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CONFERENCE MAY 18, 2015 Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS) #DukeFrontiers2015

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ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION Coffee and continental breakfast available

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OPENING AND WELCOME George Truskey, PhD Senior Associate Dean for Research Pratt School of Engineering

BREAK/MOVE TO SESSIONS

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RESEARCH SESSION I-A: MATERIALS/ENERGY Moderator: Nan Jokerst, PhD Speakers: Jeff Glass, PhD: “Nanostructured materials for enhanced electrocatalysis, energy storage, and solar fuel generation” David Mitzi, PhD: “Solution Processing of High-Performance Thin-Film Solar Cells: Opportunities and Challenges” David Smith, PhD Responders: Ann Pitruzzello, Northrup Grumman Neill Pounder, Bioventus

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RESEARCH SESSION I-B: MEDICAL DEVICES Moderator: George Truskey, PhD Speakers: Nenad Bursac, PhD: “Human Engineered Muscle for Drug and Toxicity Testing” Warren Grill, PhD: “Timing is Everything: Temporal Pattern is a New Dimension in Nervous System Pacemakers” Jennifer West, PhD: “Nanomedicine: Novel Materials Enabling Advances in Diagnostics and Therapeutics” Responders: Gemma Budd, Lucideon Shaun Gittard, Cook Medical Sonia Grego, RTI

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CONFERENCE AGENDA

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RESEARCH SESSION II-A: MATERIALS/ENERGY Moderator: Richard Newell, PhD Speakers: Voker Blum, PhD: “Predictive Simulations of Materials for Electronic and Energy-Related Applications Based on Quantum Mechanics” Nico Hotz, PhD: “Solar-Powered Hydrogen Generation” Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, PhD: “Resonant Infrared MatrixAssisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (RIR-MAPLE): An Enabling Technology for Polymeric Thin Films” Responders: Brandon Cole, SCI James Gaillard, IBM

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RESEARCH SESSION II-C: DATA ANALYTICS/INFORMATICS Moderator: Ingrid Daubechies, PhD Speakers: David Dunson, PhD: “Analyzing networks: brains, creativity, and economic graphs” Guillermo Sapiro, PhD: “What can big data analytics do for ordinary consumers?” Responders: Shaun Gittard, Cook Medical Ann Pitruzzello, Northrup Grumman

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INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER

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Thomas Katsouleas, PhD Vinik Dean, Pratt School of Engineering

PLENARY ADDRESS: “TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES IN THE POWER INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY” Jim Rogers Former Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy

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BREAK AND REASSEMBLY

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STUDENT/INDUSTRY PANEL Moderator: Thomas E. Healy Panelists: Andrew Berger, Parsons Stephanie Chalk, NetApp David McDonald, Duke Eli Nichols, EG-GILERO Brian Ridout, Biogen Jenn Scrimshaw, RTI Deborah Stokes, EMC

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PANEL Moderator: Barry M. Myers, PhD Panelists: Brian Lowinger, JD, Office of Research Support Jesko W. von Windheim, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION

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INDUSTRY PARTNERS MEETING

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POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION (CONTINUED)

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DINNER

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Summary remarks and responses

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ABSTRACTS & BIOS RESEARCH SESSION I-A: MATERIALS/ENERGY NAN JOKERST, PHD MODERATOR Nan Jokerst is the J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. She is also the executive director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF), which is a shared user facility at Duke for cleanroom and characterization research with over 640 current users that supports research totaling over $99 million. She joined the Duke faculty in 2003, after 14 years on the faculty of Georgia Tech following her PhD at the University of Southern California. Her research areas are in nanotechnology, lasers, metamaterials, imaging systems, and sensing. She is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, Nation-

al Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense. Her work is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary, and addresses applications such as imaging for breast cancer margin assessment, integrated sensing for biomedical diagnostics, metamaterials, and optical interconnect. She has published over 250 journal and conference papers, and was awarded the IEEE/HP Rigas Medal for teaching, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award and IEEE Third Millennium Medal for research. She is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and has served on the boards of both societies, and on the National Academies Board on Global Science and Technology.

JEFF GLASS, PHD NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS FOR ENHANCED ELECTROCATALYSIS, ENERGY STORAGE, AND SOLAR FUEL GENERATION Abstract: Our laboratory investigates the use of nanostructures to enhance electrode performance in a variety of applications, including; disinfection of liquid waste, neural stimulation, micro-ion sources for miniature mass spectrometers, electrocatalysis, energy storage, and the production of solar fuels. This presentation will focus on the latter three areas which are relevant to our need for clean energy. The applications of the new hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube materials reported at Frontiers 2014, termed graphenated carbon nanotubes (g-CNTs), have recently been extended to electrocatalysis. The electron transfer kinetics of the ferri-ferrocyanide couple were examined for a g-CNT film and compared to the kinetics of standard carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The g-CNT

film exhibited much higher catalytic activity, with a heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constant approximately two orders of magnitude higher than for standard CNTs. Scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy were used to correlate the higher electron transfer kinetics with the higher edge-density of the g-CNT film. This reactivity indicates that such materials may be a useful material to enhance rates of electrochemical reactions in industrial and energy conversion processes. Regarding energy storage, g-CNTs have also been investigated as the scaffold for MnO2 composite cathodes in aqueous asymmetric supercapacitors. The electrode performance could be tuned by optimizing the density of graphene foliates on the g-CNTs which enabled geometric/morphologic con-

