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External Advisory Board
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Jerry Brasch
Founder and President
Brasch Manufacturing Company (Maryland Heights, MO)
Education
B.Sc. (1944, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
M.Sc. (1947, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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Jerry Brasch received his engineering degree from Washington University in 1944. He served in WW2 in both the Army and the Navy. He attended Washington University on the GI bill and received his masters in engineering from Washington University in 1947. He taught mathematics part time in the University College of Washington University from 1946 through 1966.
Jerry Brasch is president of Brasch Manufacturing Company, Inc., a company which he started in 1964 as a manufacturer of electric comfort heating equipment and controls for the commercial, industrial and institutional applications, and this company was later expanded to include the manufacture of gas sensors. From 1981 to 1996 Brasch also manufactured a line of custom air conditioning equipment under the trade name "Marcraft".
Jerry Brasch has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University as well as the Engineering Alumni Achievement Award and the Dean’s award from the School of Engineering. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees, the Building and Grounds Committee and Real Estate Committee for
Washington University as well as the National Council for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
In the past Jerry Brasch has served as president of the St. Louis Electrical Board, president of the local chapter of the American Technion Society and as president of his congregation.
Jerry’s primary hobby is playing the organ, primarily theatre organ type music and he is a member of the St. Louis Theatre Organ Societ
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Santanu Das
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
TranSwitch Corporation (Shelton, CT)
Education
B.Sc. (1965, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India)
M.Sc. (1968, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India)
D.Sc. (1973, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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After graduation, Dr. Das was with ITT Corporation's Advanced Technology Center in Shelton, CT, where he served as Director of Applied Technology Division. Then he held the position of President at Spectrum Digital Corporation (a telecommunications equipment company) from 1986 through August of 1988.
In 1988 he founded TranSwitch Corporation, a company which designs, develops, markets and supports highly integrated digital and mixed-signal (analog and digital) semiconductor solutions for the telecommunications and data communications markets. The Company's products are Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) semiconductor devices that provide core functionality for communications network equipment. The company is publicly traded in NASDAQ under symbol TXCC. Current market capitalization is around 2.7 billion US$.
He has authored and/or co-authored more than 25 papers in different journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. He is a frequent speaker at industry forums and has been invited to speak at major technical and non-technical functions and conferences. Dr. Das has been granted a number of patents in his field. Dr. Das is also an IEEE and ACM member.
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Group Leader of the Advanced Concepts and Technology
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Education
B.Sc. (1969, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
M.Sc. (1972, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
D.Sc. (1974, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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Before joining the Laboratory in 1976, he was with the Electronic System Laboratory of MIT in charge of a NASA project on a multiple model adaptive control system for the F-8C aircraft. At Lincoln Laboratory, he has worked in many areas of ballistic missile defense, including multiple target tracking, discrimination, and system analysis. In 1992, he was appointed to lead the System Testing and Analysis group to be responsible for the Theater Missile Defense Critical Measurements Program (TCMP) which conducted a series of live missile tests in the Pacific in the 1990s. Currently, his main interest is in the development of decision support algorithms and architectures under the Project Hercules for the Missile Defense Agency.
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Pierre Moulin
Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Professor
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Education
D.Sc. (1990, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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After graduation, he worked for five years as a Research Scientist for Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey, he joined the University of Illinois, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, faculty member in the Beckman Institute's Image Formation and Processing Group, and affiliate professor in the department of Statistics. He is also a member of the Information Trust Institute and the founding director of the new Center for Information Forensics, a multidisciplinary research center currently involving twenty colleagues.
His fields of professional interest are information theory, image and video processing, statistical signal processing and modeling, decision theory, information hiding and authentication, and the application of multiresolution signal analysis, optimization theory, and fast algorithms to these areas.
He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1996 till 1998, for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 1999 till 2002, and then as Area Editor from 2002 till 2006. He is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the new IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
He is a fellow of IEEE and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal processing Society. He has received a 1997 Career award from the National Science Foundation, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society 1997 Best Paper award in the IMDSP area. He is also co-author (with Juan Liu) of a paper that received the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2002 Young Author Best Paper award in the IMDSP area. He was selected as 2003 Beckman Associate of UIUC's Center for Advanced Study and was awarded the 2005 Sony Faculty Scholar Award. In 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2005, he was on the Dean's list of teachers rated excellent by their students.
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P.R. Kumar
Franklin W. Woeltge Professor
Dept. of Electrical And Computer Engineering
Research Professor
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Education
B.Sc. (1973, I.I.T. Madras, India)
M.Sc. (1975, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
D.Sc. (1977, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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From 1977 to 1982 he was an Assistant Professor, and from 1982 to 1984 an Associate Professor, in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Since 1985 he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
He has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, stochastic systems, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine learning, queuing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, and wafer fabrication plants. His current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks, and the convergence of control, communication and computation.
