The Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Amy Braverman

Dr. Amy Braverman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, CA. She is the Technical Group Lead for Statistical Methods and Applications in the Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Analysis Group of the Instrument Operations and Science Data Systems Section. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1982 with a B.A. in Economics, Dr. Braverman worked for nearly a decade in litigation support consulting. She returned to graduate school at UCLA in the early 1990’s where she earned an M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Statistics. She began her statistics career as a post-doc at JPL in 1999 and has been with the Lab ever since. Dr. Braverman’s early work was in the use of data compression methods for analysis of massive data sets. As her career advanced she has worked in spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, statistical methods for the evaluation of climate models, and most recently in Uncertainty Quantification. She has been at the forefront of JPL’s efforts to bring rigorous UQ to the derivation of geophysical information from remote sensing observations collected by NASA and JPL instruments, and is the recipient of the 2021 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for that effort. Dr. Braverman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and the Chair-Elect for its Uncertainty Quantification Interest Group; previously she was the Chair of the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification Activity Group. Finally, she finds special satisfaction in mentoring post-doc’s and young researchers to build capability in Statistics at JPL, and in collaborating with academic colleagues to connect their

research, and that of their graduate students, to JPL and NASA problems.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Chien

Dr. Peter Chien is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an IBM Faculty Award, and he served as Chair of the Management Committee for the American Statistical Association’s Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology. His work is adopted by Fortune 500 companies across industries including aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, electronics and life sciences.

Banquet Speaker

Dr. Ralph C. Smith joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1998, where he is presently a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics. He is co-author of the research monograph Smart Material Structures: Modeling, Estimation and Control and author of the books Smart Material Systems: Model Development and Uncertainty Quantification: Theory, Implementation, and Applications. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. He is the recipient of the 2016 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award and the SPIE 2017 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018 and an ASME Fellow in 2022. His research areas include mathematical modeling and control of smart material systems, Bayesian model calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification for physical and biological systems.

Organizers and Speakers

Emmanuel Agbeli, Bowling Green State University

Andrea Arnold, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sakshi Arya, Case Western Reserve University

Sam Baugh, Penn State University

Annie Booth, Virginia Tech

Andrew Brown, Clemson University

Elle Buser, Emory University

Lei Cao, Northwestern University

Chun-Yi Chang, Michigan State University

Ray-Bing Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Qiyuan Chen, University of Michigan

Oksana Chkrebtii, Ohio State University

Youngjin Cho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

William Consagra, University of South Carolina

Tristan Contant, Colorado State University

Xinwei Deng, Virginia Tech

Edgar Dobriban, University of Pennsylvania

David Edwards, The Citadel

Bill Fisher, JMP

Jingyi Feng, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wenyu Gao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Colin Gallanger, Clemson University

Bobby Gramacy, Virginia Tech

Prithwish Ghosh, North Carolina State University

Michele Guindani, University of California, Los Angeles

Luke Hagar, The University of Queensland

Beniamino Hadj-Hamar, University of South Carolina

Dorit Hammerling, Colorado School of Mines

Songqiao Han, King’s College London

Joey Hart, Sandia National Laboratory

Whitney Huang, Clemson University

Youngdeok Hwang, Baruch College, City University of New York

Cheoljoon Jeong, Clemson University

Roshan Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mikyoung Jun, University of Houston

Lulu Kang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jennifer Kensler, Shell

Sajad Khodadadian, Virginia Tech

Hwanwoo Kim, Duke University

Rob Krafty, Emory University

Mikael Kuusela, Carnegie Mellon University

Courtney Kyger, Virginia Tech

Jonghyeok Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Minxi Li, George Mason University

Li-Hsiang Lin, Georgia State University

Wei-Ann Lin, National Central University

Xiao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Robert Lund, University of California, Santa Cruz

Fangyi Luo, Procter & Gamble

Reetam Majumder, University of Arkansas

Simon Mak, Duke University

Jie Min, University of South Florida

Stefani Mokalled, Boeing

Rong Pan, Arizona State University

Fenglian Pan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Mirjeta Pasha, Virginia Tech

Subhadeep Paul, Ohio State University

Kamran Paynabar, Georgia Institute of Technology

Frederick Phoa, Academica Sinica, Taiwan

Vladas Pipiras, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Brian J Reich, North Carolina State University

Nicholas Rios, George Mason University

Arman Sabbaghi

Yeng Saanchi, JMP

Indranil Sahoo, Virginia Commonwealth University

Arvind Saibaba, North Carolina State University / Clemson University

Davide Sartor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Liang Shi, Virginia Tech

Byran Smucker, Henry Ford

Vadim Sokolov, George Mason University

Difan Song, Georgia Institute of Technology

John Stufken, George Mason University

Chih-Li Sung, Michigan State University

Piotr Suder, Duke University

Ozge Surer, Miami University

Zibo Tian, University of Florida

Rui Tuo, Texas A&M University

Simon Vandekar, Vanderbilt University

Julia Walchessen, Carnegie Mellon University

Kaiwen Wang, Davidson College

Kaizheng Wang, Columbia University

Maria Weese, Miami University

Laura Wendelberger, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Paul Wiemann, Ohio State University

Xiaochen Xian, Georgia Institute of Technology

Xiulin Xie, Florida State University

Kexin Xie, Virginia Tech

Ziqiao Xu, George Mason University

Yiming Xu, University of Kentucky

Xunan Yang, University of South Carolina

Shihao Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Andrew Yarger, Purdue University

Feng Ye, Clemson University

Chi-Kuang Yeh, Georgia State University

Wei-Yang Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Shangtong Zhang, University of Virginia

Fan Zhang, Boise State University

Qiong Zhang, Clemson University

Wei Zheng, University of Tennessee

Shixiang (Woody) Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University

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