DEPS CommitteeThe Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) is concerned with expanding basic knowledge in the physical sciences and engineering and applying these disciplines in the service of humankind. In support of these goals the Division Committee will articulate intellectual and strategic goals for the Division, with particular attention to the promotion of intra- and inter-division collaborations to capture interdisciplinary opportunities that are emerging or likely to emerge; ensure the quality of the Division’s work, perform strategic reviews of the Division’s boards, and approve board members; and provide direction on emerging issues, and review the Division’s structure and operational ability to pursue these issues. The Committee will also annually review the Division’s activities, reports, successes, and challenges, and articulate its vision of how the Division must evolve in the future. Cherry Murray, Chair
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University Linda M. Abriola
Dean, School of Engineering
Tufts University Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley Elizabeth R. Cantwell
Director for Mission Development
Engineering Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lance R. Collins
Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Cornell University Katharine Frase
Vice President, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business
IBM Research
Wendy Freedman
Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington John C. Gannon
President, Information Solutions
BAE Engineering Henry J. (Hank) Hatch
Lt. General, Retired
U.S. Army Steven Koonin
Director, Center for Urban Science and Progress
New York University Cato T. Laurencin
Chief Executive Officer
Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science David W. McLaughlin
Provost
New York University
M. Granger Morgan
Lord Chair Professor, Engineering
Department Head of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University Venky Narayanamurti
Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School Lawrence T. Papay
CEO and Principal
PQR, LLC Ronald Sega
Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and the Environment
Colorado State University and The Ohio State University
Joseph Traub
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University
Peter Blair
Executive Director
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
DEPS Committee Members
Bio-sketches
Cherry A. Murray (NAS/NAE) became Dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied science and professor of physics and holds the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professorship in Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2009. Prior to joining Harvard University, Dr. Murray was Principal Associate Director and Deputy Director of Science and Technology at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2004-2009. Previous to that, she was Sr. Vice President of Physical Sciences and Wireless Research at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, having joined Bell Labs as a researcher in 1978. Her concentration is in the management of basic and applied research in physical sciences and high technology. Also, basic and applied research in the area of experimental condensed matter physics in a number of cross-disciplinary fields including optical phenomena at surfaces and in semiconductors, complex fluids, disordered systems and systems of lower spatial dimensions, clusters and nanostructures, non-equilibrium phenomena, and phase transitions. Dr. Murray has both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Return Linda Abriola (NAE) is Dean of Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. She also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Prior to joining Tufts, she was a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan (1984-2003), where she directed the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Program (1996-2001), and was named the Horace Williams King Collegiate Professor of Environmental Engineering (2001-03). Dr. Abriola joined Tufts as Dean of the School of Engineering in 2003. During her tenure as Dean, the Tufts Engineering School has substantially expanded its administrative infrastructure, faculty, research activity, and educational programs in support of interdisciplinary education and research. Dr. Abriola is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She is an expert in the multiphase transport, fate, and recovery/destruction of contaminants in the subsurface. An author of more than 140 refereed publications, she has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Association for Women Geoscientist's Outstanding Educator Award (1996), the National Ground Water Association's Distinguished Darcy Lectureship (1996), designation as a ISI Highly Cited Author in Ecology/Environment (2002), and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Project of the Year Award in Remediation (2006, 2012). Her numerous professional activities have included service on the US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board, the American Society of Engineering Education Engineering Deans Council Executive Board and the US Department of Energy’s Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Advisory Committee. She is currently an elected member of the NAE governing Council and a member of the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee. Dr. Abriola received her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Princeton University and a Bachelor's degree from Drexel University, all in Civil Engineering. Return Ruzena Bajcsy (NAS\IOM) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and Director Emeritus of the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS). Her current research areas include artificial intelligence, biosystems and computational biology; control, intelligent systems, and robotics; graphics and human-computer interaction, computer vision; and security. Prior to joining Berkeley, Dr. Bajcsy headed the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation where she managed a $500 million annual budget. As a former faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, she also served as the Director of the University’s General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978, and chaired the Computer and Information Science Department from 1985 to 1990. Dr. Bajcsy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and the American Associate for Artificial Intelligence. