NSF Bridge Workshop
Keynote Speakers
The workshop will begin with a series of keynote presentations from the individual topic areas (i.e., sensors, networking/communication, data interpretation/visualization/decision making) to set the tone for the following breakout sessions. The keynote presentations will identify some of the technological issues; barriers; research needs; potential grand challenge projects associated with the individual topic areas and will include a focus on integration across the topic areas and disciplines.
The keynote speakers include:
David E. Culler
Professor and Howard Freisen Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California – Berkeley
David E. Culler Faculty Homepage
David Culler is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and CTO of Arch Rock Corporation. Professor Culler received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989. He has been on the faculty at Berkeley since 1989, where he holds the Howard Friesen Chair. He is recipient of the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Achievement Award, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and was selected in Scientific American's 'Top 50 Researchers' and in Technology Review's '10 Technologies that Will Change the World'. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigators award in 1990 and the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992. He was the Principal Investigator of the DARPA Network Embedded Systems Technology project that created the open platform for wireless sensor networks based on TinyOS, and was the founding Director of Intel Research, Berkeley. He has done seminal work on networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication, and including TinyOS, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages. He has served on Technical Advisory Boards for several companies, including Inktomi, ExpertCity (now CITRIX on-line), and DoCoMo USA. He co-authored the leading textbook on Parallel Computer Architecture and over 150 research publications. He serves on numerous program committees, editorial boards, and government panels.
Chuck Farrar
President
Los Alamos Dynamics LLC
Los Alamos, NM
Los Alamos Lab Engineering Institute
www.La-dynamics.com
Chuck Farrar Faculty Homepage
Dr. Farrar received his B.S. fr om Michigan Tech in 1979, and M.S. and Ph.D. from U New Mexico in 1985 and 1989 respectively, in civil engineering. He has more than 25 years experience as a technical staff member, project leader, and team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and has served as Adjunct Professor at U New Mexico and UC San Diego. Chuck is internationally recognized for his scientific achievements in structural health monitoring (SHM) and damage prognosis. His research addresses concepts of statistical pattern recognition paradigms for SHM, environmental variability in SHM applications, integrated hardware and software solutions for SHM problems, and damage prognosis concept to extend the SHM practice. His work has been recognized at LANL through receipt of the inaugural Los Alamos Fellows Prize for Technical Leadership and by the Structural Health Monitoring community through the reception of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Structural Health Monitoring.
M. Myint Lwin
Director, Office of Bridge Technology
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Myint Lwin is Director of the Office of Bridge Technology with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Mr. Lwin received his BSCE from the University of Rangoon, Burma, and his MSCE degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Civil and Structural Engineering. As Director of the Office of Bridge Technology, Mr. Lwin’s responsibilities include: providing national guidance in the design and construction of major and unusual bridges and tunnels; developing national bridge program and engineering policies; initiating system and process improvements to continually improve the quality and safety of bridges and structures; and providing technical and program direction for the Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program. Prior to his appointment in Washington, D.C., Mr. Lwin was the Structural Design Engineer at the FHWA Resource Center in San Francisco. Before joining FHWA in January 2000, he was the State Bridge Engineer for Washington State, and has served as Consultant to the Pacific Division of the Department of the Navy at Pearl Harbor.
Billie F. Spencer, Jr.
Professor, Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Smart Structures Technology Laboratry (SSTL)
Billie F. Spencer Faculty Homepage
Bill Spencer is the Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Spencer received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U Missouri-Rolla in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Notre Dame for 17 years and joined the UIUC Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty in 2002. His research has addressed stochastic fatigue, stochastic computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, damage detection and health monitoring, and civil engineering applications of smart structures technology. He has authored two books: On the Reliability of Nonlinear Hysteretic Structures Subjected to Broadband Random Excitation (Springer-Verlag 1986) and Random Fatigue: From Data to Theory (Academic Press 1992) coauthored with Prof. K. Sobczyk. He is a Fellow of ASCE, an elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the North American Editor in Chief of Smart Structures and Systems, and is currently the president of the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research on Smart Structures Technologies (ANCRSST).
Hoon Sohn
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Republic of Korea
web.kaist.ac.kr/~sohnhoon/
www.ce.cmu.edu/~hsohn/
Dr. Sohn received his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and Ph.D. from Stanford U in 1999 in civil engineering. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) over the course of 1999-2004. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2004 where he now serves as an adjunct, and is currently a member of the faculty of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His research addresses structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing and smart sensing & structures technology. He is a member of ASCE, ASME, SEM and SPIE, associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Computing for Civil Engineering and the International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Smart Structures and Systems. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award from Korean Government in 2007 that is similar to the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and won the best student paper awards from SPIE conference (2003), International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (2007), the World Forum on Smart Materials and Structures Technologies (2007), and International Bridge Conference (2006).