Ronald Michael "Ron" Sega is an American former astronaut who is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at the Colorado State University Research Foundation,a non-profit advocacy organization supporting CSU. He is also the Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Environment at Ohio State University. From August 2005 to August 2007,he served as Under Secretary of the Air Force. He is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Sega was born in Cleveland,Ohio,he is of Slovene origin. He was married to fellow astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar. He is now married to Ann Sega and they have two sons. He has lived in both Northfield,Ohio and Colorado Springs.
Nancy L. Zimpher is an American educator,state university leader,and former Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). Prior to her service at SUNY,Zimpher was a dean and professor of education at Ohio State University;then Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee between 1998 and 2003;and President of the University of Cincinnati from 2003 through May 2009. Zimpher was the first woman to serve as Chancellor of SUNY,UWM's first woman chancellor,and UC's first female president. Zimpher is a native of the village of Gallipolis in southern Ohio.
SUNY Online is an online program of the State University of New York.
Bahgat G. Sammakia is an educator and academic administrator who currently serves as Vice President for Research at Binghamton University. He was previously the Interim President of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is also a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center at Binghamton University in Binghamton,New York. Sammakia has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings,holds 21 U.S. patents and 12 IBM technical disclosures. He has also contributed to three books.
Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden,is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University (2005–2015),and of the University of Southampton (2015–2019). He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015. He is currently the chairman of the ERA Foundation.
Linda Pisti Basile Katehi-Tseregounis is a Greek-born American engineering professor and former university administrator. Katehi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) for contributions to three-dimensional integrated circuits and on-wafer packaging and to engineering education. Katehi worked as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's provost from 2006 to 2009 and dean of engineering at Purdue University from 2002 to 2006. Beginning in 2009,she served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California,Davis.
Ilesanmi Adesida is a Nigerian American physicist of Yoruba descent. He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana,Kazakhstan,from September 2016.
Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek-American computer scientist,the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science,a professor of bioengineering,electrical and computer engineering,and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. She is known for her work on robotics/AI and bioinformatics/computational biology and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis.
Mary Jane Irwin is an Emerita Evan Pugh Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977. She is an international expert in computer architecture. Her research and teaching interests include computer architecture,embedded and mobile computing systems design,power and reliability aware design,and emerging technologies in computing systems.
Aylin Yener holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in engineering at Ohio State University,and she is currently the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Dr. Yener is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering,Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,Affiliated Faculty at the Sustainability Institute,and Affiliated Faculty at the Translational Data Analytics Institute,all at Ohio State University.
Jill S. Tietjen is an American electrical engineer,consultant,women's advocate,author,and speaker. She is the president and CEO of Technically Speaking,Inc.,an electric utilities consulting firm which she founded in Greenwood Village,Colorado,in 2000. She has written or co-authored fourteen books and more than 100 technical papers. A strong advocate for the participation of women and girls in the STEM fields,she establishes scholarships for women in engineering and technology,and nominates women for awards and halls of fame. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame in 2019,and elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2022.
Mona Jarrahi is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials,terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics,microwave photonics,imaging and spectroscopy systems.
Fay Biles was an American academic and college sports coach. She was the first woman to serve in a vice presidency role at an Ohio university. As a head coach of the field hockey and lacrosse teams,she logged more victories than any other coach in Kent State University history. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.
Dorothy Ann Ortner Horrell is an American educator,university administrator,and philanthropy administrator. From 2016 to 2020,she held the post of Chancellor of University of Colorado Denver. She was previously president of both Red Rocks Community College and the Colorado Community College System,and president and CEO of the Bonfils–Stanton Foundation. In 2009,she was appointed by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to the Colorado State University Board of Governors,which she also served as chair for a two-year term. Active on the boards of many community organizations,she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.
Jinliu "Grace" Wang is a Chinese American engineer and academic administrator who serves as the 17th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Wang also served as interim president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute from July 1,2018 to November 2020.
James J. Malatras is an American government official and university administrator who was the Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) system from August 2020 until his resignation in January 2022.
Mitra Dutta is an Indian-American physicist and electronics engineer known for her research on optoelectronics. She is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago,and the university's former vice chancellor for research.
Leda Maria Lunardi is a Brazilian-American electrical engineer whose research concerns electronics,photonics,and optoelectronics. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University.