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FRONTIERS 2015 trol over the MnO2 electrodeposits. The synergy and optimization of the g-CNT hybrid structure led to a high specific capacitance (640 F/g) at high MnO2 specific loading (2.3 mg/cm2), thus creating a unique pathway toward improved performance. With respect to solar fuel production, atomic layer deposition of TiO2 has been integrated with a nanoparticle FTO scaffold to enhance the conversion of sunlight to fuel via water splitting. The TiO2 provides the stability and band structure needed for the conversion process while the FTO acts as a more effective charge transport medium while simultaneously providing increased surface area. This nanostructure offers advantages that include decoupling charge carrier diffusion length from optical peneJeffrey T. Glass is currently a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Previous appointments have included the Joseph F. Toot Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and the vice president of R&D for Kobe Steel USA Inc., where he directed their Electronic Materials Center. He has published over 155 papers and book chapters, edited six books, is a co-inventor on 15 patents, and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. He has been a short-course instructor for several professional societies and companies and has organized numerous conferences. He served as a member of a Presidential Science Advisor’s committee for the assessment of diamond technology in Japan, and has received two teaching awards and the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award. His technical work involves the development and processing of new materials to improve device performance. He has studied car-

tration depth, increased photon absorption probability through scattering, complimentary photon adsorption, and favorable interfaces for charge separation and transfer across the various junctions. Acknowledgement: Funding from various sources is gratefully acknowledged, including APPA-E, NSF, NIH, DARPA, DOE, The Gates Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Management of the laboratory and research projects is enabled by the efforts of Drs. Charles Parker, Jason Amsden, Matt Kirley, and Qing Peng. The numerous graduate students who have conducted the research discussed in this presentation are also gratefully acknowledged.

bon and related materials for more than 25 years, and currently focuses on carbon-based nanostructures for electrode applications, including carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphenated carbon nanotubes. He also utilizes in vacuo surface analysis and atomic layer deposition in his research. He has an interest in technology management and his paper entitled “Managing the Ties Between Central R&D and Business Units,” received the 2004 Industrial Research Institute’s Maurice Holland Award. He received BSE and MSE degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Virginia, where he studied the Oxygen Reduction Reaction on platinum alloys. He also holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He has held adjunct faculty appointments at North Carolina State University, Case Western Reserve University, and the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina where he has taught executive courses on Managing Innovation.

DAVID MITZI, PHD SOLUTION PROCESSING OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE THINFILM SOLAR CELLS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Abstract: While photovoltaics (PV) is rapidly expanding to play a much larger role in our energy portfolio, cost remains one of the key remaining challenges for ubiquitous adoption. Solution-processing of semiconductor thin films provides an important

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pathway to lower fabrication costs, but generally comes at the unacceptable price of lower performance compared to vacuumdeposited structures. This talk will address several particularly promising thin-film PV technologies, for which deposition from

ABSTRACTS & BIOS solution has enabled record device power conversion efficiencies. For the Cu-Zn-Sn-SSe (CZTS)-based system, the combination of progressively higher record efficiency (up to 12.6 percent), earth-abundant metal starting materials, and lower-cost solution-based processing opens opportunities for development of a potentially pervasive PV technology. Likewise, the perovskite-structured compounds based on metal halide frameworks provide a high degree of opportunity

for chemical tunability, and unprecedented improvement in efficiency to the 20-pluspercent level over only a few short years of development. These two technologies provide outstanding examples of how solutionbased processing may not only lead to an avenue for low cost PV but also to performance levels that can rival and sometimes even beat vacuum-based deposition, which is crucial if these technologies are to have market penetration.

David Mitzi is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. His research interest lies in the area of developing new materials that enable high-performance and lowcost thin-film photovoltaic technologies, as well as other energy-related applications.

ing and device applications for organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors, which are currently at the focus of much excitement in the photovoltaics field. Between 2009 and 2014 he managed the Photovoltaic Science and Technology department at IBM, with a focus on developing solution-processed high-performance inorganic semiconductors for thin-film photovoltaic (PV) devices. Since 2009, his team has held the world record for power conversion efficiency in devices based on the promising kesterite family of earth-abundant solar cell materials.

Prior to recently joining Duke, he developed a program at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center focused on examining crystal structure-property relationships, low-cost thin-film deposition techniques and device applications for a variety of electronic materials (e.g., oxides, halides, chalcogenides, organic-inorganic hybrids). His team worked to develop the concept of organic-inorganic electronics (i.e., combining useful attributes of organic and inorganic materials within a single molecular-scale composite) and pioneered the materials understand-

He received a BS in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1985 and a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University in 1990. He holds a number of patents, and has authored or coauthored more than 180 papers (H-index = 62) and book chapters.

DAVID R. SMITH, PHD SPEAKER David R. Smith is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is also director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics at Duke and holds the positions of adjunct associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego, and visiting professor of physics at Imperial College, London. Smith received his PhD in 1994 in physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Smith’s research interests include the theory, simulation and characterization of unique electromagnetic structures, including photonic crystals and metamaterials. Smith is best known for his theoretical and experimental work on electromagnetic metamaterials. Metamaterials are artificially structured materials, whose electromagnetic properties can be tailored and tuned in ways not easily accomplished with conventional materials. Smith has been at the forefront in the development of numerical methods to

design and characterize metamaterials, and has also provided many of the key experiments that have helped to illustrate the potential that metamaterials offer. Smith and his colleagues at UCSD demonstrated the first left-handed (or negative index) metamaterial at microwave frequencies in 2000 – a material that had been predicted theoretically more than 30 years prior by Russian physicist Victor Veselago. No naturally occurring material or compound with a negative index-of-refraction had ever been reported until this experiment. In 2001, Smith and colleagues followed up with a second experiment confirming one of Veselago’s key conjectures: the ‘reversal’ of Snell’s Law. These two papers – the first published in Physical Review Letters and the second in Science – generated enormous interest throughout the community in the possibility of metamaterials to extend and augment the properties of conventional materials. Both papers have now been cited more than 3,000 times each.

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FRONTIERS 2015 ANN PITRUZZELLO RESPONDER Ann Pitruzzello is a research engineer at Northrop Grumman. She received a BS in physics from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 2007. In 2008, she joined the Research Triangle Institute, where she conducted remote sensing research for a variety of defense applications, and also led an NIHfunded program to develop a non-invasive seizure detection device.

Since March 2013, she has worked at Northrop Grumman, where she initiates and leads research and development efforts geared toward new business development, and serves as a subject matter expert on several programs. Her research areas include signal processing, machine learning, datadriven modeling, and complex systems analysis.

