LCSEE - Key Persons
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- Principal, Zenerji LLC, Naples, Florida
Addison Fischer is Principal, Zenerji LLC, Naples, Florida, and is elected as an Honorary Member. This company, founded in 2000, is an asset management company with major activities in worldwide conservation. Before founding Zenerji, he was a principal for RSA, 1980s to 1995, and also for VeriSign. He is a co-founder of Duquesne Capital Management, and of Allen Services Corporation. He founded Fischer International in 1982. He earned two degrees in Mathematics from West Virginia University, a BS in 1970, and an MS in 1972.
His major accomplishments include development of Executor for WVU's IBM S360 computer. This operating system modification materially increased job throughput by eliminating most of the operating system overhead required to schedule multiple jobs. Executor was the only commercially successful product that was actually a high function, high efficiency replacement for a significant portion of heretofore IBM supplied operating system software. This led to the founding of Allen Services Corporation.
Fischer also partnered to form Duquesne Capital Management, and wrote a program to analyze financial transactions that contributed to the early success of this venture, which continues today. He also founded Fischer International in Naples, Florida, which produced an Email system for IBM mainframes that, at one time, was used by over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies.
Fischer independently investigated prime number theory, and then partnered with three MIT professors to form RSA, Inc., and later VeriSign. Worldwide, he is named inventor on scores of technology patents, primarily in applications of cryptography.
More recently, Fischer has become actively involved in preserving for future generations our environment, resources, health, and freedom. He was a principal founder of the Community School of Naples and is a board member of the Amazon Conservation Team. In Costa Rica, Fischer has acquired and is preserving one of the largest privately owned tracts of rain forest in Central America, and by preventing poaching there has the only naturally expanding population of jaguars in Mesoamerica. Fischer is also protecting a large tract of wilderness in Patagonia. In addition, Zenerji supports the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, of which he was recently elected a board member.
In 2000, he received the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Recognition Award.
He was nominated by George Trapp.
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- Adjunct Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Program Coordinator - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- President and CEO of IntelliNet Technologies Inc., Melbourne
Anjan K. Ghosal is President and CEO of IntelliNet Technologies Inc., Melbourne, FL. The company also has offices in Bangalore, India, and Torino, Italy.
Anjan Ghosal is a leading authority on SS7 technology and its progress over the last fifteen years. Anjan has consulted with a number of companies including MCI, Digital, GTE, and BellCore. He has led teams that have developed applications on over fifteen different protocol vendors' solutions. In 1992, Anjan founded IntelliNet Technologies, which provides SS7 technology and consulting to leading application developers, vendors and carriers worldwide. He has led IntelliNet though a continuing strong growth curve and over twenty awards, including the prestigious Inc. 500 award in 1999. In 2002, he was recognized by Ernst & Young as the Entrepreneur of the Year (Florida) for his contributions to the telecommunications industry. Anjan has authored several industry white papers and is quoted extensively in industry publications.
Anjan earned his BS (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1985, and his MS (Computer Science), from WVU in 1988.
Anjan Ghosal is a serial entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry, whose most recent venture is Diametriq, a company built to focus on the ever increasing need for LTE signaling solutions. Diametriq was built on the assets of Intellinet Technologies which was a leading edge provider of converged network solutions targeting the wireless industry. In 2011 IntelliNet spun off its data offload businesses to Ruckus Wireless in a very successful exit.
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- Chairman, Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Accounting Assistant II - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Bernard W. Whittington received the BSEE from WVU in 1951; then joined the Appalachian Power Company as a Power Engineer. In 1959, he began his 23rd year with Union Carbide's Technical Center in South Charleston, WV, as Lead Electrical Engineer and evolved into an Engineering Consultant with Carbide's Chemicals and Plastics facilities.
Mr. Whittington was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1982 "for Leadership in Electrical Standards and Implementation." In 1982 he was President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He received the I&CPS Achievement Award, the IEEE Standards Medallion, the IEEE Centennial Medal and in 1989 received Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Industrial Systems Engineering." He is listed in "Who's Who in America," is the Chairman of an IEEE Standards Board Subcommittee on Fire Hazard Assessment and Toxicity and Chairs Code Panel No. 12 of the National Electrical Code.
