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Ms. Andreozzi is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chief of Interagency and International Coordination. She is responsible for engaging the interagency community within the U.S. government as well as the international community. She has served with DTRA and its precursor agencies for over eighteen years. In previous positions she was responsible for the Agency's Foreign Consequence Management program, Intelligence Community support, integration of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration programs, and weapons systems development. Her experience includes intelligence and targeting, counterproliferation, program management, policy, and arms control.
Ms. Andreozzi is a graduate and fellow of the National War College. She serves as a Reserve Air Force Officer recalled to active duty during DESERT STORM and Operation Enduring Freedom/Noble Eagle. In the Pacific region, Ms. Andreozzi served as Exercise Director for 'A Kele, the first Improvised Nuclear Device exercise in the US and as Program Manager.
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LTC Barnes has extensive interagency experience as the lead planner for numerous humanitarian assistance and disaster response exchanges and exercises with the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia.
LTC Barnes is a Civil Affairs officer and deployed in support of two combat operations.
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Dr. Boyd is responsible for research and development programs to support command and control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber security and interoperability. He is also the Director of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility, which includes the research, development, test, evaluation, and standards portions of SAFECOM, a Presidential management initiative to achieve communications interoperability among all elements of the emergency response community, and Disaster Management.
After retiring from the U.S. Army, Dr. Boyd served as the Director of Science and Technology for the National Institute of Justice. He has also served on the White House National Science and Technology Council, the National Security Council Committee on Safety and Security of Public Facilities, and as the Executive Chair of the Department of Justice’s Technology Policy Council.
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Dr. Bruno is the Director of the Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce and Coastal Environments (CSR), a Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence. His research and teaching interests include ocean observation systems, maritime security, and coastal ocean dynamics. He is the author of more than 100 technical publications in various aspects of the field.
Dr. Bruno is a member of the Marine Board (2007-2010); and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering; Secretary-General of the Pan American Federation of Coastal and Ocean Engineers; and member of the Board of Directors of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. A Fulbright Scholar (1996 appointment at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) he served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Homeland Security in 2003. Dr. Bruno is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Mr. Bryan is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). ISER works with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to enhance the security and resiliency of the nation’s critical energy infrastructure and facilitate the reconstruction and recovery of damaged or disrupted energy systems.
Mr. Bryan oversees the collection, analysis, and dissemination of vital information to all involved in energy response and restoration efforts, and serves to keep the office in the essential coordinating role for the energy sector during a disruption. He also leads the office in support of the energy sector asset owners in the development and implementation of infrastructure protection strategies and methodologies.
Mr. Bryan has served as the Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Ms. Cabrera serves as the Director, Office of SAFETY Act Implementation in the Science and Technology Directorate. She has also served as the Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Transition and Acting Deputy Director for Plans, Programs and Requirements in S&T. Silvia served as a Sr. Research and Development Business Specialist with the Threat Awareness Portfolio where she supported the Portfolio Director in managing knowledge management technologies, the social and behavioral program, and the information and special intelligence assessment programs.
Silvia obtained her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Texas, El Paso and served as a Presidential Management Intern with the National Cancer Institute in 1995. She received her Project Management Professional certification in 2002 while working as a Program Manager for the Information Resource Management Division of the United States Immigration Office.
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Dr. Cellucci accepted a five year appointment from the Department of Homeland Security in August 2007 as Chief Commercialization Officer (CCO). He is responsible for initiatives that identify, evaluate and commercialize technology for the specific goal of rapidly developing and deploying products and services that meet the specific operational requirements of the Department of Homeland Security’s Operating Components and its end users. The CCO also develops and drives the implementation of DHS-S&T’s outreach with the private sector to establish and foster mutually-beneficial working relationships to facilitate cost-effective and efficient product/service development efforts.
Dr. Cellucci established the SECURE Program—an innovative public-private partnership to cost-effective and efficiently develop products and services for DHS’ Operating Components and the First Responder community.
Dr. Cellucci is an accomplished entrepreneur, seasoned senior executive and Board member possessing extensive corporate and venture capital experience across a number of worldwide industries.
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After assuming the presidency of HKUST in 2001, Professor Chu set out to further raise the profile and enhance the impact of the University nationally and internationally. In 2005, he launched the HKUST Strategic Plan 2005-2020 which envisions the development of HKUST into one of the world’s academic leaders in selected academic fields. He has also initiated the establishment of the Institute for Advanced Study at HKUST which is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge to meet the great challenges of the 21st century and to become a platform for future development of science, technology, education and economy for Hong Kong, China and beyond.
Professor Chu has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science (1988) for his discovery of high temperature superconductivity, hailed as one of the most significant advancements in modern physics and has been considered to hold the key to developing some future technologies.
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As the Director of University Programs, Dr. Clark is responsible for developing, managing, integrating, and delivering the results from a $50 million annual research and education program, which includes the DHS Centers of Excellence, the Scholars and Fellows program, and the Minority Serving Institutions program.
Prior to joining DHS, Dr. Clark spent 11 years as an economist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He established and managed an Economics and Decision Sciences grant program that generated some of the most significant and widely used research results ever supported by EPA. He spearheaded an EPA-wide effort to establish measures of program benefits and cost-effectiveness across all agency programs.
Dr. Clark was an energy and environmental economics consultant for public and private clients, an economist and budget planner for the Washington State Department of Ecology and a land use and environmental planner for the two largest counties in Washington State.
