2016 US-German Workshop on IoT/CPS - Biographies and Snapshots

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Workshop Co-Chairs:

Peter Liggesmeyer - Since 2015, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Liggesmeyer has been the Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern. From 2004 until 2014, Prof. Liggesmeyer was the Scientific Director of the institute. Since 2004, he has been holding the chair of Software Engineering: Dependability in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, and since 2014 he has been managing the affairs of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V., German Informatics Society) as its President. Prof. Liggesmeyer studied Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Data Technology at the University of Paderborn and obtained his doctorate with honors from Ruhr University Bochum in 1992, where he also completed his habilitation thesis on “Quality Assurance of Software-Intensive Technical Systems” in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he was a C4 Professor for Software Engineering and Quality Management at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Potsdam (HPI).Further stages of his career included setting up a competence center on “Safety Analysis and Risk Management” in the Central Department of Research and Development of Siemens AG, Munich (1993 to 2000). From 1988 to 1993, he was a researcher at the Chair of Software Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum, where he held regular teaching assignments from 1993 to 2000. Prof. Liggesmeyer is a member of the scientific steering board of SafeTRANS, a member of the scientific advisory board for the platform “Industry 4.0”, and advisor of the cluster project “fast”. He is also a member of the executive board of the German Chapter of the ACM as well as a member of the expert advisory board of Quality Seal “Software made in Germany”. Prof. Liggesmeyer provides consulting to several institutions on the state and federal level and is a member of the platform “Security, Protection and Trust for the Society and the Economy” of the German National IT Summit. Since 2015, he has also been the chairman of the Commission of Experts for the Bavarian Center for Digitalization (ZD.B). From 2011 to 2014, he was a member of the University Council at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences by order of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Arts. Furthermore, he was a liaison officer of the German National Academic Foundation (2009 – 2014).

Manfred Broy’s research interests are software and systems engineering comprising both theoretical and practical aspects. This includes system models, specification and refinement of system components, specification techniques, development methods and verification. He is leading a research group working in a number of industrial projects that apply mathematically based techniques and to combine practical approaches to software engineering with mathematical rigor. There the main topics are requirements engineering, ad hoc networks, software architectures, componentware, software development processes and graphical description techniques. In his group the CASE tool AutoFocus was developed. Throughout his academic career Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Broy has maintained strong contacts with industry, through consultancy, teaching and collaborative research projects and he has published more than 350 scientific publications. His main field is Software & Systems Engineering and his current research interests are: the System Development Processes and Tool Support, Concurrent and Embedded Systems, Theoretical Foundation of Informatics, Cyber Physical Systems, Safety, and Requirements Engineering. One of the mains theme of Manfred Broy is the role of software in a networked world. As a member of acatech under his leadership the study Agenda Cyber-Physical Systems was created for the Federal Ministry of Research to comprehensively investigate the next stage of global networking through the combination of cyberspace and embedded systems in all their implications and potential. Since 2015 Professor Broy is founding president of the Bavarin Centre for Digitalization.

John S. Baras is the Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received the Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1970; M.S., Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University 1971, 1973. Since 1973, Baras has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and in the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation Program, at the University of Maryland College Park. Since 2000, he has been faculty member in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. Since 2014, he has been a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Baras was the Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), 1985 to 1991. Since 1991, has been the Founding Director of the Maryland Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET). Since 2013, Baras has been a Guest Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He is a IEEE Life Fellow, SIAM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, National Academy of Inventors Fellow, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Baras received the 1980 George Axelby Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2014 Tage Erlander Guest Professorship from the Swedish Research Council, and a three year (2014-2017) Senior Hans Fischer Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Professor Baras' research interests include systems and control, optimization, communication networks, signal processing and understanding, robotics, computing systems and networks, network security and trust, and model-based systems engineering.