Currently, Mr. Whittington owns his own consulting firm. He is a Registered Engineer in West Virginia, Past Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Sissonville Public Service District, Past Chairman and currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Sissonville.
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- Teaching Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Instructor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Vice President
- Utility Sales Manager
Carl R. Johnson was appointed Vice President, Southeast Region, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in 1986.
Prior to being appointed to his present position, Mr. Johnson had been General Manager of Westinghouse's Industrial and Government Tube Division in Horseheads, New York since 1979. He began his career in 1958 with the Hogan Chemicals and Control Company, which was subsequently acquired by Westinghouse.
Mr. Johnson became Utility Sales Manager in Westinghouse's Computer and Instrumentation Division in 1969 and was named Manager, Instrumentation Department in 1974. In 1978, Mr. Johnson was named Manager, U.S. Operations, for the Computer and Instrumentation Division with headquarters in Orlando, FL.
A native of Williamstown, West Virginia, Mr. Johnson graduated from electrical engineering at WVU in 1958. While a student, he was elected to Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
He was inducted as part of the Inaugural Academy on October 20, 1989.
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- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tucson Electric Power Company
Charles E. Bayless received his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1972. He received his Juris Doctorate (Law) Degree in 1972. He had graduated with his bachelors in electrical engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1968. In 1977 he received his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Bayless is Board of Directors Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tucson Electric Power Company. He was appointed in his current position in 1992. Previously he had served the company as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1990 to 1992 and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1989 to 1990.
His earlier career included service to the Public Service Company of New Hampshire as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer during the years 1981 to 1989. From 1972 to 1981 Mr. Bayless in several key positions in the Consumers Power Company, Jackson, Michigan.
Mr. Bayless is very active in numerous civic and professional organizations, a selected few of which include: the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Pacific Coast Electrical Association, the Edison Electric Institute and the University of Arizona National Board of Advisors.
Mr. Bayless is the past President and Provost of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology and the past Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of both Tucson Electric Power Company and Illinois Power Company. His earlier career included service to the Public Service Company of New Hampshire as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer during the years 1981 to 1989. From 1972 to 1981 Mr. Bayless in several key positions at Consumers Power Company, Jackson, Michigan.
Mr. Bayless is very active in numerous civic and professional organizations. He is a past member of the National Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of their National Advisory Board. He currently serves on the Board of Pike Electric, NAEA and several other companies. He is a former Board member of EEI, EPRI, the Ontario Power Authority, Dynegy and several other companies.
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- Research Associate - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Office Administrator - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
David F. Barbe received the BSEE degree from WVU with high honors in 1962, at which time he also received the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding WVU EE Senior Award. He received the MSEE degree from WVU in 1964 and the PhD in 1969 from Johns Hopkins where he was a Westinghouse Fellow. He has published over 100 technical papers in the areas of electron devices and micro-electronics. His 1975 paper "The Charge Coupled Concept" is a classic. For this work he received a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research publication award and in 1978 he was elected a Fellow in the IEEE for his contributions in the field of Charge Coupled Devices.
In 1979 he was presented a Citation for Outstanding Government Service. In 1987 he received the Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Pioneer Award and was an IEEE National Lecturer in Electron Devices. He is presently Executive Director of the Engineering Research Center (ERC) of the University of Maryland.
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- President of Kirby Information Management Consulting, Durham
David Kirby is President of Kirby Information Management Consulting, Durham, NC. His company focuses on information security and privacy management in healthcare and on the implementation of innovative information technologies in health care. Before that, Dave had an extensive and distinguished career at Duke University in Information Science and Information Security with an emphasis on applications in the medical profession. His major roles included leading the development of Duke Medical Center's first in-house electronic health records systems, being a key leader in developing the first and second generations of the Duke Medical Center backbone network, directing the TeleHealth office, establishing and directing the Center for Information Technology Innovation, and establishing and directing Duke's first Information Security Office. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor , Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.
In addition to his role at Duke, he has lead many cross-institutional projects with the common purpose of enhancing the contribution that information systems make to health care. From 2002 through 2004, he served as Program Chair for the "Security and Privacy Approaches for Academic Medical Centers Conference", devoted to security and privacy issues for academic medical centers. He is an elected member of the Board of the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance. He has more than 20 presentations on medical information security at conferences around the world. He is frequently an instructor in the area of health informatics for practitioners.
