2022 industryXchange

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Digital Innovation Neighborhood Vision
Tim Simpson, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, Penn State 

Networking Break

5G Use Cases: Industry Successes

• Bill Goodman, Head of Ecosystem & Business Development for the Verizon Customer Unit, Ericsson
• Sander Rotmensen, Director of Industrial Wireless Communication Products, Siemens
• Justin Gambone, Additive Manufacturing Technology Leader, GE Research

Bill Goodman is Head of Ecosystem & Business Development for the Verizon Customer Unit at Ericsson.  He and his team partner with the customer, Ericsson’s research and innovation teams, and the broader ecosystem to investigate, incubate and deliver new solutions enabled by 5G.  Prior to joining Ericsson in 2014, Bill was with Verizon as Director of Multimedia Services Architecture in the Verizon CTO organization where he ran the Service Delivery Ecosystem program which fostered API-based developer community engagement with the Verizon 4G network.  Bill is based in the Ericsson Basking Ridge, NJ office and resides in Collegeville, PA.

Sander Rotmensen is the Director of Industrial Wireless Communication Products at Siemens, based in Nuremberg, Germany. Among other responsibilities, he contributes to promoting and implementing the new wireless standards Wi-Fi 6 anf 5G in industry. We at Siemens Digital Industries believe in the coexistence of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G as a key technology to future breakthrough applications in automotive, mobility, energy, agriculture, healthcare, and more.

Justin Gambone is the Additive Manufacturing Technology Leader at GE Research.  He coordinates the technology development and roadmaps for additive machine capability to improve reliability, insights, and cost of metal additive machine architectures.  He and the team at GE Research apply additive manufacturing technologies across aerospace and power generation markets to provide differentiated components through part consolidation, light weighting, or improved capabilities.  To facilitate the improvement and use of additive, GE Research leverages in-house expertise in advanced materials, AI, simulations, sensing and connectivity.

Lunch/Keynote

Praveen Atreya, Vice President of Technology and Software Development, Verizon 

4:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Opening Keynote
Dilip Kumar, Vice President of Physical Retail and Technology, Amazon
Brian Olsavsky, Senior Vice President and CFO, Amazon

Professional Networking Reception with Graduate Students

The Graduate Student Networking Reception connects master’s and doctoral students in all technical majors with employers.

General Session (8:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.)
Emcee: Kevin Snider,Campus Chancellor, Penn State New Kensington
Digital Foundry

The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, Presidents Hall

8:30-
9:00 a.m.

Welcome
Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering
Lora Weiss, Senior Vice President for Research

PhDevelopment Panel: Perspectives on Industry Internships, Talent Pipeline, and Research

Panelists:

• Dr. Arturo Pizano, Program Manager, University Relations, Siemens Technology
• Dr. Parinaz Emami, Senior Scientist, Merck
• Dr. Tim Simpson, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, Penn State 
• Dr. Ram Narayanan, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Penn State
• Ziheng Fu, doctoral candidate, electrical engineering, Penn State
• Tarun Chawla, Director of Business Development, Remcom

Moderator: Dr. Sven Bilén, Professor of engineering design, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering, Penn State

Dr. Arturo Pizano is Program Manager, University Relations for Siemens Technology. In this capacity he is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with U.S. universities of strategic importance to Siemens R&D organization across the globe. Prior to his current position, Pizano was a part of the internal audit organization of Siemens as a member of the Operational Audit team. Pizano joined Siemens Technology as a member of the Technical Staff in the Imaging and Visualization Department. He became Program Manager in Multimedia Communications and Collaboration and later Head of the Multimedia and Video Technology Department. Prior to joining Siemens he worked as a Staff Scientist in the Software Research Center of Ricoh Corporation in Santa Clara, California. Pizano holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's degree and doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Parinaz Emami works in the next-generation bioprocessing technology team at Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals as a senior scientist. In her current position, she is working on a number of projects aimed at developing new technologies for continuous bioprocessing. Prior to joining Merck, she studied chemical engineering at Penn State and completed PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Zydney. During her PhD, she got the opportunity to work for six months as an intern at Pfizer Inc's purification process team.