Janos Sztipanovits is currently the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and he also holds the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor title in 2012/2013. He is founding director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS). His research areas are at the intersection of systems and computer science and engineering. His current research interest includes the foundation and applications of Model-Integrated Computing for the design of Cyber-Physical Systems. His other research contributions include structurally adaptive systems, autonomous systems, design space exploration and systems-security co-design technology. He was founding chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Software (SIGBED). He served as program manager and acting deputy director of DARPA/ITO between 1999 and 2002 and he was member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board between 2006–2010. He is member of the Academic Executive Board of Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization and he is member of the national steering group. Dr. Sztipanovits was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010. He won the National Prize in Hungary in 1985 and the Golden Ring of the Republic in 1982. He graduated (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technical University of Budapest in 1970 and received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Invited Speakers:

John S. Baras holds a permanent joint appointment as professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He was the founding director of ISR, which is one of the first six National Science Foundation engineering research centers. Dr. Baras is the Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering and is the founding and current director of the Center for Hybrid and Satellite Communication Networks, a NASA commercial space center. He also serves as a faculty member of the university's Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics and an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department. Dr. Baras’ research interests include scaleable multicast security; integrated management of hybrid communication networks; modeling and performance evaluation of large broadband hybrid networks; fast internet over heterogeneous (wireless-wireline) networks; manufacturing process selection for electromechanical products; intelligent control; wavelets; robust speaker identification; low complexity, high fidelity, low rate speech coding; image processing and understanding; learning clustering algorithms and classification; distributed control (or decision) systems; stochastic dynamic model building; stochastic control and scheduling; real-time sequential detection and estimation; computer-aided control systems design; queuing systems; quantum communications; nonlinear systems; and radar systems modeling and performance evaluation and distributed parameter systems. A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Baras has served the organization in various leadership positions. He also serves on the editorial boards of numerous mathematics and engineering journals and book series, and consults extensively with industry and government on various automation and telecommunication problems. He is the recipient of two Invention of the Year awards from the University of Maryland, holds two patents, and has received many awards for his research and publications. Dr. Baras received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Math from Harvard University.

Werner Damm holds the Chair for Safety Critical Embedded Systems at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. He is the Scientific Director of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center AVACS (SFB/TR 14 Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems), the Director of the VW Vorab funded Interdisciplinary Research Center on Critical Systems Engineering for Socio-Technical Systems. He is a member of acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering and was the General Chair of the Cyber Physical Systems Week 2014 in Berlin. Since the beginning of 2015 he is engaged as a director in the working group “highly automated systems” and, in the framework of acatech pushing on autonomous driving. Moreover he is a member of the Scientific Advisory board of the strategical project FAST – zwanzig20-Partnerschaft für Innovation” of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung in Germany since 2014. As a member of the steering board he contributed similarly to the Automotive Roadmap Embedded Systems and to the Acatech-Survey “New autoMobility– the future World of Automated Road Traffic” being published by the end of this year. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Applied Research Institute OFFIS, and. the Chairman of the German competence cluster SafeTRANS, integrating leading companies and research institutes in the transportation domain, the co-founder and member of the steering board of the European Institute for Complex Safety Critical Engineering EICOSE, the Chairman of the Artemis Working Group Tool Platforms. Werner Damm has been a member of various expert groups of the European Commission and the US National Science Foundation, notably on the topics of future strategies for Systems-of-Systems in Europe, and on Cyber-Physical Systems in the Transportation domain in the US. His recent research covers foundational research on mathematical models of embedded systems, specification languages, hybrid systems, formal verification methods, and real-time and safety analysis. This is complemented by applied research with industrial partners in avionics, automotive, and train system application. The focus of this research is on enhancing model-based development processes with formal method-based approaches to verification, testing, and safety and real-time analysis, as well as on enabling component-based design for embedded systems.

Dina Dayal - As the Global Vice President for Platform Solutions and Analytics, Dina Dayal is responsible for helping SAP customers re-imagine their business by transforming the way in which they leverage their SAP assets. Before coming to SAP in 2014, Dina served as Global VP, IT at Newell Rubbermaid for 8 years. While at Newell Rubbermaid, Dina helped to build the strategic direction from an IT and Business Enabler perspective. She was instrumental in transforming the company in not only the SAP journey but also in delivering IT Simplification Savings as part of the transformation initiative sponsored by the CEO. Prior to Newell Rubbermaid, Dina held roles with Decision First Technologies, Home Depot, and served as a Consultant with KPMG. Dina studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, before graduating in 1994.

Knut Degen is Founder & CEO of SYSGO AG. The company provides the leading operating system for safe and secure devices in Europe. Since 2012 SYSGO is backed by the Thales Group, a global solution supplier for critical infrastructure. Today, Mr. Degen focuses on company strategy, research and technology. Prior to SYSGO Knut Degen worked as a software developer for real-time operating systems. He holds a degree in Psychology of the University of Mainz.

