International Congress THE IMPACT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY ON MULTINATIONAL EDUCATION&RESEARCH PROGRAMS, Asia University,Taichung, Taïwan, June 4-9, 2012

8/3/2019 International Congress THE IMPACT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY ON MULTINATIONAL EDUCATION&RESEARCH PROGRAMS, Asia University,Taichung, Tawan, June 4-9, 2012

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Transdisciplinary-Transnational-Transcultural

ASIA UNIVERSITY

TAICHUNG, TAIWAN

June 4-9, 2012

HONORINGDr. Chang-Hai Tsai

& Professor C.V. Ramamoorthy


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FOCUS OF ANNUAL MEETINGThe biennial meeting program will consist of invitedand selected papers emphasizing transdisciplinary,transnational and transcultural global problems. Ple-nary sessions and keynote panels will be presented byprominent speakers. The main theme of this bi-annualmeeting is to understand the complex issues related todevelopment of global sustainable society in all possibleopportunities, both physical and social: from clean orrenewable energy use, vibrant local economies, andsustainable agriculture, to community involvement indecision-making, biodiversity, and mixed-use urban plan-ning as well as where people enjoy living and workingtogether, now and in the future!

In particular, the impact of Transdisciplinarity on:

21st century higher education -- are we preparing thestudents for the rapid changes in a knowledge society?

Leadership -- how to deal with the decit in leadershiptoday?

Organization & Management -- how to let go of themechanistic view of organization, deeply inuenced by

the Newtonian thinking of the 17th century, and moveinto a more organic, living organization as we discoveredin the 20th century science?

Engineering-- how will transdisciplinarity impacts thiseld as design thinking permeates its entire process

now?

Cybercrime -- how to combat this new phenomenal of

increasing urgency in the 21st century?

SPONSORED BY

The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning

& Advanced Studies (TheATLAS)Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

CO-SPONSORED BY

Academy of Transdisciplinary Studies(ATS),Texas Tech University

China Medical University, Taiwan

International Center for TransdisciplinaryResearch & Studies (CIRET), France

George Kozmetsky Endowment (GKE)

THEMEThe Impact of

Transdisciplinarity on

Multi-national

Education & Research

Programs

ASIA UNIVERSITYTaichung-Taiwan

June 4-9, 2012

Healthcare -- how to deal with aging and wellbeing aswe redene the concept of senior citizen?

Ethics -- What is the key role of ethics in high-tech andhigher education

2012 TheATLAS T3 Biennial Meeting will be held atAsia University (AU). Asia University is a newly eshtab-lished and well regarded private university located inTaichung County, Taiwan. It is recognized in Taiwanfor its renowned research and teaching excellence inHealth Care, computer science, and management.Asia University was founded at the beginning of the21st century. Due to its carefully-planned development,incessant progress, and innovative breakthroughs,

the young university has become well-recognized innumerous aspects in Taiwan and the other part of theworld.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Honorary Conference Chairman

Conference Chairman

Program Chairmen

Program Vice-Chairmen

James SmithTexas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas, USA

Jeffrey J. P. TsaiAsia University

Taichung, Taiwan

Atila ErtasTexas Tech University

Texas, USA

Shian-Shyong TsengAsia University

Taichung, Taiwan

Yong ZengConcordia University,

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Shu LiaoAsia University

Taichung, Taiwan


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on advisory boards at schools throughout the country, spoketo student groups, worked for curricular innovation, spon-sored leadership conferences, and supported innovative fac-

ulty research through the familys RGK Foundation.

Dr. Kozmetsky was a co-founder and former Executive VicePresident of Teledyne, Inc.the rst major technology con-glomerate in the US with more than 100 companies. At TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Kozmetsky was deanfor sixteen years, he pioneered in educational technologyand education about technology, revolutionizing the curricu-lum and the manner in which it was taught. His vision, hisenergized drive, his ability to call on the resources of majorcorporations throughout America, his concept of educatingstudents by incorporating computers and technology in theclassroom, and his far-reaching motivational leadership en-

abled him to lift the College and Graduate School of Businessinto the top rank in the nation. More than twenty thousandstudents graduated under his deanship. He also participatedin the founding of the Graduate School of Industrial Admin-

istration at Carnegie Mellon University, and was a foundingboard member of the ATLAS.

In 1977, Dr. George Kozmetsky (1917-2003) founded theIC Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and beganhis long march of helping to make Austin the 4th technopolisin the US (the other three being Boston, Silicon Valley, andNorth Carolinas research triangle) in half the time, i.e. about15 years.

With his special capability to connect the dots, he was the

key architect to facilitate a coordinated state, city, and aca-demia drive in achieving this dream which was realized inthe early 1990s. Along the way, he created the Austin Tech-nology Incubator at The University of Texas at Austin, whichcombines economic development and business education;and the Texas Capital Network, which promotes innovativenancing for new ventures. His contributions have resultedin employment for tens of thousands of Americans and bil-lions of dollars of exports. He has been intimately involvedin facilitating technology transfer from the public, federal,and university sector, into private enterprise. Dr. Kozmetskyhas counseled, nurtured, and developed more than a hun-dred companies; he has helped to launch them, served on

their boards, assisted in identifying key personnel and nichemarkets, and on occasion helped nance them. His accom-plishments helped to bolster our nation's competitive positionin world markets. Dr. Kozmetsky was awarded the NationalMedal of Technology in 1993 as an acknowledgement of hisexceptional contributions in technology and education.

Mrs. Ronya Kozmetsky spent her life as a champion of chil-dren, women's issues and opportunities. She was instrumen-tal in the establishment and success of several organizations both non-prot and for prot including SafePlace women'sshelter and the First Women's Bank of California, a pioneer-ing institution to provide women banking services includingaccess to credit to enable them to start their own business.Additionally, she is a Co-Founder of Leadership Texas, Lead-ership California, and Leadership America a network of ac-complished women, dedicated to advancing the leadershiprole women play in impacting business, social issues andpublic policy. Ronya was also involved in many organizationsincluding: the Center for Child Protection, The Austin Proj-ect, Covenant House, the Austin Symphony and SymphonySquare, and the CEDEN Family Resource Center. She wasa Visiting Committee Member at the School of Social Work atthe University of Washington, Advisory Committee Memberof the Women's Resource Center in Waco, Member of theGovernor's Task Force for Equal Opportunity in Employment

for Women and Minorities, and on the Board of Directors ofthe Texas Foundation for Higher Education. She also servedon the City of Austin Child Care Council and the Texas StateTreasurer's Asset Management Advisory Committee.