Tarun Chawla graduated from Penn State (Class of 2008) with a BSc in EE and an MBA from the University of Memphis. Currently, he's serving customers in his role as Director of Business Development. He enjoys working on cutting-edge products, traveling, spending time with family, and playing Cricket.

Remcom is a research-focused computational electromagnetics software company based out of State College, PA. For over 10 years, Tarun has represented solutions to researchers and engineers developing challenging technologies in the fields of consumer electronics, 5G, military, automotive, and MRI.

Research Spotlight: AI/ML Multi-disciplinary Seed Grant Awardees

• Presenter: Youakim Badr, associate professor of data analytics
  Title: Managing Risks in AI Systems: Mitigating Vulnerabilities and Threats Using Design Tactics and Patterns
• Presenter: Tarasankar Debroy, professor of materials science and engineering
  Title: Machine learning based quality improvement of additively manufactured metallic components
• Presenter: Michael Lanagan, professor of engineering science and mechanics
  Title: 5G Infrastructure and Materials Optimization Through Artificial Intelligence
• Presenter: Wesley Reinhart, assistant professor of materials science and engineering
  Title: Enabling Energy-Efficient Building Envelopes: ArSficial Intelligence for NondestrucSve EvaluaSon
• Presenter: Ankit Maheshwari, staff physician of PSHHVI electrophysiology at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
  Title: Prediction of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Cryptogenic Stroke using Point of Care Artificial Intelligence Guided Interpretation of Sinus Rhythm Electrocardiograms
• Presenter: Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering and director of the Global Building Network
  Title: Healthy Residents 2.0: An exploratory pilot study of air quality and psychosocial well-being
• Presenter: John Yilin Wang, associate professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering
  Title: Advanced and fast simulation technologies for modeling shale gas wells

Lunch

Effective Strategy for Companies to Win on Talent and Technology

Dr. Gloria (Geanie) Umberger, Associate Vice President for Research, Director, Office of Industrial Partnerships

Breakout: Industrial IoT and Smart Biomanufacturing | Room 207 

Moderator: Irene Petrick, Senior Director of Industrial Innovation, Intel Corporation

Industry Reverse Pitch

• John "Jack" Gallagher, Executive Director of Software Development, Verizon
• Dr. DP Prakash, Co-CEO, YOUTOPIAN

Jack Gallagher leads IoT Platform and services development for Verizon, which includes the Thingspace connectivity platform, grid-wide smart lighting, asset tracking, and consumer wearables. The development functions include user experiences, scalable cloud services for data management, IoT edge services, application services and Analytics. Past responsibilities include Fios service development, Motorola Mobile Device development and data networking for Bell Laboratories.

Dr. DP Prakash, Co-CEO of Youtopian, accelerates nature-centered Metaverse Digital Transformation for Enterprises and Education. Addressing some of the most complex business problems facing corporations and academia through innovations in Artificial Intelligence and eXtended Reality, Dr. DP Prakash creates growth engines for leaders in the innovation economy. 

With three decades of semiconductor technology experiences at IBM and Global Foundries, Dr. DP Prakash led ten generations of Moore’s law scaling through leadership roles spanning Research, Development, and Manufacturing of nanotechnology products.

He is a recipient of two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM in Research and Manufacturing. He has also served as the Global Head of Innovation at Global Foundries guiding semiconductor fabs in USA, Germany, and Singapore.

DP Prakash holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MBA with honors from Jack Welch Management Institute, a certificate in Film Producing from UCLA School of Film & Television, a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a certificate on leading Innovation at scale from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Breakout: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Transportation | Room 208

Moderator: Dr. Ilgin Guler, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Larson Transportation Institute 

Industry Reverse Pitch

• Walter M. Everetts, Vice President, Space and Ground Services, Iridium Communications Inc.
• Christopher "Nick" DelRegno, Director of Applied Research, Verizon

Walt Everetts is the Vice President, Space and Ground Services for Iridium Communications Inc., the only satellite communications company that offers truly global voice and data coverage. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the Iridium satellite, TPN & Gateway operations, space and ground engineering and development of space and ground upgrades. His responsibilities encompass all aspects of service delivery throughout the Iridium system, as well as space/ground development & deployment supporting future network system augmentations, system longevity and enhancements needed for sustaining trouble-free operations. Everetts holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Penn State.

