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Committee Member Biographies

TED F. BOWLDS (U.S. Air Force, retired), Co-Chair, is an independent consultant and most recently served as the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technology officer (CTO) for IAI North America. During his 36-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he led multiple large-scale, complex procurement activities. As Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), he was responsible for the diverse research undertaken by AFRL, which spanned across microelectronics, human factors, medical, aeronautics, computers, satellites, and power generation. His last assignment on active duty was as the Commander of the Electronic Systems Center and Program Executive Officer for Air Force information technology procurements, applications, and systems. He currently serves as a member of the Mississippi State Research Technology Advisory Group, the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Systems Engineering Research Council, and previously served as a member on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Air Force Studies Board. Lt Gen Bowlds holds an MS in electrical engineering, an MS in engineering management, and a PhD in systems engineering.

PAUL D. NIELSEN (NAE) (U.S. Air Force, retired), Co-Chair, is the director and CEO of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI), which develops and transitions technologies in software architecture, integration and interoperability, cybersecurity, process improvement, real-time systems, and systems engineering related to software engineering or artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Prior to joining SEI, Dr. Nielsen served in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a Major

General. In his final assignment, Dr. Nielsen was the commander of AFRL and the Technology Executive Officer for the U.S. Air Force from 2000 to 2004. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He is a past president of AIAA and served on the Defense Science Board and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Nielsen received a PhD and an MS in applied science from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from the University of New Mexico.

JILL CRISMAN is the vice president and executive director of the Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI) at UL Research Institutes. Before joining UL Research Institutes, Dr. Crisman was the principal director for AI/ML Modernization in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), the chief scientist for DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), and the chief scientist at Next Century Corp. At JAIC and within OUSD(R&E), she worked to help modernize DoD for both agile software and AI systems. She also served as a program manager for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and was a founding faculty member of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Throughout her career, she worked on numerous computer vision applications including robotic navigation, satellite image understanding, 3D reconstruction from video, and tracking objects through multi-view surveillance video. Dr. Crisman earned her PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where, for her thesis, she created some of the first computer vision perception algorithms for self-driving cars.

DANIEL A. DELAURENTIS is the executive vice president for research and the Bruce Reese Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His charge in research is via the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace, which he directs, working with faculty colleagues and students to research problem formulation, modeling, design, and system engineering methods for aerospace systems and systems-of-systems. Dr. DeLaurentis also serves as the chief scientist of DoD’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) University Affiliated Research Center, working to understand the systems engineering research needs of the defense community and translate that to research programs that are then mapped to the nation’s best researchers and students in the SERC network of 25 universities. He is a senior research fellow at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, a Fellow of INCOSE and was recently elected a Fellow of AIAA. Dr. DeLaurentis earned his BS in aerospace engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He is also a current member of the National Academies’ Air Force Studies Board.

TOMMER R. ENDER is the interim director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the senior vice president for Georgia Tech. As the interim director of GTRI, Dr. Ender leads more than 3,000 employees conducting $964 million in research across a variety of disciplines, including autonomous systems, cybersecurity, electromagnetics, electronic warfare, modeling and simulation, sensors, systems engineering, test and evaluation, and threat systems. As the interim senior vice president of Georgia Tech, Dr. Ender serves on the President’s Cabinet setting operational and strategic direction for the university. Dr. Ender is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). He is a senior member of IEEE and active member of INCOSE, the National Defense Industrial Association, and the Military Operations Research Society, regularly publishing with those organizations. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech.

VIJAY N. GADEPALLY is a senior scientist and principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, a visiting scientist with MIT Connection Science, and works closely with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is also the CTO of Radium Cloud, a company focused on providing high-performance cloud computing for AI workloads, and advises two early-stage, venture-backed startups, Chicory.ai and Davinci3. Dr. Gadepally’s research interests include high-performance computing, AI, high-performance databases and environmentally friendly computing. In 2017, he was named to the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association’s inaugural 40 under 40 list and was awarded MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Early Career Technical Achievement Award. In 2011, Dr. Gadepally received an Outstanding Graduate Student Award at The Ohio State University. He holds an MS and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University and a BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

PRISCILLA E. GUTHRIE is a Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). She rejoined IDA after serving as the Special Command Advisor, Cyber Security/Information Technology/Information Assurance for U.S. Cyber Command. Prior to that, she was a vice president at ViaSat, Inc. In 2009, she was confirmed by the Senate as the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer. She was the director of the Information Technology and Systems Division at IDA, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Deputy Chief Information Officer). Before moving to the Pentagon, Ms. Guthrie was a vice president at TRW Inc., where she worked in and led businesses in defense and intelligence, automotive, and information technology. She supports various advisory groups for DoD in the areas of systems engineering, cybersecurity and information technology, including the Defense Sci-

ence Board and the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group. She has an MBA from Marymount College and a BSEE from Penn State.