He serves as Editorial Board of many foundations and as Editor and Associate Editor of a large number of international journals. He has presented plenary lectures at international conferences (IEEE, SIAM) and he is a coauthor of the book, Stochastic Systems: Estimation, Identification and Adaptive Control, with Pravin P. Varaiya, and the monograph, Scaling Laws for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: An Information Theoretic Approach, co-authored with Feng Xue.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE since 1988, a recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council in 1985, the 2006 IEEE Field Award in Control Systems, the 2007 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, U.S.A. since 2007.
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David Schepers
Vice-President of Energy Delivery Technical Services
Ameren Corp. (St. Louis, MO)
Education
B.Sc. (1975, University of Missouri at Rolla, USA)
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He has over 31 years experience in all phases of electric utility distribution, including construction, planning, metering, and operations. Dave is past chair of the Edison Electric Institute Distribution & Metering Committee, a registered professional engineer in Missouri and Illinois, a Senior Member of IEEE, and the past president of the St. Louis Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
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Kenneth Senne
Associate Technology Officer
MIT Lincoln Lab
Education
B.Sc. (1964, Stanford University, USA)
M.Sc. (1966, Stanford University, USA)
PhD. (1968, Stanford University, USA)
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Dr. Kenneth Senne is Associate Technology Officer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Since joining the Laboratory in 1972 he has led the development of surveillance systems in several positions, including the head of the Air Defense Technology Division, which he assumed in 1998. In 2002, he became the Laboratory’s first Technology Investment Officer, with the responsibility of managing the strategic investment portfolio that includes the internal innovative research programs. In August 2006, his investment management function was integrated into the new Chief Technology Office
He earned his academic degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he conducted research on adaptive learning systems. In 2002, he was elected Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers “for contributions to the development of real-time adaptive signal processing systems for defense applications
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John Sommerer
Director
Science & Technology
Chief Technology Officer
Applied Physics Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins University
Education
B.Sc. (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) (summa cum laude)
M.Sc. (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) (with honors)
M.Sc. (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) (with honors)
Ph.D. (The University of Maryland, USA)
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Dr. Sommerer is an adjunct faculty member in the applied physics, applied mathematics, and technical management programs of the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering at JHU. He serves on APL’s Executive Council, and chairs its Science and Technology Council, charged with ensuring that the Laboratory always has the technical capabilities required to meet its mission. He has been with JHU/APL since 1980, holding technical and management positions in three of its Departments, and leading development of an APL strategic plan for its core mission areas that identified three new initiatives now accounting for 30% of APL’s program activities and 90% of APL’s program growth since 1999. He served as head of the Milton S. Eisenhower Research and Technology Center for nine years; under his leadership, it more than tripled in size, and enabled APL to enter two new areas of service to the Nation.
He serves on multiple standing technical advisory bodies for the US Government including the Naval Research Advisory Panel (including a two-year term as Vice Chair), reporting to the Secretary of the Navy, the National Academies Standing Committee on S&T and Acquisition Options for the US Special Operations Command, the National Academies Standing Committee advising the Joint IED Defeat Organization, and the National Academies Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (for which he chairs the Panel on Survivability and Lethality Assessment). He has also participated in numerous
He has received a number of awards, including being named Maryland’s Distinguished Young Scientist in 1994.
ad hoc National Academies studies, notably including the Committee on Criteria for Management of Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories. He was an Advisor to the Howard County, Maryland new business incubator, NeoTech, during its formation and he served as a Director of the Jim Rouse Entrepreneurial Fund. |
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Greg Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer
Global Velocity Inc. (Clayton, MO)
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Greg Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Global Velocity, Inc. - Mr.
Sullivan is responsible
for all aspects of the Company's strategy and growth. Greg was
previously Founder and Chief Executive Officer of technology consulting
firm G. A. Sullivan. Based in St. Louis for over 20 years, Mr. Sullivan
is a
noted business professional within the United States having been
acknowledged for the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 1999
United States National Small Business Person of the Year, placement on
the Inc. 500 list of "fastest growing private companies in America" and
inclusion in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500 list of "fastest
growing technology companies in the United States", and is a
pillar within the local community.
Among his civic accomplishments are serving as Vice Chairman of Science
and Technology for the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth
Association and leading an effort to advance the region's
technology-based economy through Technology Gateway, for which he was
the founding chair.
Mr. Sullivan graduated from Washington University School of Engineering
and Applied Science in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Systems
Science and Mathematics, and is the 1995 recipient of the school's Young
Alumni Achievement Award and a 2005 Alumni Achievement honoree.
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For questions or comments regarding information on this page, contact David Goodbary.
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive, Box 1127, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Office Location: Bryan 201, Phone: (314) 935-5565, Fax: (314) 935-7500 |
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