Paul Didier is an Solutions Architect Manager for Cisco® System’s Internet of Everythings (IoE) Solutions Group. He is responsible for developing solutions for the Discrete and Process Manufacturing, Transportation and Utilities verticals including Automotive, Oil & Gas, Mining and other sub-verticals. Paul represents Cisco on the Open Device Vendor Association’s (ODVA) Technical Review Board, the AVnu Alliance and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has over 25 years of industry experience. Paul authored the Cisco and Rockwell Automation Converged Plant-wide Ethernet (CPwE) Design and Implementation guide, a Cisco Validated Design (CVD). Paul works extensively with key Automation and Control partners such as Bosch, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, Schneider Electric and General Electric.

Prabal Dutta is a Morris Wellman Faculty Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He is a systems builder who creates new technology to attack challenging societal problems. His work has yielded dozens of hardware and software systems, has won four best paper awards, has received several design awards, has been directly commercialized by a dozen companies and indirectly by many dozens more, and has been utilized by thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. His work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an Intel Early Career Award, and Popular Science Magazine’s Brilliant Ten Award. He holds a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Erwin Gianchandani is the Acting Deputy Assistant Director of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he contributes to all aspects of the directorate’s management, including strategic planning and oversight of day-to-day operations. Most recently, Dr. Gianchandani has been the deputy division director for the CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS). Before joining NSF in 2012, Dr. Gianchandani served as the inaugural director of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), providing leadership to the computing research community in identifying and pursuing audacious, high-impact research directions. Prior to the CCC, Dr. Gianchandani was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NSF and contributed to the launch of NSF’s smart and connected health program. Previously, he was director of innovation networking at the University of Virginia, reporting to the university’s vice president for research. Dr. Gianchandani has published extensively and presented at numerous international conferences on the subject of computational systems modeling of cellular reaction networks, with the goal of better understanding disease mechanisms and identifying therapeutic targets. Dr. Gianchandani received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, M.S. in biomedical engineering, and B.S. in computer science from the University of Virginia.

Knut Hufeld was active in the Artemis SRA discussion since the beginning and had become a member of the Artemis-IA Steering Board in 2012. He is also representing Infineon in national expert groups as counterpart to the German PAs. As coordinator of funded research programs for the Infineon Technologies AG, Knut Hufeld is personally involved in several H2020 and ECSEL projects. Knut has been working for Infineon Technologies AG (the former Siemens Semiconductor Division) since 1995. He received his diploma in electrical engineering/informatics (M.S. degree) from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, in 1993. Knut Hufeld worked in several research departments on system process control, parallel processing and algorithmic characterisation of parasitic effects in circuit design in the central research department of Siemens and later Infineon.Since 2001 he coordinates funded research programs on European and national scale for Infineon.Knut Hufeld has a long term experience on PPP activities, representing the Infineon Technologies AG in several strategic research initiatives and organizations like eNova, the strategy platform for e-Mobility of the German Automotive Industry, as member of the steering board of the Bitkom working group on Cyber Physical Systems - on national scale.

Harald Hönninger studied Physics at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich. In 1986 Mr. Hönninger joined the Corporate Research for Manufacturing Technology within Robert Bosch GmbH where he operated till 1989. He took over responsibilities as line manager as well as project manager for several software projects afterwards in the area of engine management systems development. During this time he was also leading several CMM/CMMI-based improvement projects within the Gasoline Systems business division.  From 2003 until present Mr. Hönninger is Vice President Advance Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems at Corporate Research and Advanced Development within the Bosch group. He is responsible for the pre-development of software-intensive systems and for software-, hardware- and systems engineering methods. He initiated metric programs for embedded software and CMM(I)-based process improvement for projects, departments and divisions. He coordinated corporate-wide improvement activities at Bosch with the focus on processes, software architectures, and employee competencies. His professional interests include change management, international distributed development, and team development.

