Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

Conference Speakers

Program Co-Chairs

William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D
Director, Science and Engineering Informatics Program
National Science Foundation

Carlo Montemagno, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, California Nano Systems Institute
Co-Director, Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) and
Roy and Carol Doumani Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Mihail C. Roco, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation and
Chair, National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Nanoscale
Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET)

Speakers

Robert D. Balmer, Ph.D.
Dean of Engineering and Computer Science
Union College

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D.
President
Institute on Biotechnology & the Human Future
Research Professor of Bioethics & Associate Dean
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Ph.D.
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida

Gavin Clarkson, DBA, JD, MBA
Assistant Professor, School of Information, School of Law, Native American Studies
University of Michigan

Michael Darby, Ph.D.
Professor of Policy, Director of the John M. Olin Center for Policy,
Anderson School of Management
University of California, Los Angeles

Peter Fromherz, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Department of membrane and Biophysics
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Henry Kautz, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

Sonia E. Miller
Attorney-at-Law
S.E. Miller Law Firm

Jayshree Pandya, Ph.D., PMP
Founder and CEO
Risk Group

Fabio Pichierri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, COE Laboratory
Tohoku University

Francis K.H. Quek, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Virginia Tech

Wrye Sententia, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics

James C. Spohrer, Ph.D.
Diector, Almaden Services Research & Innovation Champion
IBM

Osamu Takai, Ph.D.
EcoTopia Science Institute and Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya University

Frederic Zenhausern, Ph.D.
Professsor and Director, Center for Applied Nanobioscience, Technical Director,
Center for Flexible Display
Arizona State University
Associate Director, Molecular Diagnostics & Target Validation Division
Translational Genomic Research Institute (TGen)

Alan S. Ziegler
Attorney-at-Law
Sweeney Lev LLC

Call for Poster Presentations: Attendees are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation to give at this conference. All plenary and poster presentations will be considered for publication in a book in the series on Converging Technologies, scheduled to be published after the conference. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please submit a brief abstract for consideration to info@biztechcomm.com