Zhou Ji

President, Chinese Academy of Engineering

ZHOU Ji, specialized in mechanical engineering, graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970 and received PhD degree from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984. He is a professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Dr. Zhou successively served the posts as President of HUST, Director-General of the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Mayor of Wuhan city, and Minister of Education.

During his professional career, Dr. Zhou was actively involved in research and development of Optimal Design, Computer Aided Design, and Numerical Control technology. He advanced the algorithm of direct interpolation for NC machining and the algorithm of monotonism analysis for optimization. He and his team developed a series of NC equipments and software packages on mechanical CAD, which has been widely used in various industries like machinery, aeronautics, astronautics and energy. Dr. Zhou has got 12 books and over 200 papers published and was honored several times with the State Award for Science and Technology Progress.

Dr. Zhou is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). Also he is a Foreign Member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE/US), Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).

C.D.(Dan)Mote Jr.

President, National Academy of Engineering

C. D. Mote, Jr. is President of the National Academy of Engineering. His science policy work includes serving on the committee that authored the National Academies’ “Rising above the Gathering Storm” report and chairing the committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on the U.S. National Security that published the report “S&T Strategies of Six Countries” among others.

He is internationally recognized for his research on the dynamics of gyroscopic systems and the biomechanics of snow skiing. He has produced more than 300 publications and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is the 2005 recipient of the Founders Award from the National Academy of Engineering and the 2011 recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Medal in recognition of his comprehensive body of work on the dynamics of moving flexible structures and his leadership in academia. He served as President of the University of Maryland for 12 years and on the University of California, Berkeley faculty for 31 years where he held an endowed chair in Mechanical Systems, was Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and served as Vice Chancellor.

Wang Yupu

Chairman of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group)

Wang Yupu，Chairman of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group), Secretary of the Party Committee of China Petrochemical Corporation.Mr. Wang Yupu is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in development projects of oil and gas fields. He graduated from the Faculty of Quarry Machinery, Daqing Petroleum Institute in 1982, and received a doctoral degree in oil and gas field development from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 2003. Mr. Wang served as Chief Engineer at the Development Department of Daqing Petroleum Administration, Deputy Chief Engineer, President and Chairman of Daqing Oilfield Co., Ltd., Vice Governor of Heilongjiang Province, Vice Chairman, First Secretary of Secretariat and Secretary of Leading Party Members’ Group at All China Federation of Trade Unions and Deputy Secretary of Leading Party Members’ Group and Vice President (ministerial level) at Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also Alternate Member of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee and Member of the Eighteenth CPC Central Committee.

Jack Ma

Plenary Speaker

Jack Ma is our lead founder and, since May 2013, has served as our executive chairman. From our founding in 1999 until May 2013, Jack served as our chairman and chief executive officer.

Jack currently serves on the board of SoftBank Corp., one of our major shareholders and a Japanese corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He is also chair of The Nature Conservancy's China board of directors and a member of its global board of directors. In September 2013, he joined the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation as a director. In August 2014, Jack was elected to the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.

Jack graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute with a major in English language education.

Charles O. Holiday

She is professor and member of international scientific advisory board of Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, nominated and supported by Ministry of Education/Ministry of HealthHer interests are in research on molecular virology and immunology of hepatitis B virus, and microbial functional genomics. She is a pioneer in developing translational medical research, working on an innovative therapeutic vaccine for chronic hepatitis B patients which is under phase III clinical trial. She has .published 260 articles home and abroad, and was awarded Excellence Award in Recognition of outstanding contribution in Medical Virology by the Asian Pacific Society for Medical Microbiology (2006) and was awarded Honorary Doctorate by University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany (2009).

Recently, she has been promoting research and practice of medical sciences for the aging populationt. She was elected member of CAE in 1999.

