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Blandine
Antoine
Academic
Background:
- 2007
– Present • MIT, ESD: Ph.D.
student in Engineering Systems
- 2006
– 2007 • ENPC-L'École
nationale des ponts et chaussées,
France: Master in Public Action
- 2004
– 2005 • University of California,
Berkeley: Master in Nuclear Engineering
- 2001
– 2004 • l'Ecole Polytechnique,
France: Díplôme d'ingénieur
in Mechanics & Physics
Work
Experience:
- 2006
– 2007 • Prométhée
- 2006 • GE, Nuclear
Division, R&D Department
- Mechanical Engineer:
for five months during 2006, worked
with the strainer development team
- Fall 2005 • French Board for Nuclear
Safety & Radio-Protection (ASN)
- Junior Engineer: radioactive
waste disposal
Research
Description:
Blandine would like to study how agro-energies
can be incorporated in future energy mixes
and what impacts a global scale development
of their use to fuel vehicles, provide electricity
or feed 'green chemistry' factories will
have on food, water, land, and energy resources,
rural development, and world trade conflicts.
She hopes that working with MIT's EEPA and
CIRED's Imaclim-R models will help her gain
some valuable insight on this topical question.
She is eager to listen to and discuss any
ideas you would like to share on these issues.
Blandine
has previously worked in the following areas:
- 2007
• French Development Agency
- Study
of institutions promoting energy efficiency
and renewable energy in developing countries
- 2005
• University of California, Berkeley
• Thermohydraulics Lab
- Corrosion
in molten salt heat exchangers
- 2004
• Institute of Advanced Energy •
Kyoto, Japan
- Characterization
of composite ceramics for thermal fusion
reactors
Personal
Website:
www.promethee-energie.org
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September 2007
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Mark
S. Avnet
Academic
Background:
- 2001
• MIT: S.B. in Physics, Minor in
Spanish
- 2005
• The George Washington University:
M.A. in Science, Technology, & Public
Policy
Work
Experience:
- NASA
Headquarters • Washington, DC
-
Program Specialist, Centennial Challenges
-
Rocket Software • Newton, MA
Working
Thesis Title:
Designing Across Boundaries: The Role of
Boundary-Spanning Activity in Multidisciplinary
Design Teams
Research
Description:
The goal of Mark's research is
to model the role of communication across
disciplinary boundaries in engineering design
teams. Much of this work focuses on one-week
conceptual studies of scientific spacecraft.
Using a combination of observations and
interviews, the research identifies the
important issues in the conceptual design
process that are typically addressed through
a cross-disciplinary approach. From survey
data on team interactions, social networks
are constructed and used to quantitatively
assess the work of boundary spanners, those
team members that facilitate interdisciplinary
communication. The role of boundary-spanning
activity is then related to the technical
products of the design sessions.
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March 2007
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Ryan
Boas
Academic Background:
- 1997 • MIT: S.M. in Mechanical
Engineering
- 1995 • Clarkson University: B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering
Work Experience:
Before entering the ESD Doctoral Program,
Ryan was employed by Applied Materials (a
semiconductor capital equipment company
located in Santa Clara, CA) for over six
years. He has four years of management experience
in product development. Ryan's last role
was as the system architect for Applied's
Radiance Vantage 300 system, viewed as a
benchmark product development program within
the company. In this role, he provided systems
leadership spanning across engineering,
manufacturing, field service, customers
and upper management.
Research Description:
Ryan's research focuses on commonality in
complex systems. Multi-system development
programs offer the potential for commonality
in parts, processes and infrastructure in
order to reduce overall costs, increase
the speed of follow-on system development
and reduce development risks. Ryan is investigating
two topics within the commonality domain
that are often challenges in practice, yet
not well-addressed by the academic community.
First, the relationship between time separation
in product/system variant development and
commonality decisions is being explored.
Second, "design divergence" or the reduction
of commonality across a product/system family
with time is being investigated. The end
goal of this research is to provide management
guidance on commonality decisions, especially
those decisions made in the front end of
development efforts.