George and Ronya KozmetsKY

Memorial Medal Award

In 2011, The George & Ronya Kozmetsky (G&R K) Memoriallectures at The Academy of transdisciplinary learning and Ad-vanced Studies (TheATLAS) have been established to honorthe memory of their shared passion for innovation, service,and global prosperity.

The George and Ronya Kozmetsky Memorial Medal Awardwas established in 2011 as a special honor to the distin-

guished lecturer of the G&R K Memorial lecture.

George & Ronya Kozmetskywere partners in life, whoshared a passion for serviceto society through innova-tion and inspiring young

men and women to face thefuture with condence andto embrace leadership posi-tions in business and soci-ety. As an example of theirpartnership, they co-au-thored a popular book Mak-ing It Together: A SurvivalManual for the ExecutiveFamily. They also served

HONORINGdr. chang-hai tsai

dr. c.v. ramamoorthy

It has been 12 years since the establishment of TheATLAS,

which was formerly known as The Academy of Transdis-ciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies as a non-protorganization serving transdisciplinarians In the spirits of Dr.Herbert Simon and Dr. George Kozmetsky.

Founded in 2000, TheATLAS is a non-prot organization pro-viding services to universities around the world. TheATLASprovides the following critical services:

Transdisciplinary education and research,

Support social, environmental, economical and ethicalsustainable development throughout the world,

To promote global information exchange through innova-

tive publishing, and

To promote an open laboratory for the global mind: aplace where great minds gather to collaborate and facili-tate transformations in solving complex global problemswhile creating a place where eminent researchers gatherto develop new transdisciplinary approaches.

TheATLAS founding board memberDr. George Kozmetskywas one of the key gures, along withDr. Ramamoorthy andDr. Raymond Yeh for the establishment of TheATLAS non-prot organization. Their generous support and contributionsstrengthen TheATLAS role in promoting the vision of The-ATLAS to be a catalyst for change, enabling the discoveryof new approaches in education and research, that lead toalternative solutions for the increasingly complex problemsthat face civilization.

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George and Ronya KozmetsKY

Memorial LECTURES


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BiennialMeeting

ThemeThe Impact of

Transdisciplinarity on

Multi-national

Education & Research

Programs

Dr. Jeffrey J. P. Tsai

President

Asia UniversityTaichung, Taiwan

OPENING RECEPTION

5:30-7:00 pm, Monday, June 4Splendor Hotel

tection, knowledge-based software engineering, formalmodeling and verication, distributed real-time systems,and intelligent agents. His research has been supportedby NSF, NSC, DARPA, USAF Rome Laboratory, Depart-ment of Defense, Army Research Laboratory, Motorola,Fujitsu, and Gtech.Tsai authored Knowledge-Based Software Develop-ment for Real-Time Distributed Systems (World Sci-entic, 1993), Distributed Real-Time Systems (Wiley,1996), Compositional Verication of Concurrent andReal-Time Systems (Springer, 2002), Security Mod-eling and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems (ImperialCollege Press, 2006), Intrusion Detection: A MachineLearning Approach (Imperial College Press, 2010), andcoedited Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Real-Time Systems (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995),Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering(WSP, 2005), Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing(Springer, 2006), Machine Learning in Cyber Trust: Se-curity, Privavcy, Reliability (Springer, 2009) . From 2000to 2003, he chaired the IEEE/CS Technical Committeeon Multimedia Computing and served on the steeringcommittee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

From 1994 to 1999, he was an Associate Editor of theIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineer-ing and he is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEETransactions on Services Computing. Tsai served asthe Conference Co-Chair of the 16th IEEE InternationalSymposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the 9thIEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, the 1stIEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks,Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, and the 3rdIFIP International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligenceand Computing.

He is currently the CoEditor-in-Chief of the InternationalJournal on Articial Intelligence Tools and Book Series

on Health Informatics. Tsai has served on the IEEEDistinguished Speaker program, DARPA ISAT workinggroup, and on the review panels for NSF and NIH. Hereceived an Engineering Foundation Research Awardfrom the IEEE and the Engineering Foundation Society,a University Scholar Award from the University of IllinoisFoundation, an IEEE Technical Achievement Award andan IEEE Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Com-puter Society. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE ,and the SDPS.

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai received a Ph.D. degree in ComputerScience from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Il-linois. He is the President of Asia University, Taiwan. Hewas a Professor of Computer Science and the Directorof the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Labo-ratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago, an AdjunctProfessor at Tulane University, a Visiting Professor atStanford University, a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 atthe University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Scholarat the University of California at Berkeley.

His current research interests include bioinformatics,ubiquitous computing, services computing, intrusion de-

CONFERENCE

OPENING ADDRESS

Dr. Benjamin Wah9:00 am- 9:30 am, Tuesday, June 5

Room: A101

TUESDAY, June 5, 2012

Dr. Benjamin Wah

Provost

The Chinese University ofHong Kong

Professor Benjamin Wan-sang Wah is the provost andWei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineer-ing, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1985-2009, he was the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Pro-fessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In2008-2009, he also served as Director of the AdvancedDigital Sciences Center in Singapore, a US$50 millionresearch center established by the University of Illinoisin Singapore in collaboration with the Singapore gov-

ernments Agency for Science, Technology and Re-search. In 19981999, Wah was Professor of ComputerScience and Engineering at The Chinese University ofHong Kong (CUHK), and in that year received an Exem-plary Teaching Award. From 1999 to 2003, he served asAdjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Sci-ence and Engineering at CUHK.