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Dr. Closs has been extensively involved in the development and application of computer models and information systems for logistics operations and planning. The computer models have included applications for location analysis, inventory management, forecasting and routing. The information systems development focuses on inventory management, forecasting and transportation applications. His experience has focused on the logistics related issues in the consumer products, medical and pharmaceutical products and parts industries. Dr. Closs actively participates in logistics executive development seminars and has presented sessions in North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe. Dr. Closs’s primary research interests include supply chain strategy, information systems, security and planning techniques. He was one of the principle researchers in two studies completed by Michigan State University investigating world-class logistics and supply chain capabilities.
Dr. Closs has authored and co-authored numerous articles and made presentations regarding world-class logistics and supply chain capabilities and logistics information systems applications.
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Under Secretary Cohen was commissioned into the U.S. Navy after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. He holds a joint Ocean Engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Master of Science in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture from MIT.
In June 2000, Rear Admiral Cohen became the 20th Chief of Naval Research. He served during war as the Department of the Navy Chief Technology Officer (a direct report to the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps). Responsible for the Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology (S&T) Program (involving basic research to applied technology portfolios and contracting), he coordinated investments with other U.S. and international S&T providers to rapidly meet war fighter combat needs. After an unprecedented five and a half year assignment as Chief of Naval Research, Rear Admiral Cohen retired in 2006.
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Mr. Croy is presently the lead for Port Folder development for CNMOC. Port folders are planning documents that blend port survey data and pre event planning for response to the employment of mines or underwater improvised explosive device in US waters. CNMOC is completing surveys and planning for twelve Navy ports.
Retired from the Navy, Mr. Croy’s assignments included Deputy and Chief of Staff for the Commander, Mine Warfare Command and Commander, Mine Counter Measures Squadron TWO that deployed as CTU 60.1.1 for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2005, he served as Deputy Commander of JTF RITA. In 1994, he was assigned to US Army Forces Command as the lead planner for consequence management operations for terrorist acts involving weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Croy’s experience spans the DOD, USCG, and Federal multi jurisdiction planning and operations, including Defense Support to Civil Authority.
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Dr. Daniel is Professor of Accountancy and Director of the Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) in the Shidler College of Business Administration.
Dr. Daniel is past-president of the Hawaii Society of CPAs, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hawaiian Electric Industries and American Savings Bank. Since joining the University of Hawaii in 1986, Dr. Daniel has taught managerial accounting, international accounting, financial analysis, and auditing at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as executive business programs. Dr. Daniel’s research focuses on international comparative manufacturing and accounting practices, and international corporate governance. Her research has been published in numerous journals.
Dr. Daniel works closely with organizations in Hawaii to promote international business and economic development as well as education and training programs in Hawaii. She is the Principal Investigator of the State of Hawaii’s GEAR UP program, a federally-funded program which helps low-income youth prepare for college.
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Mr. DeMarco joined Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) in November, 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and assumed the role of CEO in April of 2004. Since joining Kratos, Mr. DeMarco has been instrumental in leading the Company's efforts to grow both organically and through strategic acquisition in the federal government, information technology, and homeland security markets.
Prior to Kratos, Mr. DeMarco was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Titan Corporation, which was later acquired by L-3. Under his leadership, the Company grew from approximately $150 million in annualized revenue to $1.5 billion, with a backlog of over $4 billion. Mr. DeMarco's efforts were instrumental in creating one of the largest government information technology companies in the United States.
Before Titan, Mr. DeMarco served in a variety of public accounting positions primarily focusing on large multinational corporations and publicly traded companies.
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Mr. Dolejs is an Emergency Management and Security Consultant specializing in comprehensive emergency and security planning, training, exercises, crisis information management, vulnerability analysis, and protection of critical infrastructure for local governments and businesses.
Mr. Dolejs is an instructor with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Emergency Training Center’s (DHS NETC) Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP). He is a retired US. Marine Lieutenant Colonel and has served in key positions throughout the globe, including 6 yrs with the U.S. diplomatic community in the greater China region. Mr. Dolejs continues to promote and speak on comprehensive emergency management in Asia.
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Ms. Duong came to S&T from the Navy staff where she most recently served as the Science Advisor to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Prior to that, she served her entire career of 20+ years working for the U.S. Navy, including managing all Navy explosives research and development efforts.
Ms. Duong served most recently as Science Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy and to the Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, with a focus on Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection. She previously served as Director of Science and Technology at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, and as Deputy Director of the Naval Energetics Enterprise.
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Dr. Flament joined the faculty of the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawaii in 1989 where he established a program in ocean remote sensing funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Office of Naval Research. His research focuses on mesoscale ocean currents and eddies, as observed in situ, and remotely by infrared radiometers, scatterometers, SAR, and high-frequency radars.
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Mr. Furukawa is in charge of research projects on counter-terrorism and homeland security of Japan. He has joined various study groups within the Japanese government including the Office of the National Security and Crisis Management of the Cabinet Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice, as well as the ones of non-governmental organizations including Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Prior to coming to the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society, Mr. Furukawa was a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, D.C. At the CNS, Mr. Furukawa was the Executive Director of a US-Japan Track II Project on Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Verification, which was established in 2001 in order to supplement the official U.S.-Japan official dialogue and conducted under a close cooperation with Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Department of State.
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Mr. Geitgey is a Regional Manager for ESi, the creators of WebEOC. WebEOC is the world's most popular web-based emergency management system and is used by government agencies and major corporations around the world. Previously, Mr. Geitgey led the Geographic Information Systems and Mapping development group for ESi.
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Dr. George currently is the Division Head of Chemical and Biological Division for the Science and Technology Directorate. For the past five years, she has served as the Deputy Director.