NEILL POUNDER RESPONDER Neill Pounder holds a PhD in physics from the University of Leeds and has over 20 years’ experience in the medical device field. He entered the industry as a scientist for Smith & Nephew, performing research on a variety of technologies including adhesives, carbon fiber knee braces, and compression bandaging for leg ulcers. He subsequently moved into product development,

obtaining FDA approval for an electrical muscle stimulator. He is now the director of project management for Bioventus LLC, a spin-off from Smith & Nephew, and is responsible for the cross-functional projects for active healing therapies, which includes ultrasound for fracture healing and hyaluronic acid for knee osteoarthritis.

RESEARCH SESSION I-B: MEDICAL DEVICES GEORGE TRUSKEY, PHD MODERATOR George Truskey is the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research in the Pratt School of Engineering. Truskey’s current research interests include microphysiological systems, cardiovascular tissue engineering and the role of physical forces in atherosclerosis. He received a BSE in bioengineering in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in 1985 in chemical engineering from MIT. He was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Tufts University from 1985 to 1987. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke since 1987. From 2003-2011, he was chair of the department. During that time, he directed Duke’s Translational Research Partnership with the

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Coulter Foundation and the successful transition to an endowed program. He is the author of 115 peer-reviewed research publications, a biomedical engineering textbook entitled Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems, six book chapters, one patent and two patent applications. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Heart Association. He was president of BMES from 2008 to 2010.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS NENAD BURSAC, PHD HUMAN ENGINEERED MUSCLE FOR DRUG AND TOXICITY TESTING Existing in vitro models of human skeletal muscle do not exhibit contractile behavior. We for the first time bioengineered electrically and chemically responsive, contractile human muscle tissues (“myobundles”) made of primary myogenic cells. These biomimetic tissue constructs exhibit aligned architecture, multinucleated and striated myofibers, and a satellite cell pool and, similar to natural muscle, respond to electrical stimuli with twitch and tetanic contractions. Use of GCaMP6-reported calcium respons-

es enables long-term non-invasive tracking of myobundle function and response to drugs. When made of muscle cells from Pompe disease patients, myobundles show reduced levels of alpha acid glucosidase, increased glycogen accumulation, and deficit in contractile force, all reflective of typical clinical symptoms. Overall, tissue-engineered myobundles provide an enabling platform for modeling of human disease and development of next generation muscle therapeutics.

Nenad Bursac, the Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, obtained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Belgrade University, Serbia, and his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is one of the pioneers of the cardiac tissue engineering field. In 1999, as a member of Robert Langer’s group at MIT, he published the first manuscript on functional cardiac tissue engineering using mammalian heart cells. His postdoctoral research with Leslie Tung at Johns Hopkins University involved the development of novel methodologies to control architecture and function of 2- and 3-dimensional cardiac tissue models for use in physiological studies and cell-based cardiac therapies.

cardiac cell cultures that replicate micro- and macrostructure of native myocardium, 2) development of specialized co-culture assays to study structural and functional interactions between cardiomyocytes and other cells, 3) a novel mesoscopic hydrogel molding technique for fabrication of aligned and highly functional skeletal and cardiac muscle tissues derived from adult or pluripotent stem cells, and 4) generation of novel biosynthetic excitable cells and tissues for basic studies of ion channel function and use in somatic cell therapies for excitable tissue disease.

He joined Duke Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in October 2003, and since July 2010, he has been appointed as an Associate Professor with tenure. Currently, Dr. Bursac’s research involves the use of cell, tissue, and genetic engineering techniques and electrophysiological and biomechanical studies to advance fields of somatic and stem cell based therapies for cardiac and skeletal muscle disease. Some examples of this work include: 1) combining MRI and cell micropatternining techniques to create novel 2- and 3-dimensional

He is an author of more than 70 scientific articles, 6 book chapters, and has given a number of invited seminars nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award, Mendel Center Award, and Stem Cell Innovation Award. He has participated in organization of national and international conferences including the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society and tissue engineering track of Biomedical Engineering Society annual meetings in 2014. Dr. Bursac serves as a standing member of an NIH review panel. In 2015, he has been elected as a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

WARREN GRILL, PHD TIMING IS EVERYTHING: TEMPORAL PATTERN IS A NEW DIMENSION IN NERVOUS SYSTEM PACEMAKERS Abstract: The application of electrical stimulation for treatment of neurological disorders, or to restore function following disease or injury, has relied for decades on control-

ling the effects of stimulation through selection of stimulation amplitude (voltage or current), stimulation pulse duration, and stimulation pulse repetition frequency. I will

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FRONTIERS 2015 introduce a new dimension of parameter adjustment – the temporal pattern of stimulation – and demonstrate how design of appropriate patterns of stimulation enables increases in the efficacy and energy efficien-

cy of neural stimulation therapies, including deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain.

Warren M. Grill is a professor of biomedical engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, with secondary appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurobiology, and Surgery. He received a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering with honors in 1989 from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1995 from Case Western Reserve University.

electrical stimulation for treatment of pain. He has published over 140 peer reviewed journal articles and 17 book chapters, and has been awarded 22 US patents.

He teaches courses on circuits and instrumentation, bioelectricity, and on the fundamentals and applications of electrical stimulation. In 2008, he received the Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research at Duke University, in 2013 was awarded Outstanding Postdoc Mentor at Duke University, and in 2014 received the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award at Duke. His research interests are in neural engineering and neural prostheses and include design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications to restoration of bladder function, treatment of movement disorders with deep brain stimulation, and

He is co-founder, director, and chief scientific officer of NDI Medical, a medical device incubator, director and chief scientific advisor at SPR Therapeutics, which has developed a novel therapy for treating pain, and co-founder, director, and chief scientific officer of DBI, which is commercializing a novel approach to brain stimulation to treat neurological disorders. He serves as a consultant to the Neurological Devices Panel of the FDA Medical Devices Advisory Committee, a member of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Program, and on the editorial boards of Brain Stimulation and the Journal of Neural Engineering. He was elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2007, and as a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2011.