Rebecca Spyke Keiser is head of the Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as of April 2015. OISE promotes an integrated, foundation-wide international strategy and manages internally focused programs that are innovative, catalytic and responsive to a broad range of NSF and national interests. Prior to her current position, she held several positions with NASA, including serving as a special advisor for NASA's Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships, reporting to the NASA administrator, and an executive-in-residence at American University, associate deputy administrator for strategy and policy, associate deputy administrator for policy integration, executive officer to the deputy administrator, and chief of staff for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Keiser also served as assistant to the director for international relations at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she provided policy guidance to the president's science advisor. Keiser's experience covers science and technology policy, agreements and other cooperative efforts. She is a board member of Women in Aerospace and a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. She speaks Japanese and Spanish. Keiser earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese studies from Wellesley College, a Master of Science degree in politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate in international studies from the University of South Carolina.

Edward A. Lee is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling, and analysis of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is the director of the nine-university TerraSwarm Research Center (http://terraswarm.org), a director of Chess, the Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems, and the director of the Berkeley Ptolemy project. From 2005-2008, he served as chair of the EE Division and then chair of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He is co-author of nine books (counting second and third editions) and numerous papers. He has led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and its various spinoffs. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1979, the S.M. degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in EECS from the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, in 1986. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. He is a co-founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education. Professor Lee's research group studies cyber-physical systems, which integrate physical dynamics with software and networks. Specifically, his group has made major contributions in models of computation with time and concurrency, model-based design and analysis, domain-specific languages, architectures for real-time computing, schedulability analysis, and modeling and programming of distributed real-time systems. His group has been involved with parallel and distributed computing, including models of computation with distributed real-time behaviors, partitioning and scheduling algorithms, backtracking techniques for fault tolerance and recovery, dataflow models of computation, and modeling of sensor networks. His group has made key contributions in semantics of timed and concurrent systems, including domain polymorphism, behavioral type systems, metamodeling of semantics, and comparative models of computation. His group has also worked on blending computing with continuous dynamics and hybrid systems. Prof. Lee himself has an extensive background in signal processing and physical-layer communication systems, and has co-authored five books on these subjects, in addition to four books on embedded systems technologies.

Peter Marwedel studied physics at the University of Kiel, Germany. He received a Dr. rer. nat. degree in physics in 1974 and a Dr. habil. degree in computer science in 1987. Since 1989, he is holding a chair for computer engineering and embedded systems at the computer science department of TU Dortmund. He is also chairing ICD, a local spin-off. His research interests include design automation for embedded systems, in particular the generation of efficient embedded and cyber-physical system software. Focus is on energy efficiency, timing predictability, reliability and tradeoffs between design objectives. Dr. Marwedel has published a text book on embedded systems foundations of cyber-physical systems. He is an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013, the 2014 ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award and the ESWEEK Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.

Robin Mishra is the Head of the Science and Technology Section of the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. He studied law at the Universities of Münster and Paris. After completing his Ph.D. and legal training, he was an assistant to the CEO of the RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcasting company. After working as a TV journalist for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), he switched roles in 2001 to become a Berlin correspondent for the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur. His commitment to transatlantic cooperation and understanding dates back to 2004 when he received an Arthur F. Burns Journalism Fellowship and wrote for the Chicago Tribune. Following this experience, he became Berlin Bureau Chief for the Rheinischer Merkur. Dr. Robin Mishra was awarded the Arthur F. Burns Prize in 2005 and the Roman-Herzog-Medienpreis in 2009 for his articles. He is also author of various political books. In 2010, he joined the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin and served the Federal Ministers Annette Schavan and Johanna Wanka as Spokesman and Head of Press and Strategic Communications.

Tariq Samad is a Corporate Fellow with Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His career with Honeywell has spanned over 25 years, during which time he has contributed to and led automation and control technology developments for applications in electric power systems, the process industries, building management, automotive engines, unmanned aircraft, and clean energy. His research interests relate broadly to automation, intelligence, and autonomy for complex engineering systems. Dr. Samad is General Chair for the 2012 American Control Conference (Montréal), the first ACC to be held outside the U.S. Prior to this role, he was Program Chair for the 2008 American Control Conference (Seattle). His other service to AACC includes being on its Board of Directors and chairing the AACC Control Engineering Practice Award committee. Dr. Samad is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of several awards including a Distinguished Member Award from IEEE Control Systems Society, an IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He was the President of IEEE Control Systems Society in 2009 and previously held positions of Vice President for Publication and Technical Activities. He was the Program Chair for the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (Taiwan). Dr. Samad was editor-in-chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Samad holds 17 patents and has authored or coauthored over 100 publications, including the recent online report, The Impact of Control Technology (www.ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report). He currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Press. He represents Honeywell on the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute and he is a member of the Governing Board of the U.S. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. Dr. Samad holds a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

