2022 OkIP Conference Keynotes/Invited Talks
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2021 OkIP Conference Keynotes/Invited Talks
“Machine Learning for Critical Systems Security”
Nancy R. Mead, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr. Nancy R. Mead is a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and an Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research areas are security requirements engineering and software assurance curricula. The Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education is named for her.
Before joining the SEI, Mead was a senior technical staff member at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her career developing and managing large real-time systems. She also worked in IBM’s software engineering technology area and managed IBM Federal Systems’ software engineering education department. She has developed and taught numerous courses on software engineering topics, both at universities and in professional education courses.
Mead has more than 150 publications and invited presentations. She is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the ACM, and was named the 2015 Distinguished Educator by IEEE TCSE. Dr. Mead received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
“Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Systems”
Manos M. Tentzeris, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Tentzeris is currently a Ken Byers Professor in flexible electronics and served as the Head of the Electromagnetics Technical Interest Group with the School of ECE, Georgia Tech. He is also the Head of the A.T.H.E.N.A. Research Group (20 students and researchers) and has established academic programs in 3D Printed RF electronics and modules, flexible electronics, origami and morphing electromagnetics, Highly Integrated/Multilayer Packaging for RF and Wireless Applications using ceramic and organic flexible materials, paper-based RFIDs and sensors, inkjet-printed electronics, nanostructures for RF, wireless sensors, power scavenging, and wireless power transfer, Microwave MEM's, SOP-integrated (UWB, multiband, conformal) antennas and Adaptive Numerical Electromagnetics (FDTD, MultiResolution Algorithms).
He has published more than 600 papers in refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings, 5 books, and 25 book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of MTT-15 Committee, an Associate Member of the European Microwave Association (EuMA), a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and a member of Commission D, URSI, and of the Technical Chamber of Greece. Professor Tentzeris received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1993 and 1998.
"Blockchain Technology and its implications in Business Applications and Healthcare IT"
Akhil Kumar, PhD
Penn State University, USA
Dr. Akhil Kumar currently a Professor of Information Systems, joined the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University in June 2002. He has previously been on the faculties at Cornell University and the University of Colorado and has spent a sabbatical year as a scientist at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. He has published more than 100 papers in academic journals and international conferences.
Akhil currently serves as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. Previously, he was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, INFORMS Journal on Computing and Information Systems Research. He was a program co-chair of BPM 2017 Conference. He also served as a co-program chair of CoopIS'11 and co-chair of Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'07). He has been a principal investigator for National Science Foundation and received support from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and other organizations. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
His current research interests are in Blockchain technology, Business analytics, Deep learning, Health IT and Healthcare forums, BPM and workflow systems, and process mining. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1988.
"The Role of Biosensors in a Green Economy"
Tom Jobe, President
BioInSpire LLC, USA
Mr. Jobe spent 10 years in the energy business as an instrument developer before moving to Corazonix of OKC in 1987 to develop hi-res ECG equipment. In 1990, he began a 15-year career as developer and manager of medical diagnostic instruments with Organon Teknika & BioMerieux, where he led the development of microbiology, coagulation, and nucleic acid diagnostics instrumentation.
In 2005, he became the Business Manager for the SensiQ division of Nomadics, directing the development of biosensor-based Life Science equipment for pharma and biotechnology applications. After SensiQ spun out of Nomadics to become SensiQ Technologies, he directed the company’s R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization efforts as Chief Operating Officer. After SensiQ Technologies was acquired by Pall Life Sciences in 2017, Mr. Jobe co-founded startups BioInSpire of Oklahoma City and Essai Sciences of Stillwater.
BioInSpire provides consulting services to Life Sciences clients while Essai Sciences provided biomolecular interaction analysis services of pharmaceutical compounds. He has served on the Engineering Industry Advisory Boards at the University of Central Oklahoma, OSU-OKC, and the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at OU-Norman. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society for 2016-2018, providing lectures related to the field of biosensors. Mr. Jobe holds BS and MS Engineering degrees from Oklahoma State University.
"The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Guide—More Than 20 Years Down the Road"
Pierre Bourque, PhD
University of Quebec, Canada
Pierre Bourque is a Full Professor in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at École de technologie supérieure of the Université du Québec. He is also the Director of the Master in Software Engineering program (2005 to 2013, 2021-).
After having completed two terms as Dean of Studies of his school (2013-2016, 2016-2019), he completed in 2019-2020 an industrial assignment at CGI during his year on administrative (sabbatical) leave. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in software requirements. He is the 2020 recipient of the Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education.
Pierre Bourque is a member of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) (2020-2023). He is also the lead co-editor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) V3 published in 2014 and was co-editor of the 2001 and 2004 versions of the SWEBOK Guide. The SWEBOK Guide is also recognized as an ISO/IEC Technical Report. He was named to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society in 2010 and was an elected member for the periods of 2011-2013 and 2014-2016.