JENNIFER WEST, PHD NANOMEDICINE: NOVEL MATERIALS ENABLING ADVANCES IN DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS The increasing capability to manipulate matter at the nanoscale is generating new materials with unique properties that promise to address unmet medical needs for future generations. As an example, metal nanoshells are a relatively new class of nanoparticles with highly tunable optical properties. Metal nanoshells consist of a dielectric core nanoparticle such as silica surrounded by an ultrathin metal shell, usually composed of gold for biomedical applications. Depending on the size and composition of each layer of the nanoshell, particles can be designed to either absorb or scatter light over much of the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including the near infrared region where

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penetration of light through tissue is maximal. These particles are also easily conjugated to antibodies, aptamers, peptides and other biomolecules for specific targeting. Further, the biocompatibility of these particles is excellent. For photothermal cancer therapy, nanoshells can be fabricated to achieve strong near infrared absorption, injected intravenously to accumulate at tumor sites due to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect and/or molecular targeting, then generate heat upon illumination with near infrared light, leading to destruction of the tumor. This has shown very promising results in several animal models. For example, in a mouse colon carcinoma model, we demonstrated 100% tumor-free survival

ABSTRACTS & BIOS of nanoshell treated mice at 1 year. These materials are now in three phase I human clinical trials. For use in diagnostics and imaging, nanoshells can be designed to strongly scatter near infrared light. Molecularly targeted nanoshells have been used as optical contrast agents for cancer imaging with subcellular resolution. For example, anti-HER2 conjugated nanoshells allow near infrared imaging of HER2+ breast carcinoma cells. Furthermore, integrated imaging and therJennifer West joined the faculty at Duke in 2012, after having been the department chair and Cameron Professor of Bioengineering Rice University. Professor West was one of the founding members of Rice’s Department of Bioengineering, building it to a top ten program over the prior sixteen years. Professor West’s research focuses on the development of novel biofunctional materials. Part of her program has developed nanoparticle-based approaches to biophotonics therapeutics and diagnostics. An example of this work is the application of near-infrared absorbing nanoparticles for photothermal tumor ablation. In animal studies, this therapeutic strategy has demonstrated very high efficacy with minimal side effects or damage to surrounding normal tissues. In 2000, Professor West founded Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc. to commercialize the nanoparticle-assisted photothermal ablation technology, now called AuroLase. Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., located in Houston, TX, is the recipient of a NIST ATP Award and a grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Professor West is a director of the company. The company has built manufacturing facilities, and AuroLase cancer therapy is now in human clinical trials. Professor West has received numerous accolades for her work. In 2015, she received the Society for Biomaterials Clemson Award. In 2014, she was recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher, the top 1% in the field of materials science. In 2010 she was named Texas Inventor of the Year and also Admiral of the Texas Navy (highest honor the governor of Texas can bestow on a civilian). In 2008, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas honored her with the

apy applications have been accomplished with nanoshells designed to provide both absorption and scattering, potentially enabling “see-and-treat” approaches to cancer therapy. Gold nanoshells also provide x-ray contrast due to the electron density of gold and can be conjugated to MR contrast agents such as gadolinium to provide highly multi-modal imaging capabilities in addition to therapy as well.

O’Donnell Prize in Engineering as the top engineer in the state. In 2006, she was named one of 20 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors, recognizing integration of world class research and teaching. She has been listed by MIT Technology Review as one of the 100 most innovative young scientists and engineers world wide. Other recognitions include the Christopher Columbus Foundation Frank Annunzio Award for scientific innovation, Nanotechnology Now’s Best Discovery of 2003, Small Times Magazine’s Researchers of the Year in 2004, and the Society for Biomaterials Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Professor West has authored more than 180 research articles. She also holds 18 patents that have been licensed to eight different companies. She has lectured at numerous institutions, including Harvard, Harvard Medical School, MIT, FDA, and NCI. She was an invited speaker at the 2006 Nobel Symposium and invited back in 2014 for the 50th Anniversary Nobel Symposium. Professor West has served as a member of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences study section at NIH, and has served on numerous other review boards for NIH and NSF. She has also been a member of the Defense Sciences Study Group, a member of the NRC panel on management of university intellectual property, and a member of the AAMC panel on research. She is currently treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering Society and Chair-Elect of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Her laboratory receives funding from NIH, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and DOD.

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FRONTIERS 2015 GEMMA BUDD RESPONDER Gemma Budd is the health care business manager at Lucideon, a materials development and consultancy business based in the United Kingdom with offices across the United States. Lucideon commercializes breakthrough materials technologies for sectors including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, construction, and nuclear. Gemma holds a bachelor of science honors degree in biomedical science from the University of Durham (UK). She is currently responsible for developing and commercializing the intellectual property in Lucideon’s health care portfolio. This includes identifying

new materials and processing technologies – and finding applications for existing platforms – that meet customer’s needs. These solutions may arise from academic/industrial collaborations, or be organically grown. Some of the areas currently of interest to Gemma are drug delivery technologies, toughened ceramics, polymer-ceramic hybrids, and antimicrobial surfaces. Lucideon has recently opened a new office in North Carolina aimed at developing further applications for advanced materials through fostering partnerships with universities and industry.

SHAUN GITTARD RESPONDER Shaun D. Gittard is a research engineer at Cook Medical in Winston-Salem. He received his doctorate from the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He has authored dozens of publications in the field of biomaterials on topics ranging from rapid pro-

totyping to antimicrobial materials to tissue engineering. He has received numerous rewards for his research including the American Ceramics Society’s GEMS Sapphire award and JOM’s paper of the year. Gittard has been active at Cook Medical creating new therapies to treat a range of medical disorders including gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases.

SONIA GREGO RESPONDER Sonia Grego, senior research scientist and leader of the Global Health Technologies group, has been at RTI International since 2001. Her research activities focus on bioengineering solutions for health and behavior monitoring, and for biological studies.

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Grego has expertise in organs-on-chip, wearable sensors, flexible electronics and microfabricated devices. She has co-authored more than 40 scientific publications and has been awarded four US patents.

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RESEARCH SESSION II-A: MATERIALS/ENERGY RICHARD NEWELL, PHD MODERATOR Richard G. Newell is the Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and director of the Duke University Energy Initiative. In 2009, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the agency responsible for official U.S. government energy statistics and analysis. He served there until 2011. Newell has also served as the senior economist for energy and environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He is on the board of directors and is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, where he was previously a senior fellow. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has provided expert advice and consulted with many private, governmental, non-governmental, and international institutions.

