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Fri, June 25, 2010
Date: June 25, 2010
Contacts: Randy Atkins, Senior Media Relations Officer 202-334-1508; e-mail: atkins@nae.edu
Janet Hunziker, Senior Program Officer 202-334-1571; e-mail: jhunzike@nae.edu Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2010 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
WASHINGTON -- Eighty-six of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 16th annual
"As we face the challenges the next century brings, we will rely more than ever on innovative engineers," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program is an opportunity for a diverse group of this country's most promising young engineers to gather together and discuss multidisciplinary ways of leading us into the economy of tomorrow."
The symposium will be held Sept. 23-25 at the IBM Learning Center in Armonk, N.Y., and will examine cloud computing, autonomous aerospace systems, engineering and music, and engineering inspired by biology. A featured speaker will be Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of innovation. U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2 1/2 day event. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from approximately 265 applicants.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Charles Alpert
IBM
Ana Arias
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Debra Auguste
Harvard University
Seth Bank
University of Texas, Austin
Stephane Bazzana
DuPont Company
Adam Berenzweig
Google
Brad Boyce
Sandia National Laboratories
David Boyd
California Institute of Technology
Jonathan Butcher
Cornell University
Erick Cantu-Paz
Yahoo! Labs
William Carter
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Robert Cassoni
Procter & Gamble Company
Jennifer Cha
University of California, San Diego
William Chappell
Purdue University
Jerry Couretas
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Terence Critchlow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Claus Daniel
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Eric Dashofy
Aerospace Corporation
Francis de los Reyes
North Carolina State University
Peter DiMaggio
Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
Christopher Eckett
United Technologies Research Center
Hany Eitouni
Seeo, Inc.
Nicholas Fang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Farinholt
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andrew Fikes
Kevin Fu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Di Gao
University of Pittsburgh
Paul Gloeckner
Cummins, Inc.
J. Michael Gray
Medtronic, Inc.
Mariah Hahn
Texas A&M University
A. John Hart
University of Michigan
Dean Ho
Northwestern University
Dennis Hong
Virginia Tech
Gregory Huff
Hillery Hunter
Nebojsa Jojic
Microsoft Research
Frederick Kish
Infinera Corporation
John Kitching
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jeffrey Kloosterman
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc
Swaminathan Krishnan
Kevin Krizek
University of Colorado, Denver
Sanjay Kumar
University of California, Berkeley
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Diana Lados
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Balasubramanian Lakshmanan
General Motors Company
Fei-Fei Li
Stanford University
Zhiqun Lin
Iowa State University;
Ames Laboratory
Christopher Loose
Semprus BioSciences
Sergio Loureiro
Pratt & Whitney
Ravi Madduri
Argonne National Laboratory
Leigh McCue-Weil
Scott McLaughlin
DeTect, Inc.
Florence Mehlmann
Arkema, Inc.
Adrienne Menniti
CH2M HILL
Jeffrey Norris
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michele Ostraat
RTI International
Tomas Palacios
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Park
athenahealth
Ronald Polcawich
Army Research Laboratory
Shriram Ramanathan
Venkatesh Rao
Xerox Research Center Webster
Salil Rege
Cargill, Inc.
Stan Rendon
3M Company
Daniel Ripin
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Justin Romberg
Georgia Institute of Technology
Klint Rose
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Stergios Roumeliotis
University of Minnesota
John Russell
Air Force Research Laboratory
John Santini, Jr.
On Demand Therapeutics, Inc.
Carolyn Seepersad
Robert Sever
Praxair, Inc.
David Sholl
Joseph Sinfield
Michael Smith
Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan Starkey
University of Colorado, Boulder
Desney Tan
Yi Tang
University of California, Los Angeles
Seth Taylor
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Srinivas Tummala
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Greg VanWiggeren
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Jing Wan
ExxonMobil
Sharon Weiss
Vanderbilt University
Thomas Wettergren
Department of the Navy, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Michael Williams
The Boeing Company
Siavash Yazdanfar
GE Global Research
Jun Ye
Brion Technologies (an ASML company)
Speakers at this year's event are:
Ella Atkins
Luiz Andre Barroso
Stefan Bieniawski
Mark Campbell
Elaine Chew
University of Southern California
Armando Fox
Chad Frost
NASA Ames Research Center
Henry Hess
Columbia University
Efrosini Kokkoli
Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Hewlett Packard Research Labs
Douglas Repetto
Mostafa Ronaghi
Illumina
Daniel Trueman
Princeton University
Brian Whitman
The Echo Nest Corporation
Yuan Yuan Zhou
The organizers of the 2010 symposium are:
Ali Butt
Mark Byrne
Auburn University
Dilma da Silva
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Daniel Ellis
Michel Ingham
Youngmoo Kim
Drexel University
Jacob Langelaan
Pennsylvania State University
Babak Parviz
University of Washington
Andrew Weiner
Sponsors for the 2010 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are IBM, The Grainger Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense (DDR&E), National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and Cummins Inc.
The National Academy of Engineering is an independent, nonprofit institution that serves as an adviser to government and the public on issues in engineering and technology. Its members consist of the nation's premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.
A meeting program and more information about Frontiers of Engineering are available at http://www.nae.edu/frontiers.