Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA). For over 35 years, he has worked from academe, industry and government to advance interdisciplinary discovery, innovation and learning across areas including the nanosciences, photonics and biometric systems. Hornak received his B.S. in Physics from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 1982 after which he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, in Holmdel, NJ where he completed his M.E. at Stevens Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Rutgers University in 1991. As a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, his research spanned robotic sensors and systems; high-Tc superconducting interconnections; wafer-scale systems and optical interconnection materials, design and co-integration. Joining West Virginia University (WVU) in 1991, Hornak was a Byrd Distinguished Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and served in various leadership roles, including founding co-chair of the department and founding director of the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), an IUCRC focused on biometrics. He was a founding partner of NexID Biometrics, a start-up company spun out of CITeR and acquired in 2017, and founding co-director for the state’s Nanoscience, Engineering and Education Initiative focusing on sensing and molecular biometrics. During his four-year rotation at the NSF completed just prior to joining the University of Georgia, Hornak served as program director for the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program, emphasized programs to forge lab-to-market pathways. Since joining UGA in 2014, Hornak has worked with the faculty to build the research and graduate education enterprise in UGA’s new College of Engineering formed in 2012. Expanding the College’s innovation ecosystem through its industry partnerships and UGA’s new I-Corps site are cornerstones of this effort. Hornak has over 150 refereed publications with recent research spanning integrated photonic sensors and devices, and multispectral biometric sensors and systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the SPIE and OSA as well as Sigma Pi Sigma and Eta Kappa Nu.

 

John Huggins served as Executive Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) from 2002 to 2016, during which BSAC consistently and cumulatively ranked as the top NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in terms of Industry funding, and became, in multiple independent peer rankings, the top university-based MEMS research center in the United States. His BSEE & MSEE from the University Minnesota and inspiration from his Stanford High Tech Executive Institute business training cultivated his passion for technology-based ventures and eventually led to his founding of TDK Systems Inc where he also served as its CEO as it grew from zero to $120M/year worldwide in 6 years. He was recognized with the TDK Corporate R&D Award. His background in electronic components and systems included ten years as Vice President of Advanced Development for Silicon Systems Inc where his team built a product line with multiple industry firsts and bests in the area of highly integrated (single chip) dialup modem components leading to an $80M/year component business. He was Telecom Development and Product Planning Manager for Intel Corporation where he helped establish Intel’s first integrated circuit products for the digital telephony markets. He has a long history of professional activities including. Guest Editor and Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits; seven years on the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, and Chair of the industry PCMCIA Communications Subcommittee. He received five awarded US Patents. His current interests include industry/university collaboration, microelectronics circuits and systems; communications systems and software; embedded systems; and high technology products and businesses.

 

Ravishankar Iyer is the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), and the Department of Computer Science and serves as Chief Scientist of the Information Trust Institute and is affiliate faculty of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. Iyer has led several large successful projects funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and industry. He currently co-leads the CompGen Initiative at Illinois. Funded by NSF and partnering with industry leaders, hospitals, and research laboratories, CompGen aims to build a new computational platform to address both accuracy and performance issues for a range of genomics applications. Professor Iyer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has received several awards, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Information Systems Award, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, and the 2011 Outstanding Contributions award by the Association of Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group on Security for his fundamental and far-reaching contributions in secure and dependable computing. Professor Iyer is also the recipient of the degree of Doctor Honaris Causa from Toulouse Sabatier University in France.

 