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Philippe
Bonnefoy
Academic
Background:
- Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal • University
of Montreal, Canada: B.Ing.
-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
M.S. in Aeronautics & Astronautics
Work
Experience:
- Intern
for a business aviation company
-
Research Associate for an air taxi startup
Research
Description:
Philippe’s research is focused on
developing a worldwide perspective on the
emergence and integration of on-demand air
networks. His work is done with the International
Center for Air Transportation at MIT.
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Yves
Boussemart
Academic Background:
- 2006 – Present • MIT, ESD:
Ph.D. student in Engineering Systems
- 2005 – 2006 • MIT, Aeronautics
& Astronautics: Researcher in the
Embedded Systems Lab
- 2002 – 2003 • McGill: M.Eng.
with the Center for Intelligent Machines,
Shared Reality Environment Lab
- 1998 – 1998 • McGill: B.Eng.
in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Work Experience:
Yves' experience in industry, includes
time spent at Thales-Saudi Arabia in the
Security group and at Infoel S.A. in Paris.
Yves has also spent three months teaching
scuba diving as a PADI instructor in Koh
Samui, Thailand.
Research Description:
Yves research focuses on collaborative,
time-sensitive targeting. His work will
focus on collaboration and distributed decision
making as a critical component for network-centric
operations like those needed for first-response
teams, air traffic control, and military
command and control. While retaining high
levels of automation, a major issue is to
determine what roles or sharing of roles
is effective, and how intelligent autonomy
may improve or degrade time sensitive team
decisions.
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David
A. Broniatowski
Academic Background:
- 2006 – Present • MIT, ESD:
Ph.D. student in Technology, Management,
& Policy
- 2004 – 2006 • MIT: S.M.
in Aeronautics & Astronautics
- 2004 – 2006 • MIT, ESD:
S.M. in Technology & Policy (TPP)
- 2000 – 2004 • MIT: S.B.
in Aeronautics & Astronautics
Work Experience:
- Summer 2006 • Center for Strategic
& International Studies
- Summer 2006 • XPrize Foundation
- Summer 2005 • NASA Headquarters
- Summer 2003 • Avidyne Corporation
- Summer 2002 • Center for Applied
Research & Educational Technologies,
Clinical & Biomedical Computing Unit
• Cambridge, UK
- Summer 2001 • MIT Man-Vehicle
Lab
Research Description:
David's research focuses on health care
systems.
Updated June 2007
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Michel-Alexandre
Cardin
Academic
Background:
- 2007
– Present • MIT, ESD: Ph.D.
student in Technology, Management, &
Policy
- 2005
– 2007 • MIT, ESD: SM in Technology
& Policy
- Summer
2003 • International Space University:
Summer Program
- 2001
– 2003 • University of Toronto:
Master of Applied Science in Aerospace
Science & Engineering
- 1998
– 2001 • McGill University:
Honors B.S. in Physics
Work
Experience:
- Summer
2007 • Far East Organization •
Singapore
- Summer
Intern: Historical study of the US REIT
market in analyzing the possibility
of converting private real estate into
REIT
- 2005
– 2007 • MIT, ESD
- Research
Assistant: Conceptualization and application
of novel real options analysis methods
for the design of flexible engineering
systems
- Summer
2006 • University of Cambridge,
Judge Business School • United Kingdom
- Summer
Intern: Preliminary design and financial
analysis of Fusion Island, a hydrogen
production facility using nuclear fusion,
through use of real options methods
- 2004
– 2005 • Sunnybrook Research
Institute • Canada
- Research
Physicist: Design and development of
3D computer-aided interface for breast
cancer surgery
- Summer
2000 & Summer 2001 • Air Canada
- Summer
1999 & City of Montreal, Canada
- 9-1-1
Call Operator & Dispatcher
Research
Description:
Michel-Alexandre's research focuses on the
elaboration of a practical methodology for
defining flexible design and development
strategies for maximizing the expected value
of engineering systems. The approach considers
that it is generally computationally impractical
to explore all the possible ways in which
a system might be developed and operated,
given the uncertainty surrounding its environment.
