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IEEE Computer Society
Alabama A&M University
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IEEE Region 3

Meet Our Speakers & Panelists

  • Mark Adams, Ph.D.

    Director, Alabama Micro/ Nano Science and Technology Center, Auburn University

  • Jared Ashcroft

    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

    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

    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

  • Dr. Donna Joyce

    Army Senior Research Scientist for Protective Technologies, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center

  • Hulya Kirkici

    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

    2025 IEEE-USA President
    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

    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

    Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships
    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Zhigang Xiao, Ph.D.

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Alabama A&M University