A Welcome Greeting from DoD Tri-Service Agency Representatives
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Ivory Chaney
Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (ARO)
William Ellis
Office of Naval Research
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Ivory Chaney
Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (ARO)
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Kevin Geiss, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)/Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Ivory Chaney
Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (ARO)
Patrick Baker, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
William Ellis
Office of Naval Research
Peter Matic, PhD
US Naval Research Laboratory
08:00 - 08:10 National Anthem (Presentation of Colors)
08:00 - 08:15 DoD Formal Welcome & Conference Purpose: Ellen Robinson
08:15 - 08:20 Introduction of Guest Speaker: Ellen Robinson
08:20 - 08:50 Guest Speaker: Dr. Aprille Ericsson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology
08:50 - 09:00 Ceremony Wrap Up
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Aprille Ericsson, PhD
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
Andreas Schmitt-Sody, PhD
Kimberly Jacoby Morris, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Lily Neff, PhD
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
David Gonzalez, PhD
Office of Naval Research
Karen DeMille, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Francis Phillips, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Benjamin Whitmore, PhD
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) - Pacific
LaShauna Evans, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Jessica Jones, PhD
Office of Naval Research Global Tech Solutions
Joe Fortenbaugh, PhD
Nathaniel Bridges, PhD
United States Air Force
Kevin Geiss, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)/Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Barton Halpern, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Michele Gaudreault, PhD
United States Space Force
Peter Matic, PhD
US Naval Research Laboratory
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Overview, Ms. Christina Rock
Christina Roc
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) - Pacific
Joseph Gradone
Rutgers University
Usamma Amjad
University of Pittsburgh
Karen Tian
Nicholas Balasus
Harvard University
Jackson Hallveld
The University of Texas at Austin
Nathan Baker
Michigan State University
Alexander Cohen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay
University of Washington
Daniel Zelik, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 711HPW
Regina Shia, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Leslie Blaha, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research/CL
Andreas Schmitt-Sody, PhD
Stanley Wenndt, PhD
Alexa Bushinski
Purdue University
Kristin Lewis
University of Colorado Boulder
Nathan Hadland
University of Arizona
Isabel Honda
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jessica Wan
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Satya Kent
Northern Arizona University
Lindsey Parsons
University of California, Los Angeles
Jacob Prince
Harvard University
Raymond Young
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Alexis Phillips
University of Colorado Boulder
Gabrielle Linscott
University of Maryland, College Park
Sharon Su
Columbia University
Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse
Cornell University
Ian Raphael
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
Siddharth Rajupet
University of California, Berkeley
Lily Neff, PhD
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Aarti Gautam, PhD
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)
Galen Ng
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Gregory Reimonn
University of Michigan
David Cohen
Tufts University
Katelyn Ripley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexis Torres
Arizona State University
James Bantis
Stanford University
Dane Grundvig
Rice University
Jasmine Yang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Andrew Lesh
Stanford University
Glen Liu, ONR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oceanography, 2021 Fellow
Glenn Liu
MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Overview, Dr. Treva Brown
John (Giannis) Fikioris, ONR, Cornell University, CS
Giannis Fikioris
Cornell University
Robert Stephany
Cornell University
Sarah Torhan
The Pennsylvania State University
Joseph Chapman, PhD
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Learn about the various inventions and discoveries created within DoD
Carlos Abarca
University of Washington
Ali Alamri
University of Chicago
Enric Adillon
California Institute of Technology
Gavin Blair
University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie Blaha, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research/CL
Michelle Skoorka, PhD
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Gregory Lieberman, PhD
DEVCOM ARL Army Research Office
Kyle Gulshen
Caltech
Aria Ballance
University of Utah
