Dr. Said Jahanmir is Assistant Director of Federal Partnerships in the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office. His research in tribology and machining of advanced materials is widely recognized in the scientific and engineering communities. 

Professor Nam Pyo Suh is the Cross Professor Emeritus at MIT and was the 13th and 14th President of KAIST. He serves on advisory boards of universities and industrial firms.

Dr. Nannaji Saka is a former Research Affiliate and Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT. Saka has co-authored over 100 technical papers in tribology, mechanical behavior of materials, and manufacturing processes. He holds seven U.S. patents on electrical contacts and chemical-mechanical polishing and has several patents pending.

Jessika Trancik is a Professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the dynamic costs, performance, and environmental impacts of energy systems to inform climate policy and accelerate beneficial and equitable technology innovation.

Phillip Isola is an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He studies visual intelligence from the perspective of both minds and machines. He received a National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship as well as an NSF postdoctoral fellowship.

Antonio Torralba is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, a MIT campus-wide initiative to discover the foundations of intelligence.

Rama Rao is currently Senior Director and Head of Risk Analytics at PayPal. He leads a team of data analysts who monitor business performance and perform the analytics that go into creating PayPal’s risk policies around the world—boundaries within which users can transact and experience PayPal.

Darrell Coles is a senior research geophysicist at Schlumberger. His research efforts have been in optimal experimental design for industrial-scale geoscientific applications, inverse and optimization theory, uncertainty characterization and control, all in the context of seismic data acquisition and analysis. He has obtained several additional patents and written several peer-reviewed publications since joining Schlumberger and is currently branching into commercial software development and data science.

F. Dale Morgan is a Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and associated with the Earth Resources Laboratory. His current interests are in rock physics, geoelectromagnetism, applied seismology, inverse theory, environmental and engineering geophysics, electrochemistry, and electronic instrumentation.

Lou DiBerardinis is Director, MIT Office of Environmental Health and Safety. Since 1986, he also has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University School of Public Health, where he currently teaches in several graduate courses and continuing education programs.