Dr. Wah received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineer-ing and Computer Science from Columbia University,USA, then furthered his studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, obtaining MS in Computer Scienceand a PhD in Engineering. Dr. Wah began his teaching

career at Purdue University and later joined the Univer-sity of Illinois in 1985. Wah is an expert in non-linearprogramming, multimedia signal processing and arti-cial intelligence. He has published numerous research


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Professor Nam P. Suh

President

Korea Advanced Institute of

Science and Technology

Daejeon, Korea

Dr. Nam P. Suh is currently the president of Korea Ad-

vanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Heholds the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, and wasthe Director of the Park Center for Complex Systems(formerly the Manufacturing Institute) at MIT. He was

CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Nam P. Suh

9:30 am- 10:00 am, Tuesday, June 5

Room: A101

articles in well-known professional journals. He is theauthor of two books, and Editor-in-Chief of Wileys Ency-clopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, and hascontributed to many edited books and book chapters.He has served on many journal editorial boards. Profes-sor Wah has received numerous honors and awards forhis distinguished academic and professional achieve-ments, including the IEEE Computer Society TsutomuKanai Award, the IEEE Computer Society W. WallaceMcDowell Award, the IEEE Computer Society RichardE. Merwin Distinguished Service Award, the Pan WenYuan Foundation Outstanding Research Award, theWeb Intelligence Consortium Outstanding ContributionAward and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He hasbeen elected Fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science, Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow ofthe Association for Computing Machinery. He also holdsmany Endowed Professorships and Honorary Profes-sorships in leading universities in the United States ofAmerica and in Asia. Professor Wah was President-Elect and President of IEEE Computer Society duringthe years 20002001. He has been a member of theResearch Grants Council of Hong Kong since July 2005

and Chairman of its Engineering Panel since 2006

the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineeringat MIT for ten years from 1991 to 2001. He has been onthe MIT faculty since 1970. During this period he wasthe Founding Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manu-facturing and Productivity (1977-1984). He was also theFounder and Director of the MIT-Industry Polymer Pro-cessing Program (1973-1984), Head of the Mechanicsand Material Division of the Mechanical Engineering De-partment (1975-1977), and a member of the EngineeringCouncil of MIT (1980-1984 and 1991-2001). In October1984, Professor Suh took a leave of absence from MITto accept a Presidential Appointment at the National Sci-ence Foundation where he was in charge of engineering.President Ronald Reagan appointed him to this positionand the U.S. Senate conrmed his appointment. Duringhis tenure at NSF, he created a new direction for Engi-neering Directorate and introduced a new organizationalprogram structure for supporting engineering research inorder to strengthen engineering education and researchand "to insure that the United States will occupy a lead-ership position in engineering well into the 21st century."He returned to MIT in January 1988.

Dr. Suh has received many awards and honors. He re-

ceived three honorary doctoral degrees: Doctor of Hu-mane Letters from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 1988, Doctor of Engineering from WorcesterPolytechnic Institute in 1986, and Honorary Doctor (Tekn.Hedersdoktor) from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),Stockholm, Sweden, in 2000. He also received the Gus-tus L. Larson Memorial Award, the Blackall Award, theBest Tribology Paper Award, and the William T. EnnorManufacturing Technology Award from ASME; the F.W.Taylor Research Award of SME; an SPE Best PaperAward; Federal (NSF) Engineer of the Year Award fromNSPE; and the American Society for Engineering Edu-cation Centennial Medallion. He was also awarded the

National Science Foundation's Distinguished ServiceAward. In 1994, he was awarded the KBS Korean Com-patriot Award for Scholarly Achievements. He is also thewinner of the 1997 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering. In 2000,he was the recipient of the Mensforth International GoldMedal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers of the Unit-ed Kingdom. In 2001, he received the Hills MillenniumAward from the Institution of Engineering Designers ofthe United Kingdom. He is the author of about 300 papersand seven books, holds more than 50 patents, and editedseveral books.

He is an Honorary Professor at Yanbian University of Sci-

ence and Technology, China; Honorary Professor of theUniversity of Hong Kong; Advisory Professor of Shang-hai Jiaotong Univeristy, China; He has been on visitingcommittees of Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford

University, the University of Michigan, and the University ofCalifornia - Berkeley. He was a member of the DoD Panelon Global War on Terrorism. Professor Suh was edu-cated at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School (1955),MIT (S.B., 1959, and S.M., 1961) and Carnegie-MellonUniversity (Ph.D., 1964).

PLENARY SESSION - I

George and Ronya Kozmetsky

Memorial Lecture

Dr. Al Sacco Jr.

10:00 am - 10:30 am, Tuesday, June 5

Dr. Al Sacco Jr.

Dean

Edward E. Whitacre Jr.

College of Engineering

Texas Tech University


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Al Sacco Jr. is Dean of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. Collegeof Engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas.Before coming to Texas Tech, he was the George A. SnellDistinguished Professor of Engineering and the director ofthe Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing atNortheastern University.

He ew as the payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Co-lumbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. The 16-day mis-sion aboard Columbia focused on materials science, biotech-nology, combustion science and uid mechanics contained

within the pressurized Spacelab module.

Born in Boston, Mass., Sacco completed a bachelors de-gree in chemical engineering from Northeastern Universityin Boston in 1973, and a doctorate in chemical engineeringfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. Hethen joined the faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti-tute, becoming a full professor and serving as the chair ofthe chemical engineering department from 1989 until 1997,when he joined the faculty at Northeastern. He has consultedfor numerous companies in the elds of catalysis, solid/gascontacting, zeolite synthesis and applications, and equipmentdesign for space applications.

Sacco has more than 192 publications (including book chap-ters) in the areas of carbon lament initiation and growth,transition metal and acid catalyst and their deactivation, andzeolite synthesis, and he has been the principal investigatoron more than $24 million in research grants. Using his spaceight experience, Sacco has given more than 300 presenta-tions to approximately 27,000 K-12 teachers and their stu-dents as a means to motivate students to consider careersin science and engineering. He is a fellow of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers and in 2004 was elected tothe International Academy of Astronautics.

KEYNOTE PANEL - I

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy

University of California, Berkeley, CA

KEYNOTE PANEL - IIN HONOR OF

PROFESSOR C. V. RAMAMOORTHY

21st century Software

Engineering

Moderator: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Tuesday June 5Room:A101

Professor C.V. Ramamoorthy

University of California

Berkeley, CA

Dr. Ramamoorthys distinguished career tracks back to the1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell,Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handleinstruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywellsrst transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose,

stored-program digital computer designed for process moni-toring and control. In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joinedthe University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electricalengineering and computer science, later becoming chair ofthe computer science department. At UC Berkeley, where hejoined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus pro-fessor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Mostrecently, his research investigations have focused on serviceindustries, functions, features, and control and the relation-ships between software and service engineering. IEEE Societyhas honored Ramamoorthys achievements with the Taylor L.Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Dis-tinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in

1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received theIEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow ofthe Society for Design and Process Science, from which hereceived the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in1997. A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthywas founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowl-edge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief ofIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He holds twoundergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained twograduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Universityof California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in AppliedMathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.

