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Wed, June 21, 2017
Eighty two of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 23rd annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) 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.
The 2017 USFOE will be hosted by United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, Conn., September 25-27, and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: Mega-Tall Buildings and Other Future Places of Work, Unraveling the Complexity of the Brain, Energy Strategies to Power Our Future, and Machines That Teach Themselves.
“The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a particularly talented group of young engineers whose early-careers span different technical areas, perspectives and experiences,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr. “But when they come together in this program, their mutual excitement is palpable, and a process of creating long-term benefits to society is often initiated.”
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Sarah Absher
Procter & Gamble
James Aimone
Sandia National Laboratories
Miller Allen
Applied Materials
Elma Avdic
Cummins Inc.
Gregg Beckham
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Julie Bert
PARC
Griselda Bonilla
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Danielle Braje
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Kristen Brosnan
GE Global Research
Otger Campas
University of California, Santa Barbara
Liling Cao
Thornton Tomasetti
John Carlsson
University of Southern California
Nurcin Celik
University of Miami
Vikas Chandra
ARM
Junho Cho
Nokia - Bell Labs
Louis Christen
Northrop Grumman
Katherine Davis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ying Diao
Jonathan Dyer
Google
Randy Ewoldt
Matthew Facchine
Anne Fischer
DARPA
Gregory Fritz
Draper Laboratory
Cynthia Ginestra
Shell
Sidhant Gupta
Microsoft
James Haldeman
Bechtel
Florian Herrault
HRL Laboratories
Laura Hiatt
Naval Research Laboratory
David Hoelzle
Ohio State University
Marcus Holzinger
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kun Hu
IBM Almaden Research Center
Gaurav Jain
Medtronic
Anya Jones
University of Maryland
Amit Kanvinde
University of California, Davis
Sinan Keten
Northwestern University
Ahmad Khalil
Boston University
Oleg Komogortsev
Michigan State University
Venkatesh Krishnan
Qualcomm
Ana Maria Kupresanin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Duygu Kuzum
University of California, San Diego
Gabe Kwong
Markita Landry
University of California, Berkeley
Alvin Lin
Broadcom
Erin MacDonald
Stanford University
Jonathan Malen
Carnegie Mellon University
Schuyler Marsh
DuPont
Claude Matalanis
United Technologies Research Center
Daniel McKinnon
3D Robotics
Grace Metcalfe
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Viswanath Nagarajan
University of Michigan
Abhijit Namjoshi
Dow Chemical Company
Osama Nayfeh
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific
Caleb Nelson
3M Company
William Osborn
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Miroslave Pajic
Duke University
Amit Pandey
Rolls Royce LG Fuel Cells Inc.
Carla Pereira
ExxonMobil
Dimitrios Peroulis
Purdue University
Karthik Raman
Amanda Randles
Sujith Ravi
Debora Rodrigues
University of Houston
Tim Rupert
University of California, Irvine
Dareen Salama
STV
James Salvador
General Motors
Kelly Sanders
Will Scott
IBM Research
Onome Scott-Emuakpor
Air Force Research Laboratory
Mikhail Shapiro
California Institute of Technology
Hadley Sikes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Min-Sun Son
Exponent, Inc.
Wil Srubar
University of Coloardo Boulder
Cui Tao
University of Texas at Houston
Iris Tien
Sara Tucker
Ball Aerospace
Robert Visco
Air Products and Chemicals
Jing-Han Wang
Arkema Inc.
Nora Wang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Renee Wegrzyn
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Xiaobo Yin
University of Colorado Boulder
Yan Zhao
Joshua Zide
University of Delaware
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Robert Braun (chair)
University of Colorado
Rajan Bhattacharyya
Katherine Dykes
Maria-Paz Gutierrez
Xue Han
Fei Fei Li
Jeremy Munday
Maryam Shanechi
Marija Trcka
United Technologies Corp.
SPEAKERS
Khurram Afridi
Mariana Bertoni
Arizona State University
Juan Betancur
AS+GG
Bouchra Bouqata
GE Global Research Center
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Emma Brunskill
Jose Carmena
Azita Emami
Tim Heidel
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Konrad Kording
Ellis Meng
Stephen Nichols
Otis
Michael Ramage
University of Cambridge
Jenny Sabin
Cornell University
Suchi Saria
Johns Hopkins University
Sponsors for the 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, Microsoft Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, and Cummins.
The mission of the NAE is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science, technology, and health.