Verena Kallhoff is the Managing Director of CyBHOR, an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center with academic centers at Houston Methodist Research Institute and University of Florida. The I/UCRC uses the tools of computational surgery to drive improvements in the hospital operating room. In her role she interacts extensively with researchers, industry members and all other stakeholders. She builds relationships and innovative capacity while also acting as a mentor to trainees within the center and a liaison to the entrepreneurial community in Houston. Prior to this role, Dr. Kallhoff was an Administrative Fellow at Houston Methodist Research Institute. The administrative fellowship embedded her into clinical and research operations in a large academic medical center. She completed a number of internal projects, established a Responsible Conduct in Research Course, and organized the first ever Cores Fair, showcasing the capabilities of the research cores at Houston Methodist. While in this role, she was instrumental in developing the grant application for the IMD supplement for CyBHOR. The IMD supplement was awarded in late 2015 at which time she moved from the Administrative Fellowship into her current role. Previous positions include Senior Research Analyst and Project Leader at Integrated Health Concepts, LLC, and Statistical Clinical Q/A analyst at Harris Health System. She has experience with understanding and addressing the needs of business partners, responding to changes in business strategy and working closely with stakeholders in and outside the organizations. Dr. Kallhoff started her education at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, received a BS in Biology from University of Missouri, St. Louis and went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Human and Molecular Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine and an MBA from University of Houston- Clear Lake.

 

Bita Kash is Director and PI for The Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT) is an industry-university cooperative research center (I/UCRC) funded by the National Science Foundation and health organizations to conduct research supporting major management, clinical, and information technology innovations in healthcare. Dr. Kash conducts research to support the implementation of evidence-based transformational strategies within healthcare organizations. Dr. Kash’s research model relies on the knowledge and experience of healthcare leaders to guide academic research. This cooperative model ensures that the research is both meaningful and applicable to the healthcare industry and provides immediate decision support for CHOT’s Industry Members, such Texas Children’s Hospital, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Studer Group. Dr. Kash’s areas of research include organizational capacity for change and transformation, implementation of new innovative models of care in primary care and surgical settings, nursing home staffing and cost, and healthcare strategic planning and management. Her most recent research projects, funded by the National Science Foundation’s Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT), focus on examining elements of integrated primary provider networks as potential sources of competitive advantage using resource based theory (RBT). Dr. Kash’s research has been funded primarily by NSF, AHRQ, NIH, industry, and the State Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Ron Kennedy is currently the Managing Director of the Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe), an I/UCRC involving Virginia Tech, the University of Akron, and tire and tire-related companies. The Center recently entered into Phase II. In his position he develops and implements processes and procedures, facilitates communication with industry members and faculty through the project year, organizes IAB meetings, provides administrative oversight, and does member recruitment and promotion of the Center. He also has the great opportunity to serve on the advisory committees of graduate students as they pursue their tire related studies. Before joining CenTiRe three years ago, Ron worked for 37 years in the tire industry at Firestone, Bridgestone/Firestone, and Hankook Tire performing research in tire finite element methods development and software programming, simulation systems development, advanced tire design, and tire factory uniformity studies. His work has covered the range of tire performance areas, manufacturing, and design. He rose from being a research engineer to the manager of the engineering research group at Hankook Tire’s North American technical center. During his last two years at Hankook Tire Ron was their IAB representative for CenTiRe, giving him the advantage of seeing the Center from both the industry and academic side. Ron has been actively involved in industry related organizations, and is currently an Associate Editor of the Tire Science & Technology journal. He has given presentations at conferences, winning a Superior Paper Award and an Honorable Mention Award at Tire Society conferences for his work in tire finite element modeling, and the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for work from his PhD dissertation on 3D steady state rolling tire finite element development. He has also received the CEO Award and President’s Award from Bridgestone/Firestone for his work performed at that company. Ron received his BS and MS degrees in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Akron.

 

Sayfe Kiaei is the Professor, Motorola Chair Professor in Analog and RFIC, PhD at Washington State University. His research expertise includes Radio Frequency and analog Integrated Circuits, and Integrated Power Management IC. Dr. Kiaei has been with ASU since January 2001. He is a Professor and the Director of the Connection One NSF/IUCRC, and Motorola Endowed Professor and Chair in Analog and RF Integrated Circuits. He directs ASU Center on Global Energy Research and is also the director of NSF Center Connection One with focus on Integrated Communication System . Dr. Kiaei was the Associate Dean of Research at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering from 2009-2102. From 1993 to 2001, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff with the Wireless Technology Center and Broadband Operations at Motorola where he was responsible for the development of RF & Transceiver Integrated Circuits, GPS RF IC, and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) transceivers. Dr. Kiaei was an Associate Professor at Oregon State University from 1987-1993. He was the co-director of the Industry-University Center for the Design of Analog/Digital ICs (CDADIC). He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and holds several patents and his research interests are in wireless transceiver design, RF and Mixed-Signal IC’s in CMOS and SiGe. His research projects are funded by a large number of industrial sponsors including Motorola Inc., Intel, the National Science Foundation, Texas Instruments and SRC. Dr. Kiaei is an IEEE Fellow, and has been the chair and on the technical program committee of several IEEE conferences including RFIC, MTT, ISCAS, and other international conferences. Honors and Distinctions: IEEE Fellow; IEEE Microwave Techniques and Society (MTT) Fellow; Carter Best Teacher Award; IEEE Darlington Award; Global Standards Award (ITU Standards); IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Best Paper Award; Motorola 10X Design Award; IEEE Fellow Selection Committee Chair; IEEE Fellow Committee Award.

