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Mon, June 30, 2025
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2025 — Seventy-four highly accomplished, early-career engineers have been selected to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together to share new techniques and approaches across fields, facilitate collaboration in engineering, and build professional networks among the next generation of engineering leaders.
“Engineering impacts every aspect of our lives. From transportation to global communications, medical advancements, water, and food security … to the everyday items that make our lives easier, engineering plays a vital role,” said NAE President John L. Anderson. “As our world evolves, engineering must too. That means that engineers must be ready with the advanced knowledge and professional networks needed to create new solutions that meet the needs of our ever-changing world.”
The 2025 USFOE, to be held September 14-17 at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore four themes:
“The NAE’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium provides an information-rich environment in which engineers across disciplines can learn, network and share among their peers with an eye toward working collaboratively in the future,” Anderson added.
Participants selected to participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium are nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and represent a broad mix of engineering disciplines from industry, academia, and government. Since the program’s inception in 1995, more than 5,000 early-career engineers have participated in previous symposia, many of whom have gone on to become national leaders in the engineering community.
The following seventy-four engineers were selected as general participants for 2025:
Elaheh Ahmadi
University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Anderson
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Elizabeth Brisbois
University of Georgia
Tobias Brown-Heft
HRL Laboratories
Rachel Carter
US Naval Research Laboratory
Kai-Han Chang
General Motors
Haonan Chen
Colorado State University
Pin-Yu Chen
IBM Research
Connor Coley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zachary Cordero
Nick Davy
Andluca
Luc Deike
Princeton University
Salih Emre Demirel
Dow Chemical Company
Aditya Deshpande
The Procter and Gamble Company
Yasaman Esfandiari
Alireza Fatemi
Donal Finegan
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Julien Frougier
Brian Giera
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Carol Glover
The Boeing Company
Eric Gonzalez
Google
Erjia Guan
Chevron Corporation
Urcan Guler
Raytheon
Colin Haynes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ashley Hilmas
Air Force Research Laboratory
Zachary Hood
Argonne National Laboratory
Kevin Hsieh
Microsoft Corp.
Phuc Huynh
GE Aerospace Research Center
Michael Joly
RTX Technology Research Center
Rebecca Kamire
Honeywell Aerospace Technologies
Abhinav Kandala
IBM
Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy
Oak Ridge National Lab
Esak (Isaac) Lee
Cornell University
Steve Majerus
Case Western Reserve University
Monica Martinez
Brown University
Ian McCue
Northwestern University
Madeline Miller
Nitish Mittal
ExxonMobil
Laurie Mlinar
AbbVie
Erika Moore
University of Maryland
Atieh Moridi
Jason Morphew
Purdue University
Alexander Opitz
University of Minnesota
Juliana Pacheco Duarte
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis
University of California, Riverside
Stephan Priebe
GE Aerospace
Theresa Raimond
Ritu Raman
Christopher Reynolds
Lockheed Martin
Francesco Ricci
Boehringer Ingelheim
Hossein Robatjazi
Syzygy Plasmonics
Mahshid Roumi
Parthian Energy
Aura Roy
Nagore Sabio Arteaga
BlackRock, Inc
Maria Sakovsky
Stanford University
Jennifer Schaefer
University of Notre Dame
Elliot Schmidt
Medtronic
Sivaranjani Seetharaman
Indira Seshadri
Ashwin Shahani
University of Michigan
Chenhui Shao
Amir Sheikhi
Pennsylvania State University
Jian Shi
University of Houston
Katherine (Katie) Skinner
Kyle Srivastava
Boston Scientific
Otilia Stretcu
Google Research
Sushil Subramanian
Intel Corporation
Tiezheng Tong
Arizona State University
Thomas Underwood
The University of Texas at Austin
Kirsten Viering
Kolby White
3M
Xuan Wu
AES US Utilities (AES Indiana & AES Ohio)
Xing Xie
Georgia Institute of Technology
Qi Yu
University of California San Diego
Speakers (chosen by the Organizing Committee):
Florian Allroggen
Marco Capogrosso
University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Gonzalez
Vanderbilt University
Deep Jariwala
University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Proctor
Sandia National Laboratory
Jesse Quinlan
NASA
Laura Morejón Ramírez
Whisper Aero
Adam Rutkowski
Marathon Fusion
Catherine Schuman
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Mollie Schwartz
MIT Lincoln Lab
Caroline Sorenson
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Derek Sutherland
Realta Fusion
Hubert Wong
Boeing
Anqi Zhang
California Institute of Technology
Organizing Committee:
Karen Willcox (Co-Chair)
University of Texas at Austin
George Pappas (Co-Chair)
Phillip Ansell
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Antcliff
Joby Aviation
Jean-Anne Incorvia
Joshua Kline
Delsys Inc.
Shavindra Prematatne
Intel
Andrea Schmidt
Annabelle Singer
Patrick Snouffer
Zeno Power Systems
In addition to The Grainger Foundation, sponsors for the 2025 USFOE are the National Science Foundation, Cummins and Dow.
The mission of the NAE is to advance the welfare and prosperity of the nation by providing independent advice on matters involving engineering and technology and by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and public appreciation of engineering. To accomplish its mission, the NAE proactively identifies and addresses issues by engaging engineers and individuals from a variety of professional and community networks, as well as those with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, traits, and skills. Informed by these engagements, the NAE promulgates the value of an engineering mindset for business, education, government, and daily life. The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science, technology, and health.
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