Andrew K.C. Chan

Plenary Speaker

Dr Andrew Chan has had a long career with, and is now Chairman of Trustees’ Board of the global Arup Group, one of the world’s foremost multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy firms. The firm is the creative force behind many of the world’s most celebrated buildings and infrastructure facilities, and is one of the prominent leaders in shaping future cities. Prior to his present appointment, Dr Chan was Deputy Chairman of Arup Group, and before then, Chairman of Arup’s East Asia Region and of the Hong Kong office.

He is a Past President and Gold Medallist of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Building Council, Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fellow and Senior Vice President of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.

Dr Chan has practised civil engineering for 40 years, and has led and been involved in many innovative and award-winning projects across the Asian region. In recent years, Dr Chan has been active in promotion of the engineers’ leadership role in sustainability and a low carbon future for cities.

Chen Jining

"Sustainability" Session Chair

Born in 1964, Dr. Chen Jining is Professor of Environmental System Analysis. He became a student in Tsinghua University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1981, obtained his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua in 1986 and his Ph.D degree from Imperial College London, UK in 1993. He worked as a research associate at Imperial College London in 1994. He joined Tsinghua University in 1998 as Vice Dean of the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering and became Dean of the Department in 1999. Dr. Chen was appointed as Tsinghua University Vice President in 2006, Deputy President in 2007, and President in January 2012. He became Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Ministry of Environmental Protection in January 2015. Dr. Chen was appointed as Minister of Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China in February 2015.

Dr. Chen’s research interests include environmental system analysis and integrated assessment, with focus on uncertainty analysis, applied to environmental engineering, planning and management as well as policies. He has published over 200 papers and has been an author or co-editor to a number of books. He is an owner to over a dozen of registered environmental software and patents, and has won several scientific prizes for his distinguished work.

Qian Yi

"Sustainability" Session Speaker

Qian Yi (1936-)， a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. She joined the faculty at Tsinghua University in 1959. Qian is a professor in the School of Environment. She had been the Chiarperson of The Academic Committee of Tsinghua University, the director of State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control,Vice Chairman of the Committee of Environment and Resources, The National People’s Congress, The Vice President of Chinese Association of Science and Technology, The Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations and a member of the Standing Committee of the International Council for Science.

Robert Socolow

"Sustainability" Session Speaker

Robert Socolow is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University, where he was on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) for 42 years. Socolow’s current research focuses on the characteristics of a global energy system responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. His specific areas of interest include global carbon management, carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a twenty-year (2001-2020) project, supported by BP. He teaches a graduate course in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS), co-listed in MAE.

Socolow was the chair of the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society (APS) and the co-chair of the APS study: Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals. He was a member of the National Academies’ Committee on America's Climate Choices and its Committee on America’s Energy Future.

Socolow serves on the Advisory Board of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the Editorial Board of Energy and Environmental Science, and the Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisory Board. He was the editor of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1992-2002.

Among Socolow’s recent awards are the the 2010 Leadership in the Environment Award from Keystone Center; the 2009 Frank Kreith Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the 2005 Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award (for “outstanding research in global carbon management and the hydrogen economy”) from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden (IVA) and the Axel Axelson Johnson Endowment; and the 2003 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (“for leadership in establishing energy and environmental problems as legitimate research fields for physicists, and for demonstrating that these broadly defined problems can be addressed with the highest scientific standards”) from the American Physical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has most recently been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as part of its 2014 class.

Socolow has a B.A. (summa cum laude, 1959) and a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics (l964) from Harvard University. He was an assistant professor of physics at Yale University from l966 to l97l.

Keith Clarke, CBE

"Sustainability" Session Speaker

Keith trained as an architect in Brighton and received a Masters degree in Urban Planning from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He worked for the New York City government in economic development, primarily on low income and minority employment issues.

After ten years, Keith returned to the UK to work for Olympia & York as VP Planning on Phase 2 of Canary Wharf and Heron Quay.

In 1992 Keith joined Trafalgar House to run their construction companies worldwide.