KEYNOTE PANEL - I

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Dr. W.T. Chen

National Professor of Taiwan

at NTHUDirector of the Taiwans National

Research Institute

W.T. Chen was the former president of the National TsingHua University in Taiwan. Currently he is the Head of theTaiwans National Research Institute. He has been with theNational Tsing Hua University since 1976 and is currentlya Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science.He has served as Department Chairman, Dean of College ofElectrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Director ofScience & Technology Advisory Ofce, Ministry of Education.He has consulted in various levels of Taiwan Government and

served as a member of many planning and technical reviewboards. For 15 years, Professor Chen has served as Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Technical Evaluation Boardof the Ministry of Economic Affairs for Promoting High-TechProducts and Technologies, which is recognized as most piv-otal in promoting industrial technologies in Taiwan. ProfessorChen pioneered the design of computer networks and paral-lel systems in early 1980s. He is currently leading a projectfor design and applications of advanced information networks.He has received numerous awards for his achievements incomputer networking and parallel processing, including Out-standing Research Awards of the National Science Council,National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Technical

Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society. ProfessorChen was the General Chair of the 2000 IEEE InternationalConference on Distributed Computing Systems and the Found-ing General Chair of the IEEE International Conference onParallel and Distributed Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Benjamin Wah

Provost

The Chinese University ofHong Kong

(See opening address for short bio)


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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham

Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I,

Distinguished Professor

Director of the Cyber

Security Research Center

The University of Texas at Dallas

(See Plenary Session XI for short bio)

Dr. Phillip C. Y. Sheu

Professor

EECS and Biomedical Eng.

University of California, Irvine

(See Plenary Session X for short bio)

PLENARY SESSION - II

Dr. Kinji Mori

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Tuesday, June 5

Room:A101

Dr. Kinji Mori

Professor

Department of Management of

Technology

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tokyo,Japan

Dr. Kinji Mori is a professor, Department of Computer Sci-ence since 1997 after he worked at Hitachi as Researcherand Chief Researcher for 23 years and also a professor ofDepartment of Management of Technology, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology since 2005. He contributed to found Departmentof Management of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan in 2005.

Dr. Mori is a Fellow of two professional societies - IEEE (In-stitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and IEICE (In-stitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engi-neers, Japan). His contributions were also recognized by themany highly prestigious awards conferred upon him. One ofthe most prestigious awards he received includes the SpecialDistinguished Ichimura Award for contribution to the Science,Engineering, and Industry with the cash award of 10,000,000Japanese Yen (=US$100,000), conferred by the HonorablePrince Mikasanomiya. He donated this cash award to theIEEE Computer Society to found the IEEE annual KanaiAward for outstanding contributions in the area of distributedcomputing systems. He also received Japan Patent Awards,and the Research Achievement Award in Japan and so on.

Dr. Moris outstanding achievements and extraordinary re-search impacts also include more than 350 patents regis-tered internationally; foundation of several IEEE sponsoredinternational conferences e.g., International Symposium onAutonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) founded in1993; and over 500 papers in archived journals, books, andinternational conferences. Dr. Mori made fundamental con-tributions to the eld of reliable and maintainable distributedcomputer systems. In 1977, he proposed a completely new

system concept named Autonomous Decentralized Systems(ADS), and on the basis of ADS concept, consistently con-tributes to ADS architecture construction, technologies inven-tion, product designing, business planning, implementation,de-facto standardization and foundation of international con-ferences. The ADS concept-oriented technologies and inno-vative applications have been expanded in the eld of notonly control systems but also information systems. For exam-ple, Japanese Shinkansen Bullet Train (High Speed Railway)control and information System, Autonomous DecentralizedTransport Operation Control System(ATOS) for Tokyo met-ropolitan railway system, IC-Card system(Suica) not only forfare collection by railways, busses and the other transporta-

tion in all over Japan but also for e-commerce, Steel Produc-tion Process Control System for Kawasaki Steel Co., whichare among the largest industrial systems in the world, andmany other control and information systems, were developedby applying the ADS architecture and technologies. Theyhave been operated well and show the effectiveness of theADS technologies. The sales volume of the ADS is now overUS$5 billion. Since the proposition of the ADS in 1977, theADS technologies and applications have been expanding inthe world.

Dr. Basarab Nicolescu

Member of the

Romanian Academy

President, International

Center for Transdisciplinary

Research and Studies (CIRET) Louis Monier

PLENARY SESSION - IIIProfessor Basarab Nicolescu


Room:A101

THE NEED FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN

HIGHER EDUCATION IN A

GLOBALIZED WORLD

Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche

Scientique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of theRomanian Academy. Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Re-search and Studies (CIRET), a non-prot organization (165members from 26 countries), which has a web site at : http://basarab.nicolescu.perso.sfr.fr/ciret/index.htm. Founder andDirector of the Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions,Monaco, of the Romanians in Paris Series, Oxus Editions,Paris and of the Science and Religion Series, Curtea Veche,Bucharest (in collaboration with Magda Stavinschi). A spe-cialist in the theory of elementary particles, Basarab Nico-lescu is the author of 130 articles in leading international sci-

entic journals, has made numerous contributions to scienceanthologies and participated in several dozen French radioand multimedia documentaries on science. Basarab Nicoles-cu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliationbetween Science and the Humanities. He published manyarticles on the role of science in the contemporary culturein journals in USA, France, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom,Brazil, Argentina and Japan. His books include : Manifestoof Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY)Press, New York, 2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Ro-cher, Monaco, 2002 (2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning andEvolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, ParabolaBooks, New York, 1991. He recently edited Transdisciplinarity

-Theory and Practice, Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey,2008. A complete biobibliography of Dr. Basarab Nicolescucan be found on the page:http://basarab.nicolescu.perso.sfr.fr/Basarab/index.html


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PLENARY SESSION - IVDaniel Stokols


Room:A101

Dr. Daniel Stokols

Chancellors Professor

School of Social Ecology and

College of Health Sciences


Irvine, CA

Daniel Stokols is Chancellors Professor of Planning, Poli-cy, and Design, and Psychology and Social Behavior in theSchool of Social Ecology (where he served as Director andfounding Dean during 1988-1998) at the University of Califor-nia, Irvine. He is also Professor of Public Health, Epidemiol-ogy, and Nursing Science in the College of Health Sciencesat UCI. He is past President of the Division of Environmental,Population, and Conservation Psychology of the AmericanPsychological Association (APA) and currently serves as aSection Editor for the American Journal of Health Promotionand as a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal ofEnvironmental Psychology and the Journal of Architecturaland Planning Research. Stokols received the Annual CareerAward of the Environmental Design Research Association in1991, the UC Irvine Lauds and Laurels Faculty Achievement

