Innovative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

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Fri, June 28, 2019

Washington, DC, June 28, 2019 —

Eighty-seven of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 25th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Early-career engineers who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half day event. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.

The 2019 USFOE will be hosted by Boeing South Carolina in North Charleston, Sept. 25-27, and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: Advanced Manufacturing in the Age of Digital Transformation; Engineering the Genome; Self-Driving Cars: Technology and Ethics; and Blockchain Technology.

“The USFOE symposium is a one-of-a-kind event that brings together bright young engineers from different technical areas to spark innovative ideas and to facilitate, what often turn out to be, career-long collaborations,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr. “When you foster a creative space for engineers to collaborate and work together, experience shows that the possibilities are endless.”

The following engineers were selected as general participants:

Brenna Argall	Northwestern University
Oznur Arslan	Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
Ryan Beams	Food and Drug Administration
Agnes Blom-Schieber	Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Paul Bogdan	University of Southern California
Darryl Boyd	Naval Research Laboratory
Emma Buneci	Amazon
Steven Callender	Intel Corp.
Roman Caudillo	Intel Corp.
Theodora Chaspari	Texas A&M University
Lily Cheung	Georgia Institute of Technology
Srabanti Chowdhury	Stanford University
Eun Ji Chung	University of Southern California
Benjamin Cohen	Bristol-Myers Squibb
Nicolle Correa	Amazon
Ayse Coskun	Boston University
Danielle Cote	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Coyle	Ball Aerospace
Canan Dagdeviren	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kathryn Daltorio	Case Western Reserve University
Simone D'Amico	Stanford University
Emily Day	University of Delaware
Cole DeForest	University of Washington
Marine Durel	Boeing Corporate Engineering Test and Technology
Rose Faghih	University of Houston
Karen Feigh	Georgia Institute of Technology
Catherine Fromen	University of Delaware
Krishnanjan Gubba Ravikumar	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
A. Kate Gurnon	GE Research
Amberlee Haselhuhn	General Motors
Marta Hatzell	Georgia Institute of Technology
Yeganeh Hayeri	Stevens Institute of Technology
Moneer Helu	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Cathleen Hoel	GE Research
Yongjie Hu	University of California, Los Angeles
Heather Hussain	Boeing Corp.
Shirin Jalali	Nokia Bell Labs
Deep Jariwala	University of Pennsylvania
Edward Jimenez	Sandia National Laboratories
Ece Kamar	Microsoft Research
Sertac Karaman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yasaman Khazaeni	IBM Research
Jamal Lewis	University of California, Davis
Richard Linares	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Liu	Arkema Inc.
Dougal Maclaurin	Google
Sasikanth Manipatruni	Kepler Computing
Alexandria Marchi	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Johanna Mathieu	University of Michigan
Maria Milina	ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
Pramita Mitra	Ford Motor Co.
Teejay Momoh	Cummins Inc.
Marissa Morales-Rodriguez	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rebecca Muenich	Arizona State University
Harish Nagarajan	Genomatica Inc.
Saad Omar	Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
Masahiro Ono	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Amit Patel	HRL Laboratories
Alessandro Pinto	United Technologies Research Center
Kalai Ramea	PARC, a Xerox company
Mark Rentschler	University of Colorado, Boulder
Reza Rock	PPG Industries Inc.
Lisa Rueschhoff	Air Force Research Laboratory
Eric Sacia	DuPont
Michele Sarazen	Princeton University
Jonathan Sauder	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kathleen Shafer	3M Co.
Danelle Shah	MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Honghui Shi	IBM Research
Anshumali Shrivastava	Rice University
Katherine Smyth	Facebook
Cynthia Sung	University of Pennsylvania
Micaela Taborga Claure	ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Fatima Toor	University of Iowa
Alejandro Toriello	Georgia Institute of Technology
Lauren Toth	Northrop Grumman Corp.
Sonia Tulyani	Collins Aerospace, a United Technologies company
Pavan Valavala	Dow Inc.
Antonios Vytiniotis	Exponent Inc.
Alan Wagner	Pennsylvania State University
Qingyu Wang	Agilent Technologies
Kate Whitefoot	Carnegie Mellon University
Cranos Williams	North Carolina State University
Gregory Wilson	GE Aviation
Va’Juanna Wilson	The Boeing Company
Brent Winslow	Design Interactive, Inc.
Sheng Xu	University of California, San Diego

Organizing Committee:

Jennifer West (Chair)	Duke University
Jim Aske	Boeing
Tarik Dickens	FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Charles Gersbach	Duke University
Christoffer Heckman	University of Colorado
Petr Novotny	IBM
Hae-Jong Seo	NVIDIA
Elaine Shi	Cornell University
Renee Wegrzyn	DARPA

Speakers:

Omar Akbari	University of California, San Diego
John Basl	Northeastern University
Patrick Boyle	Ginkgo Bioworks
Gabriel Burnett	Boeing
TaeEun Choe	Baidu
Christian Hubicki	Florida State University
Pamela Kobryn	Air Force Research Laboratory
Christapher Lang	NASA Langley
Jacob Leshno	University of Chicago
Samantha Maragh	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dorsa Sadigh	Stanford University
Krishanu Saha	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hong Wan	North Carolina State University
JianXiong Xiao	AutoX Inc.

Sponsors for the 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering are Boeing, The Grainger Foundation, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DOD ASDR&E Laboratories Office, Microsoft Research, Cummins, and Amazon.

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.