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EDUCATION AND MENTORSHIP: SUCCESS STORIES <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Education is one of my primary missions. Training of young physicists and providing mentorship have always been a priority of mine. As a mentor, my mission has been to point out the right direction and create a supportive platform for my students and postdocs to perform and succeed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

PH.D. DEGREES GRANTED <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the Sixty five graduate students, who have obtained their Ph.D. under Sau Lan Wu\u2019s supervision, 10 of them did PhD in TASSO, 23 in ALEPH, 9 in the BaBar, and 23 in ATLAS Experiments respectively.\u00a0 We list here below their academic postdoc positions or non-academic positions after graduation. (This list includes a few co-advised students)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1)\u00a0 James Freeman<\/td>\n1981<\/td>\nFermilab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2)\u00a0 Timothy Barklow<\/td>\n1983<\/td>\nStanford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3)\u00a0 Eric Wicklund<\/td>\n1984<\/td>\nCaltech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4)\u00a0 H. Venkataramania<\/td>\n1985<\/td>\nYale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5)\u00a0 David Strom<\/td>\n1986<\/td>\nMcCormick Fellow U of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6)\u00a0 Michael Cherney<\/td>\n1987<\/td>\nBerkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7)\u00a0 Allen Caldwell<\/td>\n1987<\/td>\nColumbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8)\u00a0 Steven Ritz<\/td>\n1988<\/td>\nColumbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9)\u00a0 David Muller<\/td>\n1989<\/td>\nStanford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10) M. Takashima<\/td>\n1989<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11) Douglas Cowen<\/td>\n1990<\/td>\nCaltech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12) John Hilgart<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13) Joe Boudreau<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14) Jim Wear<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nU.C. Santa Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15) Yibin Pan<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nWisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16) David Cinabro<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nHarvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17) Jolean Pater<\/td>\n1992<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18) Fred Weber<\/td>\n1993<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19) Michael Walsh<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\nRutgers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20) Leo Bellantoni<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\nFermilab Lederman Fellow followed by Wilson Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21) Zhong Feng<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\nJohns Hopkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22) Yongsheng Gao<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\nHarvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23) Jane Nachtman<\/td>\n1997<\/td>\nFermilab Wilson Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24) Jim Grahl<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\nIowa State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25) Peter Elmer<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\nPrinceton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26) Steve Armstrong<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27) William Orejudos<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\nBerkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28) Xidong Wu<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\nSBC Com.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29) Owen Hayes<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\nBooz Allen Hamilton Consult.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30) Tom\u00a0 Greening<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31) Doug Ferguson<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\nWisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32) Jason Nielsen<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\nBerkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33) Eric Charles<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\nBerkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34) P. McNamara<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\nRutgers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35) Steve Sekula<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36) Ran Liu<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\nBerkeley Business School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37) Jinwei Wu<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\nHarvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38) Zhitang Yu<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nClearshape Tech.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39) Mousumi Datta<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nFermi National Lab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40) Baosen Cheng<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nAvestar-IP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41) Attila Mihalyi<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nPrinceton Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
42) Kyle Cranmer<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nGodhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers 2007<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43) Karina Loureiro<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\nOhio State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
44) Paul Kutter<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\nCitizen\u2019s Insurance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45) Alden Stradling<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas Arlington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46) Yaquan Fang<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\nWisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
47) William Quayle<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\nUS ATLAS Analysis Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
48) Xin Chen<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\nWisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
49) Elizabeth Castaneda<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nForeign Academic Fellowship, Conacyt, Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50) Haifeng Li<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\nSUNY-Stony Brook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
51) German Carrillo<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\nCERN Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
52) Alfredo Castenada<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\nU of Texas \u2013 A&M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
