Arthur B. Baggeroer is a Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the degrees of BSEE from Purdue University in 1963 and ScD from MIT in 1968.

He was been a consultant to the Chief of Naval Research at the NATO SACLANT Center (now NURC) in 1977 and a Cecil and Ida Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1990 while on sabbatical leaves. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He received the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 1991, was an elected member of the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society from 1994-1997, and was awarded the Rayleigh-Helmholtz Medal from the Acoustical Society in 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and awarded a Secretary of the Navy / Chief of Naval Operations Chair in Oceanographic Science in 1998.
He has served as a senior advisor to the Navy on numerous committees and panels. He recently chaired the NSB panel on Distributed Remote Surveillance (DRS).

Baggeroer was awarded the “Distinguished Alumni Award” of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from his alma mater, Purdue University. He was recently awarded the ADM Charles Martel - David Bushnell Award by NDIA for ”outstanding technical contributions to the defense of the US in the field of UnderseaWarfare.” He has long been recognized as the outstanding academic for Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW). Some of the Navy Committees he has been involved are:

1. the Naval Studies Board (NSB)
2. the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) of the National Academy
3. the Submarine Superiority Technical Advisory Group (He was a member of the original committee for ADM Demars which led to APB/ARCI.)
4. the Fixed Surveillance Systems Technical Advisory Group;
5. the SSIPT for N84 (twice)
6. the ”Red Team” special programs component for the Way Ahead for ASW
7. an advisory panel member for several programs for the Navy and DARPA
8. the Naval Research Advisory Committee.

He has been chief scientist on 15 oceanographic cruises with seven in the Arctic Ocean. His research has concerned signal and array processing for sonar, radar and seismic systems, ocean acoustic telemetry, global acoustics for ocean thermometry and ocean warming and matched field array processing. He also has had long affiliations with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) where he was director of the MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program from 1983-1988 and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Tonio Buonassisi received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2001, and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under supervision of Eicke R. Weber in 2006. He was a visiting researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and the Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, and a crystal growth research scientist at Evergreen Solar.

He joined the faculty at MIT in 2007, where he is currently the SMA Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Gang Chen is currently the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

He attended Xiangfan No. 5 High School in China from 1978-1980. He received his bachelor and master degree from the Power Engineering Department, Huazhong Institute of Technology (now University of Science and Technology or HUST in short), China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He stayed at HUST as a lecturer from 1987-1989. In 1988, he was interviewed by Professor Chang-Lin Tien as a PhD candidate to receive a fellowship from the K.C. Wong Education Foundation in Hong Kong. He joined Professor Tien’s group first at UC Irvine in 1989 and then at UC Berkeley in 1990 when Professor Tien moved back to Berkeley as its Chancellor.

He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, in 1993. He was an assistant professor at Duke University from 1993 to 1997, a tenured associate professor at UC Los Angeles, from 1997 to 2001. He moved to MIT in 2001 as a tenured associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He was named a Warren Faculty Scholar at Duke University (1996-1997), and was the first holder of the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professorship at MIT (2006-2009) before assuming the Soderberg Professorship in 2009.

Jung-Hoon Chun is director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been a member of the MIT Mechanical Engineering faculty since 1989, and has over 100 publications and patents to his credit. His research focuses on the development of Innovative Manufacturing Processes. His research areas include droplet-based manufacturing processes, microelectronics manufacturing processes such as chemical-mechanical polishing and polymer-based microfluidic devices manufacturing. One of his patented manufacturing process, the uniform-droplet spray process, has been commercialized worldwide for the production of solder spheres used in electronics packaging. His teaching focuses on these research areas and on management in engineering.  Dr. Chun also has experience in many large-scale international collaborations and industry-MIT consortia.  He is active in advising and consulting for many for-profit and non-profit organizations worldwide, in technical as well as policy areas.  Dr. Chun received a B.S. from Seoul National University, an M.A.Sc. from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. from MIT, all in mechanical engineering.

Ahmed F. Ghoniem is the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory, and head of Energy Science and Engineering in ME. He received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, MSc and BSc from Cairo University.

His research has led to significant advances in high performance computing, multiscale approaches in reactive flow; active control of noise and emissions in combustion; and energy systems’ analysis with focus on low-carbon technologies through gasification, biomass-to-gas, oxy-combustion of solid and gaseous fuels, ion transport membrane reactors, solid-oxide fuel cells and hybrid concentrated solar thermal systems. He has supervised more than 75 M.Sc, Ph.D. and post-doctoral students, published more than 200 refereed articles in leading journals and conferences, and lectured extensively around the World. 

Ghoniem’s scholarly work includes developing advanced courses in energy conversion and combustion.  He has consulted for several major aerospace, automotive and energy companies and leading government research laboratories, and served on the board of high-performance computing centers and laboratories and several companies. He has won teaching and scholarly awards, is fellow of ASME and associate fellow of AIAA.  He received the KAUST Investigator Award in 2008.

Peter So is a professor in the departments of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. So obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 1992 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics in the University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign.

His research focuses on developing high resolution and high information content microscopic imaging instruments. These instruments are applied in biomedical studies such as the noninvasive optical biopsy of cancer, the mechanotransduction processes in cardiovascular diseases, and the effects of neuronal remodeling on memory plasticity.