John Stankovic is the BP America Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. He served as Chair of the department for 8 years. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from York University in the U.K. He won the IEEE Real-Time Systems Technical Committee’s Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership. He also won the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing’s Distinguished Achievement Award (inaugural winner). He has six Best Paper awards, including one for ACM SenSys 2006. He also has two Best Paper Runner Up Awards, including one for IPSN 2013. Stankovic has an h-index of 100 and over 36,000 citations. He has also won Distinguished Faculty Awards at the University of Massachusetts and at the University of Virginia. He has given more than 35 Keynote talks at conferences and many Distinguished Lectures at major Universities. Currently, he serves on the National Academy’s Computer Science Telecommunications Board. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems and was founder and co-editor-in-chief for the Real-Time Systems Journal. His research interests are in real-time systems, distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, wireless health, and cyber-physical systems. Prof. Stankovic received his Ph.D. from Brown University.

Tim Talty is currently a Technical Fellow at General Motors Research and Development, in Warren Michigan. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Prior positions included Manager HMI & Infotainment at GM, Supervisor Radios and Antennas at Ford Motor Company and Associate Professor at The United States Military Academy, West Point. His current areas of interest are Infortainment, Telematics and wireless communication technologies. In his current role, Tim provides the technical leadership of the development of advanced wireless technologies for automotive use cases. Technologies include both inter-vehicle wireless for connected vehicle (telematics and infotainment) and intra-vehicle for vehicle architecture/wireless sensor networks.

James Truchard is president and CEO of National Instruments, a company producing automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software, which he co-founded in 1976. As one of Forbes' America's Favorite Bosses, Dr. James Truchard, commonly known around NI as Dr. T, has led the company from a three-man team to a multinational organization recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Places to Work and one of the top 25 “World's Best Multinational Workplaces” by the Great Places to Work Institute. Under Truchard's leadership, the company's long-term vision, known as the 100 year plan, and focus on improving the world by providing tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery, has led to strong, consistent company growth and success of its broad base of customers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders. Learn more about the NI company story at ni.com/company. Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Truchard has also been inducted into Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame and has earned the distinction of being elected an IEEE Fellow. Truchard holds a doctorate in electrical engineering, as well as a master's degree and bachelor's degree in physics, all from the University of Texas at Austin. Truchard earned his master's and doctorate degrees while working full-time as the managing director of the acoustical measurements division at the UT Applied Research Laboratories.

Workshop Sponsors:

Karsten Hess currently serves as Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C. Prior this position, Karsten served as the Deputy Head of Division Basis Energy Research from 2011-2014 and Desk Officer for Earth System Science from 2008 -2011 at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Bonn. Karsten has held positions in the German Space Agency in Bonn and the German Mining Museum in Bochum. Dr. Hess is a minerologist and journalist by education. He holds a Ph.D. in Mineralogy.

Sankar Basu a permanent member of NSF scientific staff and is a program Director. He came to NSF from the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center at the beginning of fiscal year 2003. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh he served on the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he taught and conducted funded research (Air Force, NSF), and for a brief period was with the Naval Underwater Systems Center, CT as a visiting senior scientist. He has visited the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) for extended periods. During the summer of 2012 he was a science advisor to the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany as a State Department Embassy Science Fellow. At NSF his primary responsibilities include Design automation for Micro and Nano-systems, which includes nano-computing architectures, VLSI CAD, Cyber- Physical Systems (CPS) etc. In addition, he participates in interdisciplinary NSF program on the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), and in the past has participated in the Interactions between Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS), Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Program and the Information Technology Research (ITR) program.

David Corman is a Program Director and leader of the Cyber-Physical Systems program at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Corman is a Research Associate Professor at Washington University St. Louis in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Dr. Corman has a broad range of research interests spanning many technologies fundamental to CPS application areas including transportation, energy, medical devices, and manufacturing. Dr. Corman has extensive industrial experience in the development, design, and manufacture of CPS systems. Dr. Corman received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.