Jim has stepped down after 30 years in executive IT leadership to return to his faculty appointment at UCLA and his research roots in AI, ML, intelligent systems, and data science in manufacturing. He has accepted an appointment as Special Advisor on Smart Manufacturing and Data Science in the Office of Research and Creative Activities. As a co-founder of the U.S. Smart Manufacturing Initiative, Jim will expand activities that continue to define, build, and shape industry adoption for manufacturing and environmental sustainability, while also working with UCLA on its Data Science...Read more

Dr. Maria K. Burka is the Program Director of the Process and Reaction Engineering (PRE) program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division of the National Science Foundation. Her responsibilities include evaluation and management of research and educational grants to academic institutions in the areas of chemical and biochemical reaction engineering, process control and process design as well as reactive polymer processing. Past employment positions have included Senior Scientist with the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a member of the...Read more

Professor K. Dane Wittrup is the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 1999. From 1989-1999 he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and then J. W. Westwater Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biophysics at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. 

Ruifeng Qi is a PhD student with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He has been working on LNG spill consequence modeling and hazard control since January 2008, which involves LNG spill field tests at the Brayton Fire Training Field. The current focus of his research is on modeling LNG vapor dispersion with Computational Fluid Dynamics. ruifeng.qi@chemail.tamu.eduRead more

Mr. Fuller is Assistant Vice President of Client Services at Marsh U.S. Consumer in Urbandale, Iowa. Mr. Fuller’s overall responsibilities include managing and coordinating the day-to-day administration of one of Marsh’s largest Member Group Insurance Programs. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Fuller played a leading role in the Marsh Long Term Care Buying Service; responsible for marketing Long Term Care Insurance Plans as well as providing Long Term Care consultative services to various association members served by Marsh.

Mr. Fuller earned his B.A. degree in Political Science...Read more

Daniela Fuda represents the interests of primary insurers and reinsurers in the area of professional liability, with specific emphasis on legal malpractice, architects & engineers’ liability, D&O and corporate liability, and employment practices liability.  Ms. Fuda has recently assisted in risk analysis projects for various industries including accountants' professional liability policies. 

Ms. Fuda graduated from the University of Toronto in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Italian, and from Pace University School of Law in 2005, cum laude...Read more

Dr. Bullemer is a senior partner with Human Centered Solutions(HCS). HCS is a North American human factors company with expertise in applying innovative, proven solutions that improve human performance. Specifically, Peter specializes in the applications of human factors principles and human-centered design methodologies to optimize the influence of culture, organizational structures, management systems and use of technology on operator and plant performance. Dr. Bullemer has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Peter is a co-founder and former leader of the...Read more

Larry N. Grogan is President of Grogan Advisory Services. Serving AIChE since 2004, Grogan Advisory Services is an independent financial services firm focusing on planning to strategically guide their clients through life stages. Grogan Advisory Services offers complete financial planning, asset management, insurance, analytical portfolio analysis, and consultation.

Grogan Advisory Services was established in 2001, determined to provide clients unbiased opinions and recommendations. Our research comes from multiple sources in order to present a scope of intelligent opinions. Able to...Read more

Heath Briggs is a registered Patent Attorney and has over 10 years of patent prosecution experience in various technical fields. Heath is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches Intellectual Property for Engineers.Read more