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Mon, June 27, 2016
Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 22nd 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 2016 USFOE will be held on September 19-21 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: technologies for understanding and treating cancer, pixels at scale, water desalination and purification, and extreme engineering.
“The USFOE symposium gives our nation’s brightest younger engineers the opportunity to engage, collaborate, and develop long-term relationships that are critical to advancing our nation’s future. The USFOE is the only academy program that will never get out of date,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Andrew Adamczyk
Air Products and Chemicals
Gagan Aggarwal
Google Inc.
Naoko Akiya
Dow Chemical Company
Saleema Amershi
Microsoft Research
Ines Azevedo
Carnegie Mellon University
Rajan Bhattacharyya
HRL Laboratories
Tamara Broderick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heidi Buck
Space and Naval Space Warfare Systems Center
Qing Cao
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Rebecca Carrier
Northeastern University
Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Corporation
Ian Clark
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Anne Dailly
General Motors
Seth Darling
Argonne National Laboratory
Neil Dasgupta
University of Michigan
Alexander Dunn
Stanford University
Katherine Dykes
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Hoda Eldardiry
PARC, A Xerox Company
Jeffrey Erickson
Naval Research Laboratory
Rebecca Erikson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jo Etter
3M Company
Stacey Finley
University of Southern California
Jason Furtney
Itasca Consulting Group
Kelly Gardner
Zephyrus Biosciences, Inc.
Phanindra Garimella
Cummins
Andrew Goodwin
University of Colorado, Boulder
Zhen Gu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
Jin-Oh Hahn
University of Maryland
Brendan Harley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amy Herhold
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Mahmoud Hussein
Margot Hutchins
Sandia National Laboratories
Leah Johnson
RTI International
Joseph Kakande
Bell Labs, Nokia
Sung Kang
Johns Hopkins University
Amin Karbasi
Yale University
Laura Kennedy
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Branko Kerkez
Pankaj Kumar
Ford Motor Company
Mariel Lavieri
Daeyeon Lee
University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Leight
Ohio State University
Joe Lester
Procter & Gamble Company
Qizhen Li
Washington State University
Jingmei Liang
Applied Materials, Inc.
Shihong Lin
Vanderbilt University
Richard Lunt
Michigan State University
Olav Lyngberg
Johnson & Johnson
Nina Mahmoudian
Michigan Technological University
Elisabeth Malsch
Thornton Tomasetti
Joel McDonald
Dow Corning Corporation
Michelle O’Malley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Corinne Packard
Colorado School of Mines
Devesh Ranjan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Roderick Reber
Arkema Inc.
Julian Rimoli
Reuben Rohrschneider
Ball Aerospace and Technologies
Julio Romero Aguero
Quanta Technology
Kristin Santamont
Bechtel
Andrea Schmidt
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kelly Schultz
Lehigh University
Christine Scotti
W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.
Meredith Sellers
Exponent
Debbie Senesky
Robert Shepherd
Cornell University
Alexander Simpson
GE Aviation
Thomas Simpson
DuPont
Leia Stirling
Amit Surana
United Technologies Research Center
Zoya Svitkina
Joseph-Paul Swinski
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Ilias Tagkopoulos
University of California, Davis
Bao Truong
Terrapower
Vassilis Varveropoulos
Schlumberger
Jean Vettel
Army Research Laboratory
Laura Waller
University of California, Berkeley
Xuan Wei
Medtronic
Edward Whalen
Boeing Company
Gregory Whiting
Google[X]
Hans Woithe
Paul Wooster
SpaceX
Junfeng Yang
Columbia University
Michail Zavlanos
Duke University
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Robert Braun (chair)
Julie Champion
Amy Childress
DeShawn Jackson
Halliburton
David Luebke
NVIDIA
John Owens
Marco Pavone
Abhishek Roy
The Dow Chemical Company
Peter Tessier
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
SPEAKERS
Kevin Alexander
Hazen and Sawyer
Lars Blackmore
Space Exploration Technologies
Jennifer Cochran
Kayvon Fatahalian
Kristen Grauman
University of Texas at Austin
Warren Hunt
Oculus Research
Darrell Irvine
Sangbae Kim
Brian Kirby
Manish Kumar
Pennsylvania State University
David Lentink
Baoxia Mi
Derek Paley
Cynthia Reinhart-King
Christopher Stafford
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gordon Wetzstein
John Orcutt
University of California, San Diego
Sponsors for the 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Cummins Inc.
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.