Prof. Aushutosh Chilkoti
Professor of Bio Medical Engineering
Duke University

Prof. Ashutosh Chilkoti is a Professor in the department of Bio Medical Engineering in Duke University . His research interests includes design, characterization, and application of engineered biomolecules , with a primary focus on control of their physico-chemical properties, and their spatial and temporal organization at molecular dimensions .

The engineered biomolecules and organized biomolecular structures that are developed in his research program can be viewed as novel tools for the "biomolecular engineering toolbox", which are then used to address significant problems in biotechnology and medicine

Prof. Venugopal Veeravalli
Professor of ECE & CSL
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Venugopal V Veeravalli received the Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , the M.S. degree in 1987 from Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA, and the B. Tech. degree in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , (Silver Medal Honors), all in Electrical Engineering.

Professor Veeravalli teaches and conducts research in wireless communications, sensor networks, detection and estimation theory, and information theory. The broad goals of his research program are: (i) to develop techniques for optimizing the quality and capacity of wireless telecommunication systems; and (ii) to develop a system-theoretic framework for the design, analysis and application of sensor networks. Dr. Veeravalli is co-recipient of the 1996 IEEE Browder J. Thompson Award , an award given annually to an outstanding paper by authors under the age of 30 selected from all the publications of the IEEE.

Prof. Michael E Lawson
Professor of Economics
Senior Associate Dean
Boston School of Management
Boston University

Dean Lawson has extensive teaching experience. He has taught courses at every level at the University and in a wide range of subject areas. He served as the faculty director of the undergraduate program to help shape the redesign of the School's curriculum and serve on the MBA program development committee to develop and implement curriculum reform.

He has written cases and developed additional education materials aimed at integrating subjects in a number of courses. He has created and was the director of a masters-level information systems degree program and was a member of the faculty committee that developed and launched the school's Executive MBA Program.

Dean Lawson's current research focuses on the development of research-based business cases for graduate and executive programs. He continues to develop material for additional cases that explore the firm's ability to deal with changing economic and global competitive pressures. He has made academic presentations at numerous conferences throughout this country and in Asia . Presentations have been made at, for example, the Western Economic Association Annual Meetings, the Federal Trade Commission, the Annual Health Systems Resource Symposium at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Office of Naval Research, the Health Economics Workshop at Harvard University, The Executive Office of Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Graduate School of Business in Zurich, and the Huzaong Institute of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. He is currently working on a text on the strategic use of information systems and technology for public organizations.

Ted Magder
Chair & Associate Professor
Department of Culture & Communication New York University

Prof. Ted Magder is a Chair and an Associate professor of College of Communication and culture in New York University . M agder, chair of the department as well as associate professor, is currently looking at how the flow of communication and media across borders is affected by the various rules, laws, and codes that regulate it. Research interests include: the political economy of communication, the relationship between systems of mediated communication and democracy, communication policy and law, contemporary media culture, and globalization.

Prof. Magder received his Ph.D degree in 1988 from York University , has done MA in 1983 from Carleton University and a graduate degree in 1982 from Toronto University .

Prof. Jeffrey Kantor
VP for Graduate Studies & Research
Dean - Graduate School
University of Notre Dame

Jeffrey C. Kantor is vice president for graduate studies and research at the University of Notre Dame. A 1976 graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he served as student regent, Dr. Kantor received his master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow from 1976-79 and a George Van Ness Lathrop fellow in 1979-80. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, he spent a year in postdoctoral studies at the University of Tel Aviv in 1980-81.A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1981, Dr. Kantor is a professor of chemical engineering and specializes in the dynamics and control of nonlinear chemical systems, multivariable robust control, and nonlinear state estimation.

Dr. Kantor's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and a number of industrial sponsors. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award in 1986.

Dr. Riall W Nolan
Dean of International Programs
Purdue University

Dr. Riall Nolan was welcomed into the Purdue family as the new Dean of International Programs on January 1, 2004. Before coming to Purdue, Dr. Nolan was the associate provost and director for the Institute of Global Studies and Affairs at the University of Cincinnati .

Dr. Nolan, a Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright Scholar, earned his doctorate in social anthropology in 1975 from the University of Sussex , England . He has lived and worked overseas in Sri Lanka , Tunisia , Senegal , Papua New Guinea , the former Soviet Union and various countries in West Africa .