Prior to joining DHS in March 2003, Dr. George was the Director of the Chemical & Biological National Security Program in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nonproliferation Research & Engineering. Significant accomplishments include the design, deployment, and transition of BioWatch, the nation’s first civilian biological threat agent monitoring system and PROTECT, the first civilian operational chemical detection and response capability deployed in the Washington subway and other transit systems.
Previously she spent 16 years at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Ecological Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Carcinogenesis Division where she was Branch Chief of the Molecular and Cellular Toxicology Branch.
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Dr. Glenn has developed and operated real time ocean observation and forecast systems for Shell Oil Company, the Naval Oceanography Command while at Harvard, and now for Rutgers University. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Mid Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA), PI for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS), a Project Scientist for the ORION Cyber-Infrastructure Implementing Organization, Co-PI of the COSEE Networked Ocean World, and PI of the Office of Naval Research Slocum Glider Center. At Rutgers, he is the co-Director of the Coastal Ocean Observation Lab.
Dr. Glenn’s research currently focuses on the development of regional-scale coastal ocean observation networks. Research on the sustained components of the system include testing of new ocean color algorithms in coastal regions using data acquired from the international constellation of satellites.
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Mr. Stanley Goosby has been Chief Scientist for Pacific Disaster Center since 1996 and a member of the Executive Management Team. From 1996 to 2001, he also served PDC as a Modeling Analyst and Manager for Applications Development. He has over 25 years experience in earth-science disciplines relevant to natural disaster modeling, scenario simulation and natural hazard phenomenology. Mr. Goosby has led and managed teams analyzing geophysical hazards and phenomena resulting from tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic activity in American Samoa, Vanuatu, Thailand and the Philippines. During his years with Pacific Disaster Center, he has enhanced his capabilities by taking special courses in numerical modeling, remote sensing, GIS analysis and disaster management, as well as hazard and risk impacts. He authored The Impacts of Disasters in the Asia Pacific Region, for the First International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, 2005.
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Dr. Graber is the Co-Director of the University of Miami’s Center for Southeastern Tropical advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS). He is Co-Chair of the Radio Oceanography Workshop (ROW) and Waves in Shallow-water Environment (WISE) Workshop.
For many years Dr. Graber led the HF radar technology effort at the University of Miami which included numerous ONR-funded experiments. He led the development of the Air-Sea Interaction Spar (ASIS) buoy and participated in numerous sea-going air-sea interaction experiments. He is the lead PI of a multi-partnership National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) team on Real Time Forecasting of Winds, Waves and Surge in Tropical Cyclones. Dr. Graber has been a member of NASA’s Scientific Working Group for NSCAT and on the Ocean Vector Wind Science Team for SeaWinds and served on several national committees and international expert review boards for the European Union and European Commission.
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Dr. Rohan Gunaratna is Head, International Centre for Political Violence & Terrorism Research, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore; Senior Fellow, Combating Terrorism Centre, United States Military Academy, West Point, and Honorary Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Israel.
He led the specialist team that designed and built the UN database on the mobility, finance and weapons of Al Qaeda, Taliban and their Entities. He serves as a counter terrorism trainer to Asian, European and US law enforcement and a consultant to the World Terrorism Encyclopedia. He is the author of nine books including, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press, New York), an international bestseller and the lead author of Jane’s Counter Terrorism, a standard manual for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Together with General Russ Howard, Gunaratna chairs the NATO-PFP Working Group on Counter Terrorism. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2002.
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Dr. Gupta is the Fred J. Hansen Professor of Peace Studies and the Director of the International Security and Conflict Resolution, a multidisciplinary undergraduate program. In 1997, he was awarded the Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Lecturer, the highest research award for the university and was the "Professor of the Year" in 1994.
Dr. Gupta has been a visiting scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, El Colegio de Mexico, Leiden University (Netherlands), Fudan University (China) and the Terrorism Prevention Branch at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (Austria). He was awarded a summer fellowship in the International Studies Program at the Hoover Institution for War, Peace, and Revolution, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Yugoslavia. Dr. Gupta is the author of eight books, including Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise.
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Ms. Harshman initial exposure to emergency management was with San Diego County’s Office of Emergency Services as a Hazard Planner. A consulting contract with the State of California provided an opportunity to work with the State’s Multi-Hazard Functional Planning Guidance. Later, the California State Fire Marshal selected Ms. Harshman to design and deliver their "Managing Large Scale Disasters" course for command-level officers, the beginning of a continuing series of teaching and speaking opportunities in the field of emergency management.
Ms Harshman is a contract instructor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute and the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI).
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CAPT Hathaway received her “Wings of Gold” as Naval Aerospace Physiologist #161 in 1989. She immediately assumed duties as the Assistant Department Head at NAS Pensacola and supervised the relocation of the Navy’s largest training unit to a new facility, including the cross-base move of a multi-ton hypobaric chamber.
As the Group Aeromedical Safety Officer, CAPT Hathaway was deployed with the USS George Washington to Operation Southern Watch (1996). Her current position is Deputy Fleet Surgeon, US Pacific Fleet (2007).
CAPT Hathaway is Board Certified in Aerospace Physiology by the Aerospace Medical Association, where she is an Associate Fellow and past member of the governing council. She is a past President of the Aerospace Physiology Society, and member of the Naval Helicopter Association and Tailhook Association. She holds an Associate Professorship at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
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Tom Heinrichs is Associate Director for the Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He performs general and technical management, program development, and outreach for GINA. He has been instrumental in creating partnerships and joint projects between the University, agencies, and the private sector.
