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Meet Our Speakers & Panelists
Mark Adams, Ph.D.
Director, Alabama Micro/ Nano Science and Technology Center, Auburn University
Jared Ashcroft, Ph.D.
Director, Micro Nano Technology Education Center
David E. Brock
NASA Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) Manager
Small Business Specialist
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Julia Buckley
Chief Operations Officer, Reliable MicroSystems, LLC
Kaitlin Bulavinetz
Senior Advisor to the Principal Director for Advanced Computing and Software
Associate Director, Global Research Watch within the Office of Strategic Intelligence & Analysis
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering for Critical Technologies (OUSD(R&E))
Lyndsay Ferguson
Vice President for Talent Initiatives
Huntsville/ Madison County Chamber of Commerce
Jennifer Fowler
Director and Principal Investigator, Arkansas National Science Foundation EPSCoR
Matt Francis, Ph.D.
Founder and President/CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc.
Erin Gawron-Hyla, Ph.D.
Workforce Development CTEA Lead
Microelectronics Commons
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Eric Grigorian, P.E.
Director, IEEE Region 3
Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Ph.D.
Division Director, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for STEM Education
Russell Harrison
Managing Director, IEEE-USA
Erik Heilman
Director of Government Relations, IEEE-USA
Curtis Hill
Principal Investigator and Subject Matter Expert
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Donna Joyce, Ph.D.
Army Senior Research Scientist for Protective Technologies, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center
Hulya Kirkici, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of South Alabama
Fellow IEEE
Jeffrey LaRoche, Ph.D.
Engineering Fellow, Advanced Technology Programs, RTX
Tawnya Laughinghouse
Director, Materials and Processes Laboratory
Marshall Space Flight Center
Tim Lee
2024 IEEE-USA President-Elect
Boeing Technical Fellow
David Vance Lucas
Partner
Womble Bond Dickinson
Zach McGovern
External Relations Officer
City of Huntsville
Tim Morgan, Ph.D.
Technical Director
Microelectronics Commons
Rima Kasia Oueid
Senior Commercialization Executive
Office of Technology Transitions
U.S. Department of Energy
Dale Thomas, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and Eminent Scholar of Systems Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
Ebonee A. Walker, Ph.D.
IEEE Region 3 WIE representative
George White, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships
Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhigang Xiao, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Alabama A&M University