Dave earned his BS in Computer Science in 1975, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and he was one of the first students to receive this degree. In 1982 he earned a MS Computer Science from the University of North Carolina.
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- Research Associate - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
He owned Curry Leisure Time sales, a recreational vehicle dealer, for twenty years. Towards the end of his life, he returned to bookkeeping, serving as treasurer for Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit, New Jersey, and finally as assistant treasurer at his last home, The Navesink House in Red Bank, New Jersey. He also enjoyed serving on the Endowment Committee. He is survived by his only child, Catherine A. Smith, her husband Gerald H. Smith, grandsons Kenneth G. Smith and Alan D. Smith, his brother Norman M. Curry, and sister Verna Curry Boyer.
The Dean Curry family has provided support in 2003 to name the eighth floor circuits and systems laboratory located in the Engineering Sciences Building, the Dean Curry Circuits and Systems Laboratory.
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- Chief Technology Officer for CipherOptics
Dennis Toothman, a magna cum laude BSEE graduate of WVU in 1975, founded CipherOptics in 2000. CipherOptics is an industry leader in large scale, high performance encryption solutions. His career has spanned hardware, software, and large scale networking experience with multi-billion dollar corporations and start-up organizations, developing and pioneering innovative high-technology products. Toothman began to focus on the security industry in 1998 as Vice President of Engineering for Celotek. While at Celotek, he produced a family of ATM encryptors supporting T1, T3, OC-3, and OC-12 interfaces (1.5 - 622 Megabits). His products were adopted by one of the largest Swiss banks and are still in use today, representing the world's largest encrypted ATM deployment.
Recognizing that the market for ATM products was limited, Toothman left Celotek and began discussions with Lucent Technologies regarding the development of a Gigabit IP encryptor for the storage marketplace. Working from his basement, Toothman negotiated a $3.5 million contract with Lucent. This contract was used to launch CipherOptics in August 2000.
Toothman was featured on the cover of Communication News magazine in March 2000. Many of the ideas Toothman discussed with Communication News came to fruition when he founded CipherOptics. In 2002, Toothman introduced the industry's first wire-speed gigabit IPSec encryptor, based on Network Processor, TCAM, and encryption acceleration hardware.
As Chief Technology Officer for CipherOptics, Toothman has architected and managed the implementation of a family of encryption devices ranging from 10 Megabits to 10 Gigabits. His products are in use throughout the world by many government, financial, and manufacturing institutions. In March, 2009 Gartner selected CipherOptics as a "Cool Vendor in Infrastructure Protection."
Over the course of his career, Toothman spent considerable time translating customers' business needs into viable, market-changing technology solutions. Some of the game changing products he developed earlier in his career include:
SNA software that was heretofore available only from IBM. This innovative software gave NCR a significant competitive advantage in accounts previously dominated by IBM. This software led to NCR's single largest deal for Office Automation products in 1983.
Large scale document transfer systems based on SNA/X.25 protocols for the Federal Reserve Bank. Toothman personally installed network equipment and custom developed software to connect the Kansas City, Denver, and Oklahoma City locations.
Large scale email and directory systems based on OSI, DECNET, and SNA protocols for DuPont. These systems supported 110,000 users, with gateways to the world's largest DECNET network.
Medical imaging workstations supporting networked cardiac catheterization procedures for Toshiba. These workstations supported high speed ATM communications and the industry's fastest JPEG compression hardware.
Microprocessor-based, multi-protocol communications adapters. This capability, in 1976, enabled NCR to achieve performance and line density levels previously unachievable.
As a graduate student at WVU, Toothman was awarded a stipend by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in recognition of his software engineering contributions to the mine monitoring project under the direction of Dr. M. Dayne Aldridge. Toothman is a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon math honorary, and Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honoraries. He is also a 33 year member of IEEE.
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
A native of Preston County, Don P. Rodeheaver received a BSEE degree from WVU in 1948 and started with the Monongahela Power Company as a junior engineer. After various assignments he was promoted to the position of Director, Engineering and Construction in 1970, a position he held until his retirement December 1, 1990, after more than 42 years of service.
