Dr. Jonathan E. Gans leads the Systems and Architectures Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He oversees multiple BMD related programs for the Missile Defense Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Air Force, with a focus on developing new discrimination techniques and providing in-depth assessments of domestic and foreign Ballistic and Hypersonic defense concepts. Dr. Gans recently led a report to Congress on Space Based Interceptors and his team was a major contributor to the MDA Defense Against Hypersonic Weapons AoA. Jonathan graduated from Vassar College in 1999 and earned a Ph.D. in particle physics from Yale University in 2004.

Dr. Edwin F. David is the Head of the Engineering Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He joined the Laboratory in 1998 as a technical staff member in the Systems and Analysis Group, supporting the Air Vehicle Survivability program. His research focused on modeling, simulation, and testing of navigation and guidance systems, sensor systems, and directed energy systems. In this role, he supported the Defense Science Board Task Force for the Global Positioning System space segment modernization. He also served as program manager for the Directed Energy Countermeasures Assessment Team.  

Sang-Gook Kim is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently the Micro/Nano Area Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Prof. Kim’s research has been in the field of product realization throughout his career at both the industry and academia. His recent research includes piezoelectric MEMS energy harvesting, micro ultrasonic transducers and nano-engineered energy conversion for carbon neutrality and solar water splitting systems. 

Thomas U. Schwartz is the Boris Magasanik Professor of Biology at MIT. His primary research investigates communication across biological membranes, using structural, biochemical, and genetic tools. Thomas leads the Schwartz Lab at MIT, which focuses on understanding how signals and molecules are transmitted between the nucleus and cytoplasm across the nuclear envelope, and working to decipher the mechanism and structure of the machinery that executes these cellular processes.