In 1996, Trafalgar House was taken over by Kvaerner and Keith continued to work for them as a senior executive team member responsible for construction activities in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, China and the Middle East.

In 2000 Kvaerner Construction was acquired by Skanska AB and Keith took on the role of Executive Vice President within company’s Senior Executive Team taking responsibility for all the business activities of Skanska in the UK, Poland and the Czech Republic.

In 2003, Keith joined WS Atkins, as Chief Executive, retiring in August 2011.

Keith was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list 2011 for services to the engineering and construction industry.

Today he continues to use the experience he has gained during a career spanning over 40 years to work with a number of businesses and organisations in a non-executive or advisory position. Current positions include:

Xu Kuangdi

"Infrastructure" Session Chair

Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) serves as Vice Chairman of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, President of China-US People’s Friendship Association, Honorary Chairman of the Governing Board of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Honorary President of the Chinese Federation of Industrial Economics. During 1995-2001 he served as Mayor of Shanghai People’s Municipal Government. He was also Vice Chairman of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Mr. XU Kuangdi has long been engaged in education in higher learning institutions and was among the first group of Outstanding Experts Recognized by the State Council. He has published over 120 academic papers and 7 books.

Mr. Xu was elected Foreign Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEeng), UK, Foreign Member of Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Foreign Member of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US, Foreign Member of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Russian Federation (AES RF), and Foreign Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Pan Yunhe

"Infrastructure" Session Speaker

Pan Yunhe was born on 4 November, 1946 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Department of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai in 1970. After graduating as master of Computer Science in Zhejiang University, he served there as a professor, chairman of computer science & engineering department, and directors of artificial intelligence institute and industrial design institute of Zhejiang University.

From May 1995 to August 2006, he served as the president of Zhejiang University. From June 2006 to June 2014, he served as the executive vice president of Chinese Academy of Engineering (ministerial level). He is also a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of China’s State Council, the consultant of the China Association for Science and Technology, the honorary director-general of China Image and Graphics Association.

Pan Yunhe is one of the pioneers in the field of intelligent CAD and computer arts. He has been engaged in computer graphics, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and industrial design research for a long time. He has undertaken many important research projects, and achieved serious important research results in the fields of computer art, intelligent CAD, digital heritage preservation, and digital libraries, which had won several national, provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological awards. He has published many articles.

Pan Yunhe was elected as the member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1997.

Doris Sung

"Infrastructure" Session Speaker

DOSU Studio Architecture is an award-winning firm that specializes in innovative building practices, both domestically and internationally. Upon opening its doors in 1999, clients interested in unusual design sought proposals and installations that would differentiate their commercial space from others. Dot.com and marketing companies became ideal laboratories for testing new and innovative designs and details, later receiving several AIA and ASID awards.

In 2001, Doris Sung, principal of DOSU, was awarded the AIA's prestigious Young-Architect-of-the-Year award. The same year the office opened its Los Angeles branch and expanded its repertoire to include public art, monuments, hospitality design and material research. Over time, the firm has focused more on research and bringing active systems to sustainable design far beyond the simple "greening" of a building. With the belief that buildings can be more sensitive to the changing environment and the human body, DOSU seeks ways to make the building skin dynamic and change our traditional perception of facades. Through grant-funded research, DOSU is developing smart materials, such as thermobimetals, to self-ventilate, to sun-shade and to pre-tension surfaces in response to changes in temperatures--all with zero-energy and no controls.

Doris Sung, principal of DOSU, graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Architecture and from Columbia University with a M.Arch. degree. She worked in Boston at Walter Gropius' firm, The Architectural Collaborative, before completing her internship in Washington, D.C. She has taught at the Catholic University of America, University of Colorado, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and University of Southern California (USC), where she is presently. She lectures and exhibits internationally.

Wen Yumei

"Health" Session Speaker

Yu-Mei Wen MD graduated from Shanghai First Medical College, was a WHO fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Fogarty visiting scholar at NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA. She is professor and member of international scientific advisory board of Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, nominated and supported by Ministry of Education/Ministry of HealthHer interests are in research on molecular virology and immunology of hepatitis B virus, and microbial functional genomics.

