MAE - Key Persons
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- Kenneth and Mary Ann Shaw Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurial Leadership
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- General Manager
- Vice President
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- Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs / College of Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Dacheng Ren received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Connecticut in 2003. After finishing postdoctoral training at Cornell University, he joined Syracuse University in 2006. Currently, he is the Stevenson Endowed Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, director of Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, and interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Dr. Ren received an Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in 2009 and a NSF CAREER award in 2011. He was named the College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York in 2010. Dr. Ren is also a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in 2014, and Chancellor's Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction in 2018. Dr. Ren currently has 63 journal publications over 4,500 citations and an h-index of 31, 10 issued/pending patents, and more than 40 invited talks. Dr. Ren has broad research interests in biotechnology and biofilm control. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, EPA, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and industrial sponsors.
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- Chief Operating Officer, Sky DACH
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Center for Automation Technologies and Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- President, Principal Scientist, Zi Inc
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- Chief Engineer, IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY
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- Associate Director for Science & Technology, Army Research Laboratory
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- President and CEO, NSI - MI Technologies ( Retired )
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- Associate Dean for Student Affairs / Associate Teaching Professor
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- Principal Engineer, PPC Corp Headquarters John Mezzalingua Assoc
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Founder
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- Construction Projects Administrator
Qi Wang, Iain W. H. Oswald, Xiaolong Yang, Guijiang Zhou, Huiping Jia, , Qiquan Qiao, Yonghua Chen, Jason Hoshikawa-Halbert, Bruce E. Gnade, A Non-Doped Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Device with Above 31% External Quantum Efficiency, Advanced Materials, 26: 8107-8113, 2014, doi: 10.1002/adma.201402947 .
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- Partner and Principal at EY
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- Director
- Executive Vice President
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- Senior Business Strategy Analyst
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- Professor in Manufacturing Enterprises / Department Chair
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- Director for Research Development
Yoanna Ferrara provides support for engineering and computer science faculty to advance research and build capacity for large and complex proposals. She monitors and evaluates emerging funding opportunities to align with investigators' research interests and career stage. Ferrara also provides services to foster collaboration among diverse faculty. She helps enhance broader impact strategy by building and facilitating partnerships. Prior to Syracuse University, she was director of the research administration service center at Cornell Engineering. She holds a master's degree in public administration from Cornell University.