The approach involves a catalog of representative
operating plans built from particular combinations
of associated to a possible manifestation
of uncertain variables affecting the systems
expected value and performance. This provides
program managers with more adequate tools
to react proactively towards uncertainty
and extract additional value from it. The
approach allows designers and program managers
to remain within established framework,
rules, and management constraints. This
favors transparent and realistic presentation
to senior decision-makers, and efficient
application to design and management of
flexible engineering systems.
Personal
Website:
web.mit.edu/macardin/www/
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September 2007
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João
Castro
Academic
Background:
-
IST-UTL • Portugal: M.Sc. in Engineering
Design (thesis pending)
- FEUP
• Portugal: Licenciatura in Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science
Work
Experience:
- Innovation
& Knowledge Society, Mission Unit,
Portuguese Government • Lisbon,
Portugal
- Metro
do Porto • Porto, Portugal
- Design
of ticketing system
- Cisco
Systems • San Jose, CA
Research
Description:
João's research focuses on Complex
Product Development and how different people
from different technical domains are able
to coordinate their work and understand
the larger system in which they are involved.
This research aims to help understand how
actors within large complex systems perceive
their roles and impacts, and how that knowledge
can benefit the effort of coordination in complex
socio-technical systems of which product development
is an example.
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September 2007
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Lynette
Cheah
Academic
Background:
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2007 – Present • MIT, ESD:
Ph.D. Student in Engineering Systems
-
2005 – Present • MIT: S.M.
in Mechanical Engineering
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2002 • Stanford University: M.Sc.
in Management Science & Engineering
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2001 • Northwestern University:
B.Sc. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Work
Experience:
- 2002 – 2005 •
Agency for Science, Technology & Research
• Singapore
Research
Description:
The objective of Lynette's research is to
carry out a life cycle assesment of the
energy and material use through the US light-duty
vehicle fleet over time, in order to evaluate
the potential energy and environmental benefits
of vehicle weight reduction.
Updated
October 2007
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Phech
Colatat
Academic
Background:
- 2006
– Present • MIT ESD, PhD Candidate
in Technology, Management and Policy
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2002 • Cornell University, MEng
Civil Engineering & Engineering Management
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2001 • Cornell University, BS Civil
Engineering, Minor Operations Research
Work
Experience:
- Stroud
Consulting - Consultant
-
Technische Universitat am Cottbus - Research
Associate
Research
Description:
Phech is interested in studying the relationships
between firms in vertical networks. While
this has traditionally been studied with
make-buy and exit-voice frameworks, he seeks
to develop a more sophisticated understanding
of inter-organizational relationships. By
creating network graphs and analyzing structural
network features, he will understand how
different structures confer efficiency benefits
at the network level.
Personal
Website:
http://web.mit.edu/pcolatat/www/
Updated
March 2007
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Anthony
"Tony" Craig
Academic Background:
- 2006 • MIT, ESD: M.Eng. in Logistics
(MLOG)
- 1996 • Iowa State University;
Ames, IA: B.S. in Computer Engineering
Work Experience:
- 2006 • WR Grace • Cambridge,
MA
- 2002 – 2005 • WMS Gaming
• Chicago, IL
- 1999 – 2002 • Motorola •
Chandler, AZ
Research Description:
Tony's research focuses on supply chain
management.
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John Q. Dickmann, Jr.
Academic
Background:
- 1981:
B.S., Physics, U.S. Naval Academy
- 1993:
M.Eng, Engineering Management, The Catholic
University of America
Work
Experience:
- 2003
– Present • Engineering
Systems Division, Lean Aerospace Initiative
- Ph.D.
Student & Research Assistant
- 2003
• Alidade, Inc.
- Director,
Synthesis and Exploration: Conducted
operational analysis of key strategic
investment issues centered on Navy
force structures. Development
of methods that apply advanced analytic
concepts such as real option and network
theory to classic and emerging concepts
such as dynamic sensor allocation
and viability of modularity and utility
of high speed for littoral combatants.