Newell has published widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy, the environment, and related technologies, including incentives for technological innovation and adoption. He has served on numerous boards and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) expert committees related to energy, environment, and innovation, including NAS committees on Energy R&D, Innovation Inducement Prizes, Energy Externalities, and Energy Efficiency. He has also participated in the National Petroleum Council (NPC) studies on the Future of Transportation Fuels, the North American Resource Base, and Global Oil and Gas. Newell holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MPA from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a BS and BA from Rutgers University.

VOLKER BLUM, PHD PREDICTIVE SIMULATIONS OF MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONIC AND ENERGY-RELATED APPLICATIONS BASED ON QUANTUM MECHANICS Abstract: The availability of new materials with tailored properties often determines the success or failure of technological revolutions, e.g., the information technology industry (semiconductors) or energy generation and storage from sunlight (driven by materials for photovoltaics and/or catalysis). An often-quoted statement from the US Materials Genome Initiative is that, once a new class of materials is identified, the time frame to incorporation into actual applications is still 10 to 20 years. Predictive computer simulations of the properties and processes that make a given material useful

are an important avenue to shorten this development cycle, helping to understand the function of known materials and suggesting strategies for targeted improvements. With Schrödinger’s Equation, a complete mathematical description of material properties is essentially completely known. This talk outlines our computational approach to quantum-mechanics-based simulations of materials and molecules. Application examples include monolayer-thin graphene films on silicon carbide for electronic applications as well as carbon-based materials for photogenerated energy generation and storage.

Volker Blum is an associate professor of materials science and chemistry in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and an expert in computational modeling of physical and chemical properties and processes in materials.

He received his diplom (1996) and doctoral degrees (Dr. rer. nat., 2001) in physics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, before joining the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., as a post-doctoral re-

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FRONTIERS 2015 searcher in 2002. Between 2004 and 2013, he was a scientist and group leader at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. He joined Duke in September 2013. Blum’s work is based on the FHI-aims computer code for the quantum-mechanics-based prediction of properties and processes in materials – a globally developed, high-accuracy scientific software

package that he co-founded and continues to lead. His applied research interests include new materials for electronic and energy-related applications. He received the Staedtler Foundation Prize for outstanding doctoral theses in 2002, has coauthored 50 scientific publications, given over 80 invited presentations at conferences, workshops, and seminars in academia and industry, and co-organized 10 conferences and workshops.

NICO HOTZ, PHD SOLAR-POWERED HYDROGEN GENERATION Abstract: In conventional fuel reforming systems generating hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels, the thermal energy required to preheat water and fuel to the reaction temperature, evaporate liquid water and fuel, compensate heat losses, and overcome the reaction enthalpy of the catalytic steam reforming is generated by burning part of the initial fuel. This typically costs approximately half of the fuel. In the solarpowered system of this study, all fuel can be converted to hydrogen, since the heating requirement is fulfilled by solar power. This talk will discuss the synthesis of nanocatalysts for methanol steam reforming and their combination with a non-concentrating solar-thermal collector and a polymer elec-

trolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The solar collector is used to capture thermal energy at sufficient temperature to drive hydrogen production by steam reforming of methanol. Carbon monoxide within the product gas is removed and the clean hydrogen gas mixture is fed into a low-temperature fuel cell, resulting in methanol-to-electric efficiencies above 60 percent and solar-to-electric efficiencies above 50 percent. Finally, a novel approach is presented which takes advantage of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) occurring on plasmonic nanostructures to thermally drive catalytic reactions that normally require elevated temperatures to overcome the reaction activation energy.

Nico Hotz is assistant professor in mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University. His research interests are in the area of interfacial transport phenomena and thermodynamics in energy technology including phenomena at the micro- and nanoscale. Thermodynamic aspects of photovoltaics, novel sustainable energy conversion technologies, and chemical reactions are an essential part of his research.

hydrogen generation, solarthermal applications, and fuel cells.

The focus in research is the combination of ideas, insights and results from traditional energy technology such as thermal power plants with novel and innovative technologies such as fuel cells and photovoltaic cells based on micro- and nano-structured materials. Specific topics include of heat, mass, and charge transfer in the nanoscale, thermodynamic analysis of energy conversion and storage systems,

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He received his diploma (2005) and doctoral degree (2008) from ETH Zurich. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and joined Duke in 2010, where he heads the Thermodynamics and Sustainable Energy Lab. Hotz is a faculty member of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP) at Duke, and received the 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and the 2013 New Investigator Award by the NC Space Grant. He received the 2010 Best Paper Award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Energy Sustainability Conference by the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and the Alfred M. Hunt Faculty Scholarship in 2014.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS ADRIENNE STIFF-ROBERTS, PHD RESONANT INFRARED MATRIX-ASSISTED PULSED LASER EVAPORATION (RIR-MAPLE): AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR POLYMERIC THIN FILMS Abstract: Resonant infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (RIR-MAPLE) is a promising thin film deposition technology for polymeric materials for two primary reasons: 1). the ability to control and tune many aspects of nanoscale morphology, and 2). the ability to deposit multi-component and multi-layered polymeric films, regardless of the constituent material solubility. A novel approach using target emulsions has been developed that enables high-quality, thinfilm deposition without significant damage.

This emulsion RIR-MAPLE technique has been used for the thin film deposition of a variety of conjugated polymer, small molecule, nanoparticle, and blended/bulk heterojunction material systems. Of particular interest is the application of these polymeric thin films to photonics and optoelectronics. Examples of RIR-MAPLE-deposited films to be presented include hybrid nanocomposite films for solar cells, multifunctional surfaces for antimicrobial applications, and blended polymer films for optical coatings.

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts is associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, where she is also affiliated with the Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). Her current research interests include polymer, nanoparticle, and organic/inorganic hybrid nanocomposite thin film deposition by resonant-infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (RIR-MAPLE); materials characterization of organic and hybrid nanocomposite thin films; and the design, fabrication, and characterization of organic-based devices, especially infrared photodetectors, photovoltaic solar cells, and multifunctional surfaces.