Donald F Butcher served on the WVU faculty from 1965 until 1997. During much of this period, from 1972 until 1994, he chaired the Department of Statistics and Computer Science. (Mal, was he the first chair of CS?) This period saw the growth and development of this new field of study at WVU, and Don was the leader of the development.
Don earned his B.S. in 1960, from WVU, and his M.S., 1962, also from WVU. He earned a Ph.D. in 1965, from Iowa State University. After finishing his Ph.D. at Iowa State University, Don returned to WVU as an assistant professor of statistics in the College of Agriculture and Forestry, and was later a professor in the Department of Statistics and Computer Science. The Donald F Butcher scholarship in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Engineering honors his contributions.
He was co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Software Valley Inc., in Monongalia County, and was the author of numerous professional articles and was a member of several regional and national professional associations.
Dr. Butcher was born June 29, 1937, in Parkersburg, son of John Franklin and Anna Pearl Hersman Butcher, of Circleville, Ohio. Mrs. Butcher now lives in Greenville, SC.
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- Vice President and General Manager of Battelle 's Transportation
Mr. Mitchell is a native of Morganton, WV. He received the BSEE degree from WVU in 1971, and completed graduate studies at MS and MBA levels. While at WVU he worked as an engineer for radio station WAJR. He was also active in the WVU and Morgantown radio clubs. After graduation, he joined the staff of the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit System, a federally funded demonstration of an automated, advanced technology surface transportation system. As System Engineering Manager, he was responsible for system design and engineering support.
In 1979, he joined Battelle Memorial Institute and worked in application of communication, computer and information technology to surface transportation. He progressed through a variety of assignments to his present position.
He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and a Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
Mr. Mitchell left his position as Vice President and General Manager of Battelle's Transportation Division in 1999. He provided strategic and technology management consulting to start-up companies, government agencies, commercial companies, and academic/non-profit institutions from 1999 to 2001. He joined Gannett Flemming in Camp Hill, PA as Vice President and Senior Consultant responsible for marketing and business development in the application of emerging technologies to the company ™s existing client base. In 2002, he became Vice President of Operations at LogicTree in College Park, Md. He held that position from 2002 to 2004 and his responsibilities included business leadership (chief operating officer duties), marketing and business development, project management, and customer support. He positioned the company for rapid growth by establishing marketing, business development, project management and customer support processes.
From 2004 to 2005 Mr. Mitchell was Vice President and General Manager at Doyon Government Services in Washington, DC, where he created Doyon Government Services, a holding company. He started up three separate government service businesses (security, logistics, and construction & construction management).
He was a strategic and technology management consultant in Washington, DC from 2005 to 2006, and later served as the Chief Operating Officer of Digital Now, Inc. in Herndon Virginia (2006-2007)
Mr. Mitchell currently is Vice President of Business Development at Global Language Translation, Inc., a position he has held since 2007. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland in the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Professional Master of Engineering (ENPM) Program since 2008. He created and currently teaches the graduate course ENPM 808A Fundamentals of Technology Startup Ventures.
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- Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- Professor Emeritus, LDCSEE
Dr. John M. Atkins, Professor Emeritus, LDCSEE and Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Marshall University in 1965. He went on to earn an M.A. in Mathematics from WVU in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973. At the conclusion of his studies at Pitt, he joined Bethany College as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He earned an M.S. in Computer Science from WVU in 1980 after which he joined WVU as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
Dr. Atkins has been married to his wife Margaret for 47 years and has one son, Ben, and one grandson, Jack.
E. Lee Kline was born in Rices Landing, PA, on January 18, 1933. He received the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University in January 1961 and June 1963, respectively.
During the Korean War, he served as an Aircraft Performance Engineering Officer in the U.S. Air Force. From 1963 to 1988 he was associated with the Naval Research Laboratory where his principal work was in airborne navigation systems, voice processing techniques, modulation and coding techniques, secure voice terminal design, secure communication systems, and secure information systems. During 1988 and 1989 he was associated with the Atlantic Systems Research and Engineering Corporation, where his principal work was in secure communication system design and tactical ballistic missile defense systems. From 1989 to the present he has been associated with Kaman Sciences Corporation as a senior engineer working on secure information system programs and program management support.