She is a pioneer in developing translational medical research, working on an innovative therapeutic vaccine for chronic hepatitis B patients which is under phase III clinical trial. She has .published 260 articles home and abroad, and was awarded Excellence Award in Recognition of outstanding contribution in Medical Virology by the Asian Pacific Society for Medical Microbiology (2006) and was awarded Honorary Doctorate by University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany (2009). Recently, she has been promoting research and practice of medical sciences for the aging populationt. She was elected member of CAE in 1999.

Molly Coye

"Health" Session Speaker

Dr. Molly Joel Coye is Social Entrepreneur in Residence for the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), a nonprofit national health policy institute focused on advancing high-value innovations.

From 2010 – 2015, Dr. Coye was the Chief Innovation Officer for UCLA Health, heading the Institute for Innovation in Health and the Global Lab for Innovation. Dr. Coye was previously the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a non-profit education and research organization established in 2000 that became the premier forecasting organization for emerging technologies in healthcare, as well as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey, Director of the California State Department of Health Services, and Head of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Coye is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and of the board of directors for Aetna, Inc., Prosetta Biosciences, Inc., Big White Wall, and ACCESS Health International. She previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors for PATH, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in global health, and on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the American Telemedicine Association, the American Public Health Association, and the China Medical Board.

Dr. Coye holds MD and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Asian History from Stanford University.

FU Chengyu

"Energy" Session Chair

Mr. Fu Chengyu is standing member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. He is former Chairman of China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC Group) and former Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC Corporation).Before joining SINOPEC in 2011, he was Chairman & CEO of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). He is also a member of the UN Global Compact Board and Chairman of Global Compact Network China Board.

Mr. Fu has 40 years of experience in the petroleum industry and earned quite some recognition in the industry. He was listed among “Most Influential People” by Time magazine in 2005, and awarded “Most Influential Business Leader in China” by Fortune in 2008 and “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review in 2009. In 2011, he was named “Executive to Watch in 2012” by Wall Street Journal, and “Businessperson of the Year” by Fortune. In 2012, he was elected “Petroleum Executive of Year 2012” by the Energy Intelligence Group. He received the “South-South and Triangular Cooperation Champion 2013” award by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, and the “Legend in Leadership” award by Yale School of Management in 2013.

Mr. Fu graduated from China’s Northeast Petroleum Institute in 1975 and received a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, USA in 1986.

Xue Yusheng

"Energy" Session Speaker

Professor Yusheng XUE was elected an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He is now the Honorary President of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute (SGEPRI), China. He holds the positions of Adjunct Professor in many universities in China, as well as Chairman of Technical Committee of Chinese National Committee of CIGRE since 2005.

He is one of the leading experts in the area of power system stability analysis and control. The Complementary–Cluster Energy–Barrier Criterion (CCEBC) developed by him is a rigorous theory and quantitative method for general motion stability of non-conservative and non-autonomous systems. The Extended Equal–Area Criterion (EEAC) for power system stability is just such an example. The outstanding performances of EEAC have been demonstrated by on–line operation records in many EMS environments all over the world. Based on EEAC，the so-called Wide ARea Monitoring Analysis Protection-control (WARMAP) system has been served in East China Power Grid since December 2006, which is the first blackout defense system in the world.

So far, WARMAP has been implemented and put into daily services in the dispatching and communication centers of State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, East China Power Grid and many provincial power grids of China, covering 4/5 Chinese territory.

Arun Majumdar

"Energy" Session Speaker

ArunMajumdar is the Jay PrecourtProvostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Prior to joining Stanford, he was the vice president for energy at Google, where he created several energy technology initiatives and advised the company on its broader energy strategy. He continues to be a consultant to Google on energy.