Award and the Chancellors Award for Excellence in Foster-ing Undergraduate Research in 2003, and UCIs Outstand-ing Professor Award for the School of Social Ecology during2009. His research examines contextual factors that inu-ence the success of transdisciplinary research and trainingprograms, as well as the health and behavioral impacts of en-vironmental stressors such as trafc congestion, overcrowd-ing, and information overload. Stokols is co-author of Behav-ior, Health, and Environmental Stress (1986) and co-editorof the Handbook of Environmental Psychology (1987) andPromoting Human Wellness (2002). Stokols served as Sci-entic Consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division ofCancer Control and Population Sciences and as a member of

NCIs Science of Team Science (SciTS) team between 2005-2011. He is currently a Team Science Evaluation Consultantfor the National Academies of Science-Keck Futures Initiative(NAKFI) for promoting interdisciplinary research.

PROMOTING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY

THROUGH TRANSDISCIPLINARY

RESEARCH AND TRAINING

Dr. Valerie A. Brown

Director, Local Sustainability

Project, Fenner School of

Environment and Society,

Australian National University

Australia

PLENARY SESSION - VValerie A. Brown

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Tuesday June 5

Room:A101

TRANSDISCIPLINARY INQUIRY AS A TOOL FOR

TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

Dr. Brown, BSc MEd PhD, is the director of Local Sustain-

ability Project, Fenner School of Environment and Society,Australian National University. The Local Sustainability Proj-ect is a collaborative action research program working onwhole-of- community change. Projects have been conductedat the local, regional and national scale in Australia, Europe,and Asia.

In 2000 she was appointed an Ofcer of the Order of Australiafor national and international research, policy development,and advocacy for sustainable development.

She is currently working on the potential of transdisciplinaryinquiry as a tool for transformational change. She is authorof over 100 research papers and 10 books on social and en-vironmental issues and social change. Her team-based pub-lications include:

Tackling wicked problems: through the transdisciplinaryimagination. 2010

Leonardo's vision: A guide to collective thinking and ac-tion. 2008

Social learning and environmental management: to-wards a sustainable future. 2005

Towards whole-of-community engagement: a toolkit of

strategies. 2004

KEYNOTE PANEL - II

21st Century Entrepreneurship

Moderator: Bob Block4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Tuesday, June 5

Room:A101

Bob Block

Founder and Managing

Partner of LiTricity

KEYNOTE PANEL - II

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Bob Block

Block is a Founder and a Managing Partner of LiTricity, ashareholder and Board member of USCL and the Co-Chair ofthe Advanced Technology Policy Committee of the NationalEnergy Marketers Association. Mr. Block has extensive expe-rience in the computer software, communication, energy andentertainment industries including pioneering roles in com-mercial and pay television and cellular telephone operatingcompanies. He has also contributed signicantly to the cre-

ation and development of entertainment and communicationtechnologies used worldwide.

Block is widely known for his pioneering work in communica-tions, information and management technologies. He is theinventor and patent owner of more than 150 issued US andInternational patents, including patents relating to: EnterpriseManagement Systems, Information Labeling, Signal Control,Terrestrial and Satellite Distribution Systems, Real-Time Sub-scriber Billing Systems, Pay-Per-View, Parental Control andEnglish Language Education.Block has multiple patent appli-cations pending, including patents relating to interoperabilityof non-compatible radios, power metering and solar energy

systems. Blocks inventions are licensed to most of the majorconsumer electronics manufacturers and have inuenced en-tertainment, sports, and information and education servicesworldwide.


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Dr. Juan M. Sanchez is the Vice President for Research atThe University of Texas at Austin and holder of the TempleFoundation Endowed Professorship #4 in the Department ofMechanical Engineering. He obtained his B.S. in Physics atthe University of Cordoba, Argentina, 1971; M.S. in Materi-als Science, 1974; and Ph.D. in Materials Science, 1977 atthe University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sanchez is theauthor and co-author of over 140 technical publications on awide range of topics in materials science and engineering.His current research interests are in the electronic, thermo-dynamic and structural properties of materials including in-termetallic compounds, magnetic and non-magnetic alloys,thin lms and magnetic multilayers. Primary interest is thedevelopment and application of rst principles computationalmethods for the construction of phase diagrams of multicom-ponent material systems. Other research interests include thedevelopment of laser-controlled selective chemical vapor de-position processes for metals, alloys and ceramics. Dr. San-chez serves on the Council of Federal Relations of the As-sociation of American Universities; on the Board of Directorsas Council Vice Chair for the Oak Ridge Associated Universi-

ties, and the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative. He also servesas a Representative to the Government-University-IndustryResearch Roundtable of the National Academies, as Trusteefor the Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc,a past member of the Board of Visitors of the US Army WarCollege, Member of the International Consulting Board, theNational Scientic and Policy Advisory Council for the HoggFoundation for Mental Health, and Member of the AusTechAlliance of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

CONFERENCE DINNER

Story of a Vocational High School

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm, Tuesday June 5

Room:Splendor II, 13FSplendor Hotel

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

TheATLAS

Honorary Board member

DINNER SPEAKERS

Dr. Raymond Yeh is a senior research fellow at IC2Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and a ChairProfessor at Asia University (Taiwan). He taught at severaluniversities for 20 years and helped two Computer Sciencedepartments to achieve top ten national rankings. Dr. Yehheld the CDC Endowed Chair Professor at the Universityof Minnesota in 1983, and has been an honorary professorat several universities. He has published ten technicalbooks and coauthored two business books.

As the found ing ed i to r - in -ch ie f o f the IEEETransactions on Software Engineering, and founder

of the IEEE International Conference on SoftwareEngineering(ICSE), he helped to developed SoftwareEngineering to be a formal academic discipline.

He co-founded two successful software companies andhad been a management consultant to many nations,and worked with executives of many leading edge globalcompanies as well as with founders of many start-upenterprises.