Joseph Beckett
University of Michigan
Adrian Celaya
Rice University
Andrew Charbonneau
California Institute of Technology
Adam Balvanz
Northwestern University
Carlos Carrasquillo
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jesse Held
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ishan Chatterjee
University of Washington
Renee Allen
United States Air Force
Michael Caccuitto
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Michael Simpson, PhD
Office of Naval Research
Jacquelyn Ho
University of California, Berkeley
Carolyn Barnes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Calvin Colby
University of Connecticut
Spencer Compton
Stanford University
Caitlin Bellora
University of Chicago
Mitchell Donoughue
Purdue University
Victoria Cinnater
Duke University
Bryan Habas
The Pennsylvania State University
Calder Miller
JILA, NIST & the University of Colorado Boulder
Army Fellowship Opportunities
Dr. Vallen Emery, and Mr. Joe Gamson
Vallen Emery, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research laboratory
Joseph Gamson
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Zachary Fralish
Duke University
Caitlin Patterson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Alex Fairhall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nathaniel Mengers
Case Western Reserve University
William Schenken
JILA
Samantha Friess
University of Colorado at Boulder
Joseph Molnar
The Pennsylvania State University
Nathan Harper
California Institute of Technology
Malik Walker
Johns Hopkins University
LaShauna Evans, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Keegan Harris
Carnegie Mellon University
Broderick Johnson
Northwestern University
Eric Wolf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christoph Nuesslein
Georgia Institute of Technology
Masamu Kawada
University of California, Irvine
Matthew Yeh
Harvard University
Andreas Kellas
Columbia University
Kayla Bell, AFOSR, University of Alabama
Kayla Bell
The University of Alabama
Ashley Morgan
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)/DPPT
Cheryl Renee Bitner
AFC, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory
Morgan Haynes
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Lunch Prep
Gregory Lieberman, PhD
DEVCOM ARL Army Research Office
Michele Gaudreault, PhD
United States Space Force
Ananthram Swami, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research laboratory
Andrew Robertson, PhD
Naval Research Laboratory
William Pat Roach, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research/CL
Elizabeth Lineberry
University of California, Berkeley
Abhinav Ramkumar
Purdue University
Rahul Arun
California Institute of Technology
DoD Research Funding Opportunities
(DEPSCoR, DURIP, MURI, SFFP, YIP)
Edward Lee
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Kimberly Jacoby Morris, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Katie Wisecarver
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Reginald Williams, PhD
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Jasmine Chang
University of Michigan
Eric Stewart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abigail Linhart
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Maison Clouatre, ONR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maison Clouatre
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claire Traweek
Harvard University
Evan Palmer
Oregon State University
Ashley Nensel
Northwestern University
Ryan DeBoskey
NC State University
Michael Piseno
Stanford University
Kaleoani Ogura
University of California Irvine
DEIA Presentation
DoD HBCU/MSI Program Manager
Evelyn Kent
Defense Pentagon
Treva Brown
Joseph Reeves
Carnegie Mellon University
Gabrielle Wink
Northwestern University
Yuki Osumi
Johns Hopkins University
James Fields
The Ohio State University
Andrew Curtis, ARO, Northwestern University (2021 Fellow)
Andrew Curtis
Northwestern University
John Dickenson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bhaskar Roberts
UC Berkeley
Alexandra Forsey-Smerek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clair Travis, AFOSR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021 Fellow)
Laura Steckman, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Gregory Ruark, PhD
Army Research Office, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory ARL
Benjamin Whitmore, PhD
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) - Pacific
Jennifer Horing
University of Colorado Boulder
Natalie Schultz, AFOSR, University of Arizona (2021 Fellow), Physics
Natalie Shultz
University of Arizona
Vanessa Rubien
University of Southern California
Alexander Zlokapa, AFOSR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021 Fellow), Physics
Alexander Zlokapa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Renee Spear
University of Colorado Boulder
Pete Khooshabeh, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Robert Kania, PhD
Army Research Labs
Shawn Coleman, PhD
US Army Research Laboratory
Amanda Toledo Barrios
California Institute of Technology
Learn about the various inventions and discoveries created within DoD