 

Dr. Jim Kurose is the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). He leads the CISE Directorate, with an annual budget of more than $900 million, in its mission to uphold the nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research in computer and information science and engineering and transformative advances in cyberinfrastructure. Dr. Kurose also serves as co-chair of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, facilitating the coordination of networking and information technology research and development efforts across Federal agencies. Dr. Kurose is on leave from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), where he is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences. He has also served in a number of administrative roles at UMass Amherst including Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Interim Dean and Executive Associate Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and senior faculty advisor to the vice chancellor for research and engagement. In addition, Dr. Kurose has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM, the University of Paris, the Laboratory for Information, Network and Communication Sciences, and Technicolor Research Labs. His research interests include computer network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI) and helped lead the founding of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Dr. Kurose has served on many national and international boards and panels, including the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the textbook, Computer Networking, a Top Down Approach (7th edition, 2016) published by Pearson. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching. He is the recipient of several conference best paper awards, the IEEE Infocom Achievement Award, the ACM Sigcomm Lifetime Achievement Award, and the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award. He is the recipient of a number of outstanding teaching awards, and the IEEE CS Taylor Booth Education Medal. He has twice received an IBM Faculty Development Award and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Kurose received his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Wesleyan University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

 

Abraham (Abe) Lee is the William J. Link Professor and Chair of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department with an appointment also in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in the USA. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). Prior to joining UCI, Abe was a Senior Technology Advisor at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), and a Group Leader in the Center for Microtechnology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Over his career, Abe has developed a series of lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedical and biotechnological applications. His current research focuses on the development of active integrated microfluidics and droplet microfluidic platforms for the following applications: point-of-care and molecular diagnostics, “smart” theranostic microparticles for early detection and treatment, sample preparation for cell sorting and enrichment, single cell processing and analysis, and organ-on-chip devices for drug screening. His research has also contributed to the founding of several start-up companies.

 

Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Distinguished Univ. Research Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is founding director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (www.imscenter.net) which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ. of Michigan, Missouri Univ. of S&T, and the Univ. of Texas-Austin. Since its inception in 2001, the Center has been supported by over 90 global companies including P&G, GE Aviation, Eaton, National Instruments, Boeing, Goodyear, Toyota, Caterpillar, Siemens, Chevron, Honeywell, Parker Hannifin, Spirit AeroSystems, Ingersoll Rand, Intel, Lam Research, Global Foundry, TI, Applied Materials, Automated Precision Inc, Samsung, FORCAM, Bosch Rexroth, Alstom Transport, Denso, Hitachi, Omron, Nissan, Toshiba, MHI (Japan), Tekniker of Spain, FMTC of Belgium, Kistler, HIWIN, Advantech, Cosen, PMC, III, SANY, China State Ship. Shanghai Electric, BaoSteel, Foxconn, Huawei, etc. Currently he serves as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company and S&T advisor to a number of organizations including GE Europe Digital Foundry, Compagnie Plastic Omnium of France, Huawei, etc. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Board of Frost & Sullivan, Scientific Committee of SIMTech of Singapore, Leadership Council of MForesight- a NSF/NIST funded Manufacturing Think Tank, as well as Technical Advisory committee (TAC) of Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation (DMDI). In 2013, he was invited to serve on the Advisory Committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) American Challenge Initiative. In addition, he serves on the advisory board for a number of start-up companies including Predictronics, Falkorny, etc. He also serves as honorary professor and visiting professor for a number of institutions including Cranfield Univ. in UK, Lulea Univ. of Technology in Sweden, Univ. of Lorraine in France, etc. In addition, he serves as editors and associate editor for a number of journals including IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Int. Journal on Prognostics & Health Management (IJPHM), Int. Journal on Service Operations and Informatics, etc. Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), E. Hartford, CT as well as Program Directors for a number of programs at NSF during 1991-1998, including the Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) Program, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRCs) Program, and the Div. of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation. He also served as an advisory member for a number of institutions including, Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge Universuty, etc.