53) Haichen Wang<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nChamberlain Fellow at Berkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
54) Haoshuang Ji<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\nCONVIVA (real-time big data processing platform)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
55) Yao Ming<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\nAmazon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56) Hongtao Yang<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\nChamberlain Fellow at Berkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
57) Andrew Hard<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\nGoogle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
58) Fangzhou Zhang<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nErnst & Young<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
59) Fuquan Wang<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nYelp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60) Laser Kaplan<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nAccenture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
61) Xiangyang Ju<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\nHigh Performance Computing Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
62) Alex Zeng WANG<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar at UC Santa Cruz.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
63) Jay Chan<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley (LBNL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64) Minh Tuan Pham<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar at Laboratory at Paris-Saclay, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65) Chi Lung (Alkaid) Cheng<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar at SLAC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FORMER POST-DOCS AND FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our forty one former postdocs and former graduate students are faculty members in major U.S. universities and worldwide. In addition, eighteen are staff members at major High Energy Physics laboratories. Also a number of our former Ph.D. entered the workforce of well-known industries, providing successfully the functionality of technology transfer.<\/p>\n

FULL PROFESSORS (29)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Steven Ritz<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor and former Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz); NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal; APS Fellow; Sloan Foundation Fellow; Chairman of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) 2013; former member of HEPAP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Robert Johnson<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor, former Chairman of Physics Department and former Associate Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz); APS Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Allen Caldwell<\/strong><\/td>\nFormer Full Professor (Columbia University); now\u00a0Full Professor and Managing Director of Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich (since April 2012); Head of the AWAKE experiment at CERN; former spokesman of ZEUS (1997-1998). Honorary Professor at Technical University of Munich<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Michael Cherney<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor, former Director \u2013 Energy Technology Program (Creighton University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Vivek Sharma<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (University of California, San Diego); Sloan Foundation Fellow; APS Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>David Strom<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (University of Oregon)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Shan Jin<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Nanjing University); Former Full Professor and Deputy Director, Exp. Phys. Div. (Inst. of HEP, Beijing); member of the Science Committee of IHEP; 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>John Conway<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (University of California, Davis); APS Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>John Harton<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Colorado State University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.\u00a0 <\/strong>Yuanning Gao<\/strong><\/td>\nAcademician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Full Professor and Chair of the School of Physics (Peking University); Former Full Professor and Director of the Center for HEP (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.\u00a0 <\/strong>David Cinabro\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy (Wayne State University)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.\u00a0 <\/strong>Hongbo Hu<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Inst. of HEP, Beijing); standing member of the Science Committee of IHEP and former Deputy Director of the Astroparticle Physics Lab. (IHEP, Beijing); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.\u00a0 <\/strong>Douglas Cowen<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor of Physics (Penn. State U.), NSF Career Award (1999-2003); Fulbright Scholar; Francis W. Sears Physics Prize, Associate Director of Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Penn State (2013-2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.\u00a0 <\/strong>Haibo Li<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing); 100 Talents award; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15.\u00a0 <\/strong>Joe Izen<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor(University of Texas, Dallas); former co-spokesman of BES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16.\u00a0 <\/strong>Haiping Peng<\/strong><\/td>\nFull\u00a0Professor (University of Science and Technology, China); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17.\u00a0 <\/strong>Michael Schmitt<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor and Chairman of Physics Dept. (Northwestern University); former Assistant Professor at Harvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18.\u00a0 <\/strong>Joe Boudreau<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (University of Pittsburgh)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19.\u00a0 <\/strong>Lianliang Ma<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Shandong University, China)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20.\u00a0 <\/strong>Stathes Paganis<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); former Associate Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21.\u00a0 <\/strong>Yaquan Fang<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Institute of HEP, Beijing); 100 Talent award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese National Award for 1000 Youth Talents Plan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22.\u00a0 <\/strong>Bruce Mellado<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (U. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), Director of the Wits Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23.