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering for Slovak Technical University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Return Elizabeth R. Cantwell is the Director for Mission Development in the Engineering Directorate at LLNL. As a senior leader within the Engineering Directorate, Dr. Cantwell brings an in-depth and comprehensive level of knowledge and experience to her position of managing national security science and engineering. Dr. Cantwell returned to LLNL in 10/2010 after serving as Deputy Associate Director for Global Security at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In her role at ORNL, she provided strategic leadership to Program Directors who develop business with the United States Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration, the United States Department of Defense, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Center for Radiation Detection, and many others. Prior to joining ORNL, Dr. Cantwell was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, first as Division Leader for the International, Space & Response Division, and then the Director, Office of Strategy within the Threat Reduction Directorate. Dr. Cantwell spent a decade at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she helped stand up the Homeland Security organization after 9/11. She spent several years at NASA HQ as a Program Manager for the life and microgravity sciences. Dr. Cantwell is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (MBA, 2003); the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 1992); and the University of Chicago (BA, Human Behavior 1976). Return Lance R. Collins is the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University. He joined the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2002 after eleven years as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Since 1999, Professor Collins also held a joint appointment in the Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Department at Penn State. While on a sabbatical, Dr. Collins was a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratoire de Cumbustion et Systemes Reactifs (a CNRS laboratory in Orleans, France) and at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Group). His research combines simulation and theory to study a variety of turbulent flow processes. His work on mechanisms of droplet breakup in turbulence was recognized with the 1997 Best Paper Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and in 2007 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He currently chairs the US National Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics. Dr, Collins has a B.S.E. from Princeton University and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all in Chemical Engineering. Return
Katharine Frase (NAE) is Vice President, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business, IBM Research. Prior to this she was Vice President, Technical and Business Strategy, IBM Software Group. Her team is responsible for technical strategy, business strategy, business development, standards, competitive analysis and the application of advanced technologies across SWG. Prior to this role, she was VP, Technology (IBM), in which she was responsible for technical resources, recognition, assessment and strategy across IBM. In 2006, in recognition of her distinguished contributions to engineering, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Earlier IBM responsibilities included management of process development, design/modeling methodology and production for chip carrier assembly and final test for IBM silicon products. Her research interests include mechanical properties/structural interactions in composites, high temperature superconductors, solid electrolytes (fast ionic conductors), ceramic powder synthetic methods, and ceramic packaging. She chaired an IBM/Academy workshop on Lead Solder reduction actions, and in 1998 served as the Packaging Assurance manager for IBM worldwide. Dr. Frase received an A.B. in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Frase is an ex officio member of the NRC’s Board on Assessment of National Institute of Standards and Technology Programs and is currently the chair of the Panel of Materials Science and Engineering.
Return Wendy Freedman (NAS) is the Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She is also the chair of the board of directors of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project. Previously, she was a Faculty Member and a Carnegie Fellow at the Observatories. Dr. Freedman was also a Principal Investigator of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, a project to measure the current expansion rate of the Universe. Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology. Her current research interests are directed at measuring the past expansion rate of the Universe, and in characterizing the nature of dark energy, which is causing the universe to speed up its expansion. She is a member the American Philosophical Society and the National academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of the Magellanic Prize of the American Philosophical Society, and the Gruber Cosmology Prize. Dr. Freedman received a B. Sc., M.Sc. Ph.D. degrees in Astronomy from the University of Toronto. Return John C. Gannon is President, BAE Systems Intelligence & Security, Arlington, Virginia, which provides information technology, intelligence analysis and other homeland security solutions to U.S. government agencies. Intelligence & Security supports the critical mission information technology and solutions needs of civilian, military and intelligence agencies. Dr. Gannon is a 20+ year CIA veteran who joined BAE Systems in 2005 as vice president and senior general manager of the company's Global Analysis business unit. In this role, he was responsible for building the business to support U.S. government and corporate analysis. Prior to joining BAE Systems, Gannon held senior posts throughout the intelligence community. He served as staff director for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, the first new House committee in more than 30 years. Prior to that, he headed the White House team that created the Department of Homeland Security Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. As chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Gannon advised the president's national security team on top-priority functional and global issues. Dr. Gannon was the CIA's deputy director for intelligence from 1995 to 1997, supervising all of the agency's analysts and overseeing the preparation of the President's Daily Brief. Gannon inaugurated the first Strategic Plan for the Directorate of Intelligence and its first major reorganization since 1981. Gannon has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Holy Cross College and master's and doctorate degrees in history from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. The former naval officer and Vietnam veteran was awarded the National Security Medal, the nation's highest intelligence award, by President George W. Bush. Return