He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE), the Society for Design and ProcessScience (SDPS) and was an honorary research fellowof Fujitsus International Institute. Dr. Yeh is a recipient

of the Pioneer in Information Technology Award from thegovernment of Taiwan, IEEE Centennial Medal, and theATLAS Gold Medal, among others.

KEYNOTE PANEL - II


Jerry Dong

President and CEO ofShanghai Hi-touch Culture

& Arts Co., Ltd.Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

Vice President for Research

The University of

Texas at Austin, TX

Jerry Dong is the President & CEO of Shanghai Hi-touchCulture & Arts Co., Ltd. Mr. Dong was formerly the generalmanager of Landmark Entertainment Group, China Division.During the past 15 years, Mr. Dong has been dedicated to thecommunication and development of entertainment and cul-tural business between China and America. With an excellentSino-US united international team that has the backgroundof Hollywood themed entertainment production and collabo-rates the Chinese current situation and cultural background,Hi-touch is a professional company that specializes in thecreation, production, operation and capital fund raising for

themed entertainment venues, urban cultural developmentsand entertainment venues.

After living in America for several years, Mr. Dong returned toShanghai China in 2003 and set up a themed entertainmentcreation and production team in Shanghai. He and his teamhave successfully applied the western/Hollywood creativeprocess and techniques to a variety of Chinese cultural andpractical situation in China and Asia, creating for Asian clients(including South Korea) marvelous cultural themed entertain-ment works, including 3D y through for all the projects.

Over the years, Mr. Dong has not only been inuenced by theHollywood movie and entertainment themed art, but also hasestablished extensive interpersonal relations and partners inthe eld of cultural creation, production and operation. Mr.Dong is also experienced and efcient in the nancing andplanning of themed entertainment estate property projects.


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WEDNESDAY, June 6, 2012

PLENARY SESSION - VIDa Hsuan Feng

9:00 am - 9:30 am, Wednesday, June 6

Room:A101

He became the M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Physicsof Drexel University. During his tenure at Drexel University, healso held appointments as Director of Theoretical Physics ofthe United States National Science Foundation, visiting pro-fessor of Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagenand United Kingdom Daresbury Laboratory. Feng was a con-sultant for three National Laboratories in the United States,Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven and UKs DaresburyLaboratory.

From 1995-1998, Feng assumed the position as technicaladvisor to the Vice Chairperson of the United States Con-gressional Armed Services Committee, the honorable CurtWeldon. He was responsible for affairs in central Europe andAsia. From 1998-2000, he became the Vice President of Sci-ence Applications International Corporation (SAIC.) His port-folio included affairs in the four States in northeast UnitedStates: New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.SAIC is a Fortune 500 international corporation. Fengs otheractivities include: Special advisor to Korean American Sci-ence and Technology Network, a member of the ComputerScience/Engineering Evaluation Task Force of the University

of South Carolina, a member of the US Department of Educa-tion Field Initiated Studies Technology Panel, and a memberof the National Defense Industrial Association Science andEngineering Technology Executive Committee.

Dr. Da Hsuan Feng

Vice President of

Global Strategy, Development,

and Evaluation

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

From 2001-2007, Feng assumed the position as Vice Presi-dent for Research and Economic Development of the Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD.) During his tenure at UTD,research expenditure increased three-fold, from $14 million in2001 to nearly $50 million in 2006. Likewise, the intellectualstrengths of UTD also signicantly enhanced. He personallyrecruited two Nobel laureates (the late-Alan G. MacDiarmid,chemistry laureate in 2000 and Russell Hulse, physics laure-ate in 1993), the former European Space Agency director andthe entire nanotechnology team from Honeywell R&D divisionin Morristown, New Jersey. He also secured a $1 Million en-dowed James Von Ehr chair of science and technology whichwas held by the late-Alan MacDiarmid.

He also initiated a consortium of seven universities in Texasknown as the Strategic Partnership for Research in Nano-technology (SPRING) and followed through with a $41.5million earmark funded, located $1.5 million and $1 millionearmark funds respectively for Sickle Cell and Texas borderdisease tracking studies, funded a nano-at-the-border pro-gram to accelerate the research infrastructures of two Texasborder universities. He also cultivated industrial collaborativerelations, such as the Oracle Spatial Data Center.

In 2007, Feng was one of the founding members of the pow-erful Advisory Board of the Britton Chance Center for Bio-medical Photonics of Chinas Huazhong University of Sci-ence and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In 2009, inrecognition of his contribution to the development of scienceand technology of the province of Hubei, Feng was awardedthe Chime-Bell Award.

In 1996, for (his) outstanding contributions to the understand-ing of nuclear structure physics, particularly for the applica-tions of the coherent states to physics and nuclear physics,Feng received the accolade Fellow of the American Physi-cal Society. Feng has published over 180 refereed papers in

nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, quantum optics andmathematical physics. He was the editor of twenty books onconference proceedings, and presented numerous invitedtalks in International Conferences. Feng has directed six doc-

Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

Vice President for Research

The University of

Texas at Austin, TX

PLENARY SESSION - VIIJuan M. Sanchez

9:30 am - 10:00 am, Wednesday, June 6

Room:A101

(See Keynote Panel II for short bio)

CHALLENGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION:

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

CONFERENCE DINNERTUESDAY, June 5, 2012

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

Wednesday, June 6, 201212:30 pm - 1:30 pm

PLENARY SESSION - VIII

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham10:00 am - 10:30 am, Wednesday, June 6

Room:A101

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham

Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I,

Distinguished Professor

Director of the Cyber

Security Research CenterThe University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I Dis-tinguished Professor and Director of the Cyber Security Re-search Center (CSRC) at The University of Texas at Dallas.She is an elected Fellow of IEEE, the AAAS, the British Com-puter Society, the SPDS (Society for Design and ProcessScience) and the Society of Information Reuse and Integra-tion (subcommittee of IEEE Systems, Man and CyberneticsSociety). The recipient of numerous awards, she has over30 years experience in industry, MITRE, NSF and Academia.Her work has resulted in 100+ journal articles, 200+ confer-

ence papers, three US patents and 12 books. Under herleadership, CSRC has generated $16 million in research andeducation funding from AFOSR, NSF, IARPA, NGA, NASA,ONR, NIH, Raytheon, Tektronix and others.