AZAD M. MADNI (NAE) is a university professor of astronautics, aerospace and mechanical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds the Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O’Green Chair in Engineering and is the executive director of USC’s Systems Architecting and Engineering Program. He is also the founder and CEO of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., an aerospace and defense research and development (R&D) company. His key areas of research include digital twin–enabled, model-based systems engineering and augmented intelligence in human–AI teaming. Dr. Madni has conducted Air Force R&D for more than 40 years in intelligent planning, decision aiding, and distributed simulation technologies. He is a recipient of the 2023 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a recipient of the 2023 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for pioneering contributions to systems engineering and systems science. He is an Honorary Fellow of AIAA, Honorary Member of ASME, Life Fellow of INCOSE and recipient of the INCOSE Pioneer and Founders Awards. He is the author of Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyperconnected World (Springer, 2018) and co-author of Deep Learning: Design, Development and Deployment (Springer, 2023). He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Model-Based Systems Engineering (Springer, 2023). He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a graduate of AEA/Stanford Executive Institute.

BRIAN E.A. MAUE is a principal and transformation architect at TiER1 Performance Consulting, where he focuses on designing and activating strategies to enhance performance at the team and organizational levels. Previously, he was the co-founder and startup years leader of AFWERX. During his tenure, Dr. Maue’s team turned the Pentagon idea of AFWERX into an actual organization that Fast Company ranked as #16 in the world as a “Best Workplace for Innovators” out of the 865 organizations evaluated in the year 2020. During that time, AFWERX held innovation challenges to advance the digital integration of multi-domain operations and Joint All Domain Command and Control capabilities. Dr. Maue has studied and applied human behavior and performance insights within military and civilian organizations, informed by formal education and research as well as lifelong study of spiritual and philosophical traditions. His areas of interest include design thinking, strategy, economics, politics, ethics, and history. He earned a BS in political science pre-law and an MBA in leadership and change management at Michigan State University. He earned his PhD in policy analysis from RAND.

LAURA J. MCGILL (NAE) is the laboratories director and CTO at Sandia National Laboratories, where she leads nuclear weapons modernization, stockpile programs, and systems integration. She previously served as the deputy vice president of engineering at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, where she directed the work of 15,000 engineers and scientists. Prior to that, she was the vice president of engineering for Raytheon Missile Systems, leading 7,800 engineers and scientists developing and producing weapons for the U.S. military and DoD. Ms. McGill was responsible for systems performance, technical execution, test and flight operations, technology investment, engineering career development, and capital investments. She also served as the chief engineer of a $2 billion Air Warfare Systems portfolio, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, air-to-air combat systems, and precision strike weapons. Ms. McGill was elected the president of AIAA in 2022 and inducted into the NAE in 2019. She was named a Raytheon Principal Fellow in 2010 and elected as a Lifetime Fellow of AIAA in 2007. She serves on the National Nuclear Security Administration Advisory Committee. Ms. McGill earned her BS in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Washington and her MS in aerospace systems from West Coast University. She is a current member of the National Academies’ Air Force Studies Board.

OLIVIA J. PINON FISCHER is a principal research engineer within the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, where she serves as the chief of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory’s Digital Engineering Division. In her current position, Dr. Pinon Fischer leads pivotal research efforts in close collaboration with government and industry experts, bringing together advancements in modeling, data management, and analytical capabilities to address challenges related to both complex engineering systems and socio-cyber-physical systems. She also manages multi-disciplinary research teams in the fields of digital engineering, digital twins, digital thread and digital ecosystems, model-based systems engineering, and machine learning/AI. Dr. Pinon Fischer is a recipient of the Georgia Tech EVPR Institute Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Impact. She is also an associate fellow of AIAA and the chair of AIAA’s Digital Engineering Integration Committee. She also serves as the co-chair of the NATO Science and Technology Organization Applied Vehicle Technology Certification by Analysis Technical Activity and is a member of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences Programme Committee. Dr. Pinon Fischer holds MS degrees in a variety of engineering fields and a PhD in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech.

WILLIAM L. SCHERLIS is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a special advisor to the Software Engineering Institute. He recently served as the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Innovation Office, leading program managers in the development of

programs in cybersecurity, AI, secure software, and information operations. At Carnegie Mellon he served for more than a decade as the head of the Software and Societal Systems Department, which hosts research and educational programs related to software development, security and privacy, IoT and mobility, AI engineering, social network analysis, and related topics. He also served as the program chair for a number of technical conferences including Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Foundations of Software Engineering and ACM Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation. His research relates to software assurance, cybersecurity, software analysis, and assured safe concurrency. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Scherlis received an AB magna cum laude from Harvard University in applied mathematics and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University, with an intervening year in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh as a John Knox Fellow. Dr. Scherlis led multiple national studies, including the National Academies’ study that in 2010 produced the report Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense.