Speaker Bios

Industry Speakers

Alicia Saia, i2, Inc.

The Product Marketing department at i2 Inc oversees the release of all i2 products into North and South America, working closely with the product development teams to ensure i2 is meeting customer requirements in those markets. Alicia joined i2 in October of 2001; she has more than 15 years experience in product marketing in the software industry, including 11 years in the healthcare informatics and analytics industry. Alicia earned her M.B.A. degree at the Johns Hopkins University, where she focused on product development and marketing strategy. She received her B.A. with Distinction from the University of Virginia.

Brian Clark, Objectivity

Brian Clark has extensive experience in complex database applications in Defense, Intelligence and ‘Big’ Science applications. His contributions have been key to the development of threat awareness systems in the UK, US, and Canadian Intel Agencies. In addition Brian has intimate knowledge of VLDB deployments within organizations to enable their analytic software and analysts to assess complicated ontologies and multi-dimensional pattern recognitions. Benefiting international laboratories include CERN, FERMI, SLAC, LANL, and others. Commercial entities include Lexus/Nexus, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and more. Brian is currently Vice President Technical Services for Objectivity the market leader in high-performance database engines for sophisticated applications. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sheffield, UK.

Ray Verhoeff, OSIsoft

As Vice President of Research, Ray Verhoeff oversees the design of new platform concepts, to ensure our customers can easily configure PI and the RtPM Platform. Ray began his career with OSIsoft in 1993 as a software engineer and developed the PI System's SQL language implementation. In 1997, he assumed the role of Group Leader for the PI Server for Windows NT and UNIX. Prior to OSISoft, he worked for Champion International and Icotron as a process control engineer. A native of Toronto, Canada, Verhoeff earned a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 1981. He completed a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1983.

Maureen Coveney, OSIsoft

Maureen Coveney is a Business Strategist for OSIsoft. As such, she works with customers, partner companies, and industry groups to align OSIsoft’s RtPM Platform direction with key market requirements and strategic initiatives. Prior to OSIsoft, Maureen worked for SAIC / Data Systems & Solutions (DS&S), where she managed a division focused on developing and delivering asset management and mobility solutions for the energy industry. Maureen began her professional career at General Electric, where she worked in reactor modification designs and in performing advanced computational analyses for GE’s existing and advanced boiling water reactors. She received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering in 1992, and her graduate degree from UC Berkeley in Nuclear Engineering in 1997.

Arun Hampapur, IBM

Dr. Arun Hampapur manages the Exploratory Computer Vision Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The Exploratory Computer Vision Group is a 10 member team with PhD's from the top universities in the world, the team currently has two thrusts, video surveillance and biometrics technologies. At IBM since 1997, Dr Hampapur is one of the early researchers in the field of Multimedia Database Management. Dr Hampapur obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1995. Before moving to IBM he was leading the video effort at Virage Inc (1995 – 1997).

At IBM Research in addition to several research projects, Dr Hampapur served as a design consultant for the CNN Video archive system a joint project between IBM and Sony. Dr Hampapur is one of the inventors of the IBM Smart Surveillance System (S3). He has developed several algorithms for video analytics and video indexing. He has published more than 40 papers on various topics related to media indexing, video analysis, and video surveillance and holds 8 US patents. He is also active in the research community and serves on the program committees of several IEEE International conferences. He also served on NSF review panel for small business innovation research. Dr Hampapur is an IEEE Senior Member.

Andy Kemp, Apple Computer

Andy Kemp is a 10 year veteran of software and technology services. Just prior to joining Apple Computer, he served as a Regional Account Executive at Oracle Corporation. From 1996 to 2005 he managed all aspects of the partnership into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From 1993 to 1996, Andy worked at the Public Defenders Service for the District of Columbia. Andy received a bachelor of Science degree from Elon University.

Panel Speakers

Joe Kielman, DHS

Joe Kielman is Science Advisor to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology within the Department of Homeland Security. He serves as the manager of the Threat Awareness portfolio. Prior to joining DHS, Dr. Kielman worked for 20 years at the FBI, where he was successively chief of the Advanced Technology Group, chief of the Research and Engineering Unit in the Engineering Section, and Chief Scientist for the Information Resources Division. Work for the American Society for Testing and Materials, MCI Communications, and the Department of Health and Human Services preceded his tenure at the FBI. Joe has an undergraduate degree in Physics and graduate degrees in Biophysics and did his postdoctoral research in genetics.

Jim Thomas, PNNL

Jim Thomas is director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Visualization and Analytics Center and a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. With a career spanning 30 years of contributions in information technology, Thomas specializes in the research, design and implementation of innovative information and scientific visualization, multimedia and human computer interaction technology. At PNNL, he has established investment directions for information technology, led major technology initiatives, mentored staff and spearheaded several major research programs.

Jim Williams, DIA (Ret.)

Jim Williams served for 31 years in US Army, in a variety of intelligence jobs including chief of counterintelligence for NATO forces and director of Army intelligence in Europe and culminated with four years as Director, DIA. In 1980's played major role in campaign to preserve Landsat and was an early proponent of MASINT. Responsible for creating first automated threat database at DIA and served as a consultant for design of Intelligence Community Requirements Management System. Responsible for first DoD handbook for multispectral imagery and creation of Multispectral Users' Handbook. Since leaving the Army in 1985 has been a strong proponent of change in analytic methodologies and information display. Currently serves as President, InfoAssure, Inc., developing key management systems for government and business.

Larry Rosenblum, NSF

Larry Rosenblum is Program Director for Graphics and Visualization in the Foundations of Computing and Communications Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is on detail to NSF from the Naval Research Laboratory, where he is Director of the Virtual Reality Lab. Rosenblum has also worked as Program Officer for Graphics and Visualization at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and as Liaison Scientist for Computer Science at the ONR European Office. His research interests include virtual and augmented reality, visualization, and human-computer interaction. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Mathematics.

George Robertson, Microsoft

George G. Robertson is an ACM Fellow and a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he manages projects on 3D user interfaces and information visualization. Before coming to Microsoft, he was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, working on 3D interactive animation interfaces for intelligent information access. He was the architect of the Information Visualizer and invented a number of information visualization techniques. He has been a Senior Scientist at Thinking Machines, a Senior Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. In the past, he has made significant contributions to machine learning, multimedia message systems, hypertext systems, operating systems, and programming languages.

Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University

Pat Hanrahan is the CANON USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where he teaches computer graphics. His current research involves visualization, image synthesis, and graphics systems and architectures. Before joining Stanford he was a faculty member at Princeton. He has also worked at Pixar where he developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan™ Interface - a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high-quality rendering programs. Previous to Pixar he directed the 3D computer graphics group in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at New York Institute of Technology. Professor Hanrahan has received three university teaching awards. He has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, and the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.