Mr. Kline was the U.S. representative to the NATO Special Working Group on Narrowband Secure Voice Systems, which resulted in the standardization of a secure voice terminal for use in NATO communications systems. Mr. Kline is the recipient of the U.S. Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Mr. Kline and his wife JoAnn reside in Springfield, VA. They have two daughters: Tracy Stofko of Montgomery, AL, and Kristen Kline of Lorton, VA.
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- Associate Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Frank Schneider has extensive experience in the semiconductor, liquid crystal display, and various high tech capital equipment industries.
For the past eleven years he has worked with several (often troubled) companies either as CEO or as a board member helping to strengthen the management team, finding ways to make these businesses grow, and identifying and implementing successful exit strategies.
He is currently a vice president of MKS Instruments, Inc., and a member of the board of directors for Micrel, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Schneider was the CEO of Ion Systems, Inc., GHz Technology, Inc., and Diablo Optics, Inc. He also served on the technical advisory board of Neomagic, a display controller chip company, and was a member of the board of directors of GMT Microelectronics, Inc.
Earlier, Mr. Schneider was a group vice president of Sharp microelectronics and held many senior positions at Philips Semiconductor, then know as Signetics Corp. He has considerable international experience that includes having lived for five years in Japan where he was started and managed Signetics KK.
He holds BSEE and MBA degrees from West Virginia University and Northwestern University Kellogg school of management respectively and has done other post graduate work at Stanford University and the Wharton school of business.
Frank married Priscilla Burger Schneider, also a graduate (class of 1965) of WVU, and they have four successful children and 6 grandchildren.
He enjoys tennis, sailing, bridge, travel, reading biographies and historical novels and the stock market.
Mr. Schneider retired from MKS Instruments, Inc. where he was vice president and Ionization business unit general manager. Mr. Schneider is currently a member of the board of directors at Micrel, Inc. (MCRL), and GigOptix, Inc. (GIG)
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- Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Senior Vice President and General Manager of the National Security Group
Glen Dodson serves as senior vice president and general manager of the National Security Group. He is responsible for all elements of the business including technology deployment, services delivery, business development and sales. Dodson has been personally charged by Oracle's Executive Chairman of the Board, Larry Ellison, with the responsibility of representing and advancing Oracle's commitment to the mission of the U.S. intelligence community. He has been with Oracle Corporation since 1993.
Dodson's intelligence community career began at the National Security Agency in 1984. As an electrical engineer at NSA, where he was engaged in the development, design and implementation of numerous communication and collection systems. Dodson also supported various military and Joint Chief of Staff contingency missions throughout the world in support of the U.S. intelligence community and Department of Defense. Following his work at the National Security Agency, Dodson joined Booz Allen & Hamilton's Intelligence Technology Practice working in the area of signals collection and processing. After leaving Booz Allen, Dodson joined Concentric Technologies as a vice president responsible for strategic product development where he oversaw the development and market launch of a number of communications products sold into the commercial and government sectors.
Dodson received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from West Virginia University and has completed graduate courses in management and business administration.
Dodson is affiliated with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
He has been a lifetime resident of the state of Maryland and currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Glen H. Hiner is Senior Vice President, GE Plastics, the world leader in engineering plastics. Headquartered in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, GE Plastics includes the worldwide operations of the engineering plastics business with division headquarters for GEP-Americas in Pittsfield for GEP. Europe in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, and GEP-Pacific in Tokyo, Japan. Other components include GE silicones, GE Superabrasives, and GE Electromaterials. Three components have headquarters in Parkersburg, West Virginia. They are GE Specialty Chemicals, GE Petrochemicals, and Polymerland, Inc.
Before his current position, Mr. Hiner was Managing Director of GE Plastics-Europe. Prior to joining Plastics, he was General Manager of GE Specialty Motor Department in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He also held product general manager, sales engineering, and marketing manager positions in the GE Industrial Control Department and the GE Large Motor and Generator Department. He joined GE in the technical marketing program in 1957, after graduating in electrical engineering from West Virginia University.
He was inducted as part of the Inaugural Academy on October 20, 1989.
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Harold Smith received the BSEE (1949) and the MSEE (1954) degrees at WVU. He served on the Electrical Engineering faculty from 1949-54. Since 1978 Mr. Smith has been a Consultant to the National Intelligence Agency, as a specialist in microwave electronics. His earlier work was Vice President, R&D, for Household Data Systems in Reston, Virginia from 1973-78, and Devenco, Inc. in New York, NY from 1953-73. In those positions he developed a wide variety of communications devices and systems.