2004, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she investigated high-temperature quantum dot infrared photodetectors grown by molecular beam epitaxy.

Stiff-Roberts received both a BS degree in physics from Spelman College and a BEE degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. She received an MSE in electrical engineering and a PhD in applied physics in 2001 and

Stiff-Roberts received the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Graduate Scholars Fellowship and the AT&T Labs Fellowship Program Grant from 19992004. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2007), the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology of the Nanotechnology Council (2009), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2009). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the National Society of Black Physicists, and she is a senior member of IEEE.

BRANDON COLE RESPONDER Brandon Cole is the manager of business development at SCI Technology for its Technology segment. He is responsible for developing partnerships with university research parks, technology start-ups, and mid-size technology companies with intent to commercialize innovative technologies that fit within the core competencies of SCI, Technology, or verticals of the larger parent company, Sanmina Corporation. Before joining the SCI’s Technology segment, Cole spent three years as the manager of business development for SCI’s Aircraft Systems segment. Prior to

joining SCI, Brandon spent 11 years on active duty in the United States military – first with the United States Air Force, and then after an inter-service transfer with the United States Army. The majority of Brandon’s military service was with the Army, where he held multiple intelligence positions. As a trained military intelligence officer, Brandon’s first assignment was with the 4th Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. He served as the assistant brigade intelligence officer of a 3,000 personnel BCT. In his second assignment,

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FRONTIERS 2015 Brandon served as the battalion intelligence officer of the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion (BSB), 4th BCT, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. In this assignment, he served as the senior intelligence advisor to the battalion commander, where he worked to establish a new intelligence section and prepare the battalion for its 16-month deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Upon returning from Afghanistan, Cole took his final active duty assignment as the recruiting operations officer for the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Army ROTC Department. In this assignment Cole was responsible for all day-to-day operations for building and sustaining a viable ROTC department to train future Army leaders.

Cole still serves as an intelligence officer in the United States Army Reserve, where he is currently assigned to the Fort Gillem Joint Reserve Intelligence Center in Georgia for the Department of Defense’s European Command. In his Army Reserve duties, Cole is the branch chief for the Levant Region, with direct support to EUCOM’s Military Forces Branch. Cole received a bachelor of science in social science from the United States Air Force Academy, where he also minored in philosophy. He earned a master’s degree in public relations from George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. He earned his MBA from the Manderson School at the University of Alabama. Brandon is married with one child.

JAMES GAILLARD RESPONDER James Gaillard has worked for IBM for 14 years, and is currently the Raleigh Cloud Ecosystem leader. Working in the Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham, and RTP area, James is working to build a strong and vibrant ecosystem of developers, start-ups, entrepreneurs, accelerators, incubators and IBMers around the IBM Cloud technologies.

Gaillard has had a variety of roles since he started at IBM – from marketing, to technology advocate, to alliance management and business development. Prior to joining IBM, James worked at the Nasdaq Stock Market in New York in their product development department. He received his MBA from UNC Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2001.

RESEARCH SESSION II-C: DATA ANALYTICS/INFORMATICS INGRID DAUBECHIES, PHD MODERATOR Ingrid Daubechies is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. She earned her PhD in theoretical physics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she began her academic career. She is best known for her breakthroughs in wavelet research and her contributions to digital signal processing. Some of the wavelet bases she constructed have become a household name in signal analysis; they, and other computational techniques she developed, have been incorporated into the JPEG2000 standard for image compression. Apart from her work on wavelets, Daubechies has contributed to other seminal advances in time-frequency analysis. Her career has seen many impressive firsts: Ingrid was the first female full professor of mathematics at Princeton University; the first woman to receive

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the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000; the first woman president of the International Mathematical Union in 2010; and she is very likely the first and only female mathematician to have been granted the title of baroness by King Albert II of Belgium. Her numerous prizes include two American Mathematical Society Steele Prizes – in 1994 for Exposition and in 2011 for Seminal Paper; the American Mathematical Society’s Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (1997); the Pioneer Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2006, with Heinz Engl); the Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2011); and the 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

ABSTRACTS & BIOS in the Basic Sciences category (jointly with David Mumford). Also in 2012 she received the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, one of the largest monetary awards in the United States for outstanding achievements in mathematics, for “her numerous and lasting contributions to applied and computational analysis and for the remarkable impact her work has had across engineering and the sciences.” She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

In addition to her commitment to educating and mentoring the next generation of mathematicians, Ingrid continues to break new ground in mathematics research and expand its impact outside of her discipline, focusing on the analysis of signals and inverse problems in a wide range of settings, with applications ranging from fMRI and geophysics to paleontology and the study of fine art paintings.

DAVID DUNSON, PHD ANALYZING NETWORKS: BRAINS, CREATIVITY, AND ECONOMIC GRAPHS There has been dramatically increasing interest in analyzing and exploiting information in network data in broad domains ranging from neurosciences to firms that collect social network data, such as LinkedIn, Maxpoint, Twitter and Facebook. In this talk, I’ll describe some emerging approaches for network data analysis, focusing in particular on data from brain connectomic studies and the LinkedIn Economic Graph challenge. I

demonstrate some key advantages of taking a Bayesian statistical approach to these problems, providing compelling new results relating human brain connection structures to creative reasoning. I also discuss new collaborations with LinkedIn on attempting to use their massive scale network data to make recommendations to users (individuals and companies) in how to best navigate the emerging “virtual professional world.”

David Dunson is the Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. His background and expertise is in developing novel statistical and computational methodology motivated by challenging high-dimensional and complex data sets, with a particular emphasis on Bayesian approaches for biomedical data.

He is fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and has been cited over 23,000 times, with an H-index of 52. He is most well known for exceptional creativity in developing novel probability models for better characterizing complex data using nonparametric Bayes, geometry and latent variable methods. In recent years, he has increasingly focused on machine learning methods, uncertainty quantification in big data settings, and developing improved methods for analysis of data from genomic and neuroscience studies. He has substantial editorial board experience, and is currently an associate editor at Biometrika, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, and Journal of Machine Learning Research.