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KEYNOTE PANEL - III

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Chang-Hai Tsai

KEYNOTE PANEL - IIIIN HONOR OF

DR. CHANG-HAI TSAI

21st century Higher Education

Moderator: Dr. Jeffery J. P. Tsai

11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Wednesday June 6

Room:A101

Dr. Chang-Hai Tsai

Chairman of the Board

China Medical University

Taichung, Taiwan

Dr. Tsai received his doctor of medicine from Teikyo University,Japan. He has been involved in research, teaching, and thepractice medicine at China Medical University in Taichung ,Taiwan. While his research has been well regarded, he becamefamous during the 2003-2004 SARS epidemics as the Com-mander of Mid-Taiwan SARS Control and Medical Resources

Integration Commanding Center for his outstanding achieve-ment in the prevention of SARS spreading for which he hasreceived a special high honor award from the Executive Yuanof the Taiwan government.

Dr. Tsai is currently the Chairman of the board of the ChinaMedical University which has the 3rd largest hospital under itsmanagement. Under his leadership, both the university andthe hospital are expanding rapidly both in academic researchand teaching as well as working with global partners such asbuilding the largest cancer research center with M. D. AndersonHospital in Taiwan.

Dr. Tsai has always had a passion for education. He is the

founder and chairman of the Asia University in Taichung,Taiwan. Although it is barely six years old, it has achievedsome spectacular landmarks in the higher education systemof Taiwan.

For his work both as a physician, an educator, and socialentrepreneur, Dr. Tsai received many awards. He is also anadvisor to national policy in the Presidents ofce.

KEYNOTE PANEL - III


Dr. Chung Y. Hsu

CEO


Healthcare System

Taichung, Taiwan

Dr. Chung Y. Hsu is the CEO of the China Medical UniversityHealthcare System, and Chair Professor at China MedicalUniversity. He received his M.D. from National Taiwan Uni-versity and Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology from University of

Virginia in the United States. Dr. Hsus academic and pro-fessional appointments in the United States (1971 2002)include Elliott H. Stein Professor and Director, The StrokeCenter, Washington University, School of Medicine andBarnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, USA and President, theNational Neurotrauma Society, USA.

Dr. Hsu received a number of academic achievementawards in the US, including NIH-NINDS Javits Neurosci-ence Investigator Award; NIH-NINDS Teacher-InvestigatorDevelopment Award; Vivian L. Smith Foundation Distin-guished Research Award; Taiwanese-American FoundationAward, 1997. He was the chair of 12 NIH special com-

mittees or review teams and 2 American Heart Associa-tion review committees and Washington University PI in32 multi-center or multinational clinical trials in stroke.

In Taiwan, Dr. Hsus key appointments include President ofTaipei Medical University (2002 2008), President of TaiwanNeuroscience Society, President of Taiwan Stroke Society. Hewas the PI of the Department of Health Clinical Trial and Re-search Center of Excellence for Stroke and Traumatic HeadInjury at Taipei Medical University (2006 2010) and is the PIof the Department of Health Clinical Trial and Research Cen-ter of Excellence for Stroke at China Medical University. Heis a Member of the Board of Directors of the National HealthResearch Institute, Taiwan. and Institute for Biotechnology

and Medicine Industry (IBMI). Dr. Hsu has been serving asthe Chair of the Review Committee for the IBMI Symbol ofNational Quality Awards for hospitals and clinics.

He also served as the Chair of the Review Committee forthe Taipei Biotechnology Awards in 2006 and 2009. Dr. Hsuestablished the Taiwan Stroke Registry which is currently thesecond largest stroke registry database in the world and astudy that assessed 30,599 stroke admissions in 38 hospitalsisland wide between 2006 and 2008. Dr. Hsu has publishedmore than 290 research articles including those that ap-peared in Science, JAMA and other top journals and servedas editor or co-editor of 5 monographs on stroke and relatedneurovascular disorders.

Dr. Jong-Tsun Huang

President


Taichung, Taiwan

Dr. Jong-Tsun Huang is the President of the China MedicalUniversity in Taichung, Taiwan. He received his BS, MS andPh.D. in 1969, 1972 and 1976, respectively, from the Na-tional Taiwan University. He served as the president of theChinese Psychological Association in1992-1994, ResearchFellow, Academia Sinica in 1984-1994, Professor, Depart-ment of Psychology, National Taiwan University in 1983-2000and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Carnegie-MellonUniversity, and UCLA in 1982-1983. He is also serving as thePresident of Foundation for Advancement of Private Schoolssince 2005.

His research interests are human perception, cognitive sci-ence and Educational Studies. His other professional experi-ences include: member of American Psychological Associa-tion, member of ARVO, NYAS, and AAAS, Executive Board

Member, Taiwan Psychological Association, Executive BoardMember, Taiwan Acoustical Association, President, TaipeiSociety, President, Y. T. Lee Foundation for Science Educa-tion, consultant, Aviation Medical Center, Civil AeronauticalAdministration, Committee member for Environmental ImpactAssessment, Environmental Protection Agency, member forCouncil on Education Reform in the Cabinet, Advisory BoardMember, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Center, Na-tional Taiwan University, Advisory Board Member on Humani-ties and Social Sciences, National Science Council, Execu-tive Board Member, Academic Review Committee of Ministryof Education.


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Dr. Sarah Gehlert

E. Desmond Lee Professor

of Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Washington University in

St. Louis, USA

Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D. is the E. Desmond Lee Professorof Racial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School and in

the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine. Sheis a scholar in Washington Universitys Institute of PublicHealth and serves on its Faculty Advisory Committee. Dr.Gehlert is the Co-Program Leader of the Prevention andControl Program of the Alvin J. Site man Cancer Center,Co-Director of the Transdisciplinary Center on Energet-ics and Cancer (TREC), and Training Program Directorof the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities(PECaD). Dr. Gehlert serves on the Executive Commit-tee of the universitys Institute for Clinical and Transla-tional Science (a CTSA) and the Co-Chair of the Centerfor Community-Engaged Research.