\u00a0 <\/strong>Jason Nielsen<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor and Director, Institute for Particle Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24.\u00a0 <\/strong>Haifeng Li<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Shandong University, China); Qi-Lu Young Scholar of Shandong University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.\u00a0 <\/strong>Yongsheng Gao<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (California State University at Fresno)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26.\u00a0 <\/strong>Kyle Cranmer<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, American Family Data Science Institute. Former Full Professor (New York University); NSF Career Award (2009); Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2007; Goldhaber Fellow, BNL 2005-2007; Member of\u00a0 HEPAP (2016-2019). APS Fellow (2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27.\u00a0 <\/strong>Isabel Pedraza<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla, Mexico)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28.\u00a0 <\/strong>Jane Nachtman<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Professor (University of Iowa). Director of Undergraduate Studies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29.\u00a0 <\/strong>Stephen Sekula<\/strong><\/td>\nResearch Group Manager at SNOLAB and Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. Previously Full Professor & Chair of Physics Department (Southern Methodist University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS WITH TENURE (8) AND ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (4)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
30.\u00a0 <\/strong>Trevor Vickey<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (Reader in Particle Physics) (Sheffield University, UK)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31.\u00a0 <\/strong>Yibin Pan<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (University of Wisconsin)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32.\u00a0 <\/strong>Gerald Rudolph<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (Universit\u00e4t Innsbruck)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33.\u00a0 <\/strong>Yingchun Zhu <\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (University of Science and Technology, China)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34.\u00a0 <\/strong>Xin Chen<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (Tsinghua University, Beijing)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35.\u00a0 <\/strong>Luis Flores Castillo<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36.\u00a0 <\/strong>Swagato Banerjee<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (University of Louisville)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37.\u00a0 <\/strong>Rui Zhang<\/strong><\/td>\nAssociate Professor (Nanjing University, China)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38.\u00a0 <\/strong>Haichen Wang<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Professor (U.C. Berkeley). Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39.\u00a0 <\/strong>Alfredo Castaneda<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Professor (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40.\u00a0 <\/strong>Chen Zhou <\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Professor (Peking University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41.\u00a0 <\/strong>Hongtao Yang<\/strong><\/td>\nAssistant Professor (University of Science and Technology, China)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

STAFF POSITIONS IN NATIONAL HIGH ENERGY LABS: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This table gives the list of Sau Lan Wu\u2019s fourteen former postdocs and former graduate students who received staff positions in National and International High Energy Laboratories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FORMER POSTDOCS<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. Saul Gonzalez<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Advisor at the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at NSF; Former Program Director of Experimental Elementary Particle Physics at NSF; Former Assistant Director for Physical Sciences at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Former Program Manager for Proton Accelerator Physics, Physics Research Division of Office of High Energy Physics, DOE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. Pierre Lecomte<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Research Scientist, ETHZ (Switzerland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. Tom C. Meyer<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist, CERN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. John Walsh<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Researcher, INFN (Italy)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. Mathew Graham<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist, SLAC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. Alden Stradling <\/strong><\/td>\nHPC Cluster Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. Alessandro Di Mattia<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist at INFN, Italy (Catania Section), Coordinator of Particle Physics Division.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8. Wen Guan<\/strong><\/td>\nComputational scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9. Ximo Poveda<\/strong><\/td>\nSpanish National Research Council (Spain)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nFORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10. James Freeman<\/strong><\/td>\nScientist, Fermilab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11. Tim Barklow<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Staff Physicist, SLAC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12. DavidMuller<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist, SLAC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13. Eric Wicklund<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Scientist, Fermilab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14. Leo Bellantoni<\/strong><\/td>\nScientist, Fermilab, (former Wilson and Lederman Fellow at Fermilab)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15. Joleen Pater<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist at the University of Manchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16. Eric Charles<\/strong><\/td>\nStaff Physicist, SLAC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17. Peter Elmer<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Research Physicist at Princeton University \u2013 Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18. Xiangyang Ju<\/strong><\/td>\nComputing System Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An interesting development is that high-energy physicists are entering the workforce of well-known industries.\u00a0 Having been well trained in the high technology environment of large international physics collaborations, members of our group are eminently suited to provide the functionality of technology transfer, always on the leading edge.