- 1981
– 2002 • United States Navy
- Active
Duty Service: At sea on three nuclear
powered submarines with increasing
levels of responsibility for the supervision
of maintenance and operation of nuclear
propulsion, navigation, communication
and electronic warfare systems. Shore
assignments included instructor duty
teaching electrical engineering at
Naval Nuclear Power School, policy
positions in International and Interagency
Affairs for the Oceanographer of the
Navy, a fellowship in Strategy and
Policy at the Center for Naval Analyses,
strategic programming, strategic futures
and advanced concept development on
the Navy Staff in the Pentagon, then
at Navy Warfare Development Command
and the Chief of Naval Operations'
Strategic Studies Group in Newport,
RI.
Working
Thesis Title:
Design Rules for Large Scale Engineered
Systems: Implications for Enterprise Architectures
Research
Description:
John’s research focuses on the necessity
of studying the evolution of system and
enterprise architectures, "enterprise-technical
systems", to enable discovery of underlying
forces that drive short and long time scale
dynamics of these systems and to learn how
enterprise architecture generates, processes
and shapes these forces. We need to
understand these dynamics in order to more
effectively design future enterprise-technical
systems, manage the ones we have, and transform
the ones that require improvement. Conducting
a longitudinal examination of enterprise
architectures in the context of the technical
systems used or developed by them should
reveal patterns of evolution within the
systems (if they exist), across systems
and possibly across industries. Connecting
these patterns with awareness of fundamental
forces (human and institutional) that generate
the dynamics and the structures that constrain
and enable them, will help to develop prescriptive
knowledge regarding architectural shifts
and a better understanding of the dynamic
relationship between technical system architectures
and enterprise architectures. This knowledge
will enable better ex ante design decision
making for future (greenfield) large scale
enterprises and improved change and transformation
efforts for existing (brownfield) enterprises.
Our ultimate goal is to enable architecting
of enterprise-technical systems that are
better suited to the evolving complexities
of their operating environment than most
of those we architect today.
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Kat
Donnelly
Academic
Background:
- 2007
– Present • MIT, ESD: Ph.D.
student in Technology, Management, &
Policy
- 2008*
• MIT, ESD: SM in Technology & Policy
and Civil & Environmental Engineering
- 1997
• San Diego State University: BS
in Civil Engineering
*date
expected
Work
Experience:
- 1999
– 2005 • San Diego Association
of Governments (SANDAG)
• San Diego, CA
- 2003
– 2005 • Senior Transportation
& Land-Use Planner & Engineer
- 1999
– 2003 • Associate to Senior
Transportation Planner
- 1997
– 1999 • Kimley-Horn and Associates
• San Diego, CA & Phoenix, AZ
Research
Description:
The question that Kat's research addresses
is how consumer behavioral factors impact
energy consumption, especially related to
energy efficiency and demand response.
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September 2007
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Katherine
Dykes
Academic
Background:
- 2007 – Present • MIT, ESD:
Ph.D. student in Technology, Management,
& Policy
- Ohio State University: M.S. in Electrical
Engineering
- Ohio State University: M.S. in Agricultural,
Developmental & Environmental Economics
- University of Pennsylvania: B.S. in
Engineering
- University of Pennsylvania: B.S. in
Economics
- La Universidad de Navarra, Spain: Rotary
Ambassadorial Scholar (one year)
Work Experience:
- University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
School, Management Department
- General Motors
- Controls Engineer for Hybrid Platforms
- Green Energy Ohio
Research Description:
Katherine has researched and worked with a
variety of applications in sustainable energy
and transportation systems from both engineering
and economic perspectives. At MIT, she hopes
to develop an integrated program to look at
the impact of emerging technology on economic
systems and policy. Updated
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Dietrich
Falkenthal
Academic
Background:
- MSEE,
Stanford
- MBA
Finance, Chapman University
- BSEE,
RPI
Work
Experience:
Dietrich has worked at MITRE, Fujitsu
Labs Venture Capital, Cisco Systems, and
the US Air Force.
