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 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.
"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.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
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Charles Alpert |
IBM |
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Ana Arias |
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) |
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Debra Auguste |
Harvard University |
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Seth Bank |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Stephane Bazzana |
DuPont Company |
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Adam Berenzweig |
Google |
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Brad Boyce |
Sandia National Laboratories |
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David Boyd |
California Institute of Technology |
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Jonathan Butcher |
Cornell University |
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Erick Cantu-Paz |
Yahoo! Labs |
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William Carter |
HRL Laboratories, LLC |
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Robert Cassoni |
Procter & Gamble Company |
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Jennifer Cha |
University of California, San Diego |
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William Chappell |
Purdue University |
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Jerry Couretas |
Lockheed Martin Corporation |
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Terence Critchlow |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Claus Daniel |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Eric Dashofy |
Aerospace Corporation |
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Francis de los Reyes |
North Carolina State University |
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Peter DiMaggio |
Weidlinger Associates, Inc. |
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Christopher Eckett |
United Technologies Research Center |
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Hany Eitouni |
Seeo, Inc. |
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Nicholas Fang |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Kevin Farinholt |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Andrew Fikes |
Google |
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Kevin Fu |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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Di Gao |
University of Pittsburgh |
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Paul Gloeckner |
Cummins, Inc. |
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J. Michael Gray |
Medtronic, Inc. |
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Mariah Hahn |
Texas A&M University |
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A. John Hart |
University of Michigan |
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Dean Ho |
Northwestern University |
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Dennis Hong |
Virginia Tech |
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Gregory Huff |
Texas A&M University |
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Hillery Hunter |
IBM |
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Nebojsa Jojic |
Microsoft Research |
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Frederick Kish |
Infinera Corporation |
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John Kitching |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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Jeffrey Kloosterman |
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc |
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Swaminathan Krishnan |
California Institute of Technology |
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Kevin Krizek |
University of Colorado, Denver |
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Sanjay Kumar |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Aleksandar Kuzmanovic |
Northwestern University |
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Diana Lados |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
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Balasubramanian Lakshmanan |
General Motors Company |
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Fei-Fei Li |
Stanford University |
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Zhiqun Lin |
Iowa State University;
Ames Laboratory |
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Christopher Loose |
Semprus BioSciences |
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Sergio Loureiro |
Pratt & Whitney |
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Ravi Madduri |
Argonne National Laboratory |
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Leigh McCue-Weil |
Virginia Tech |
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Scott McLaughlin |
DeTect, Inc. |
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Florence Mehlmann |
Arkema, Inc. |
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Adrienne Menniti |
CH2M HILL |
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Jeffrey Norris |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Michele Ostraat |
RTI International |
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Tomas Palacios |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Edward Park |
athenahealth |
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Ronald Polcawich |
Army Research Laboratory |
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Shriram Ramanathan |
Harvard University |
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Venkatesh Rao |
Xerox Research Center Webster |
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Salil Rege |
Cargill, Inc. |
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Stan Rendon |
3M Company |
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Daniel Ripin |
MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
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Justin Romberg |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Klint Rose |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Stergios Roumeliotis |
University of Minnesota |
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John Russell |
Air Force Research Laboratory |
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John Santini, Jr. |
On Demand Therapeutics, Inc. |
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Carolyn Seepersad |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Robert Sever |
Praxair, Inc. |
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David Sholl |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Joseph Sinfield |
Purdue University |
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Michael Smith |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Ryan Starkey |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Desney Tan |
Microsoft Research |
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Yi Tang |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Seth Taylor |
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems |
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Srinivas Tummala |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |
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Greg VanWiggeren |
Agilent Technologies, Inc. |
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Jing Wan |
ExxonMobil |
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Sharon Weiss |
Vanderbilt University |
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Thomas Wettergren |
Department of the Navy, Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
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Michael Williams |
The Boeing Company |
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Siavash Yazdanfar |
GE Global Research |
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Jun Ye |
Brion Technologies (an ASML company) |
Speakers at this year's event are:
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Ella Atkins |
University of Michigan |
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Luiz Andre Barroso |
Google |
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Stefan Bieniawski |
The Boeing Company |
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Mark Campbell |
Cornell University |
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Elaine Chew |
University of Southern California |
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Armando Fox |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Chad Frost |
NASA Ames Research Center |
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Henry Hess |
Columbia University |
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Efrosini Kokkoli |
University of Minnesota |
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Parthasarathy Ranganathan |
Hewlett Packard Research Labs |
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Douglas Repetto |
Columbia University |
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Mostafa Ronaghi |
Illumina |
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Daniel Trueman |
Princeton University |
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Brian Whitman |
The Echo Nest Corporation |
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Yuan Yuan Zhou |
University of California, San Diego |
The organizers of the 2010 symposium are:
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Ali Butt |
Virginia Tech |
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Mark Byrne |
Auburn University |
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Dilma da Silva |
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
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Daniel Ellis |
Columbia University |
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Michel Ingham |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Youngmoo Kim |
Drexel University |
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Jacob Langelaan |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Babak Parviz |
University of Washington |
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Andrew Weiner |
Purdue University |
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.
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