Prior to joining UAF-GINA, Mr. Henrichs was a hydrologist and project manager, first with the USGS, then with a large private consultancy.
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Dr. Katherine J. Herrick joined Raytheon in 2001 and has focused on development, capture, and execution of advanced microelectronics technologies and related programs across multiple Raytheon businesses. Dr. Herrick was selected to participate in this year’s National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Her recent awards include 2008 Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the IEEE MTT-S, 2007 Raytheon IDS President’s Award, and 2003 Raytheon Outstanding Technical Contribution Award. Dr. Herrick has published over 40 technical papers, and holds several patents in the areas of antennas, RF MEMS packaging, and microwave circuits.
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Dr. Hynes is the Director of Research for the Infrastructure/Geophysical Division in the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She has over 30 years of research and development work experience at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Dr. Hynes is the DHS/S&T Co-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council Infrastructure Subcommittee, co-chaired with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. She is a member of the US-Japan Natural Resources Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects. Dr. Hynes is the author or co-author of over 50 contributions to journals, books, proceedings and papers, and technical reports.
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As a professor in the department of Logistics, Business & Public Policy, Dr. Jain teaches strategy, global strategy, and clusters and competitiveness at the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ MBA and Executive MBA programs in College Park, China, and Switzerland. During the last ten years, he has received and managed five competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, with a total budget of over four million dollars – all with the overarching objective of strengthening the international competitiveness of United States business.
Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Jain held executive positions with multinational corporations on three continents, including Vice President (Macmillan Publishers), Sales and Marketing Development Manager (Falcon Publishing), Coordination Manager (Molins PLC), and Marketing Research Executive (Coca-Cola). A true cosmopolitan, Dr. Jain has lived, studied, and worked in India, United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Since retiring from the Navy, Mr. Jensen has held a number of positions supporting high technology development in Hawaii including Associate Director for Finance and Administration for the Maui High Performance Computing Center and as the first Director of the Mid-Pacific Branch Office of the Office of Naval Research. Since 2007, he has served as the Director, Asia-Pacific Liaison for the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security. The S&T Directorate is looking beyond the US borders for innovative and effective solutions to combating terrorism and responding to natural disasters. In support of this initiative he coordinates a strategic program of focused and proactive international cooperative S&T programs and projects with governments, industry and academia. As a result of these efforts bilateral government to government binding Memoranda of Agreement are in place with Australia and Singapore and are in development in additional countries around
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Mr. Johnson has served as the Public Safety /Homeland Security Director for ESRI since 1997. His responsibilities include coordinating ESRI’s public safety industry marketing activities in the areas of homeland security, fire, emergency medical services, and disaster management.
From 1996 - 1997, Mr. Johnson was Chief of Fire and Emergency Operations for the San Bernardino National Forest. From 1985 through 1997, he was assigned to Federal Interagency Type I National Incident Management ICS Teams in a variety of positions, including Safety Officer, Operations Chief, and Incident Commander responding to complex federal disasters throughout the United States and other countries.
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Mr. Jordan has over thirty years of experience in strategic planning, management, and operations of large command, control, communications and computers architecture and infrastructure implementations in the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command theaters.
While at PACOM, he was responsible for plans and contingency operations, including employment of satellite capacity, access to DoD Global Information Grid, and other strategic assets. He currently supports PACOM J8 in evaluating Joint experiments, PACOM exercises, advanced technology assessments, and developing CONOPS for Joint Experimentation.
Mr. Jordan has extensive experience with integrating coalition forces, both on the battlefield and in humanitarian assistance operations that are relevant to PDC practices. He has particular expertise in dealing with challenges of joint operations of network data sharing, security, and integration.
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Mr. Kageura started his career in 1975 with General Electric Company. Throughout his career at GE, he held several positions including Service Engineer, Field Engineer, Drive Control Specialist and Senior Field Engineer.
In 1986, Mr. Kageura joined Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. as a Betterment Engineer. Thereafter, he held several other positions including Technical Superintendent, Kahe Station Manager, Power Supply Operations and Maintenance Manager, and Construction and Maintenance Manager. In 2004, Mr. Kageura was promoted to Vice President, Energy Delivery.
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Mr. Kennedy is the director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCPFD), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. He is also an assistant professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and is the director of Partnerships and External Relations in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. At the University, Mr. Kennedy is leading research and education activities that advance animal health, food safety and food system biosecurity. Prior to the University, Mr. Kennedy held executive research and development positions at Ecolab (vice president of global food and beverage R&D) and Procter & Gamble (including assignments in Japan and China).
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Dr. Karl Kim is Professor of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of the Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Program at the University of Hawaii. He has served as the chief academic officer for the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus where he also holds appointments in the School of Architecture and the Center for Korean Studies. Dr. Kim has been a Fulbright Scholar and the Scholar-in-residence for the Western Governors Association. He has published more than 60 refereed journal articles on transportation, safety, and environmental management and has received more than $7.4 million in extramural research grants.
Dr. Kim is Editor of Accident Analysis and Prevention.
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Mr. Lee joined the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in 1997 where he was involved in the development and hardening of the various “protected” facilities and structures under the Office of the Chief Science & Technology Officer’s (OCSGTO) purview and was overseeing the estate management of the organization’s land and building stocks. Some of the key facilities which he oversaw include the headquarters of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Woodlands Checkpoint, one of the world’s busiest land border crossings, and Tuas Checkpoint, Singapore’s second land border crossing.
