William B. Bonvillian
is a Lecturer at MIT, and Senior Director at MIT’s Office of Digital
Learning, leading a project on workforce education. From 2006 until
2017, he was Director of MIT’s Washington Office, supporting MIT’s
historic role in science policy. He teaches courses on innovation
systems at MIT and is coauthor of three books on innovation, Advanced Manufacturing: The New American Innovation Policies (2018), Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors (2015), and Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution (2009),
as well as numerous articles. Previously he worked for over fifteen
years on innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate, and
earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. He serves on
the National Academies of Science standing committee for its Innovation
Policy Forum and chairs the Committee on Science and Engineering Policy
at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He
was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2011.
Tamara Carleton, PhD, is the CEO and founder of Innovation Leadership Group LLC and lead author of the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation
(2013), a hands-on guide that has been used by hundreds of the world’s
most innovative companies to make their teams more successful. She is
the executive director of the Silicon Valley Innovation Academy at
Stanford University and a visiting professor at the Osaka Institute of
Technology in Japan. Previously she was an Innovation Fellow with the US
Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a Fellow with the Bay Area Science and
Innovation Consortium, and a Fellow at the Foundation for Enterprise
Development. She has worked as a management consultant at Deloitte
Consulting LLP, specializing in innovation, customer experience,
marketing strategy, and enterprise applications. A multidisciplinary
scholar, Dr. Carleton holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from
Stanford University, a master’s of science from Syracuse University, and
a bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University.
David W. Cheney
is a consultant and Managing Partner of Technology Policy
International, a firm that provides analyses of science, technology, and
innovation policy. He is the former Director of the Center for Science,
Technology and Economic Development at SRI International, where his
work focused on planning and evaluating science, technology, and
innovation programs and institutions, primarily in the United States and
Middle East. He is also a consultant to the World Bank and has been an
adjunct professor at George Mason University. Before joining SRI in
1998, he was a senior executive in the U.S. Department of Energy,
serving as director of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and
advisor to the Deputy Secretary on industrial partnerships and national
laboratories. He previously was a senior associate with the Council on
Competitiveness, and an analyst with the Congressional Research
Service. He has also held positions with the Internet Policy Institute,
the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, the
Competitiveness Policy Council, and the Institute for Policy Science at
Saitama University in Japan. He has a PhD in public policy from George
Mason University, a MS in Technology and Policy from MIT and a BS in
Geology & Biology from Brown University.
Phech Colatat is Assistant
Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School, Washington University
in St Louis. He is a business school-trained sociologist with interests
in healthcare, R&D, and strategic management. Motivated by alarming
trends in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), his current
research examines the way organizational and social network processes
affects the diagnostic process. He completed his PhD at the MIT Sloan
School of Management.
Robert Cook-Deegan, PhD, is a
professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and
with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State
University. He founded and directed Duke’s Center for Genome Ethics, Law
& Policy (2002-12), and Duke-in-Washington through June 2016. Prior
to Duke, he was with the National Academies of Science, Engineering and
Medicine (1991-02); National Center for Human Genome Research
(1989-90); and congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1982-88).
His research interests include science policy, health policy, biomedical
research, cancer, and intellectual property. He is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome (1994) and more than 250 other publications.
Glenn R. Fong is an associate
professor of global studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management.
He is also the academic director of the school’s Master of Arts in
Global Affairs and Management. His areas of expertise include
technology, global trade and industrial policies of the U.S., Japan and
China, government and business relations and international political
economy. Of Chinese-American ancestry, Fong has contributed commentaries
and monographs to Business and Politics, Issues in Science and Technology, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. In 1996, Fong authored Export Dependence vs. the New Protectionism: Trade Policy in the Industrial World.
He has served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the
U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Japan’s Ministry of
International Trade and Industry (now METI), and IBM Corporation’s
e-Business Technology division. He earned his BA at the University of
California, Berkeley, and MA and PhD degrees in government from Cornell
University. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant professor at the
University of Illinois-Chicago and a postdoctoral research fellow at
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.
Erica R. H. Fuchs is a
Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie
Mellon University, and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of
Economic Research. Her research focuses on the development,
commercialization and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and
national policy in that context. She was the founding Faculty Director
of Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative—an
initiative across six schools aimed to revolutionize the
commercialization and local production of advanced manufactured
products. Over the past decade, Dr. Fuchs has played a growing role in
national and international meetings on technology policy, including
being one of twenty-three participants in the President’s Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology workshop that led to the creation of
the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and serving on the expert group
that supported the White House in the 2016 Innovation Dialogue between
the U.S. and China. In 2012 she was selected a World Economic Forum
"Young Scientist” (top 40 under 40 globally.) She currently serves on
the National Academies’ National Materials and Manufacturing Board; the
Academic Advisory Board for MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and
Society, of which MIT’s Technology Policy Program is a part; the World
Economic Forum’s Future of Production Global Futures Council; and the
Advisory Editorial Board for Research Policy.