He has won numerous awards for his fundamental contributions, including notably the 2007 Mortimer Spiegelman Award for the top public health statistician under age 40, the 2010 COPSS President’s Award for the top statistician internationally under age 41, and a gold medal from the US Environmental Protection Agency for outstanding service in risk assessment.

GUILLERMO SAPIRO, PHD WHAT CAN BIG DATA ANALYTICS DO FOR ORDINARY CONSUMERS? Abstract: In this talk we will first describe some of the challenges in big data analytics. While contrary to the hype we might get from reading the popular press, we have advanced but are still far from the target. We will then describe some ongoing work

in our team with applications ranging from consumer photography to medical challenges, such as mental health screening. We will stress the use of mobile phones as the key processing unit, so it becomes truly consumer-centric. The talk is targeted to the

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FRONTIERS 2015 general audience, no background besides being curious is needed. Guillermo Sapiro is the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He received his B.Sc. summa cum laude, M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1989, 1991, and 1993, respectively. After post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became a member of technical staff at the research facilities of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he held the position of Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He works on theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, image analysis, and machine learning. He has authored

and co-authored over 300 papers in these areas, and wrote a book published by Cambridge University Press in January 2001. He was awarded the Gutwirth Scholarship for Special Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991, the Ollendorff Fellowship for Excellence in Vision and Image Understanding Work in 1992, the Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in 1993, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 1998, the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999, and the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He received the Test of Time Award at ICCV 2011. He is a fellow of IEEE and SIAM, and was the founding editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

SHAUN GITTARD RESPONDER Bio on page 12.

ANN PITRUZZELLO RESPONDER Bio on page 8.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS THOMAS KATSOULEAS, PHD SPEAKER INTRODUCTION Thomas C. Katsouleas became the Vinik Dean and Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering in July 2008. Dean Katsouleas received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty at UCLA and later at the University of Southern California, where he served as associate dean of engineering and vice provost of information technology services. His research interests include the use of plasmas as novel particle accelerators and light sources, for

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which he received the 2011 Plasma Science Achievement Award from the IEEE. During his tenure at Duke, he’s overseen significant growth in the research and graduate programs at Pratt, which has been one of the fastest-rising engineering schools in national rankings over the past five years. He also co-led the founding of the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars program for undergraduate students, which has been endorsed by the National Academy of Engineering and is currently in development at more than 65 engineering schools across the nation.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS JIM ROGERS PLENARY ADDRESS: TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES IN THE POWER INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Jim Rogers, retired chairman and CEO of Duke Energy, has served for over 25 years as a CEO in the electric utility sector. He has served more than 50 cumulative years on the boards of directors of eight Fortune 500 companies, currently serving as a board member of Cigna and Applied Materials, as well as the Asia Society, The Nature Conservancy and the Aspen Institute. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to becoming a CEO, Rogers served as deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC);

executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group; and as a partner in the Washington law office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. He has also served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC; as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky; and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Rogers earned the reputation as a “CEO Statesman.” In 2009, Newsweek magazine named him to its list of “50 Most Powerful People in the World.”

STUDENT/INDUSTRY PANEL THOMAS E. HEALY MODERATOR Thomas E. Healy is director of the Office of Corporate Relations at Duke University. Duke is committed to working in collaboration with industry to promote innovation, insight, and solutions to societal and global challenges. Prior to his position at Duke, Tom was director of External Research Strategy for Microsoft External Research. In this role, he established and supported

leading-edge academic research projects at worldwide universities. Responsibilities included managing programs, projects, events, and communications. He is originally from the Boston area, and holds a BA in education from the University of Massachusetts and an MS in organizational development from Lesley University.

ANDREW BERGER PANELIST Andrew Berger is the vice president and director of corporate operations for Parsons Corporation, headquartered in Pasadena, Calif. Parsons delivers engineering, construction, technical services, and program and construction management to federal, regional, state, and local government agencies and to private sector industrial customers worldwide. Berger holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and has over 28 years’ experience as an engineer and

manager with companies including URS, Dames & Moore Group, and Aydin Monitor Systems. He has held positions in engineering, project management, contracts, business management, finance, general management, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and human resources in businesses spanning North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia. Berger is based in Parsons’ office in Charlotte.

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FRONTIERS 2015 STEPHANIE CHALK PANELIST Stephanie Chalk is the campus manager for NetApp, a Fortune 500 company. Organizations worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems, and services to manage and store their data. Customers value NetApp’s teamwork, expertise, and passion for helping them succeed now and into the future. NetApp help enterprises and service providers envision, deploy, and evolve their IT environments. Chalk graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in communications-media with a minor in journalism. Prior to working for NetApp, she completed the Executive Leadership Program

and was an Executive Team Lead at Target. Stephanie was a university recruiter for 2.5 years at NetApp prior to becoming the campus manager for the East/Central United States. As a campus manager, she is responsible for identifying and building strategic partnerships with top academic institutions across the country. She develops and executes various programs and events aimed at promoting the NetApp brand and developing awareness of our internship and full-time university programs.

DAVID MCDONALD PANELIST David McDonald received his PhD from the Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics. While at Duke, he also participated in the Certificate in College Teaching and Preparing Future Faculty programs. He undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in the Biology Department at North Carolina Central University to gain additional teaching and research experience. Along the way, he co-founded the NCCU

Postdoc Association and developed professional development programs. Dave joined the Duke University Career Center in 2015, and counsels masters and PhD students across disciplines. His goal is to help students explore their academic and non-academic career options, identify relevant opportunities for development, prepare their application materials, practice interviewing skills, and transition to their next position.

ELI NICHOLS PANELIST Eli Nichols has eight-plus years of research and development, design, and product development experience in the medical device space, both in academics and in industry. He currently serves as director of design at EG-Gilero. EG-Gilero is a single-source, design, development and manufacturing company within the medical devices, drug delivery, and primary pharmaceutical packaging markets. He is the lead in solving tech-

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nical issues, design resolution, and providing guidance for EG-Gilero’s engineering team. In 2006, Nichols graduated from the Pratt School of Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is a 2007 graduate of Pratt’s Masters of Engineering Management Program. While at Duke he was member of the football team and a two-time Academic All-American.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS BRIAN RIDOUT PANELIST Brian Ridout is the Associate Director of Manufacturing Sciences at Biogen, a global biotechnology company specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative, hematologic, and autoimmune diseases to patients worldwide.

ogy Transfer. He recently completed the rotational program and is currently the Associate Director of Manufacturing Sciences responsible for developing and managing a new Global Project Management function within the Global Manufacturing Sciences organization.