Prior to joining MHA, Ms. Lee worked in various private and public companies with business interests in commercial property development, project management, facilities engineering and maintenance as well as in healthcare development and operations. He was the Chief Operating Office of the national Neuroscience Institute, Singapore’s foremost neurosurgery and neurology center.
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Major General Robert G.F. Lee was appointed the Adjutant General, State of Hawaii, Department of Defense, on January 1, 2003. His previous assignment was as commanding general of the 9th Regional Support Command, U.S. Army Reserve – Pacific.
General Lee's military career began in May 1971, when he received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Hawaii. He has been assigned to the Army Reserves' 411th Engineer Battalion, 322nd Civil Affairs Group, and the famed 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry.
In his civilian career, General Lee worked at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for 27 years, utilizing his professional license as a mechanical and nuclear engineer. He also served as the pacific area general manager for Perot Systems Government Services and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii.
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Rear Admiral Martoglio graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978. He has served in a variety of assignments including USS Somers (DDG 34), Cruiser-Destroyer Group 5, USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), and USS Barry (DDG 52). He commanded USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), Destroyer Squadron 23 and the RONALD REAGAN Carrier Strike Group.
Ashore, he served as Executive Assistant to Commander, Training Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet; East Asia/Pacific Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements; Navy Warfare Development Command; U.S. Naval War College; Executive Assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Executive Assistant to Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Director of Strategy and Policy, staff of the Chief of Naval Operations; and Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy.
Rear Adm. Martoglio currently serves as the Director for Operations at U.S. Pacific Command.
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Dr. Montgomery is the Technical Director of the National Biocomputation Center at Stanford University, which develops technologies in computation, visualization, and simulation in medicine and surgery. Research projects include systems for computer-based surgical planning, intraoperative assistance systems, surgical simulators, anatomical atlases, as well as wireless telemedicine and telemetry.
Before joining Stanford, he led teams at the NASA Ames Research Center to develop systems for 3D reconstruction and visualization of biomedical imaging data and at the Hewlett-Packard Company on networking protocol design and implementation.
He is an IPA with the US Army, regularly serves on several study/review sections for NIH, NSF, and other granting agencies, as well as advises and consults with several small, high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley.
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Currently assigned to JTF – HD as the Team Lead, Mr. Morell is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton where he manages the firm’s catastrophic disaster, planning, training and exercise team. He has over 25 years experience in the field of emergency planning and response. He has been a firefighter, paramedic, police officer, Hazardous Materials (HazMat) technician, and emergency manager.
He worked for several years on a special rescue unit, functioning as a HazMat technician, high angle and confined space rescue specialist, rescue diver, and tactical unit medic. In 1999, Mr. Morell was appointed Deputy Director for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command, where he led public safety planning efforts for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has led response teams at numerous disasters throughout the nation, most notably the response to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Major General Muniruzzaman is the founder and President of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS). A leading think tank in South Asia focusing on a wide spectrum of security issues, it includes the Bangladesh Centre for Terrorism Research (BCTR). BIPSS recently launched a network of major South Asian think tanks, the South Asian Regional Research Forum (SARRF), to do collaborative research/study on South Asian security issues particularly terrorism issues.
A career army officer; Major General Muniruzzaman is an experienced peacekeeper and has served with the United Nations in different conflict zones. He is a member of many international organizations and is on the board of Council for Asian Terrorism Research (CATR), a major coalition of Asian research organizations. He is the Editor of the quarterly journal Peace and Security Review which has a wide international circulation.
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Mr. Munzer has 29 years of experience developing command and control systems; tactical battlefield simulations; and real-time spacecraft software and training simulations, and performing multi-sensor data fusion; radar; and IFF system performance analysis.
Solipsys provides integrated solutions for command and control, data fusion, information visualization, and mobile command posts and is the lead developer of an integrated display system for the Hawaii State Civil Defense. The system provides real-time situation awareness of island airspace; large ship traffic; weather, earthquake and tsunami alerts; and weather/wave height buoy data. Employing an integrated command center with deployed mobile displays for field reporting and dispersed situation awareness, the system provides rapid, coordinated response to disasters at the state and local level. The system is also applicable to drug interdiction, perimeter defense, disaster impact monitoring, first responder actions and incident clean-up.
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Ms. Kerry Lynn S. Nankivell joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in July 2008. Prior to her arrival, she served at the pleasure of Canada’s Commander, Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia. In her capacity as a Program Manager in the Office of the Asia-Pacific Policy Advisor, Ms. Nankivell worked to make an outside network of regional academics and experts available to the officers of Canada’s Pacific Command for policy consultation and provided ongoing analysis of the Asia-Pacific region to the senior naval staff.
Her writing, discussing issues ranging from crisis on the Korean peninsula to small arms trade in Asia, from port security to international maritime policymaking, has appeared in industry journals and magazines, including Maritime Warfare Bulletin, Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, Canadian Naval Review, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter and Foreign Policy.
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Jeffrey V. Nickerson is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for Decision Technologies at Stevens Institute of technology. The center consists of a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, psychologists, engineers, and management science researchers engaged in building decision aids. Dr. Nickerson’s research interests include decision making, information integration, visualization, sensor networks, and social networks. Prior to joining Stevens, he was a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and before that, he worked on biometric identification algorithms for AT&T. Dr. Nickderson will be discussing his work as part of the Center for Secure & Resilient Maritime Commerce, a DHS Center of Excellence.