DoD and Fellows Networking Sessions
D0D Research Funding Opportunities
DEPSCoR, DURIP, MURI, SFFP, YIP)
Edward Lee
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Kimberly Jacoby Morris, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Katie Wisecarver
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Reginald Williams, PhD
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Dana Byrne
University of California Berkeley
Mitchell Wall
University of Colorado Boulder
Andrew Rouditchenko
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Meenakshi Chakraborty
Stanford University
Abigail Carbone
Stanford University
Anonto Zaman
Stanford University
Brandon Rozek
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lauren Clubb
University of California San Diego
Shreya Shankar
UC Berkeley
Eliana Feygin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yasha Ektefaie
Mason Freund
University of Connecticut
Jared Cronin
University of South Carolina
Kyra Fitz
Rutgers University
Liam Smith
Georgia Institute of Technology
Morgan Jones
University of California Santa Barbara
Patents & Publications
(Remote)
John Karasek
Office of Naval Research
Lantana Grub
Vanderbilt University
Zephan Enciso
University of Notre Dame du Lac
Sanjay Subramanian
UC Berkeley
Luke Langford
University of California, Berkeley
Jack Erhardt
University of Michigan
Tanner Henson
University of California
Saranya Vijayakumar
Carnegie Mellon University
Haoda Wang
Columbia University
Laura Steckman, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Gregory Ruark, PhD
Army Research Office, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory ARL
Benjamin Whitmore, PhD
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) - Pacific
Rian Kormos
Alexander Geers
University of Pennsylvania
Jordan Meyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anders Wikum
Stanford University
Madelyn Payne
University of California, Berkeley
Pranav Lalgudi
Stanford University
Alexander Ware, AFOSR, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Ware
UT Austin Mid-IR Photonics
Daniel Ranke
Carnegie Mellon University
Carolyn Marar
Boston University
Daniel Klawson
University of California, Berkeley
Emily Ryan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jacob Roberts
University of California, Berkeley
Alon Levin
Columbia University
Lynn Sidor
University of Rochester
Muhammad Rahman, PhD
Air Force Institute of Technology
Cindy Shi
Stanford University
Duncan Madden
University of Michigan
Avni Singhal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aaron Tasset
University of Texas at Austin
Emma Martin
University of California, Berkeley
Maxwell McManus
State University of New York at Buffalo
Carl Thrasher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott Pierce, PhD
Maui High Performance Computing Center
Daniel Zelik, PhD
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 711HPW
Paul Yu, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research laboratory
Jennifer Field, PhD
Naval System Warfare Center
Gregory Lieberman, PhD
DEVCOM ARL Army Research Office
Michelle Pirrone
University of Colorado Boulder/ National Institue of Standards and Technology
Shinya Wai, ONR, University of Chicago
Shinya Wai
University of Chicago
Kelly Platfoot, AFOSR, Virginia Common Wealth University, (2021 Fellow)
Kelly Platfoot
Virginia Commonwealth University
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global Overview
Jessica Jones, PhD
Office of Naval Research Global Tech Solutions
Jessica Zamarripa, AFOSR, Texas A&M University
Jessica Zamarripa
Texas A&M University
Brett Ringel
Georgia institute of Technology
Using insect antennae as biohybrid sensors for dynamic aerial chemical localization
Melanie Anderson, PhD
University of Washington
Sydney Sofronici
University of Pennsylvania
Rick Kempinski
Activate Global
Alexander Ware
UT Austin Mid-IR Photonics
Artificial Intelligence Presentation as it pertains to DoD
Jeff Ellen, PhD
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Pete Khooshabeh, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Steven Rogers PhD
US Air Force
Kevin Gao, PhD
Blue Current
Marcus Smith, PhD
Department of Defense (DoD) SMART
Dr. Bindu Nair, Director of Basic Research, OUSD(R&E) and
Dr. Arun Seraphin, Executive Director National Defense Industrial Association , Emerging Technologies Institute, Former NDSEG Fellow
Bindu Nair, PhD
Department of Defense
Arun Seraphin, PhD
NDIA - Emerging Technologies Institute
2:40 - 2:45 Opening Remarks: Dr. Jen Becker
2:45 - 3:15 Guest Speaker: Dr. Bindu Nair, Director of Basic Research
3:15 - 3:25 Break
3:25 - 4:30 Awards Ceremony
4:30 - 4:45 Closing Remarks:
4:45 - 5:00 Retiring of Colors
Ivory Chaney
Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (ARO)
William Ellis
Office of Naval Research
Barton Halpern, PhD
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
William Pat Roach, PhD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research/CL
Ellen Robinson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Fellows to stay 15 minutes for group Class photo by sponsor