Mr. Stemple was a leader in frequency planning for the emerging alternate long distance carrier industry, and in 1977 he founded Comsearch, Inc., to provide engineering services to that market worldwide. During that period he wrote many trade magazine articles and was a frequent speaker at industry meetings. He served as President and CEO of Comsearch until he retired in 1993. In 1997 Comsearch celebrated its twentieth anniversary and employs over 300 engineers and computer scientists.
J. Kevin Reid is a West Virginia native and vice president of National Security and Chief Information Officer for KeyLogic. Reid joined KeyLogic from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as assistant director of the IT Infrastructure Division.
During his tenure at the FBI, Reid held several senior executive positions, including assistant director of the IT Applications and Data Division. He was the executive program manager of the largest IT program at the FBI, which revolutionized the use of multimodal biometrics and information sharing across the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
With 33 years of experience, Reid is recognized as an industry leader in national security, providing solutions that involve cutting-edge biometrics, big data and cyber capabilities. His service recognition includes the FBI's Assistant Director's awards for Overall Excellence and Excellence in Management and Leadership, as well as numerous industry awards.
Reid earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from West Virginia University, a master of business administration from Marymount University and master of science in software engineering from Central Michigan University.
Reid and his family are proud lifelong Mountaineers.
Dr. Pullen is a resident of Shepherdstown, West Virginia and a Registered Professional Engineer in West Virginia and Virginia.
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- Vice President at Convergys, Corp
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- President and CEO of Vantage Products Corporation
James F. Rinard is President and CEO of Vantage Products Corporation. The Company was founded in 1978. Located in Conyers, Georgia, the firm manufacturers plastic products used in the building products and funeral industries; it sells to worldwide markets as a member of the Inductotherm Industries, Inc. family of companies.
Mr. Rinard is a native of Keyser, WV. He attended Potomac State College, and later attended West Virginia University where he graduated in 1959 with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation he entered the U. S. Amy as 2nd Lieutenant, Ordinance Corps. Upon discharge from military service he returned to the Hercules Company's Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory, located near his home in the West Virginia eastern panhandle. He had worked there for several summers during his college years.
During his career at Hercules, he gained experience in manufacturing all types of plastic products, and held numerous technical and management positions before becoming Operations Manager of a Hercules joint venture with a large Japanese company. He was subsequently names Operations manager of Havec Industries, a Hercules subsidiary.
Mr. Rinard is very active in a wide range of community activities in Conyers. He has served as President of the Lions Club, Rotary programs, and is an active supporter of the United Way and serves on the Council of Partners for Tomorrow.
He was awarded the Keyser High School Legion of Honor Award in April, 1999 by the J. Edward Kelley Society.
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
James Butch graduated from West Virginia Institute of Technology (now WVUIT ) in 1974 with a BSEE--Cum Laude. He is a member of IEEE, ISA, AGA, ARRL, Kiwanis, The Planetary Society, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Lane Department of CSEE at WVU, Member and Past Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Department of EE/CpE at WVUIT, Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Leonard C Nelson College of Science and Engineering at WVUIT, Member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU and Member of the Board of Visitors for WVUIT.
In 1976, Butch co-founded Eagle Research Corporation, a WV company that was formed as a product development company. By 1978, the company focus became developing products for the growing Natural Gas Industry in WV. Today, Eagle Research is a leading supplier of measurement instruments for the gas industry in the United States and fourteen different countries. He has been recognized by the West Virginia University Institute of Technology as the Alumnus of the Year 1994, the West Virginia University Woodburn Circle Society in 2008, the Putnam County Development Authority Community Development Award 2010, the Who ™s Who in Science and Engineering 1994/1995, the Who ™s Who World Wide 1994/1995, and the Who ™s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities 1974/1975. Over the course of the years, he has been awarded eight U.S. Patents.
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- Director for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation
- Vice President of Compliance
James R (Jim) Haney is the Vice President of Compliance and Regulated Services of First Energy, based in Akron, Ohio. Before this appointment, he was President, West Virginia Operations, for FirstEnergy. He was appointed to this position in 2011. First Energy is the 5th largest investor-owned electric generation company in the USA.
