Previous Speakers

• Fall 2021 Speakers

  • Alonso Vera - Chief, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA Ames Research Center - Engineering Systems Around Human Capabilities

    Haruko Wainwright - Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Digital Twin for Watersheds: Improving Watershed Systems Predictability Through Co-Design

    Gavin Jones, PhD - Manager, Research Staff Member, Quantum Applications, IBM Quantum - Quantum Computing Applications for Chemistry

• Spring 2021 Speakers

  • Deb Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering Professor, Texas A&M University: Meanderings of a Mechanical Nano-technologist: from Engineering-Ethics to Engineering-Medicine

    Dr. Min Hwan Lee, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced: Atomic/Nano-scale Surface and Interfacial Engineering for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

    Dr. Naira Hovakimyan, Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC: Robotics: Safe Learning and Control with L1 Adaptation

    Kevin Fogarty, Astrophysicist, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center: Directly Imaging Exoplanets with Coronagraphy

• Spring 2020 Speakers

  • Dr. Jennifer Lu, UC Merced - Cutting Edge Research in Nanomaterials for Energy and Sensing and Student Research Opportunities

    Dr. Kacey Beddoes, SJSU - Promoting Successful Teamwork through Interdisciplinary Teamwork Artifacts and Shared Mental Models

• Fall 2019 Speakers

  • Dr. Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley - Modeling and Simulation of Tools for Advanced Manufacturing