In October 2009, Dr. ArunMajumdar was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to become the founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), where he served till June 2012. Between March 2011 and June 2012, Dr. Majumdar also served as the Acting Under Secretary of Energy, and a senior advisor to the Secretary of Energy.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Dr. Majumdar was the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the associate laboratory director for energy and environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research career includes the science and engineering of nanoscale materials and devices as well as large engineered systems.

Dr. Majumdar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He currently serves on the US Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board, the Council for the National Academy of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute, as well as the Science Board of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel for Energy of the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry and the US delegation for the US-India Track II dialogue on climate change and energy.

Cheng Jing

"Joy of Living" Session Speaker

Cheung Kong Professor at Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Director of National Engineering Research Center for Beijing Biochip Technology, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering，Member of the InternationaI Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia and National “Thousand Talents” Distinguished Professor.

Dr. Cheng received his Ph.D. degree in Forensic Sciences from the University of Strathclyde (UK) in 1992. He has been engaged and made great achievements in biotechnology researches related to both basic and clinical medicine, especially in the field of biochip technology. He has established series of biochip-based molecular typing systems for disease prevention, diagnosis and prognosis; and developed a variety of biochips for the analysis of genes, proteins and cells. Some of these chips have been certified by the Chinese Food and Drug Administration and applied in the hospital. Additionally, he has been responsible in developing and manufacturing a full line of instruments for biochips.

Dr. Cheng published 124 peer-reviewed papers, edited 8 books, and obtained 42 European and US patents. He received many awards including the National Awards for Technological Innovation.

G.Wayne Clough, Ph.D., P.E.

"Joy of Living" Session Chair

Wayne Clough served as the 10thPresident of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2008 — the first alumnus to do so — and as the 12thSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 2008 to 2014.

Clough earned his bachelor’s and his master’s degrees from Georgia Tech, and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Clough was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He has received honorary doctorates from 12institutions.

Georgia Tech’s national rankings rose into the top 10 among public universities during Clough’s tenure. The student population increased from 13,000 to 19,000, and funding for external research more than doubled. The Institute embarked upon two successful national fundraising campaigns andClough also oversaw more than a billion dollars in campus construction and improvements.

Clough’s tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian was marked by a number of firsts includinga national fundraising campaign, a national branding campaign, an institution-wide commitment to sustainability, and laying the framework for the Digital Smithsonian.More than $1 billion in philanthropic gifts were raised,and, he also presided over more than a billion dollars in renovations and new construction.

A native of Georgia, Cloughhas taught at Duke, Stanford and Virginia Tech, where he served as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering. He also served as Provost and Vice President of the University of Washington.

WU Qidi

"Education" Session Speaker

Madame WU Qidi is concurrently professor of Tongji University, director of Center for Engineering Education of Tsinghua University, chairperson of National Accreditation Committee of Engineering Education, director of Department of Management Sciences of NSFC, member of National Education Advisory Committee and Education Committee of CAE. She served as Vice Minister of Education, President of Tongji University, member of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress.

Madame WU received her PhD in Engineering from Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Switzerland, MA and BA from Tsinghua University. Her major research interests are control theory, electrical engineering and engineering management, published several books and more than 100 papers. She received many awards including Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Richard Miller

"Education" Session Chair

Richard K. Miller was appointed President and first employee of Olin College of Engineering in 1999. He served as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa from 1992-99.

The previous 17 years were spent on the Engineering faculty at USC in Los Angeles and UCSB in Santa Barbara. With a background in applied mechanics and current interests in innovation in higher education, Miller is the author of more than 100 reviewed journal articles and other technical publications. Together with two Olin colleagues, he received the 2013 Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.

A member of both the NAE and the National Academy of Inventors, he received the Marlowe Award for creative and distinguished administrative leadership from the American Society for Engineering Education in 2011. Miller served as Chair of the Engineering Advisory Committee of the U.S. National Science Foundation and has served on advisory boards and committees for Harvard University, Stanford University, the NAE and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in addition to others. Furthermore, he has served as a consultant to the World Bank in the establishment of new universities.

