Dimitri Kusnezov
Dr. Dmitri Kusnezov received A.B. degrees in Physics and in Pure Mathematics with highest honors from UC Berkeley. Following a year of research at the Institut fur Kernphysik, KFA-Julich, in Germany, he attended Princeton University earning his MS in Physics and Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. At Michigan State University, he conducted postdoctoral research and then became an instructor.
In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University as an assistant professor in physics, becoming an associate professor in 1996. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. Dr. Kusnezov has published over 100 articles and a book.
He joined federal service at the National Nuclear Security Administration in late 2001 and is a member of the Senior Executive Service and is also a Visiting Researcher at Yale. He currently serves as Deputy Under Secretary for A.I. and Technology.
Catherine Schuman
Catherine (Katie) Schuman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee. Prior to her appointment at UoT, she was a Liane Russell Early Career Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee in 2015, where she completed her dissertation on the use of evolutionary algorithms to train spiking neural networks for neuromorphic systems. Katie has a joint faculty appointment with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, where she, along with four other professors at UT, leads a neuromorphic research team made up of more than twenty faculty members, graduate student researchers, and undergraduate student researchers. Katie has over 30 publications as well as four patents in the field of neuromorphic computing. Katie has spoken on neuromorphic computing at over 25 conferences and workshops.
Alec Talin
A. Alec Talin received the B.A. degree in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1995.,He is a Principal Member of technical staff with Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, an adjunct Fellow with the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, and an adjunct Associate Professor of materials science and engineering with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Prior to joining Sandia in 2002, he spent six years as a Research Scientist with the Motorola Corporate Labs, Phoenix, AZ, USA. His research interests include charge transport in nanostructures, contacts, novel electronic materials, solid-state batteries, and photoelectrochemistry.