 

Lena Leonchuk is a Postdoctoral Fellow at North Carolina State University. Dr. Leonchuk is passionate about measuring and addressing the challenges and socioeconomic benefits of the science, technology and innovation (STI) and industry-university-government programs and partnerships at the state, national and international levels. Lena is based in the Triangle, North Carolina, an area with one of the highest concentration of PhDs and a long history of university and industry partnerships which provides a unique opportunity to work with highly skilled workforce from different sectors. She has played significant research and managerial roles in the following programs and projects: the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers and the NSA Science of Security evaluation, the State Department’s Humphrey Fellowship Program, the North Carolina’s Opportunities in Data Economy (NCODE) and Innovation-U: 2.0 projects. She holds a PhD in Applied Psychology, Innovation Studies concentration, and a BS in Political Science.

 

Andre Marshall joined NSF in 2017 as Program Director for the Industry University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) on assignment from University of Maryland, College Park. His experience spans roles as a corporate R&D engineer, as an academic, and as an entrepreneur. He joined the faculty of University of Maryland after developing patented next-generation low-emission technology for Rolls-Royce as part of the NASA Advanced Subsonic Transport (AST) program. At University of Maryland, Dr. Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering and Director of the Fire Testing and Evaluation Center (FireTEC). His research interests include fire suppression sprays and fire induced turbulent transport. In 2007, Dr. Marshall received the prestigious NSF Presidential Early CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research focused on characterizing sprays. The PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. 

Prof. Marshall’s research team has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies such as FM Global and United Technologies on a variety of fire suppression challenges. In 2012, Prof. Marshall established a technology start-up team through the NSF I-Corp program focused on commercializing innovations in spray technology. His technology is currently being licensed in the fire protection industry to improve fire sprinkler system design, evaluation, and optimization.

 

W. Douglas Maughan, Ph.D. is the Division Director of the Cyber Security Division in the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dr. Maughan has been at DHS since October 2003 and is directing and managing the Cyber Security Research and Development activities and staff at DHS S&T. His research interests and related programs are in the areas of networking and information assurance. Dr. Maughan has been responsible for helping bring to market over 50 commercial and open-source information security products during the past 13+ years while at DHS and is the Senior Executive responsible for the DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program. Prior to his appointment at DHS, Dr. Maughan was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior to his appointment at DARPA, Dr. Maughan worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a senior computer scientist and led several research teams performing network security research. Dr. Maughan received Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from Utah State University, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

 

Lindsey McGowen holds a PhD in Psychology from North Carolina State University. Her expertise is in innovation studies, cross-sector cooperative partnerships, program evaluation, and program sustainability. Dr. McGowen conducts evaluations of the process and outcomes of university-based collaborative science and technology initiatives. With over a decade of experience, she has pioneered work on program sustainability for cooperative research centers. She specializes in development of scienceometrics (measurement of scientific process, outcomes, and impacts). Dr. McGowen is the PI for the Industry University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Evaluation Project at North Carolina State University. In that role, she is responsible for designing and developing metrics of IUCRC heath and impact, as well as national-level evaluation of the IUCRC program. In addition to her work with the IUCRC program, Dr. McGowen has led or participated in program evaluations for the NSA Science of Security, NSF IGERT, USDA NIFA, and USDA NIFSI programs.