A frequent speaker on engineering education, he received the 2002 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the University of California at Davis, where he earned his B.S. He earned his M.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he received the 2014 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dean Kamen

"Education" Session Speaker

Dean Kamenis an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined—his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology's virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States.

As an inventor, he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. While still a college undergraduate, he invented the first wearable infusion pump, which rapidly gained acceptance from such diverse medical specialties as chemotherapy, neonatology, and endocrinology. In 1976, he founded his first medical device company, AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the pumps. At age 30, he sold that company to Baxter Healthcare Corporation. By then, he had added a number of other infusion devices, including the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics.

Following the sale of AutoSyringe, Inc., he founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop internally generated inventions as well as to provide research and development for major corporate clients. Kamen led DEKA's development of the HomeChoice™ peritoneal dialysis system for Baxter International Inc. The HomeChoice™ system allows patients to be dialyzed in the privacy and comfort of their home and quickly became the worldwide market leader. Kamen also led the development of technology to improve slide preparation for the CYTYC (now Hologic Inc.) ThinPrep® Pap Test. Kamen-led DEKA teams have also developed critical components of the UVAR™ XTS™ System, an extracorporeal photophereisis device marketed by Therakos, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, for treatment of T-Cell lymphoma. An advanced prosthetic arm in development for DARPA should advance the quality of life for returning injured soldiers. Other notable developments include the Hydroflex™ surgical irrigation pump for C.R. Bard, the Crown™ stent, an improvement to the original Palmaz-Schatz stent, for Johnson & Johnson, the iBOT™ mobility device, and the Segway® Human Transporter.

Kamen has received many awards for his efforts. Notably, Kamen was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2000. Presented by President Clinton, this award was in recognition for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology. Kamen was also awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1997.

In addition to DEKA, one of Dean's proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use and enjoy science and technology. Founded in 1989, this year FIRST will serve more than 300,000 young people, ages 6 to 18, in more than 50 countries around the globe. High-school-aged participants are eligible to apply for more than $15 million in scholarships from leading colleges, universities, and corporations. Studies have shown that FIRST alumni are highly motivated to pursue careers in science and engineering, thus fulfilling Dean's goal of inspiring the next generation of technological leaders.

Keoki Jackson

"Security" Session Chair

Dr. Jackson’s previous roles at Lockheed Martin include vice president for Navigation Systems and program manager for Global Positioning System (GPS) III at Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems business. In this role, he was responsible for GPS III development and production, on-orbit operations and sustainment support for the GPS IIR and IIR-M constellation, and capture of future Navigation Systems business. He also served as program manager for Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Space Vehicle 2 (GEO-2).

Before joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Jackson was a NASA research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), conducting Space Shuttle flight experiments in the field of human adaptation to the space environment. He graduated from MIT with bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and he is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Jackson is a member of Sigma Xi and the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Helen Atkinson RAEng

"Education" Session Speaker

Helen was made CBE in the New Year’s Honours2014 for services to Engineering and Education. She is Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester and has just been elected for a second term as a trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She chairs the Standing Committee on Education and Training for the Academy and previously served as a Vice President. In 2011, she was elected the first woman President of the Engineering Professors’ Council in its fifty year history, the body which represents engineering in higher education throughout the UK.

Professor Atkinson has a first class degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Cambridge, a PhD from Imperial and an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège in Belgium. She is a Visiting Professor at Arts et Métier ParisTech (one of the French GrandsÉcoles universities), at the General Research Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals in Beijing and at the North Western Polytechnical University in Xi’an. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering – the highest honour for an engineer in the UK. Professor Atkinson is also a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. She has served on the body governing the British Transport Police and the Lord Chancellor’s Committee on Appointment of Magistrates.

