Speakers and Panelists

Allan F. Bower
Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University

Mark Breyen
Director of Core Technologies, Medtronic

Clyde L. Briant
Vice President for Research, Brown University

Markus J. Buehler
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gerbrand Ceder
R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julie Christodoulou
Director, Naval Materials Division, Office of Naval Research

Martin L. Dunn
Program Director, Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Division, National Science Foundation

Christian Franck
Assistant Professor School of Engineering, Brown University

David U. Furrer
Senior Fellow Discipline Lead, Pratt & Whitney

Antoni S. Gozdz
Principal Scientist, A123 Systems

Laura Haas
Director, Institute for Massive Data Analytics and Modeling, IBM

Jan S. Hesthaven
Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University

Lawrence E. Larson
Dean, School of Engineering, Brown Universitya

David L. McDowell
Regents Professor, Director CCMD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nitin P. Padture
Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University

Yue Qi
Research Scientist, General Motors

Krishna Rajan
Director, Institute for Combinatorial Discovery, Iowa State University

Mark Verbrugge
Director, Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors

Cyrus Wadia
Assistant Director for Clean Energy and Materials R&D, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Paul T. Wang
Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University