Subject Matter Experts

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Subject matter experts, or SMEs, performed the second stage of the CRCF proposal review and were an essential part of the evaluation process: evaluating projects' technical and commercial merits. More than 300 SMEs across a broad array of domains and from within and outside the Commonwealth offered to support the CRCF program since its inception through its sunset in 2020. Their expertise, which often spanned more than one discrete industry sector, included a multitude of focus areas under advanced manufacturing, biosciences and medical technologies, communications, cybersecurity, energy, environment, IT / data analytics, modeling & simulation, nuclear physics, transportation, and unmanned systems. For the purposes of the information that follows, association with a single industry was identified. The professionals who served as CRCF SMEs also represented a broad array of organizations, including from industry, higher education, federal and state government, nonprofit research organizations, and the venture capital community.

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Subject matter experts engaged in supporting the CRCF program included:
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Advanced Manufacturing

Paul Bolesta: Project Manager, GENEDGE

Bill Donohue: President, GENEDGE

Matthieu Finot: Winemaker / Production Manager, King Family Vineyards

Donald Griffin: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Marty Kaszubowski: Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Innovation -- Old Dominion University

Rob Kelly: Professor, University of Virginia

Emily Pelton: Winemaker

Murty S. Polavarapu: Consultant

Leonard R. Rockett, Ph.D.: President, Technology Metrics

Dan Stilwell: Professor, Virginia Tech

Dean Young: Engagement Manager, GENEDGE


Cybersecurity

Peter O'Dell: CEO, Swan Island Networks - TX360 Situational Awareness

Robert J. Stratton, III: Principal

Igor Volovich: Chief Strategist


Energy

Ali Butt: Professor, Virginia Tech

Brad Douglas: Vice President, Engineering -– American Wood Council

Michael Duncan: Consultant

Less Goudarzi: CEO, OnLocation, Inc.

Sandeep Kumar: Associate Professor, Old Dominion University

Rajesh Lakhiani: CEO, Athena Power, Inc.

Reenst Lesemann: CEO, Columbia Power Technologies

Eric Loth: Professor, University of Virginia

Dave McCarthy: Executive Director, Potential Energy DC

Samuel A. Morton, III: Associate Professor, James Madison University

John Noonan: Argonne National Laboratory (Retired)

Ed Rogers: CEO, Bonumose LLC


Information Technology

Pamela Arya: VP, Government Programs

Sven Brueckner: CTO

Wouter Deconinck: Assistant Professor, William & Mary

Noah Goodall: Research Scientist, Virginia Transportation Research Council

Jahan K. Jewayni: Wealth Management Advisor

Louis McDonald: Director of Technology, Fauquier County Public Schools

Diane Rosemary Murphy: Professor, Marymount University

Daniel Reininger: CEO, Semandex Networks

Nektaria Tryfona: Director, DataLab; Director, Educational Initiatives –- George Mason University, College of Science

Eric Weisel: Executive Director, Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) and Associate VP for Applied Research -- Old Dominion University


Life Sciences

Ali Andalibi: Associate Dean for Research, George Mason University

Robert Balcerzak: CEO, Allotropic Tech

Sheryl Baldwin: Executive Director / President, Jade Research of Virginia

Silvina Bocca: Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Samy El-Shall: Professor and Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University

Gregory Evanylo: Professor, Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Steven Ferguson: Special Advisor

Peter G. Goldschmidt: President, World Development Group, Inc.

Michael Grosso: Dentist

Jeffrey Hausfeld, MD, MBA: Chairman of the Board and Chief Medical Officer, BioFactura, Inc.; Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

Richard Helm: Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

John A. Hossack: Professor, University of Virginia

Honglin Jiang: Professor, Virginia Tech

Shree Koushik: Managing Partner, BDRA Consulting LLC

Patric Lundberg: Associate Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Jeremiah Malerich: Program Director, Chemistry -– SRI International

David Mu: Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Biswarup Mukhopadhyay: Professor, Biochemistry -– Virginia Tech

Jerry L. Nadler: Vice Dean of Research and Chair, Department of Medicine -– Eastern Virginia Medical School

Helia Radianingtyas: Consultant

Aakrosh Ratan: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

John H Rossmeisl, Jr.: Professor, Neurosurgery -– Virginia Tech

Patrick Simms: President, Industrial BioProcessing, LLC

David Taylor-Fishwick: Professor

Onur Unal: Manager, MIPS / Mtech -- University of Maryland

Jeff Walenta: Technology Transfer Coordinator, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Michele Wales: Founder and Principal, InHouse Patent Counsel

Dayanjan S Wijesinghe: Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Pharmacy

Tom Woteki: Professor of Practice, Statistics and Director, Data Analytics and Applied Statistics Master's Program -– Virginia Tech

Kenneth J. Wynne: Distinguished Career Professor, Chemical and Life Sciences Engineering –- Virginia Commonwealth University; Founder and President, WynnVision LLC

Hu Yang: Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University


Modeling & Simulation

Lance Sherry: Associate Professor / Director, George Mason University

Ewan Smith: Senior Structural Engineer, Arup

John Sokolowski: Associate Professor, Old Dominion University


Transportation

Jim Silverstrim: Senior Technologist, Innovative Wireless Technologies, Inc.


Unmanned Systems

Christine Caccamise: Systems Engineer, Xtine Enterprises

John Coggin: Chief Engineer, Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership

Andrea Facchinetti: Vice President of Product Development

Nadim F. Haddad: Technical Director @ Engineering Fellow (previously employed at IBM and BAE Systems)

Brian Kent: Senior Director for Business Strategy

John Lambert: Senior Vice President, Nexutech, LLC

Gregory P. Scott: CEO, Service Robotics & Technologies
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Matt Twiggs: Vice President, Technology & Innovation -- MAG Aerospace

 
Additionally, SME support came from CGI Federal, Luna Innovations, Inc., Rev.Net Technologies, and Virginia Commonwealth University, among others.

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