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Thu, June 24, 2021
Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 27th 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 2021 USFOE will be held September 22-24 at the National Academies’ Beckman Center in Irvine, California.
The symposium will explore four themes:
“This past year has taught us how important engineering collaboration is in solving some of the world’s most difficult problems,” said NAE President John L. Anderson. “The USFOE symposium helps foster this collaborative spirit in young engineers by bringing a diverse group together from different technical areas and work sectors to spark innovation and develop long-term relationships that are critical in advancing our nation’s future.”
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Kandis Abdul-Aziz
University of California, Riverside
Kareem Ahmed
University of Central Florida
Jamel Ali
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Douglas Allaire
Texas A&M Engineering
Jason Arbuckle
Brunswick Corp.
Senjuti Basu Roy
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kristen Beck
IBM Research
Nikolai Begg
Medtronic
Laura Bradley
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kevin Buettner
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Douglas Call
North Carolina State University
Jennifer Carter
Case Western Reserve University
Karen Dannemiller
Ohio State University
Sili Deng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudio Di Leo
Georgia Institute of Technology
Laura Dial
GE Research
Nicholas Faenza
Exponent
Farnaz Farzan
Quanta Technology
Raffaella Fior
HP Inc.
Ian Floyd
U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center
Alan Futran
Schrodinger
Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology
Tryana Garza-Cruz
Itasca
Pierre Ghisbain
Thornton Tomasetti
Katrina Groth
University of Maryland
Erik Hellstrom
Ford Motor Co.
Joshua Heyne
University of Dayton
Shamina Hossain-McKenzie
Sandia National Laboratories
Elcin Icten-Gencer
Amgen
Himanshu Jasuja
3M
Carlee Joe-Wong
Carnegie Mellon University
Achuta Kadambi
University of California, Los Angeles
Asimina Kiourti
Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kadon Kyte
Boeing Co.
Cristiana Lara
Amazon
Linh Le
Flextrapower Inc.
Jennifer Lee
Ball Aerospace
Ji Yun Lee
Washington State University
Jennifer Lowe
Dow
Lu Lu
Facebook
Luis Maestro
Nokia Bell Labs
Corey Markfort
University of Iowa
Charles Martin
HRL Laboratories
Yi Mazumdar
Eric McVay
NASA Langley Research Center
Joshua Middaugh
Air Products and Chemicals
Marc Miskin
University of Pennsylvania
Daniela Moody
Arturo.AI
Jiwon Moran
Collins Aerospace
Kristin Morgan
University of Connecticut
Hala Mostafa
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Kashif Nawaz
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jacqueline O'Connor
Pennsylvania State University
Wale Odukomaiya
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Diana Ortiz-Montalvo
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Necmiye Ozay
University of Michigan
Prakash Peranandam
General Motors
Andrew Plummer
Northrop Grumman
Seemit Praharaj
Xerox Corp. — Xerox Research & Development
Shavindra Premaratne
Intel
Kristen Pudenz
Lockheed Martin
Ram Ratnakar
Shell International E&P Inc.
Jennifer Robinson
University of Kansas
Deborah Russell
Dell Technologies
Kaitlyn Sadtler
National Institutes of Health
Marco Salviato
University of Washington
Oishi Sanyal
West Virginia University
Joel Schmidt
Chevron Technology Co.
Marcel Schreier
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Sealy
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Komal Shetye
Texas A&M University
Harsha Vardhan Simhadri
Microsoft Research & Incubations
Shweta Singh
Purdue University
Jillian Stover
Seqirus, a division of CSL
Ravishankar Sundararaman
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sneha Vasudevan
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Augusto Vega
IBM
Meng Wu
Arizona State University
Yu Yang
University of Nevada, Reno
Xiaowei Yue
Virginia Tech
Liwei Zhang
University of Texas at Arlington
Rohit Zope
Cummins Research & Technology
Organizing Committee:
Timothy Lieuwen (Chair)
Allison Anderson
University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica Collisson Samuels
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Roman Danyliw
Software Engineering Institute
Katherine Davis
Jessilyn Dunn
Duke University
Ryan Lively
Jennifer Pazour
Micaela Taborga Claure
Speakers:
Andrew Abercromby
NASA Johnson Space Center
Allison Barto
Rodrigo Blanco Gutierrez
Daniella DellaGiustina
University of Arizona
Peter Frazier
Cornell University
Adam Hahn
MITRE Corp.
Karen Hicklin
University of Florida
Jason Hill
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Samantha Keppler
Peter MacKay
General Electric
Colin McCormick
Carbon Direct
Bo Naasz
NASA
Sarah Nielsen
Janssen Supply Chain
Simon Pang
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Maxime Tornier
Climeworks
Sponsors for the 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Amazon, Microsoft Research, 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.