Research
Description:
- interoperability
of security in heterogeneous IT systems
-
economics of information security
-
collective choice, socio-technical alignment
in complex systems
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August 2007
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Wen
Feng
Academic
Background:
- 2007
– Present • MIT: Ph.D. student
in Technology, Management, & Policy
- 2007
• MIT: S.M. in Technology &
Policy
- 2007
• MIT: S.M. in Civil & Environmental
Engineering
- 2003
• Tsinghua University: M.S. with
Honors in Thermal Engineering
- 2000
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University:
B.S. in Refrigeration & Cryogenics
Engineering, Minor in Automation
Work
Experience:
- 2006
– Present • MIT System Architecture
Group • Cambridge, MA
- 2004
– 2006 • MIT Laboratory for
Energy and the Environment • Cambridge,
MA
- Kabcenell
Future Energy Fellow
- 2003
– 2004 • China National Petroleum
Corporation • Beijing, China
- 2000
– 2003 • National Key Laboratory
for Clean Combustion of Coal • Beijing,
China
- 2000
• SJTU Institute of Refrigeration
& Cryogenics • Shanghai, China
Research
Description:
Wen's current research focuses on how to
model and manage the stakeholder value network,
as well as how to integrate stakeholder
analysis into the design and selection of
architectures for complex engineering systems.
His research interests and experience also
include broad technology, management and
policy issues in energy, environmental and
transportation areas.
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September 2007
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Travis
Franck
Academic
Background:
- 2005
– Present • MIT, ESD: Ph.D.
Student in Technology, Management, &
Policy
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MIT: S.M. in Technology & Policy
(TPP) / Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Iowa
State University: B.S. in Environmental
Science / Computer Science / Environment
Studies
Work
Experience:
- Joint
Program on the Science & Policy of
Global Change
-
Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant
-
Apple Computer
-
Adobe Systems
Research
Description:
Travis's primary research involves uncertainty
analysis of climate change policies. Additionally,
he will focus on the dynamics of the climate
change system.
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September 2005
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Daniel
Gillespie
Academic
Background:
- 2006
– Present • MIT, ESD: Ph.D.
Student in Engineering Systems
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1997 • University of Colorado
at Boulder: MS in Aerospace Engineering
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1990 • United States Air Force
Academy: BS in Aeronautical Engineering
Work
Experience:
- 1990
– Present • U.S. Air Force
-
16 years of active duty service
-
2003 – 2006 • United States
Air Force Academy, CO
-
Assistant Professor of Military Strategic
Studies: Additional work in curriculum
development, international programs,
department executive officer, and
T-41 flying operations.
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2001 – 2003 • MacDill AFB,
FL (and various deployed locations)
-
KC-135 Pilot: Additional work in squadron
leadership positions.
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1998 – 2001 • Ramstein AB,
Germany
-
C-21 Pilot: Additional work in aircrew
scheduling, flight safety, and aircrew
leadership.
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1994 – 1998 • Fairchild
AFB, WA (and various deployed locations)
-
KC-135 Pilot: Additional work in aircrew
training and scheduling.
-
1991 – 1994 • Eglin AFB, FL,
Aero Systems Division
-
Weapons Development Engineer
Research
Description:
Dan’s research is with the Lean Aerospace
Initiative.
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June 2006
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Christopher
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Erica
Gralla
Academic Background:
- September 2006 • MIT: S.M. in
Aeronautics & Astronautics
- June 2004 • Princeton University:
B.S.E. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Work Experience:
- Summers 1999 – 2003 • NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Systems Engineering Intern, Mission
and Systems Architecture Section
Research Description:
Erica's research focuses on the application
of systems methods to problems in the area
of humanitarian aid and disaster relief.
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Marc
Haddad
Academic
Background:
- 1998
• Georgia Institute of Technology:
M.S. in Transportation Engineering
- 1993
• Georgia Institute of Technology:
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
- 1992
• Georgia Institute of Technology:
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering; Minor
in Composites Engineering
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