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Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board Biographical Information

PRABHAT HAJELA, Chair, is the Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a visiting professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests include analysis and design optimization of multidisciplinary systems, system reliability, emergent computing paradigms for design, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) in multidisciplinary analysis and design. Before joining Rensselaer, he worked as a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, for 1 year, and was on the faculty at the University of Florida for 7 years. He has conducted research at NASA’s Langley and Glenn Research Centers and the Eglin Air Force Armament Laboratory. In 2003, Dr. Hajela served as a congressional fellow responsible for science and technology policy in the office of U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT). He worked on several legislative issues related to aerospace and telecommunications policy, including the anti-SPAM legislation that was signed into law in December 2003. Dr. Hajela is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has held many editorial assignments, including editor of Evolutionary Optimization, associate editor of the AIAA Journal, and is on the editorial board of six other international journals. Dr. Hajela has published more than 270 papers and articles in the areas of structural and multidisciplinary optimization and is an author or co-author of four books in these areas. In 2004, he was the recipient of AIAA’s Biennial Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Award. Dr. Hajela received his undergraduate degree in aeronautical engineering (1977) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University (1979) and in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (1981). He received a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University (1982), and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles (1982–1983).

MARK E. EBERHART is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines, where he directs the Molecular Theory Group (MTG). At the MTG, knowledge of bonding is obtained through detailed topological analyses of the spatial distribution of electrons in molecules and solids. Many subtle aspects of the distribution become obvious when viewed from a topological perspective. The accompanying topological formalism gives well-defined, unambiguous, meaningful, and consistent definitions to previously indeterminate quantities such as atomic bonds and basins. His work is based primarily on first principles computations, which provide the electron charge densities, and topological analysis software developed at the MTG. He is also exploring the topological and geometric origins responsible for the stability of amorphous metallic alloys. In addition to his work on condensed phase systems, his group has active research programs exploring the relationships between charge density and the chemical properties of molecular systems, both organic and inorganic. Dr. Eberhart holds a BS in chemistry and applied mathematics from the University of Colorado, an MS in physical biochemistry from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in materials science and engineering from MIT.

GEORGE (RUSTY) T. GRAY III is a laboratory fellow in the dynamic properties and constitutive modeling team within the Materials Physics and Applications Division’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received his BS (1976) and MS (1977) from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). He came to LANL following a 3-year visiting scholar post at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in Hamburg, Germany, after his PhD in materials science in 1981 from Carnegie Mellon University. He conducts fundamental, applied, and focused programmatic research on high-strain-rate and shock deformation. He is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he was on sabbatical in 1998. He co-chaired the Physical Metallurgy Gordon Conference in 2000. He is a member and fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), ASM International (ASM), and the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) and serves on the advisory board of the European DYMAT Association. In 2010, he served as president of the TMS. Starting in 2012, he became the chair of the Acta Materialia board of governors, which oversees the publication of the journals Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia, and Materialia. He has authored or co-authored more than 490 publications. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 2018, he was awarded the Rinehart Award from the European DYMAT Association. In 2019, the APS awarded him the 2019 George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award. In 2021 he was awarded the 2021 SDSM&T Distinguished Alumni Award. He has been selected by ASM International to receive the 2023 ASM Edward DeMille Campbell Lecture Award.

WILLIAM B. ROUSE is a research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and a senior fellow in the office of Georgetown University’s senior vice president for research. He is a researcher, educator, author, and entrepreneur. His previous positions include the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology and professor emeritus in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He also directs the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises at Stevens. His earlier positions include the executive director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute and the chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was the chief executive officer of two innovative software companies—Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology—and held earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech, the University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision-making and problem solving, as well as the design of organizations and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with more than 100 large and small enterprises in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His current research focuses on understanding and managing complex public–private systems such as health care delivery, urban systems and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis. Among many advisory roles, he has served as the chair of the Committee on Human Factors (now the Board on Human-Systems Integration) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; a member of the advisory committee for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academies; a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; and a member of the Department of Defense (DoD) Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He is a member of the NAE and has been designated a lifetime national associate of the National Research Council and the National Academies. Dr. Rouse received his BS from the University of Rhode Island and his SM and PhD from MIT.