Du Xiangwan

"Security" Session Speaker

Prof. Du Xiangwan, specializing in applied nuclear physics, laser technology and energy research.

Prof. Du was born on Apr. 29, 1938 in Nanyang, Henan Province, China. He graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute of the Soviet Union in 1964. He was vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), research fellow and senior scientific advisor of China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) and honorary member of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). He was in charge of systematic research on diagnostic theory of nuclear tests and neutron physics of nuclear weapon. He served as a chief scientist in China’s new power laser research and drove China’s several new types of power laser technologies such as chemical oxygen-iodine laser to reach the world’s most advanced levels.

He has been director of the committee of experts in the field of advanced defense technology of the 863 Program since 2001. He was honored with one top prize, one first prize and two second prizes of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress and dozens of ministry- and commission-level first and second prizes. He won the Ho Leung Ho Lee science & Technology Progress Award in 2000.

Prof. Du was elected member of CAE in 1997 and foreign member of Russia Academy of Engineering Science in 2006. He has been vice president of CAE since 2002 and has played a leading role in the consulting work on China’s energy development strategy such as Research on China 2020 Renewable Energy Development Strategy, Research on China Energy Medium and Long Term (2030, 2050) Development Strategy and Re-consideration of Nuclear Energy Development, etc. He is currently the deputy head, National Energy Expert Advisory Committee.

Prof. Du has participated in addressing climate change. He has been in charge of the study of scientific and technologic issues concerning addressing climate change. He is currently chairman of the National Expert Committee of Climate Change. He was advisor of Chinese Delegation to COP UNFCCC at Copenhagen, Durban, Doha, Cancun and Warsaw, where he elaborated on efforts China needs to make in carbon intensity reduction and presented China’s determination in active commitment and achievement of goals in terms of energy.

Marcia MuNutt

"Security" Session Speaker

Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist who is the nineteenth editor-in-chief of Science. Prior to joining Science, she served as the fifteenth director of the USGeological Surveyfrom 2009 to 2013 as one of a group of accomplished scientists who populated top government posts as part of President Obama’s “dream team.” During her tenure, the USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

McNutt has also served as president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), in Moss Landing, CA. During her time at MBARI, the institution became a leader in developing biological and chemical sensors for remote ocean deployment, installed the first deep-sea cabled observatory in US waters, and advanced the integration of artificial intelligence into autonomous underwater vehicles for complex undersea missions. McNutt began her faculty career at MIT where she became the Griswold Professor of Geophysics and served as Director of the Joint Program in Oceanography & Applied Ocean Science& Engineering, offered by MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her own research area is the dynamics of the upper mantle and lithosphere on geologic time scales, work that has taken her to distant continents and oceans for field observations. She is a veteran of more than a dozen deep-sea expeditions, more than half of which she has served as chief scientist or co-chief scientist.

McNutt’s honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also holds honorary doctoral degrees from Colorado College, University of Minnesota, Monmouth University, and Colorado School of Mines. She was awarded the Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union in 1988 for research accomplishments by a young scientist and the Maurice Ewing Medal in 2007 for her significant contributions to deep-sea exploration.The US Coast Guard awarded her their Meritorious Service Medal, the noncombat equivalent to the Bronze Star, for her work on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She earned a BA in Physics from Colorado College and a PhD in Earth Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Marie O'Neill

"Security" Session Speaker

Professor Máire O’Neill is currently Technical Director of Data Security Systems at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen’s University Belfast. She previously held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship and was a former holder of a Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship. She has received numerous awards for her research work which include a 2014 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and British Female Inventor of the Year 2007. She has authored two research books and has over 115 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications. She has also had success in commercialising her research work. Her research into high-speed AES security was successfully commercialised by Amphion Semiconductors and collaborative research with ETRI on a novel security architecture for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging systems was licensed by LG-CNS. She an IEEE Circuits & Systems for Communications (CASCOM) Technical committee member. She is a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering, a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IET and IACR.
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