Henry J. (Hank) Hatch (NAE) is a retired Lieutenant General from the United States Army. He was the Chief of Engineers and the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers whose missions include military construction and environmental engineering for the Army and Air Force and the Army’s civil water resources program. Mr. Hatch served in a variety of Army command and staff positions that include the Engineer for the Army in Europe, Commander of the Corps Pacific Ocean Division in Hawaii, Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, Commander of the Corps’ Nashville District, Commander of the 326th Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division in Viet Nam, and as an instructor and assistant professor at West Point. Among his military awards and decorations are two Distinguished Service Medals (the Army’s highest peacetime award), the Legion of Merit, two meritorious Service Medals, two Bronze Star Medals, three Air Medals, and two Army Commendation Medals. He is also a Ranger, Master Parachutist, and earned the Air Assault Badge. Mr. Hatch most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He earned a B.S. in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and a M.Sc. in Geodetic Science from The Ohio State University. Return Steven Koonin (NAS) is the Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) which is an applied science and engineering institute created by NYU as a consortium of world-class universities, global technology corporations, and innovative urban designers. Dr. Koonin was confirmed by the Senate in May, 2009 as Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving in that position until November, 2011. Prior to that, he was BP’s Chief Scientist, where he was a strong advocate for research into renewable energies and alternate fuel sources. Dr. Koonin came to BP in 2004 following almost 3 decades as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, serving as the Institute’s Vice President and Provost for the last nine years. Most recently, Dr. Koonin held a position at the Science and Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC. Dr. Koonin’s research interests have included nuclear astrophysics; theoretical nuclear, computational, and many-body physics; and global environmental science. He has been involved in scientific computing throughout his career. Dr. Koonin has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Return
Cato T. Laurencin (NAE/IOM) is Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering and the Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery. He previous served as the UConn Health Center’s Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the UConn School of Medicine. Prior to his arrival at the UConn Health Center, Dr. Laurencin was the Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia, as well as Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the University of Virginia Health System. In addition, he was designated as a University Professor at the University of Virginia, one of the University’s most prestigious titles, and held professorships in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. Dr. Laurencin is an expert in shoulder and knee surgery and an international leader in tissue engineering research. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons. President Obama named Dr. Laurencin a 2009 winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence, awarded to science, math, and engineering mentors. He is also the winner of the Pierre Galletti Award, the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering’s highest honor. Dr. Laurencin earned his B.S.E. from Princeton University, a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.D. the Harvard Medical School.
Return David W. McLaughlin (NAS) is Provost of New York University, and had previously served as head of NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was elected to the NAS in 2002; his citation notes that he is "a multidisciplinary applied mathematician who has demonstrated that mathematics is intensely needed throughout modern science. His work focuses on dispersive waves and on the regular or chaotic temporal behaviors of large-scale nonlinear systems. His efforts range from computational models of experiments involving laser beams to models based on the behavior of individual cells within the large-scale neuronal network of the visual cortex." He brings the Board strong credibility with the broad mathematical sciences community and, through his position as Provost of a major university, connections to leaders in other disciplines and in industry. Return M. Granger Morgan (NAS) is the Lord Chair Professor in Engineering and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and analyze uncertainty in Quantitative Risk and Policy Analysis. He has worked extensively on issues in climate change and the problems of decarbonizing the energy system. In this context he directs the NSF center for Energy and Environmental Decision Making. He also co-directs and is conducting research at the CMU Electricity Industry Center where he works in areas such as distributed resources, carbon management, and basic technology research to support clean energy. He has worked extensively in risk analysis, communication and ranking. Dr. Morgan received a B.S. in physics from Harvard University, an M.S. in Astronomy and Space Science, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Information Science from the University of California, San Diego. Return Venky Narayanamurti (NAE), Foreign Secretary of the NAE, is the Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He is also the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and a Professor of Physics at Harvard. He was formerly the John L. Armstrong Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. Previously he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior to that he was the Vice President of Research at Sandia National Laboratories and Director of Solid State Electronics Research at Bell Labs. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Cornell University and has an Honorary Doctorate from Tohoku University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers in different areas of condensed matter and applied physics. He lectures widely on solid state, computer, and communications technologies, and on the management of science, technology, and public policy. Return Lawrence T. Papay (NAE) is currently CEO and Principal of PQR, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in managerial, financial, and technical strategies for a variety of clients in electric power and other energy areas. His previous positions include Sector Vice President for the Integrated Solutions Sector, SAIC where he was responsible for business dealing with the integration of technology in the energy, environment, and information areas for a variety of government and commercial clients world wide. Prior to joining SAIC, Larry was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Bechtel Technology & Consulting and was responsible for monitoring new technologies and developing new businesses, principally in the energy sector, employing those technologies including technological developments that impacted existing business lines as well as the engineering and construction business in general. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of Southern California Edison where he had a variety of responsibilities over his 21-year career including R&D, Engineering, Power Operations (T&D), Power Generation, Nuclear Power, System Planning and General Administrative functions. Dr. Papay received a B.S. in Physics from Fordham University and a M.S. and Sc.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the Board of the California Council for Science and Technology. He is a register Professional Engineer (Nuclear) in California. Return Ronald M. Sega is Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and the Environment at Colorado State University and The Ohio State University. He is also the Woodward Professor of Systems Engineering, Director of Graduate Studies in Systems Engineering, and serves as chair of the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Advisory Committee at CSU and the President’s and Provost’s Council on Sustainability at OSU. He most recently was the under secretary of the Air Force from 2005-2007 where he led the Air Force team that won the overall Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management for 2006. From 2001-2005, he served as Director of Defense Research and Engineering, the chief technology officer for the Department of Defense. He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2005 as a major general in the position of reserve assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after 31 years in the Air Force, having served in various assignments at Air Force Space Command and as a pilot. A former astronaut, he flew aboard Space Shuttles Discovery (1994) and Atlantis (1996). Since 1982, Dr. Sega has also been a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Colorado University at Colorado Springs, serving as dean from 1996-2001. Dr. Sega holds a B.S. in math and physics from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, an M.S. in physics from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado. Return William Stead (IOM) is Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Strategy and Information Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also serves as Chief Information Architect for the University and Director of the Informatics Center. The Informatics Center is a unique blend of the units that manage the medical center's information technology infrastructure, the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the School of Medicine (research and education), the Eskind Biomedical Library (knowledge management), and the Center for Better Health (innovation). He came to Vanderbilt in 1991 to work out how to link information into workflow to help people make better decisions at an enterprise scale. His team has shown how to translate techniques from the science of biomedical informatics into novel approaches to information infrastructure that reduce cost to implement and barriers to adoption. The resulting enterprise-wide electronic patient chart and communication/decision support tools support his current focus on system-supported, evidence-based practice and research leading toward personalized medicine. Dr. Stead is McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine. He is a Founding Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and served as President of the American College of Medical Informatics. He served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, and as a Presidential appointee to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability. Dr. Stead received his B.A. and M.D. from Duke University where he also completed specialty and subspecialty training Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Return Joseph Traub (NAE) is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He serves as External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Starting in 1959 he pioneered research in what is now called information-based complexity which studies the computational complexity of problems with partial and/or contaminated information and is used to solve the continuous problems typical of science, engineering, economics and finance. His current focus is on quantum computation. He is the author or editor of 10 books and author of some 120 journal articles. Dr. Traub is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Complexity" and Associate Editor of "Complexity". His colleagues have honored him with two Festschrifts. Dr. Traub served as Founding Chair of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies 1986-92 and as Chair again 2005-2009. His numerous honors include election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985, the 1991 Emanuel R. Piore Gold Medal from IEEE, and the 1992 Distinguished Service Award, Computer Research Association. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He has been Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and received a Distinguished Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has served as advisor or consultant to the senior management of numerous organizations including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger, Stanford University, INRIA (Paris), Federal Judiciary Center, NSF and Lucent Technologies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Marconi Society. Return Executive DirectorPeter Blair is Executive Director of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of The National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC). He was formerly Executive Director of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and publisher of American Scientist (1996-2001). Earlier, at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1983-1996), he served as Energy Program Director and then as Assistant Director of the agency and Director of the Division on Industry, Commerce, and International Security. He received OTA’s distinguished service award in 1991. Prior to his government service he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1976-1985) and Co-Founder of Technecon Analytic Research, Inc. (1978-1985). He is a fellow of the AAAS and holds a B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, an M.S.E. in systems engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Return
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