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Maurizio Porfiri
Professor
MaurizioPorfiriwasborninRome(Italy)andnowhappilyresidesinBrooklyn(NewYork).HereceivedM.Sc.andPh.D.degreesinengineeringmechanicsfromVirginiaTech;a“Laurea”inelectricalengineeringandaPh.D.intheoreticalandappliedmechanicsfromtheUniversityofRome“LaSapienza”andtheUniversity
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ofToulon(dualdegreeprogram).Since2006,hehasbeenamemberofthefacultyoftheMechanicalandAerospaceEngineeringDepartmentatNYUTandonSchoolofEngineering,whereheiscurrentlyaProfessor.Hisworkisintheareaofdynamicalsystems,specificallyfocusingoninterdisciplinaryunderwaterapplications.Heistheauthorofmorethan250journalpublications,andhisresearchhasbeenfeaturedinnumerousmajormediaoutlets,includingCNN,DiscoveryChannel,andNPR.HehasreceivedtheNationalScienceFoundationCAREERaward,theOutstandingYoungAlumnusawardfromtheCollegeofEngineeringofVirginiaTech,theASMEGaryAndersonEarlyAchievementAward,theASMEDSCDYoungInvestigatorAward,andtheASMEC.D.Mote,Jr.EarlyCareerAward.;andhasbeennamedtothePopularScience“Brilliant10”listforyoungscientistsasthe"WaterWizard".
Devesh Ranjan
Professor
Dr.DeveshRanjanisanAssociateProfessorandJ.ErskineLoveJr.FacultyFellowintheGWW
SchoolofMechanicalEngineeringatGeorgiaTech.Hewaspreviouslyadirector'sresearch
fellowatLosAlamosNationalLaboratory(2008)andMorrisEFosterAssistantProfessorinthe
MechanicalEngineeringdepartmentatTexasA&MUniversity(2009-2014).
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Heearneda
bachelor'sdegreefromtheNIT-Trichy(India)in2003,andmaster'sandPh.D.degreesfromthe
UW-Madisonin2005and2007respectively,allinmechanicalengineering.
Hisresearchprogramfocusesontheshock-drivenmixingandcombustion,thephysicsof
hydrodynamicinstabilities,andadvancedpowerconversioncycles.HeisarecipientofNational
ScienceFoundationCAREERAwardandUSAFOSRYoungInvestigatorAwardin2013.He
wasthefirstGeorgiaTechrecipientoftheDOE-EarlyCareerAwardin2016.Hisgrouphas
publishedmorethan100papersinjournalsandconferences.Hewasaninvitedparticipantinthe
2016NationalAcademyofEngineering’sUSFrontiersofEngineeringSymposium.
HewastheJoint-SecretaryfortheInternationalShockWaveInstituteandservedastheco-chair
forthe29thInternationalSymposiumonShockWaves(ISSW).HeiscurrentlyanAssociate
EditorofASMEJournalofFluidsEngineeringandservesontheEditorialboardofShock
Waves(Publisher-Springer&Verlag).CurrentlyheisthememberofExternalAffairs
CommitteeofAPS-DivisionofFluidDynamics.Hehasreceivedseveralawardsforhisefforts
andeffectivenessinteaching,includingCATERPILLARTeachingExcellenceAward,Texas
A&MASMEProfessorMentorshipAwardandrecentlynamed2018-2020ProvostTeachingand
LearningFellow.
Daniel P. Lathrop
Professor
DanielP.LathropisaProfessorintheDepartmentofPhysicsandDepartmentofGeologyatUMD.Heisaworldleaderinnon-lineardynamicsresearchwithscientificinterestsinfluiddynamics,condensedmatterandgeophysics.Heisstrongsupporterofsciencepublicoutreachandhisworkisfeaturedin
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TheWashingtonPost,ScientificAmerican,theBBC,DiscoverMagazineandPBS’sNOVA.
Berndnaut Smilde
Artist
theFrankMohrInstitute,Groningen.AwardsincludeastartstipendformTheNetherlandsFoundationforVisualArts,DesignandArchitecture.HewasaresidentartistattheIrishMuseumofModernArt,Dublin2008andBoulderMuseumofContemporaryArt,Coloradoin2015.Smilde'sworkresidesinboththeSaatchiandtheSmithsoniancollectionsamongothers.Smildehasbeenwrittenaboutextensivelyinartpublications;additionallyhisNimbusserieswasrecognisedbyTIMEMagazineasoneofthe"TopTenInventionsof2012"
David McLeod
Artist
class="lG">David isinterestedinhowthetensionofthisrelationshipcanchallengeperceptionandcauseanemotiveresponse.
Throughtakinganexperimentalapproachtohisprocess,hewantstoinvitetheunexpectedandmomentsofsurprise.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Artist
creatingplatformsforpublicparticipation,bypervertingtechnologiessuchasrobotics,computerizedsurveillanceortelematicnetworks.Inspiredbyphantasmagoria,carnival,andanimatronics,hislightandshadowworksare"antimonumentsforalienagency".
Hislarge-scaleinteractiveinstallationshavebeencommissionedforeventssuchastheMillenniumCelebrationsinMexicoCity(1999),theCulturalCapitalofEuropeinRotterdam(2001),theUNWorldSummitofCitiesinLyon(2003),theopeningoftheYCAMCenterinJapan(2003),theExpansionoftheEuropeanUnioninDublin(2004),thememorialfortheTlatelolcoStudentMassacreinMexicoCity(2008),theWinterOlympicsinVancouver(2010),andthepre-openingexhibitionoftheGuggenheiminAbuDhabi(2015).RecentlythesubjectofsoloexhibitionsattheSFMOMA,theMUACMuseuminMexicoCity,andtheMuseumofContemporaryArtinSydney,hewasthefirstartisttoofficiallyrepresentMexicoattheVeniceBiennalewithasoloexhibitionatPalazzoSoranzoVanAxelin2007.HehasalsoshownatArtBiennialsandTriennialsinHavana,Istanbul,Kochi,Liverpool,Montréal,Moscow,NewOrleans,Seville,Seoul,Shanghai,SingaporeandSydney.CollectionsholdinghisworkincludetheMoMAinNewYork,TateinLondon,AGOinToronto,CIFOinMiami,JumexinMexicoCity,DAROSinZurich,MUACinMexicoCity,MAGinManchester,MUSACinLeon,MONAinHobart,ZKMinKarlsruhe,andSAMinSingapore,amongothers.HehasreceivedtwoBAFTABritishAcademyAwardsforInteractiveArt,aGoldenNicaatArsElectronicainAustria,"Artistoftheyear"RaveAwardfromWiredMagazine,aRockefellerfellowship,theTrophéedesLumièresinLyon,anInternationalBauhausAwardinDessau,andtheGovernorGeneral'sAwardinCanada.HewillbejoinedinthisprojectbyhisstudioteamatAntimodularResearchinMontreal.