Brian began his career with Biogen in 1999 in Manufacturing Operations and gained 12 years of experience in manufacturing managing biologics operations. In 2011 Brian embarked on a job rotation program consisting of 1.5 year rotations in each of 3 functions: Quality, Engineering and Technol-

Brian holds a BS in Biology and Biology/ Pre-Med from Appalachian State University and an MBA, Biopharma Management from North Carolina State University - College of Management.

JENN SCRIMSHAW PANELIST Jenn Scrimshaw is a senior recruiting consultant at RTI International, supporting the Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences Group. RTI’s mission is to improve the human condition by turning knowledge into practice, and Scrimshaw is thankful that for the last seven years she has had the opportunity to recruit top talent to fulfill RTI’s mission. She began her human resources and recruiting career over 12 years ago, and has experience in both

corporate and agency recruiting and HR environments. Her specialized experience is in strategic recruitment, selection, and performance management. While recruiting has always been a passion for her, she has worn several different HR hats throughout her career. She is the graduate of Elon University with a degree in corporate communications, and has lived in the area over 16 years.

DEBORAH STOKES PANELIST Deborah R. Stokes is the leader, global external research, for EMC Corporation, collaborating with universities and research institutes around the world, as part of the office of the CTO. She has served in various technology leadership positions including business development, advanced technology, product development, marketing, and operations for over 25 years in large global technology firms. She also has additional experience in the

education vertical. She serves on several local business committees and various university advisory boards. She has numerous publications in the technology management field, and has filed a patent on measuring the ROI from university investments. Stokes holds a BS in business administration, and completed her executive MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas with a focus on “Managing for Change.”

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PANEL BARRY M. MYERS, PHD MODERATOR Barry Myers is a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke and is managing director of Duke’s Office of Licensing and Ventures (OLV). As managing director, he is responsible for operations and outreach within OLV and he oversees internal and external relationships to ensure that the office is responsive to its constituencies and supports licensing opportunities. An accomplished researcher himself, he has extensive experience in commercializing early stage translational research, licensing, industrial relationships, and venture capital, making him ideally suited to assess early-stage innovation. His research examines the biomechanics of head impact neck injury, with the goal of injury prevention. He earned his MD-PhD from Duke in 1991 and an MBA from Duke in 2005. He has been a tenured member of the Duke faculty for over 20 years. He holds appointments in surgery, biological anthro-

pology and anatomy, and business administration. Dr. Myers is a Distinguished Professor at Duke, having received the Bass Chair in recognition of his accomplishments in research and teaching. He is the founding director of the Duke Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Program that provides funding and management to early-stage health care innovations from a $20 million endowment. He is also the Director of Emerging Programs in the Duke Translational Research Institute (DTRI), where he oversees the pilot funding program and manages the DTRI Consult service that assists faculty innovators. He also maintains an active consulting practice. He serves as an executive-in-residence at Pappas Ventures, advises several start-up companies, and consults for the NFL, NASCAR, and a variety of automobile manufacturers.

BRIAN LOWINGER, JD PANELIST Brian Lowinger is an Assistant Director in Duke’s Office of Research Support. His work focuses primarily on transactions and compliance issues. Regarding transactions, Brian represents Duke in negotiating agreements with potential and current sponsors. Regardless of the type and value of the agreement, Brian’s goal is to be reasonable and to ensure that each party’s interests are met, albeit within the confines of the law, Duke policy, and sound business practices. Regarding compliance, Brian focuses on staying up to date with the ever-changing law appli-

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cable to Duke, implementing Duke’s financial conflicts of interest policy, and other topics. Before moving to North Carolina, Brian practiced law in the DC-area for about 10 years. He received his J.D. from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, and received a certificate from its Institute for Communications Law Studies. Brian received his B.A. from the George Washington University. Raised in the Boston area, Brian is aware the Red Sox are not doing so well right now, but he still believes they are going to win it all.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS JESKO W. VON WINDHEIM PANELIST Jesko W. von Windheim is a technology entrepreneur who is focused primarily on early-stage innovations in the physical sciences. He has played a key role in a number of manufacturing companies based on new materials, processes and functionality. He helped form Unitive Electronics, which was later acquired by Amkor and remains a leader in its field. He was a co-founder of Cronos Integrated Microsystems, a microelectromechanical systems company. Cronos was acquired by JDS Uniphase. He was also CEO of Nextreme Thermal Solutions. He founded Nextreme in 2004 with technology acquired from RTI International and licensed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nextreme was acquired by Laird Technologies in 2012. A current project is Zenalux, which is commercializing technology developed at Duke which uses white light to measure response to therapy and diagnose disease such as cancer. He is Professor of the Practice of Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Nicholas School of the Environment, where he leads the En-

vironmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. The program is taught by a team of successful entrepreneurs and includes courses covering engineering entrepreneurship, start-up operations, finance and marketing, with a focus on engineers, scientists and technology entrepreneurs. The mission of the program is to translate challenges we face in our environment into sustainable, value-creating ventures using a combination of practice-oriented education, a disciplined start-up process, and the excellent infrastructure available within Duke. He is also involved at Duke to help promote entrepreneurship in various capacities with the Pratt School of Engineering, the Fuqua School of Business, and the Duke Global Health Institute. He holds bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and physics from McMaster University in Ontario, a master’s degree and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Guelph in Ontario, and an MBA from the KenanFlagler business school. He holds eight patents and has numerous publications in the fields of solar cell research and diamond thin-film materials.

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ABOUT THE FRONTIERS CONFERENCE Frontiers at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University is an opportunity to learn about the latest research, development, and tech transfer opportunities at Duke. In addition to research presentations, attendees have the opportunity to view research posters, talk with representatives from Duke Office of Licensing and Ventures (OLV) and meet with students working in research subject areas. #DukeFrontiers2015