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Dr. Nosal received her M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Hawaii in 2007. Her research in underwater acoustics develops and applies passive acoustic detection, classification, and tracking methods to monitor the marine environment. Part of Dr. Nosal's program is funded by the US Office of Naval Research to track marine mammals on Navy Test and Training Ranges. As a member of The National Center for Maritime, Island, and Extreme Environment Security, her program also aims to improve acoustic surveillance capabilities for shallow water and port/harbor environments.
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Dr. Nunamaker was featured in the July 1997 Forbes Magazine issue on technology as one of eight key innovators in information technology. His multidisciplinary research is built on a foundation of computer supported collaboration, decision support, deception detection and determination of intent. Dr. Nunamaker’s research has led to major breakthroughs in collaboration, decision support systems, and automated systems analysis and design, and he is known for testing his theories and systems in the “real world.” He built the first operational decision support center in 1985; there are over 2,500 decision centers in industry, government and universities using the GroupSystems software developed at the University of Arizona. His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation.
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Chris Ostrander joined PacIOOS in 2007 as the Coordinator for the sub-regional Hawaii Ocean Observing System (HiOOS). He has served previously as a military officer, held management roles in private and non-profit enterprises in a variety of sectors, and been involved in marine biology and oceanographic research for nearly a decade.
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After graduation from veterinary school, Dr. Pabilonia completed a Microbiology Residency at Colorado State University, where she studied infectious disease and laboratory diagnostics, with an emphasis in poultry diseases. She is currently an Avian Disease Diagnostic Veterinarian and Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. Dr. Pablionia serves as Coordinator of the Colorado Avian Disease Surveillance Program and the Colorado Poultry Health Board. She is currently working on numerous avian influenza virus research projects in the US and Indonesia and is a Diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists.
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Dr. John Parker is currently Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He supports SAIC’s efforts in the areas of chemical and biological defense, healthcare, public health, biosurveillance and biological threat reduction (BTRP). He is the Chief Scientist for the BTRP Support group. He is a member of The National Biodefense Science Board appointed by Secretary Leavitt (HHS). Prior to SAIC, Dr. Parker was Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick; General Parker commanded 13 subordinate commands and laboratories, employing over 3,500 military and civilian personnel with an annual operating budget of $1 billion. He was responsible for the Army’s medical research, product development, technology assessment and rapid prototyping. Dr. Parker is also a member of the National Academy Committees: Scientific Communication and National Security and the Committee for Science, Security and Prosperity.
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Mr. Peck has a background in strategic planning, project management, and innovation and change leadership. Prior to his current position, he was a Principal with a large consulting firm responsible for designing and launching complex initiatives with potentially competing objectives. He led the development of a strategic positioning of Hawaii as a prime location for energy technology, innovation, investment, and transformation. Under his leadership the firm grew from a small presence to over 200 consultants supporting clients across the Pacific.
Mr. Peck is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Nuclear Power School and the S1C Nuclear Power Training Unit. Mr. Peck has been selected as one of Pacific Business News’ 40 under Forty, and was a Pacific Century Fellow.
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Dr. Rausch is the first Director of the Human Factors Division. The Division’s mission is to improve detection, analysis, and understanding of threats posed by individuals, groups, and radical movements; to support the preparedness, response, and recovery of communities impacted by catastrophic events; and to advance national security by integrating human factors into homeland security technologies. Dr. Rausch brings to this task a background in social-behavioral research and extensive federal management experience.
Dr. Rausch previously served as the Deputy Director, Office of Systems Engineering and Development, where she helped create, develop, and manage the operating infrastructure along with strategic planning guidance for the office.
Before coming to DHS, Dr. Rausch held federal positions within the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Mr. Rorick is the Director for Security and Marine Issues at the American Petroleum Institute. With nearly 400 members, API is the national trade association that represents all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry.
In his twelve years at API, Mr. Rorick has worked on many issues, including corporate emergency response, marketing and the environment, climate change, right to know, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, and fire and safety. He works closely with the API membership and the public sector agencies to ensure that policies and procedures are established that protect the industry’s facilities. His responsibilities also include working with both members and the public sector to ensure that recovery procedures and actions can take place as quickly as possible following a major incident. As Director of Marine Operations, Mr. Rorick oversees shipping issues for API marine members on all of the nation’s navigable waters.
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Ambassador Charles B. Salmon, Jr. joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in August 1996, after he retired from the Department of State. He provides advice on U.S. foreign policy, as it relates to Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean area nations. Ambassador Salmon is also a member of the Center's academic department.
Ambassador Salmon's career with the Department of State began in 1964. In 1980 he served in the Asia-Pacific region as Deputy Chief of Mission, Wellington, New Zealand. Ambassador Salmon came to the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies after serving as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, from August 1993. His prior assignment was in Vientiane, Laos, as the American Ambassador. He also served as Director, Office of Philippine Affairs and Director, Office of Thailand and Burma Affairs in Washington D.C. and Deputy Chief of Mission in Rangoon, Burma and Wellington, New Zealand.
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Mr. Schaper joined Department of Homeland Security in 2007 with over 45 years work experience in science, engineering and program management. He served as the Deputy Program Manager for the Navy’s IR&D Program, Technology Transfer Manager for the Naval Air Systems Command, Small Business Director for the Office of Naval Research and as Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Manager.
As the Navy SBIR Program Manager, Mr. Schaper transformed the Navy SBIR program from a laboratory-centric program to one that addresses the needs and requirements of the Navy. In FY 2004, small businesses received over $340M in Phase III funding from the Navy’s SBIR program. Those products are now helping the Fleet perform its mission. From September 2004 to December 2006, Mr. Schaper assisted Strategic Marketing Innovations Inc. (SMI) to secure Phase III funding for DOD SBIR small businesses and assisted in planning for small businesses transitions.