\u00a0 For example, some of the former postdocs and former graduate students have held positions in industries are: (Note that this list may not be up to date)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1) Ian Scott<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Chief Science Officer Deloitte Omnia \u2013 Artificial Intelligence. Former Partner Chief Data Scientist Deloitte Canada. Former VP customer Solutions at Lattice Engines. Former Chief Technology Officer at Angoss Software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2) John Yamartino<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Director of Analytics and Machine Learning at Lam Research, Mountain View, California. Former Director of Analytics at Lam Research. Former Senior Data Scientist at IBM (Greater New York City Area). Former Engineering Program Manager at Applied Materials, Inc., Silicon Valley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3) Makoto Takashima<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Consultant at Cinctive Capital, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4) Damon Fasching – <\/strong>Senior Director, Auto Engineering at Gracenote, California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5) Zhong Feng<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Lead System Engineer at Raytheon for NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6) John Hilgart<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Network Security Engineer at BASF. Former Senior Internet Infrastructure Architect at BASF. Former eCommerce Infrastructure Architect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7) Fred Weber<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Research Scientist at A2Z Development Center Inc A2Z Development Center Inc \u00a0Grinnell College Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Former Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University Earth Institute (subject: Spoken Language Technology for Development: Communication as Empowerment). Former Senior Research Scientist at ScanSoft, Inc. (Boston) for speech recognition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8) Jim Wear<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Physicist at GE Medical Systems, Madison, Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9) Michael Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Consultant at Superior Consulting Company Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10) Xidong Wu\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Workday, Pleasanton, CA. Former Lead Member of Technical Staff in Telecommunications at AT&T (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Software Engineer at SBC Communications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11) Owen Hayes<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director, Enterprise Project Management Office, CIT, Greater NY City area. Former Founder and Partner of Jorgeson Trading, former Director of Strategy & Technology at Thomson Reuters, Former Business Technology Director at Elsevier (Greater Philadelphia Area). Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting Firm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12) Thomas Greening<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Distinguished Engineer and Senior Scientist at Apple (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Principal Scientist at Honeywell. Recipient of Technical Achievement Award (2003) and Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award (2002)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13) Stephen Armstrong<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Director \u2013 Corporate Strategy Implementation at Lonza (Basel, Switzerland). Former Assistant Vice President, SGS Group management Ltd, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14) Zhitang Yu<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Research and Development Engineer at ClearShape Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15) Mousumi Datta – <\/strong>Model Risk Analyst, Quantitative Risk Management at The Options Clearing Corporation, Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16) Baosen Cheng<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Software Engineer at Comcast Silicon Valley (Plaxo) (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Software Engineer at Avestar-IP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17) Attila Mihalyi<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director at Princeton Consultants, former Senior Engineering Specialist at Princeton Consultants (Greater New York City Area). Former Senior Associate\/Consultant at\u00a0 Princeton Consultants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18) Jinwei Wu<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Strategist at Pine River Capital Management (Greater New York City Area). Former Strategist at Goldman Sachs (Greater New York City Area)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19) William Orejudos<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senior Product Architect at WillowTree, Charlottesville, Virginia. Former Senior Member, Energy and Environmental Services, SRA International (Charlottesville, Virginia Area)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20) Paul Kutter<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director of Forecasting and Research at Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. Former Actuarial Analyst at Citizens Property Insurance (Tallahassee, Florida)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21) Neng Xu<\/strong> – Chief Technology Officer at YKLM Auctions, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22) Sanjay Padhi \u2013<\/strong> Executive Vice President and Chief Technologist at Tag.bio, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Formerly Global Scientific Computing Principal at Amazon Web Services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23) Andr\u00e9 Anjos \u2013 <\/strong>Research Scientist at IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland. Head of the Biosignal Processing Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24) Tapas Sarangi <\/strong>– Software Engineer at Entegral Software Development, Madison, Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25) Ruslan Asfandiyarov<\/strong> – Managing Director & Senior Consultant at DeepTechConsult, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26) Lashkar Kashif \u2013 <\/strong>Senior Director and Head of Data Science at Cvent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27) German Carrillo Montoya : <\/strong>Head of Machine Learning & Data Science at Fortum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28) Haoshuang Ji \u2013 <\/strong>Senior Software engineer at Conviva<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29) Yao Ming \u2013 <\/strong>Software Development Engineer at Amazon corporate LLC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30) Andrew Hard \u2013 <\/strong>Software engineer at Google<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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33) Laser Kaplan – <\/strong>Senior Data Scientist\/Software Engineer in LiveRamp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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