Haney earned a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from WVU in 1978, after which he joined the engineering staff of Allegheny Energy. He was named Division Manager for the Elkins Service Center in 1990. In 1996 he was appointed Director, Transmission Projects in the corporate office. In 1998, he was promoted to Vice President, Customer Operations, and then in 2005, Vice President, Transmission and Distribution.
Haney serves as director for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation and The Reliability First Corporation. Haney has served on the LDCSEE Department Industrial Advisory Committee since the 1990s, and also serves on the Statler College of Engineering Advisory Committee.
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Joanie Barr is the Vice President responsible for leading development of ManTech's Health Solutions strategy within the Mission, Cyber, and Technology Solutions (MCTS) Group, Civilian and Homeland Security business unit. With over 25 years of experience in information technology in roles ranging from software development and quality engineering to executive management, Joanie has supported and managed programs in both the DoD and Civilian Government arenas. Her customers have included the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Smithsonian Institution, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Environmental Protection Agency, Financial Management Service, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Department of Education, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Postal Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Army, as well as several International and State Government customers.
Joanie has served in numerous corporate leadership roles, including Core Competency Lead for Enterprise Management and Governance, overall Corporate Technology Team Lead, and Business Operations Lead. She has both participated in and led corporate software process improvement initiatives at Texas Instruments (TI), Software Performance Systems, Inc. (SPS), and McDonald Bradley, Inc. (MBI). She served as a member of the corporate Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) for both SPS and MBI. From 1997-2006, Joanie contributed to significant growth of SPS, during which time the company was selected by ComputerWorld as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in IT in North America, with special recognition for excellence in diversity.
Joanie graduated Summa Cum Laude from West Virginia University in 1986 with a B.S. in Computer Science. She was a University Honors Scholar during her four years at WVU, and she was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1985, an honor extended to only the top 7.5% percent of second-semester juniors. Joanie started her career at Texas Instruments in the Dallas, Texas area in the Defense Systems and Electronics Group. She served on the Executive Committee of the Dallas Fort Worth Association for Software Engineering Excellence (ASEE)/ Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN). She is a graduate of the American Council for Technology / Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC) Partners Program Class of 2002, and is now an IAC Fellow. She is a member of both Women in Technology and the Project Management Institute (PMI). She earned PMI's Project Management Professional certification in 2005. Joanie has presented at conferences with both national and international audiences and has received numerous awards throughout her professional career, including two Star Performer awards and a Quality Award for Excellence at TI. She served on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Minority Government Contractors in 2008. She is currently serving as one of four Vice Chairs for the ACT/IAC Voyagers Program, a professional development program for rising stars in Industry and Government. She is also part of an ACT/IAC Working Group that is assessing the issues associated with modernization of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Joanie currently resides in Fairfax, VA with her son, Andrew Hill, a high school senior at Northern Virginia Christian Academy.
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) for Level
John F. (Jack) Waters is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Denver-based provider of a range of integrated communications services, including voice, private line, wavelengths, co-location, internet access, managed modem, data and dark fiber. In April of 2004, the company acquired the wholesale dial access business of ICG Communications, Inc., providing dial-up internet access to America Online, Earthlink, MSN, United Online and other internet service providers, and is responsible for developing the company's overall technology strategy.
He is also President of Voice Technologies and is responsible for ensuring the technical component of Level 3's Voice strategy ties into its network architecture, links with external networks, and interfaces with a wide rage of databases and applications. Prior to joining Level 3, Mr. Waters served as an executive staff member responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of MCI and Concert's Internet Services. Additionally, he was one of the original key contributors who designed and built MCI's initial Internet service.
John Waters earned his BSEE from WVU in 1987.
John Silvester was born in Kent, England in 1950. He received his B.A. (M.A.) in Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Cambridge in 1971 (1975); the M.S. in Statistics and Computer Science form West Virginia University in 1973; and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1980. He lives with his wife and two children in West Los Angeles.