 

Dr. Steven H. McKnight commenced his tenure as vice president for the National Capital Region at Virginia Tech on March 1, 2014. In this role, Dr. McKnight develops and oversees strategic initiatives for Virginia Tech in the National Capital Region, and coordinates services and program initiatives for the university’s several sites in the region. Additionally, he holds a faculty appointment in the department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics within the College of Engineering. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he held several executive level leadership positions at the National Science Foundation and the United States Army Research Laboratory. At NSF, he served as Director of the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division (CMMI) overseeing national level research programs in the fields of civil, mechanical, industrial, materials, and manufacturing engineering. Dr. McKnight also represented NSF on several White House initiatives coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Notably he contributed to the Administration’s cross-agency program strategies related to U.S. advanced manufacturing competitiveness. At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, McKnight led the Materials and Manufacturing Science Division, and served as the Army’s primary representative on national and international materials research coordination and advisory groups. Dr. McKnight earned a B.S. in materials engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Delaware.

 

Tim McLain is a professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University, where he has also served as department chair. He received BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU in 1986 and 1987 respectively. Prior to pursuing additional studies, he was a design engineer for the Center for Engineering Design at the University of Utah. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995, after which he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at BYU. During 1999 and 2000, he was a visiting scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory where he initiated research in the guidance and control of unmanned aircraft systems. Since then, his UAS research has attracted the support of the Air Force, the Army, DARPA, NASA, NSF, and ONR. He is the author of over 130 peer-reviewed articles with over 7000 citations of his work. With Randy Beard, he is the author of the textbook Small Unmanned Aircraft. He is currently the director of the Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems I/UCRC sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

 

Heath Naquin is the VP Strategic Development for VentureWell. Heath leads the Strategic Development staff and oversees the identification and development of new opportunities and initiatives to drive VentureWell’s strategic growth. Prior to joining VentureWell, Heath spent nearly 20 years working in the global startup, innovation and entrepreneurship field. Most recently, he was Executive Director for the Southwest I-Corps Node at the University of Texas at Austin. Heath holds a BBA from St. Edwards University, an MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a PMP designation.

 

Dmitri Perkins joined the National Science Foundation in 2015 as a Program Director, leading the Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Program in the Computer and Network System Division in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dr. Perkins is an NSF IPA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he is the Hardy Edmiston Endowed professor in The Center for Advanced Computer Studies within the School of Computer and Informatics. He is the Director of the Wireless Systems and Performance Engineering Research (WiSPER) Laboratory, founded in 2003. His research interests include wireless and mobile communications, networking, and computing, with an emphasis on cognitive and adaptive protocols, experimental design and performance engineering, resource management, and security challenges. His research work spans multiple networking paradigms, including sensor/actuator networks, wireless broadband networks, multi-hop wireless networks, cognitive radio networks, and large-scale heterogeneous wireless systems. Dr. Perkins has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers. Dr. Perkins is also the co-author of the book, Cognitive Radio Networks: From Theory to Practice. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and was the recipient the Outstanding Professor Award within the College of Sciences at the University of Louisiana in 2012. In 2013 and 2014, he was an ONR visiting research fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), conducting research in the area of dynamic spectrum awareness in heterogeneous wireless networks. Dr. Perkins has held leadership roles at the university and national levels. He was elected to serve as the Chair of the University Graduate Council (2010-2011) and also a two-year term as the Associate Dean of the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences at the University of Louisiana. He has served on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE and ACM international conferences, and on the review/advisory panels of the NSF. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Dr. Perkins received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Michigan State University in 2002 and the B.S. degree in computer science from Tuskegee University in 1995.

