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Tue, June 23, 2020
Eighty-five of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional 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 2020 USFOE was originally scheduled to be hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado in September; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting has been rescheduled for February 25-27, 2021, and will be held at the National Academies’ Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The symposium will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: Food for Thought: The AgRevolution Shaping What We (Will) Eat; Next-generation Energy Systems Integration; Engineering Innovation in Women’s Health; Plastics: Pollutions Challenges and Innovations.
“The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a talented group of young engineers from different technical areas to spark innovation and facilitate long-term collaborations,” said NAE President John L. Anderson. “These relationships are critical in developing creative engineering solutions to the world’s problems.”
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Damena Agonafer
Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah Ahlberg
Medtronic
Mohamed Amer
Robust AI
Arezoo Ardekani
Purdue University
Rohini Bala Chandran
University of Michigan
Michelle Calabrese
University of Minnesota
Guadalupe Canahuate
University of Iowa
Jesse Chan
Rice University
Haoshuo Chen
Nokia Bell Labs
Elizabeth Connelly
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Cory Cornelius
Intel
Jason Crater
Genomatica, Inc.
Rachel Cummings
Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Cummins
Abbott
Sujit Datta
Princeton University
Timothy Davenport
United Technologies Research Center
Sean Donegan
Air Force Research Laboratory
Xinyu Du
General Motors
Jessilyn Dunn
Duke University
Sudipta Dutta
GE Gas Power
Eno Ebong
Northeastern University
Joseph Ensberg
Collins Aerospace
Pete Erslev
Ball Aerospace
N. Dianne Ezell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Neta Ezer
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Zachlyn Farwig
Boeing
Alexander Fiannaca
Microsoft Research
Greeshma Gadikota
Cornell University
Maria Gorlatova
Reza Haghpanah
Dow Inc.
Kerry Hamilton
Arizona State University
Jennifer Hoffmann
WL Gore & Associates
Aruna Jammalamadaka
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Katherine Jungjohann
Sandia National Laboratories
Kakani Katija
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Mikhail Kats
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Suman Khatiwada
Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.
Sarah Kim
Arkema Inc.
Alper Kiziltas
Ford Motor Company
Lyle Kocher
Cummins Inc.
Cortney Kreller
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kelly Leung
Allergan, Inc.
Adrienne Little
Google [x]
Mitul Luhar
University of Southern California
Karthish Manthiram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christine McCool
3M Company
Matthew McDowell
Alejandra Menchaca
Thornton Tomasetti
Rebecca Mieloszyk
Microsoft Healthcare
Michael Millhaem
GE Aviation
Timothy Morse
Exponent, Inc.
Monica Moya
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Venkat Narayanaswamy
North Carolina State University
Destenie Nock
Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey Nye
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ronke Olabisi
University of California, Irvine
Holly OLDROYD
University of California, Davis
Emily Pentzer
Texas A&M University
Greg Rieker
University of Colorado Boulder
Simon Rogers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seth Rothschild
Dell Technologies
Liliana Ruiz Diaz
Facebook
Meha Rungta
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology
Chelsea Sabo
Lockheed Martin
Bodhisatwa Sadhu
IBM
Samantha Santacruz
University of Texas at Austin
Soumalya Sarkar
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Rebecca Schulman
Johns Hopkins University
Richa Sharma
Schlumberger-Doll Research
Anita Shukla
Brown University
Melissa Smith
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Michael Thomas
Dominion Energy
Varun Varun
Itasca International Inc.
Vikrant Vaze
Dartmouth College
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Archana Venkataraman
Peter Verderame
Air Products
Naveen Vetcha
ERC/Jacobs Space Exploration Group/NASA MSFC
Vidya Vidyapati
Procter & Gamble Company
Katherine Vozar
Dana Weinstein
Benjamin Westin
Alexander Wiltschko
Google
Hao Zhu
The University of Texas at Austin
Qi Zhu
Northwestern University
Organizing Committee:
Jennifer West (Chair)
Lily Cheung
Anela Choy
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Andrew Coughlin
Syngenta
Jenna Jambeck
University of Georgia
Jennifer Kurtz
National Renewable Energy Lab
Javad Lavaei
University of California, Berkeley
Kristin Myers
Columbia University
Melissa Skala
Morgridge Institute for Research
Speakers:
Mercy Asiedu
Noel Bakhtian
Idaho National Laboratory
Svanika Balasubramian
rePurpose
Jeremy Conkle
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Patrick Cournoyer
US FDA
Aaron Hummel
Pairwise Plants
Johanna Mathieu
Kristin Miller
Tulane University
Desiree Plata
Kyle Schneider
Vestaron Corp.
Ariella Shikanov
Suzanne Singer
Native Renewables
Ridhi Tariyal
NextGen Jane
Sierra Young
Sponsors for the 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Microsoft Research, and Cummins.
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