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Admiral Schultz spent 31 years in the Navy, of which 20 years were spent in the Pacific Region with 8 PACFLT sea duty assignments. He started a research and development company specializing in homeland security and disaster management, sensor development, sensor integration and all hazard training. His company was awarded Hawaii’s first competitive grant from the Department of Homeland Security to develop the State of Hawaii’s Hawaiian Homeland Security Command Information System (H2S-CIS).
Admiral Schultz is an advisor to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Republic of Korea. He works with the University of Hawaii’s Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (DMHA) education and training program and is a member of Hawaii’s Emergency Preparedness Executive Committee (HEPEC).
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Mr. Shealy has served as the as the Director since 1994, when he retired from the U.S. Army.
After the 9/11 terror attacks, Mr. Shealy was recalled to active duty for two years to lead and manage the mobilization, training, and overseas deployment of more than 4,000 Reserve and National Guard soldiers.
As the CIBER Director, Mr. Shealy has managed numerous activities funded by the U.S. Department of Education that have contributed directly to the Moore School’s on-going status as the #1 international business education and research institution in the U.S. Some activity highlights includes the Africa Initiative (research, curriculum development, faculty development and study abroad in sub-Saharan Africa), the Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Workshop for Professors of Business Spanish; the CIBER National Security and Economic Competitiveness initiative; and the distinguished Undergraduate International Business Major and International MBA programs.
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Mr. Sheppard is a member of the Pacific Disaster Center’s Executive Management Team. He specializes in strategic business planning, goal setting, operations re-engineering and program management in research and technology initiatives.
Mr. Sheppard’s experience includes leadership of university-sponsored technology research, directing the DoD High Performance Computer Center, development of educational outreach programs, functional performance as a large-agency comptroller, plus evaluation of technologies for Navy R&D applications.
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Ms. Spurlin is Director of Homeland Security Programs and Chief of Staff to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Associate Laboratory Director for National Security Directorate. As Director of Homeland Security Programs, she is responsible for developing strategic plans and program and business development of technology projects to support the missions of homeland security agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security.
Ms. Spurlin moved to the National Security Directorate in 2003 from the ORNL Technology Transfer and Economic Development organization where she was a commercialization manager, responsible for negotiating licenses and sponsored research projects. Prior to TTED, she spent several years in the private sector in positions to include marketing manager for a Class 7 and 8 truck tier 1 supplier, product manager for a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, and operations manager for an internet company.
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Mr. Stammreich coordinates the long term strategies of the business units within the Networks and Space Systems, is chairman of the enterprise Homeland Security Council and oversees the technical direction of the Phantom Works Homeland Security organization within The Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Until Fall 2007, he was the Enterprise Homeland Security executive responsible for coordinating the strategies of all the business units performing Homeland Security business.
Before joining Boeing, Mr. Stammreich was President of Xtar, a satellite communications services joint venture between Loral Space and Communications and the Spanish Ministry of Defense. He also served as Vice President and General Manager for Government Programs for Loral Space and Communications.
Mr. Stammreich holds a significant number of patents in the areas of aircraft and spacecraft mechanisms and systems.
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CAPT Swatland assumed the duties of Chief of Response for the 14th Coast Guard District in July 2008. He manages CG search & rescue, law enforcement, and hazardous material spill response missions across 12 million square miles of western central Pacific Ocean. A fixed and rotary wing CG aviator, CAPT Swatland has been stationed in Alaska, south Florida, Alabama, San Francisco, and has visited both the Arctic and the Antarctic on a CG icebreaker.
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Dr. Tarng is a Professor in the Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. During 2003-2005, he was the Chairman of the Communication Engineering Department and Director of ARTS (Advanced Radio Technology and Systems) Center, NCTU, and then he was invited to be the Chair Professor and Dean of Engineering College, Chung-Hua University from 2005-2007.
Dr. Tarng’s professional interests include radio propagation modeling and measurement, frequency management, radio network planning, radio allocation algorithm, smart antennas systems, EMC and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). He has led and co-led several Nnational research programs, such as "Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities-Phases I and II" supported by the Ministry of Education and National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan. Dr. Tarng has been a member of many government policy-making or technical-consultation committees.
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Mr. Ed Teixeira began his service with the Hawaii State Civil Defense Division in 1996 as a disaster assistance planner. Mr. Teixeira served as the interim Vice Director of Civil Defense, State of Hawaii, beginning October 1, 1999, and was formally appointed to this position on January 10, 2000.
As Vice Director, Mr. Teixeira is responsible for coordinating State emergency management and homeland security activities. Mr. Teixeira is also responsible for the Civil Defense Division, located at the Bernheimer Emergency Operating Center, Diamond Head Crater.
The mission of the division is to prepare for and respond to disasters and emergencies caused by natural or man-made hazards. This important mission is implemented through hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, homeland security, emergency response, and through disaster recovery programs.
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Colonel Toy began his military career in 1985 where he enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard and was assigned to 2nd Battalion 299th Infantry as a Medic. He graduated from the Hawaii Military Academy OCS program in 1987 where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry.
Colonel Toy served as the 93rd Civil Support Team’s commander from 2000 to 2004. His efforts brought about the successful completion of over 150 interagency emergency response exercises paving the way for a more dynamic response relationship and capability among local, state, and federal response agencies throughout the US Pacific Command (PACOM) area of responsibility (AOR). He recently served as the Chief of Operations and Aviation Division at US Army Pacific (USARPAC).
