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Undergraduate Announcements > College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing > Advisory Councils

Advisory Councils

Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council

Diane R. Bienek, Ph.D.	Director of Research, International Institute for the Brain
Christy Foreman, Ph.D.	Senior Vice President, Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare
Kenneth Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor, Neurosurgery, Jacobs School of Medicine, University of Buffalo
William Clark, Ph.D.	Professor of Engineering Practice, Purdue University
Kevin Cleary, Ph.D.	Technical Director, Bioengineering Initiative, The Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC
Chris Idelson, Ph.D.	Chief, Technical Officer ClearCam, Inc.
Lamar Mair, Ph.D.	Materials Engineer
Thomas Seacrist, Ph.D.	Director of Training, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Tyler Zimmerman	Senior Program Manager, United Therapeutics

Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council

Sassan Aflaki. Ph.D., PE, PMP, ENV SP	Project Manager, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Jon Ellen	Vice President Davis Construction, Rockville, MD
Kevin H. Goudarzi	Structural Engineering, EFI Global, Columbia, MD
Dan Herrema, Ph.D.	Vice-President, Limnotech, Washington, DC
Hamid Karimi, Ph.D.	Deputy Director, Natural Resources Administration, Department of Energy and Environment, Government of the District of Columbia
Dennis McCahill, Ph.D.	Retired
Daniel Murphy	Assistant Superintendent at Architect of the Capitol, Washington, DC
Arash Parham	Director, Clark Foundations
Melissa Prelewicz	Associate Executive Director, American Association of Engineering Societies, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA
Nina Rodriguez, Ph.D., PE, PMP, LEED, AP	Production Operations/Division Director, National Nuclear Security Administration (NSSA), Washington DC
Jeffrey Seltzer	Deputy Director, Natural Resources Administration, DOEE
Ali Shakeri	Project Manager, Infrastructure Project Management Division, District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Washington DC
Heather Shinn	Vice President Pearsons, Washington, DC
Scott Stewart	Principal, SKandA Structural Engineers, Washington, DC
Gene VanDyck, Ph.D.	General Dynamics
William (Bill) Whiting	Vice President, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Washington DC

Computer Science Advisory Council

Jude R. Nitsche	Nitsche and Associates LLC, Arlington, VA
Ramesh Bharadwaj, Ph.D.	Senior Software Technology Researcher, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Chang-Tien Lu,	Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech University, Arlington VA
Sameer K. Antani, Ph.D.	Principal Investigator and a senior researcher in the National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH
Vladimir Kirnosov, Ph.D	Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
M. Okan Irfanoglu, Ph.D	Staff Scientist and an Investigator in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH
Leo Wu	Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft

Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Council

Hamidzadeh Babak, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ramesh Bharadwaj, Ph.D.	Senior Software Technology Researcher, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Tarek El-Ghazawi, Ph.D.	Professor, IEEE Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Jose R. Latimer, Ph.D.	Executive for Homeland Protection Mission Area, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Joe Logue	Chief Executive Office of Two Six Technologies, Arlington, VA
Dana Moore	Principal Software Engineer, Leidos, Columbia, MD
Jude R. Nitsche	Nitsche  and Associates LLC, Arlington, VA
Scott E. Stickels	CTO, Applied Physical Sciences Corporation, Alexandria, VA
Harold Szu, Ph.D.	Distinguished Retired Scientist, Night Vision Lab, Ft. Belvoir, VA
Donald C. Wunsch	Mary Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor and Inaugural Director Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems at Missouri University of Science and Technology and Director of the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory (Missouri SandT)
Badri Younes	Senior Consultant on Space Communications and Nav and Spectrum, Retired NASA Deputy AA for SCaN

Mechanical Engineering Advisory Council

Tareq Alosh	Associate, Intellectual Property Litigation, Kirkland and Ellis LLP
Joseph T. (Tim) Arcano, Jr., Ph.D.	Technical Director (Retired), Naval Surface Warfare Center/Carderock; Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Link Technologies, Inc., Washington, DC
Gil Crouse, Ph.D.	Chief Engineer for Advanced Aircraft Development, Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Co., Manassas, VA
Terry DuBois, Ph.D.	Sr. Research Engineer, US Army Communications, Electronics, Research, Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Jenna Gietl	Mechanical Engineer, Carderock
Peter Herdic, Ph.D.	Sr. Scientist, Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, DC
Peter McKibbin	IRAD/Special Projects Manager, Phoenix International Holdings, Inc., Largo, MD
Steven Russell, Ph.D.	Project Manager, Ship Systems Engineering, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
Jaclyn A. Schade	Registered Patent Agent, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, McLean, VA
Stephen Wilson	Principal Analyst, NTI Corporation; Deputy Director, (Retired), Ship Signature Department, NSWC Carderock, West Bethesda, MD