Before coming to CMU, Dr. Fuchs completed her PhD in Engineering
Systems at MIT in June 2006. She received her Masters and her Bachelor’s
degrees also from MIT in Technology Policy (2003) and Materials Science
and Engineering (1999), respectively. Dr. Fuchs spent 1999-2000 as a
fellow at the United Nations in Beijing, China. She grew up and attended
K-12 in the Reading Public School District in Reading, PA. Her work has
been published among other places in Science, the Nature journals, Research Policy, and Management Science; and has been covered on National Public Radio, by Bloomberg, and in the New York Times.
Larry Jackel is President of North-C Technologies, where he
does professional consulting in robotics and machine learning. He also
currently serves as a Learning Advisor to the Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Lab (SAIL)-Toyota Center for AI Research at Stanford
University. From 2003-07 he was a DARPA Program Manager in the IPTO and
TTO offices. He conceived and managed programs in Autonomous Ground
Robot navigation and Locomotion. For most of his scientific career
Jackel was a manager and researcher in Bell Labs and then AT&T Labs.
Members of Jackel’s Adaptive Systems Department at Bell Labs laid the
foundation for much of the machine learning that dominates AI today. He
has also created and managed research groups in microscience and
microfabrication, and in carrier-scale telecom services. Jackel was a
founder of the Snowbird Workshop on Neural Networks for Computer and led
the workshop many years. He was also a founder of the NIPS conferences.
He has served as Program Chair for IJCNN. He has also been an organizer
of the Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems (FDIS) workshop
series. Jackel holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from Cornell
University with a thesis in superconducting electronics. He is a Fellow
of the American Physical Society and the IEEE. He has published over 150
papers and has over twenty patents.
Michael Piore has been on the
faculty of the Department of Economics at MIT since 1966, and also
currently holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political
Science. He is also currently a Visiting Senior Fellow in International
and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute for International and Public
Affairs at Brown University. He earned his undergraduate and graduate
degrees at Harvard University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation
under the direction of John T. Dunlop. He is the founding director of
the MIT-Mexico Program and former associate director of the Center for
Technology, Policy and Industrial Development. He has served as
president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
and as an elected member of the executive committee of the American
Economic Association. He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow (1984-89), a
member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association
(1990-95), and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute for
Labour Studies of the International Labour Organization (1990-96).
Jinendra Ranka, PhD, has over
twenty-five years of experience in academic, commercial, and government
research and development. He was a technical staff member at Bell Labs,
Sycamore Networks, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and is currently the CEO
at JASR Systems. Dr. Ranka served as a program manager in the Strategic
Technology Office at DARPA and as a Deputy Office Director at IARPA.
He has over 40 publications with over 5,000 citations and numerous
patents. Dr. Ranka received his Doctoral degree in Applied &
Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1997 and his Bachelor of
Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute
of Technology in 1991. Dr. Ranka is a fellow of the Optical Society of
America and is known for his discovery of supercontinuum generation in
optical fibers.
Elisabeth B. Reynolds is the executive director of the MIT
Industrial Performance Center and a lecturer in MIT’s Department of
Urban Studies and Planning. Reynolds works on issues related to systems
of innovation, regional economic development, and industrial
competitiveness. She is a member of the Massachusetts Advanced
Manufacturing Collaborative as well as the Northeast Clean Energy
Council. Her current research focuses on the pathways that U.S.
entrepreneurial firms take in scaling production-related technologies,
as well as advanced manufacturing, including the globalization of the
biomanufacturing industry. Before coming to MIT for her PhD, Reynolds
was the director of the City Advisory Practice at the Initiative for a
Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a non-profit founded by Professor Michael
Porter, focused on job and business growth in urban areas. Reynolds has
an AB from Harvard in government and was a Fiske Scholar at Trinity
College, Cambridge. She holds an MSc from the University of Montreal in
economics and a PhD from MIT in urban and regional studies.
Richard Van Atta’s career has
focused on the national security policy, strategy, and technological
capabilities of the United States for the Department of Defense, chiefly
for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, the Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) of the White House, and the Intelligence Community. From 1983 to
his retirement in 2018, he was a senior research staff member of the
Strategy, Forces and Resources Division (SF&RD), the Science and
Technology Policy Institute (STPI) and the Science and Technology
Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), with a focus on
innovation for national security. His work at IDA included assessments
of the programs and development strategies of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA). From 1993 to 1998, he served as
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Dual Use and Commercial
Programs (on temporary assignment from IDA). He also was an adjunct
faculty member in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and
the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program
teaching courses on Emerging Technology and Security. Dr. Van Atta has a
PhD in Political Science from Indiana University and a BA degree in
Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Patrick H. Windham is a
Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University and a
Partner with Technology Policy International, a consulting firm. In the
past he has taught at the University of California’s Washington, DC,
center and the University of Maryland. From 1984 until 1997 he served
as a Senior Professional Staff Member for the Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space of the United States Senate’s Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He helped Senators oversee and
draft legislation for several major civilian science and technology
agencies and focused particularly on issues of science, technology, and
U.S. industrial competitiveness. He has served on five committees and
roundtables of the U.S. National Academies. Mr. Windham received a BA
from Stanford University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the
University of California at Berkeley.
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