Colonel Toy recently authored a book for first responders and HazMat personnel titled Hot Zone Log (Thomson Delmar Learning 2004).
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As the head of the Directorate’s Explosives Division, Mr. Tuttle is responsible for all stages of scientific research and technology development for explosives detection, blast mitigation, and response to non-nuclear explosives and other energetic threats including shoulder-fired missiles aimed at commercial aircraft.
Mr. Tuttle previously served as Program Manager for S&T’s Counter MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) program, managing a budget of $272 million and a team of 55 contractors and federal employees. He coordinated communications with stakeholders such as airlines, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of State, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Mr. Tuttle has more than 21 years of experience in RDT&E of Electronic Warfare (EW); radar systems; reconnaissance; communications, command, control, and Intelligence (C3I) systems; aircraft signature development; and flight testing. He supported program acquisition and flight testing for more than 40 DoD aircraft avionics platforms.
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Dr. Vélez-Reyes is currently a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He has held Internship Positions with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratories, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Vélez-Reyes is the Associate Director and UPRM Campus Coordinator for the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center led by Northeastern University. In 1997, Dr. Vélez-Reyes was one of 60 recipients from across the United States and its territories to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2005, he was inducted in the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico.
Dr. Vélez-Reyes has over 80 publications in journals and conference proceedings and contributed to 2 books in high performance computing for remote sensing and scientific toolboxes.
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As Director of Research for the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, Dr. Walker oversees the Office of National Laboratories, the Office of University Programs for the DHS Centers of Excellence, and the Academic Fellowship and Scholarship Program Office. Previously, Dr. Walker served as the Technical Director and Chief Scientist reporting directly to the Chief of Naval Research, where he was responsible for leading an S&T organization that ensured technological superiority for the Navy and Marine Corps.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Walker was the Acting Associate Laboratory Director for National Security, serving as the National Security Coordinator at Argonne National Laboratory. More recently, he served on the DoD’s Defense Science Board in the Summer Study on Future Strategic Strike Systems with the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) as the COCOM sponsor. Dr. Walker was the Senior Advisor for S&T at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2000 to 2003.
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Captain Ware is currently assigned as the Coast Guard Liaison Officer to Commander, U. S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii where he serves as a primary advisor on Maritime Security issues. Captain Ware’s shore duty assignments have been concerned with leading the Coast Guard’s employment of information technology, and serving as a bridge with our sister services in the Department of Defense. During his sea going assignments he has been involved in virtually all Coast Guard mission areas, especially Maritime Law Enforcement, Search and Rescue, Foreign and Domestic Fisheries Enforcement, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Alien Migrant Interdiction, Defense Operations, and Maritime Homeland Security.
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Dr. Roy Wilkens is a Senior Research Scientist at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, University of Hawaii. He has recently been appointed the Director of CIMES (The National Center for Maritime, Island, and Extreme Environment Security); a DHS Center of Excellence at the university. He spent 6 years as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining UH. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory and was a Program Officer for Marine Geology & Geophysics at the Office of Naval Research from 1999-2001. Dr. Wilkens recently served as the coordinator for ONR's Mine Burial Prediction program – a 6 year long study of the interactions of shallow water mines with the seafloor.
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Major General Patrick Wilson assumed duties as Deputy Commander for the National Guard in April 2007. United States Army Pacific’s mission is to provide United States Pacific Command (PACOM) trained and ready forces in support of security operations, from engagement to war fighting, to promote regional stability and ensure successful crisis response or decisive victory.
Prior to his assignment at USARPAC, he served as the Commander of I Corps Artillery at Camp Williams, Utah. He concurrently served as the Deputy Commanding General at the United States Army Field Artillery School from April 2006 until November 2006. General Wilson was the senior Artillery officer for I Corps responsible for policies, programs, and the training of more than 9,000 Active and Reserve Component Soldiers.
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Dr. Wright is an Assistant Researcher in the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He conducts research in the field of satellite remote sensing, specializing in infrared radiometry and hyperspectral data analysis. He also teaches a graduate/undergraduate course in remote sensing at UH. Dr. Wright holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in remote sensing.
Dr. Wright’s current projects include hyperspectral temperature retrievals for active lava flows, domes and lakes, low temperature thermal precursors to large basaltic eruptions, and operational thermal volcano monitoring using MODIS (http://modis.higp.hawaii.edu).
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Mr. Leo Wrobel has authored 11 books and over 500 trade articles in his 30 year career. Twenty years ago he build the first computer disaster recovery center in a telephone central office, and was one of the first in the U.S. to run emergency phone service over the cable television system. Since then, Mr. Wrobel has written Disaster Recovery Plans for a host of banks, brokerages, manufacturing companies, telecommunications companies and government entities. He is also a former Mayor and former CEO of a 50 state telecommunications company.
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Dr. Yuen has extensive research experience in design and manufacturing automation. He worked for The General Electric Company and The Babcock & Wilcox Company in the United Kingdom before returning to Hong Kong to take a teaching position at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Yuen joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1992. He has served as the Associate Dean of Engineering, the Director of the Technology Transfer Center at HKUST and Vice President of the HKUST R&D Corporation.
Dr. Yuen received the 1987 Edwin Walker Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK. He was a Commonwealth Fellow and a United Nations Industrial Development Organization Fellow. Dr. Yuen is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He has provided consultancies in design and manufacturing automation, and vibration control.
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