Nick DelRegno is a Director in Verizon's technology and product development organization and has been with Verizon for over 29 years in a variety of Network Architecture and Advanced Technology roles. He led the creation of VZB's Converged Packet Architecture (CPA) network and was the architect of Verizon's Switched Ethernet Service (SES) migration to MPLS. DelRegno has experience in legacy telephony, packet switching (Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet, IP, MPLS), Optical Transport, Video Editing and Compression, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Datacenter and Cloud Design, Wireless/Celluar Technologies, Robotics, Drones, IoT and GPS/GNSS location and surveying. DelRegno most recently conceived of and has been the technology lead for Verizon's precision location program. He is currently exploring the cutting-edge applications of Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC) and Private 5G to industrial controls and manufacturing. DelRegno is an industry leader and holds 43 patents with several applications in process.

Breakout: Health Care | Room 206

Moderator: Dr. Huanyu (Larry) Cheng, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Industry Reverse Pitch

• Mouli Ramasamy, Head of Product & IP, Nanowear, Inc.
• Maureen Mulvihill, President & CEO, Actuated Medical, Inc.
• Michele DiSerio, Partner, Connected Edge, Practice Lead, IBM Consulting

Mouli Ramasamy is one of the Founding Engineers and Head of Product & IP at Nanowear Inc. He is responsible for guiding overall product vision and strategy, overseeing technical product development, and IP strategy. Mouli obtained his Bachelors in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Saveetha University, his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. in Engineering Science from The Pennsylvania State University. He has extensive experience in directing and leading the development of wearable medical devices. And, in directing and developing IP strategy for the product and technology. His research interests include Wearable Medical Devices, Digital Health, Smart Textiles and Mobile Healthcare, Wireless Nano- and bio- Sensors, Wireless Communication Module & Systems, Biomedical Electronics Instrumentation, Brain-Machine Interface Systems, and AI/ML-based Remote Monitoring Systems.

Maureen L. Mulvihill, Life Sciences Pennsylvania 2020 CEO of the Year, has been recognized over 35 times nationally and internationally for her entrepreneurial leadership.  In 2017, she was a US delegate to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India. She has been appointed to the Life Sciences PA Board of Directors (BOD), AdvaMed BOD, and AdvaMed Accel BOD to give voice to small emerging MedTech companies. She also sits on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Penn State Center for Biodevices.  She is an alumnus of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program. She received her Ph.D. from Penn State.

About 15 years ago, she co-founded Actuated Medical on the entrepreneurial idea that electronically controlled motion can solve clinical needs and improve patient outcomes. By establishing an ‘internal’ start-up ecosystem, her team has the infrastructure to incubate creative ideas and quickly test them. Those ideas that demonstrate market potential are de-risked with an exit goal of independent acquisitions. In 2021, Actuated doubled their footprint to accommodate a new contract research and manufacturing business unit. Actuated has 34 issued patents and has 6 FDA 510(k) clearances. Actuated is the recipient of the 2014 & 2020 SBA’ Tibbets Awards for SBIR commercialization excellence.

Michele DiSerio joined IBM in 2021 and has 20 years of experience driving innovative world-class enterprise and industrial solutions to market. For the last twelve years, DiSerio has focused on IoT platforms, Edge computing, embedded technology, and industry solutions leveraging AI. 

DiSerio has run global programs and platform product management at Accenture, Red Hat, and Oracle, with expertise in IoT platforms, developer experience, low-code/no-code tools, complex ecosystem management, and massive scale industry solutions. She is IBM’s Global Leader for the Connected Edge practice, delivering horizontal and vertical offerings using IBM and partner technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT), Edge AI, Connectivity (5G/MEC), and Digital Twins.