NADINE B. SARTER is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, a member of the core faculty at the Robotics Institute, and the director of the Center for Ergonomics at the University of Michigan. She is also the director of the Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics Program at the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety. Her research in cognitive systems engineering focuses on the design and evaluation of tasks, protocols, and interfaces that support safe and effective human-automation/robot interaction and human–machine teaming. Specific

research interests include (1) contributors to and performance effects of system complexity, (2) haptic and multimodal display design, (3) transparency and operator trust in highly autonomous systems, (4) adaptive function allocation, (5) attention and interruption management, and (6) the design of decision aids for high-tempo operations. She has conducted her work in a wide range of application domains, most notably commercial and military aviation (both manned and unmanned operations), space, medicine, military operations, and the automotive industry. Professor Sarter serves as the associate editor for Human Factors and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making and the International Journal of Aviation Psychology. She is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a member of the AIAA, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments. She is an affiliate member of the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology). Professor Sarter is a member of the NAE, a member of the 2017–2018 Cohort of the UM Rudi Ansbacher Women in Academic Medicine Leadership Scholars Program and a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society fellow selection committee. She was a participant in the Human Performance Expert Panel to Inform the Air Force Strategy 2030 and a member of the National Academies’ (Board on Human-Systems Integration) Expert Panel on FAA Staffing Issues. She received an MS in applied and experimental psychology and a BS in psychology from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1983 and 1981, respectively. She received a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University in 1994.

WILLIAM A. SIRIGNANO is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Sirignano was a professor at Princeton University from 1967 to 1979. He was the George Tallman Ladd Professor and department head at Carnegie Mellon University from 1979 to 1984, before becoming the engineering dean at the University of California, Irvine. He left the deanship and is currently a professor. His research and teaching interests have covered the topics of spray and droplet science and technology, combustion, aerospace propulsion, combustion instability, noise suppression, and applied mathematics. His research accomplishments include analysis predicting periodic nonlinear oscillations with shockwaves in an unstable combustor; analysis of driving mechanisms for combustion instability in rockets and ramjets; explanation of the nonlinear fluid dynamics associated with Helmholtz resonators; determination of admittance for oscillatory, three-dimensional nozzle flows; theory for flame spread above liquid and solid fuels; theory for ignition of combustible gas by a hot projectile; resolution of turbulent flame and propagation in reciprocating and rotary internal combustion engines; theory of droplet vaporization and convective heating with internal circulation; computational methods for spray flows; theory of droplet interactions in a dense spray; liquid atomization theory; and miniature combustor technology. Dr. Sirignano is a member of the NAE. He received a PhD in aerospace and mechanical sciences in 1964 from Princeton University.

JILL H. SMITH is a senior consultant with JHS Enterprises. She is the former director of the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (2010–2014). She was also the director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL’s) Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (2001–2010), and the former division chief of ARL’s Ballistic and NBC Division (1998–2001). She previously served on the National Academies’ Panel of Assessment and Analysis (2010–2014). Ms. Smith earned a BS and MS in mathematics from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

LESLIE E. SMITH is a scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) after retiring as the director of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory. He was previously the chief of the Polymers Division at NIST where he built a world-class scientific program in polymer science that has made both fundamental advances to science and significant contributions to industrial technology. His personal research interests have been in the absorption of polymers and biological polymers relevant to artificial vascular materials and degradation reactions of polyesters, primarily as

related to the lifetime of magnetic storage media. He has also edited a number of professional reference books. His external positions have included U.S. editor, Polymer Communications; member, Advisory Committee on Preservation, National Archives; advisory board for Polymer Programs, University of Connecticut; Council for Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Akron; chair, Materials Technology Subcommittee, National Science and Technology Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy; and board of directors of ASTM International. Dr. Smith earned his BS in chemistry from the Case Institute of Technology and his doctorate in chemistry from the Catholic University of America.