 

Ronald G. Polcawich is a staff researcher in the Micro & Nano Materials & Devices Branch of US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi, MD. He received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1997), and M.S. degree in Materials from Penn State University (1999), and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State University (2007). He is currently the team lead for PiezoMEMS Technology at ARL with a focus on developing component technologies to enable cognitive RF communication and radar systems and MEMS inertial and aiding sensors to provide position, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions for SWAP-C constrained platforms. His research activities include materials processing of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films, MEMS fabrication, RF components, MEMS actuator technologies, mm-scale robotics, MEMS inertial sensors, and sensors for aiding inertial systems. He currently holds 13 patents, has 10 patent applications pending review, and has authored over 70 articles and 3 book chapters on fabrication and design of piezoelectric MEMS devices using PZT thin films. Dr. Polcawich and his colleagues were the recipients of the 2006 Department of the Army Research and Development Achievement Award for Piezoelectric RF MEMS Switch Using PZT Thin Films and the 2009 US Army Research Laboratory Engineering Award for ground-breaking work on Piezoelectric MEMS. Additionally, Dr. Polcawich received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the 2015 IEEE UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award. Dr. Polcawich is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Ferroelectrics Committee and Technical Program Committee IV Applications of Ferroelectrics, an elected member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Administrative Committee (AdCom) for 2014-2016, and chair of the UFFC Membership Committee (2016 – present). Dr. Polcawich is on the technical advisory committee for the PiezoMEMS Workshop, co-organized the 2013 meeting in Washington, DC, and is co-organizer for the 2018 meeting in Orlando, FL. Additionally, Dr. Polcawich serves on the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) the NSF Center of Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics at North Carolina State University and the Pennsylvania State University and serves on the IAB for the NSF DMREF: Computation of Undiscovered Piezoelectrics and Linked Experiments for Design (COUPLED) at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Polcawich also has a graduate appointment at the University of Maryland and has served as the co-advisor for 2 graduate students and is currently co-advising 2 graduate students from the University of Maryland, 1 student from Cornell University, and 1 student from the University of Connecticut. Additionally, Dr. Polcawich and his research team mentor 3 to 6 undergraduate and graduate students annually as part of summer research programs at the US Army Research Laboratory.

 

Shelby Powell joined the Multi-Functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center as its coordinator in March 2016. Shelby has eight years of marketing and project management experience. He has created and managed communications campaigns on a national scale for the biotechnology and construction industries. Prior to the MIST Center, Shelby served as a marketing project manager for NCCER (f/k/a National Center for Construction Education and Research) where his accomplishments include increasing the organization’s marketing efforts on social media by 188 percent and developing a national program to create career pathways by connecting secondary and postsecondary career and technical education systems with the construction industry. Shelby was also a project manager for the Florida Department of Health and led the process that resulted in three county health departments achieving accreditation from the Public Health Administration Board. He was also a project manager for World of Change, Inc., a geographic information systems firm specializing in the development and change detection of planimetric maps, where he managed a $500,000 portfolio with 92 percent of projects completed on time and under budget. Shelby is a creative mind grounded in data-based decision making and strategic business development. He has a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from the University of Florida, and he lives in Newberry, Florida, with his wife, Mara, and their twin sons, Alexander and Oliver.

 

Dr. Drew Rivers has been actively involved with the National Science Foundation’s Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers program since 2004. He has authored and co-authored several papers, reports, and book chapters on the processes and outcomes of cooperative research centers, including marketing and recruiting practices, prospective member decision-making, economic impacts, and the development of social and human capital. Dr. Rivers is co-editor of Cooperative Research Centers and Technical Innovation: Government Policies, Industry Strategies, and Organizational Dynamics (Springer, 2013). Dr. Rivers has more than twenty years of industry experience spanning organizational development and marketing research fields. He is founder of Chronicle Research, LLC, which provides program evaluation and consulting services to public and private sector organizations.

 

Elyse Rosenbaum is the Melvin and Anne Louise Hassebrock Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley. She is the director of the NSF-supported Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML), a joint project of the University of Illinois, Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University. Her current research interests include component and system-level ESD reliability, ESD-robust high-speed I/O circuit design, compact modeling, mitigation strategies for ESD-induced soft failures, and machine-learning aided behavioral modeling of microelectronic components and systems. Dr. Rosenbaum has authored or co-authored nearly 200 technical papers; she has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. She was the recipient of a Best Student Paper Award from the IEDM, Outstanding and Best Paper Awards from the EOS/ESD Symposium, a Technical Excellence Award from the SRC, an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, and the ESD Association’s Industry Pioneer Recognition Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

 

Neil Sheridan is President and founder of SVPI, LLC. SVPI assists corporations, small and medium-sized businesses and large non-profit clients with strategy and performance improvement initiatives. Neil has worked with hundreds of companies on innovation management, marketing, financial management, team recruitment, selling and funding issues. Neil is an expert facilitator who has helped create successful growth strategies by fostering effective communications and consensus among founders, leaders, board members and investors. Neil has reviewed nearly 200 proposals for IIP’s SBIR, STTR and PFI: AIR programs, including on electronics, robotics photonics, ICT, energy, materials and life sciences ventures. He also assists with other national and regional business growth initiatives. Neil earned an MBA in Finance at New York University, a Master of Science degree in Information Technology at Kettering (formerly GMI), and a Bachelor degree in International Affairs at Drew University. Neil is Director of the PINE Consortium, a group of universities and associations researching how to help businesses grow. He is a researcher with the Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

 

Schuyler St. Lawrence joined Toyota Motor North America in 2012 as a Senior Engineer in the Product Regulatory Affairs, Safety Group in Washington, DC. He has 15 years of automotive safety experience on both the supplier and OEM sides including manufacturing, product development, research and regulatory affairs. He has a particular interest in pediatric injury biomechanics, coauthoring several papers on the subject. Schuyler has been involved with CChIPS since 2010 as an IAB representative for two different member companies. He served as the IAB chairman from 2014 to 2016. In addition to representing Toyota on the CChIPS IAB, he also manages Toyota’s participation in the US Department of Transportation’s New Car Assessment Program. Schuyler received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington.

 

Dr. Dawn Tilbury is the assistant director for the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ENG Directorate supports engineering research and education critical to the nation’s future and fosters innovations that benefit society. Tilbury comes to NSF from the University of Michigan (U-M), where she is a professor of mechanical engineering and served as associate dean for research in the College of Engineering. As associate dean, Tilbury led the development of interdisciplinary research teams to advance both large- and small-scale projects. A professor at U-M since 1995 in both mechanical and electrical engineering, Tilbury has a background in systems and control engineering. As the first chair of the Robotics Steering Committee at U-M, she identified and capitalized on opportunities to advance robotics research at the university. In 2016, the U-M Board of Regents approved a $75 million building for research and teaching facilities, including laboratories for walking and flying robots and autonomous cars. She has written or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, reports, book chapters and books, and holds a patent with two other researchers for logic controllers for machining systems. Tilbury has been active in professional society and academic leadership positions, and has received numerous honors and awards for outstanding research and leadership. She has acted as a principal investigator on dozens of highly competitive federal awards, including an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant in 1998. She has supervised dozens of graduate students and planned the Big 10 Women’s Workshops, a multi-university mentoring and networking workshop series for junior women faculty in engineering.

 

Dolores M. Zage is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Ball State University and the Research Coordinator of the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC), an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center. Dolores’ research interests are in software metrics and models and their application during the design and maintenance phases of software development. She has been a co-principal investigator on over 40 projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Motorola, Telcordia, Northrop Grumman, Computer Sciences Corporation, Harris Corporation, Magnavox Electronics Systems Division, GTE Data Services, NASA, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, iconectiv, Beulah Works, the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and the U.S. Army Research Lab. She and Wayne Zage were the co-recipients of the National Science Foundation IUCRC Association’s Award entitled the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation for the work in design metrics, which they received in 2007.

 

Wayne M. Zage is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Ball State University. Wayne has been conducting research in the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) and previously in the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) since it began in 1986. His research in design metrics and models has led to the Zages’ design metrics being used at Center industrial sites as indicators of good software design, to identify error-prone modules during the design phase of development, and as indicators of where to place effort during software testing. During his 41 years at Ball State, Wayne has won three university-wide awards: the Outstanding Young Faculty Award in the 1980s, the Outstanding Research Award in the 1990s, and the Ball State University Outstanding Faculty Award in 2002. He and Dolores Zage were also the co-recipients of the National Science Foundation IUCRC Association’s Award entitled the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation for their work in software design metrics, which they received in 2007. Wayne is in his 17th year as a Director of an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center.