2003 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium List of Participants

Yoichi Ando
Assistant Manager
General Technology Division
Central Japan Railway Company

Katsunori Aoki
Science & Technical Research Laboratories
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)

Hiroshi Asahara
JST PRESTO Researcher
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute

Kohtaro Asai
Head Researcher, Manager, Multimedia Information Coding and Transmission Technology Department
Multimedia Laboratory, Information Technology R&D Center
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Zachi Baharav
Researcher
Research and Development
Agilent Laboratories

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
California Institute of Technology

Chuck Farrar
Technical Staff Member
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tsuyoshi Fujihara
Nanotechnology Research Center
Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.

James G. Fujimoto
Professor
Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Akiko Futamura
Vice President, Science and Technology
SummitBiotech
Sumitomo Corporation BioSciences USA, Inc.

Steven D. Glaser
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey Glass
Hoog Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneuship
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University

Akifusa Hagiwara
Chief Researcher (Fuel Cells)
Dispersed Power Resources Technology Group, R&D Center
Tokyo Electric Power Company

Katie Hall
Director
PhotonEx Corporation

Kazuyoshi Harimoto
Environmental Engineering Research Section
Taisei Corporation

Yasuhito Hayashi
Senior Manager, R&D Management
Planning Department, NTT Cyber Communications Laboratory Group
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Yusuke Himei
Researcher
Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.

Muneo Hori
Professor
Earthquake Research Institute
University of Tokyo

Tsuyoshi Ichimura
Research Associate
Department of Civil Engineering
Tohoku University

Masayoshi Ishida
Associate Professor
Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Systems
University of Tsukuba

Abu Saeed Islam
Member Research and Technical Staff II
Xerox Corporation

Kohzo Ito
Professor
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
University of Tokyo

Koji Ito
Information Sharing Platform Laboratories
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Satoshi Iwaki
Senior Research Engineer
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Joseph Izatt
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Duke University

Brian K. Johnson
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Idaho

Tatsuo Kabata
Manager, New Technology Development Section
Energy System Engineering Department, Power Systems Headquarters
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Kenichi Kamijo
Senior Manager
Fundamental Research Laboratories
NEC Corporation

Shinjiro Kanae
Assistant Professor
Insitute of Industrial Sciences
University of Tokyo

Kazuo Kashiyama
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Chuo University

Luke P. Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley

Bernard Lesieutre
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sue McNeil
Director
Urban Transportation Center
University of Illinois

Satish Menon
Chief Technology Officer
Kasenna, Inc.

Karen Miu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Drexel University

Masato Miyake
Leader, Gene Technology Team
Tissue Engineer Research Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

John Norton
Technical Fellow
Medtronic Energy and Component Center
Medtronic, Inc.

Nobumoto Ohashi
Assistant Manager
Future Project Division
Toyota Motor Corporation

Thomas Overbye
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Charles C. Peck
Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Natsuko Sakai
Senior Researcher
Energy Electronics Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Kazuhiro Sakurada
Principle Investigator
Tokyo Research Laboratories
Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.

J. Carlos Santamarina
Professor and Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Harry Singh
Senior Market Advisor
Office of Market Oversight and Investigations
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Linda Slonksnes
Senior Systems Engineer
Science Applications International Corporation

Margaret M. Steinbugler
Manager, Transportation Fuel Cell Systems
UTC Fuel Cells

Cynthia L. Stokes
Principal Scientist, Immunologic Diseases
In Silico R&D
Entelos, Inc.

Masahiro Takagi
Professor
School of Materials Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Hitoshi Takamura
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science
Tohoku University

Yasuhiro Takishima
Senior Research Engineer
Multimedia Communications Laboratory
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.

Tomio Tamakoshi
Manager
Engineering Department of Sodium
Batttery Division
NGK Insulators, Ltd.

Chise Tateno
Chief Researcher & Group Leader, Yoshizato Project
Cooperative Link of Unique Science nazd Technology for Economy Revitalization
Hiroshima Prefectural Institute of Industrial Science and Technology

Christopher R. Thewalt

Michael D. Todd
Assistant Professor
Department of Structural Engineering
University of California, San Diego

Kenji Torizuka
Group Leader, Ultrafast Lasers Group
Photonics Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Naoki Wakamiya
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Osaka University

Forest White
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fumiko Yamaguchi
Physical Science Research Associate
Quantum Entanglement Project, ICORP, JST
Stanford University

Masayuki Yamamura
Associate Professor
Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Lixia Zhang
Professor
Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles


Dinner Speaker

Robert Conn
Managing Director
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital


Guests

Cho Bo Hyung
Foreign Secretary
National Academy of Engineering of Korea

Dexiong Song
Deputy Director
Academic Activity Department
Chinese Academy of Engineering

Jin Xu
Engineer and Deputy Director
Office of Policy Research
Chinese Academy of Engineering


Japan Science and Technology Agency

Naoko Ami
Chief, Department of International Affairs

Misuzu Asanuma
Chief, Department of International Affairs

Kimikazu Iwase
Director, Department of International Affairs

Masayuki Sato
Manager, Department of International Affairs

Hideki Takahashi
Washington Representative


Engineering Academy of Japan

Yasutaka Iguchi
Professor, Management of Science & Technology Department
Director, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center
Graduate School of Engineering
Tohoku University


National Academy of Engineering

George Bugliarello
Foreign Secretary

Lance Davis
Executive Officer

Janet Hunziker
Program Officer

Jenny Hardesty
Senior Project Assistant