Since 1979 he has been at the University of Southern California where he is Vice Provost of Scholarly Technology and Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was Vice-Provost of Academic Computing from 1994-1997 and Director of the Computer Engineering Division from 1984-90. He is Chair of the Board of Directors at CENIC (Consortium for Educational Networks in California), which is building Calren2 - the California part of the Internet2. He was a member of the California Virtual University Design. He is a member of the advisory board of the Advanced Biotechnical Consortium, which is involved with telemedicine and other applications of technology to the health sciences. He has served on the Board of Directors of Team Santa Monica - a community-based competitive youth swimming team and was Vice-President from 1996-1998.
As Vice Provost of Scholarly Technology, he serves as the faculty/administration interface for the development of strategic plans for the effective use of information technology to support the academic mission of the University and is responsible for working with the CIO and campus technology providers to implement these plans. Areas of responsibility include distance learning, instructional technology, high performance computing and communications, digital library, research and instructional computing.
As Professor of Electrical Engineering, he teaches course in Broadband Networks, Computer Network Protocols, Teletraffic Analysis, and Computer Network Design and Analysis. These courses are offered in traditional classroom mode as well as over the USC School of Engineering Instructional Television Network. He has also taught short courses in data communications and networks. Recent research interests include traffic modeling, high-speed networks, and wireless packet networks. He is the author of over 100 technical papers and has lectured in both the United States and abroad.
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- President, CEO, and Co - Founder of KeyLogic Systems
Joseph M. McGraw was born in Beckley, West Virginia on April 27, 1953, the son of (the late) Horace and Rita McGraw of McGraws, (Wyoming County) West Virginia. He attended WVU from 1971-1975 and graduated magna cum laude with a BSEE in December 1975. He was a member of the engineering honoraries Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi at WVU. In 1974-75 McGraw was chosen Outstanding Electrical Engineering Student by Eta Kappa Nu. McGraw attended graduate school at Virginia Tech and obtained a MSEE in March of 1977.
His first job after graduation was as a software engineer for the Bendix Corporation. While at Bendix, he was involved in developing microprocessor software to control gas chromatographs. Later he managed a project to develop a process Infrared Analyzer based on technology from the U.K.
In February, 1983, he was laid off from Bendix and he decided to start his own company, Greenbrier Electronics. Greenbrier Electronics' products were a portable electronic tester (called the 4400), which would permit relatively lower skilled personnel to troubleshoot electronics. The product was successfully developed but the sales were not great enough to support an independent company. McGraw sold the assets of Greenbrier Electronics to Temco Instruments, Inc. in 1986. McGraw subsequently worked for Temco for three years and was primarily responsible for Marketing and Sales.
McGraw left Temco in May of 1989 to form Greenbrier Technical Services, Inc. (GTS). GTS was initially founded to provide electronic repair services to OEMS, industrial and commercial customers. Later replacement parts such as electronic modules and electromechanical assemblies were developed and now represent about 80% of the company's sales. GTS operates a 7,200 square foot headquarters in Lewisburg, WV and a 14,000 square foot production and repair facility in Ronceverte, WV.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Goff joined Leeds and Northrup in 1957 where, first as a manager of Systems Analysis and then as a manager of Systems Development, he was responsible for the computer simulation and the development of the hardware and software for computer control of industrial processes, steam power plants, and electric power systems. His work in these fields led to his election as a Fellow in the ISA and the IEEE.
From 1985 to the present, Dr. Goff has been with Performance Controls, Inc., as a Director and Vice President of Advanced Technology. He has participated in the development and marketing of motion control and power electronics systems for industrial and medical applications including advanced gradient drives from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems.
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professional Technologist - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering / Site Director - WVU Center for Identification Technology Research
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- Adjunct Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Chief Executive Officer at Qolsys, Inc
Mr. David Pulling serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Qolsys, Inc. Qolysis is a venture capital startup with
Mr. Pulling served as President of NetXen, Inc. Prior to joining NetXen, Inc. he was an Executive Vice President of Server Works where he was responsible for sales and marketing activities. As a founding member of the ServerWorks' team, he grew its server chipset business, with a market share of 90%, and played a key role in the sale of ServerWorks to Broadcom.
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor, Associate Chair of Student Engagement and DEI - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor, Associate Chair for Industry Outreach and Undergraduate Studies - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Instructor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Instructor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Lecturer - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Engineering Scientist - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
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- Professor Emeritus - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Adjunct Associate Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Teaching Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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- Professor - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering