Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thu, June 25, 2015

June 25, 2015 —

Release Date: June 25, 2015

For Immediate Release

Contacts:
Janet Hunziker
NAE Senior Program Officer, Frontiers of Engineering
202.334.1571, jhunziker@nae.edu

Randy Atkins
NAE Senior Media and Public Relations Officer
202.334.1508, atkins@nae.edu

Washington, DC, June 25, 2015 - Eighty-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 21st annual U.S. 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 2015 USFOE will be held on September 9-11, at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: cybersecurity, forecasting natural disasters, optical and mechanical materials, and engineering the search for earth-like exoplanets.

“The USFOE symposium brings together some of our nation’s brightest young engineering talents and gives them the opportunity to develop professional relationships that become critical their advancing our nation’s well-being throughout their careers,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.

The following engineers were selected as general participants:

Alina Alexeenko	Purdue University
Jorge Arinez	General Motors Research & Development
David Baek	Qualcomm Inc.
Debasish Banerjee	Toyota Research Institute of North America
Behnam Bastani	Google
Sarah Bedair	Army Research Laboratory
Peter Bermel	Purdue University
Barron Bichon	Southwest Research Institute
Lars Blackmore	Space Exploration Technologies
Jose Blanchet	Columbia University
Alberto Giovanni Busetto	University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Candler	University of California, Los Angeles
Krystel Castillo	University of Texas at San Antonio
Judy Cha	Yale University
Julie Chambon	Geosyntec Consultants
Ovijit Chaudhuri	Stanford University
Ann Chiaramonti Debay	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Duncan Coffey	DuPont
Andrea Corrion	HRL Laboratories
Samantha Daly	University of Michigan
Anthony D'Amato	Ford Motor Company
Michael DePierro	Dow Corning Corporation
Shana Diez	Space Exploration Technologies
Jennifer Donahue	Geosyntec Consultants
Ramakrishna Dontha	Cummins Inc.
Adam Engler	University of California, San Diego
Anna Erickson	Georgia Institute of Technology
Larry Fahnestock	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Waleed Farahat	Rethink Robotics
Philip Freeman	The Boeing Company
Yun Fu	Northeastern University
Jeannette Garcia	IBM Almaden Research Center
Kevin Geary	HRL Laboratories
Christopher Geiger	Lockheed Martin
Brian German	Georgia Institute of Technology
Eric Guyer	Exponent, Inc.
Javier Guzman	ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Karl Haapala	Oregon State University
Xue Han	Boston University
He (Helen) Huang	North Carolina State University
Jennifer Jordan	Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Christine Keenan	Xerox Corp.
Jeffrey Lee	Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Zhuo Li	Cadence Design Systems
Li Li	Pennsylvania State University
Chien-Chi Lin	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Sarah Lipscy	Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Jennifer Listgarten	Microsoft Corporation
Haowei Liu	Intel
Hussam Mahmoud	Colorado State University
Christienne Mancini	Northrop Grumman
Megan McCain	University of Southern California
Bryan McCloskey	University of California, Berkeley
Elia Merzari	Argonne National Laboratory
Jeetain Mittal	Lehigh University
Patrick Norris	W. L. Gore & Associates
Grace O'Connell	University of California, Berkeley
Timothy Ombrello	Air Force Research Laboratory
David Parkes	Harvard University
Lisa Poyneer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jeff Putnam	Broadcom Corporation
Jun Qu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Varun Raghunathan	Agilent Research Laboratories
Mabel Ramirez	MIT Lincoln Laboratory
John Rose	The Boeing Company
Kristin Santamont	Bechtel
Scott Saponas	Microsoft Corporation
Julie Shah	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maryam Shanechi	University of Southern California
Sameer Sonkusale	Tufts University
Todd Stewart	DuPont
Stephanie TerMaath	University of Tennessee
Peter Tessier	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mario Valenti	STV Inc
Jason Valentine	Vanderbilt University
Anthony Vamivakas	University of Rochester
Peggy Van Eepoel	Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
Mandana Veiseh	Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
Enrique Vivoni	Arizona State University
Richard Vuduc	Georgia Institute of Technology
Chonggang Wang	InterDigital Inc.
Laurent White	ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Joshua White	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kathryn Whitehead	Carnegie Mellon University
Kristin Williams	Procter & Gamble Company
Guihua Yu	University of Texas at Austin
Roseanna Zia	Cornell University
Stephen Zingelewicz	GE Global Research

Speakers at this year's event are:

Andrea Alu	University of Texas at Austin
Jeremy Banik	Air Force Research Laboratory
Jonathan Black	Virginia Tech
Alexandra Boltasseva	Purdue University
Jeffrey Czajkowski	University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Fu	University of Michigan
Julia Greer	California Institute of Technology
Ning Lin	Princeton University
Amy Lo	Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Rebecca Moore	Google
Bryan Payne	Netflix
Franziska Roesner	University of Washington
Dmitry Savransky	Cornell University
Christopher Spadaccini	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tomas Vagoun	National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology

The organizers of the 2015 symposium are:

Robert Braun (Chair)	Georgia Institute of Technology
Amir AghaKouchak	University of California, Irvine
David Brumley	Carnegie Mellon University
Jennifer Dionne	Stanford University
James Done	National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniela Oliveira	University of Florida
Sara Seager	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luke Sweatlock	Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Mitchell Walker	Georgia Institute of Technology

Sponsors for the 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Cummins Inc.

The mission of 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 (along with the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council), an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science and technology.