Dr. Gehlert joined the Brown School in 2009 from the

University of Chicago where she was the Helen RossProfessor in the School of Social Service Administration(SSA), the Institute for Mind and Biology, and the De-partment of Comparative Human development. While atthe School of Social Service Administration, Dr. Gehlertserved as the Deputy Dean for Research. She was theAssociate Director of the University of Chicagos NIH-funded Institute for Translational Medicine (a CTSA) andco-chaired its Community Translation Science Cluster.She was also the Principal Investigator and Director ofthe universitys NIH-funded Center for InterdisciplinaryHealth Disparities Research. She directed the univer-sitys Maternal and Child Health training Program from1992-1998 and was Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded community-based study of rural and urban wom-ens health and mental health from 1997-2001. She was

Dr. Julie Thompson Klein

Professor, Humanities

Wayne State University

Dr. Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities atWayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (U.S.A.). Holderof a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, Dr. Kleinis past president of the Association for Integrative Studies

(AIS) and former editor of the AIS journal, Issues in Integra-tive Studies. Her books include Interdisciplinarity: History,Theory, and Practice (l990), Interdisciplinary Studies Today(co-edited, 1994), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Dis-

Co-Principal Investigator and Core Leader of the HealthDisparities and Communities Core of the CDC-fundedChicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Eco-nomic from 2004-2007.

Dr. Gehlerts publications focus on social inuences onhealth, especially the health of vulnerable populations.She currently is working on the inuences of neigh-borhood and community violence and unsafe housingon psychosocial functioning among African-Americanwomen newly diagnosed with breast cancer, with an eye

toward how these factors get under the skin to affectgene expression and tumorigenesis. She has a specialinterest in the biology of womens behavior.

Dr. Gehlert Is a member of the Board of ScienticCoun-selors of the National Human Genome Research Instituteat NIH, which is a federal appointment. She is Co-Chairof the Population Health Advisory Committee of the Of-ce of Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH.She is a chartered member of NIHs Community-LevelHealth Promotion Scientic Review Panel and a member

of the scientic review panel for Oncology Social Work atthe American Cancer Society.

Dr. Gehlert is a Fellow in the American Association ofSocial Work and Social Welfare. She is Past President ofthe Society for Social Work and Research and serves onthe editorial boards of Health & Social Work, Social WorkResearch, Social Service Review, Research in SocialWork Practice, and Oxford Bibiliographies Online (SocialWork).

KEYNOTE PANEL - IVEducating for Transdisciplinary

Futures

Moderator: Dr. James Smith2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Wednesday, June 6

Room:A101

Panel objectiveThe future of Transdisciplinarity (TD) is dependent in signi-cant part on changes in the existing system of education.Three international researchers will present models of TDeducation and related skills and pedagogical strategies. Kleinwill present an overview of models and structures for transdis-ciplinary curriculum, teaching, and learning. Pohl will explorethe skills and competences that empower students to engageeffectively in TD projects for sustainable development, thenconsider whether specic forms of teaching are particularlysuitable to develop these competencies and skills.

Dr. W.T. Chen

National Professor of Taiwan

at NTHU

Director of the Taiwans National

Research Institute

PLENARY SESSION - IXDr. W. T. Chen

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Wednesday, June 6

Room:A101

(See Keynote Panel I for short bio)

KEYNOTE PANEL - IV PARTICIPANTS

Dr. Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne StateUniversity, USADr. Christian Pohl, ETH Zurich and td-netDr. Eunsook Hyun, University ofMassachusetts BostonDr. Alan Barhorst, Texas Tech University

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

SPEAKER

Dr. Sarah Gehlert

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, Wednesday June 6


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ciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdiscipli-narity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology,

and Society(co-edited, 2001), Interdisciplinary Education inK-12 and College (edited, 2002), the monograph MappingInterdisciplinary Studies (1999), and Humanities, Culture,and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy(2005). She is also author of the forthcoming book Creat-ing Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures, Associate Editor ofthe forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Interdisciplinarity,and author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Klein has received both national and international awardsand invitations. She was elected to the Wayne State Uni-versity Academy of Scholars and is a recipient of the Presi-dents Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Graduate Men-tor Award, the Board of Governors Distinguished FacultyAward, and the Board of Governors Distinguished FacultyFellowship. She also won the nal prize in the Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundations international competitionfor new research models, for her essay Applying Interdisci-plinary Models to Design, Planning, and Policy Making, andreceived the Kenneth Boulding Award for outstanding schol-arship on interdisciplinarity. In addition, she has representedthe United States at an OECD-sponsored international sym-

posium on interdisciplinarity in Sweden and at UNESCO-sponsored symposia on transdisciplinarity in Portugal and inFrance. In 1997-98, she was Senior Fellow at the Associa-tion of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), and inFall 2008 she was an invited Visiting Fellow in the Institutefor the Humanities at the University of Michigan. Klein con-sults widely throughout North America. In addition to helpingnumerous colleges and universities develop interdisciplinaryprograms, she was a member of AACUs rst national TaskForce on Interdisciplinary Studies, served as a consultant forAACUs Asheville Institute on General Education, and was amember of AACUs national task force on Integrative Learn-ing. From 19972000, Klein was a Member of the national

Academic Assembly Council of The College Board, and from19992000 served as a Member of the Association for Inte-grative Studies Task Force on Accreditation. In addition, sheadvised the National Institutes of Health, the National Acad-emies of Science, and the National Science Foundation oninterdisciplinary research and education.

Dr. Christian Pohl

Co-Director

Transdisciplinary-net of theSwiss-Academies of Art and

Science, Switzerland

Dr. Christian Pohl is co-director of the transdisciplinarity-net ofthe Swiss-Academies of Art and Science and senior researcherand lecturer at the Department of Environmental Sciences atETH Zurich. He was trained in environmental sciences andwrote a doctoral thesis on how to handle uncertainties inenvironmental assessments by using fuzzy sets. As a postdoche moved to the eld of science and technology studies, wherehe analyzed the collaboration of natural and social scientistin Swiss and Swedish policy-driven environmental research.In 2003 he became co-director of td-net for transdisciplinaryresearch of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (http://

www.transdisciplinarity.ch/e). Td-nets aim is to strengthenresearch that addresses real-world issues and for that purposebridges academic as well as non-academic expert knowledge.During the last years Christian Pohls work at td-net focusedon the methodological particularities of transdisciplinaryknowledge production. Out of this work he published, amongstothers, the Principles for Designing Transdisciplinary Research(2007) and co-edited the Handbook of TransdisciplinaryResearch (2008), both providing practical examples, theoreticalbasics and tools for collaborative knowledge production.Christian Pohls main eld of research and publication is the

analysis and design of transdisciplinary research, specically inthe eld of sustainability sciences, and with a particular interestin the collaboration between natural and social sciences andthe science-policy interrelation (http://www.envphil.ethz.ch/people/pohlc/index).

Dr. Eunsook Hyun

Professor of Curriculum Studies,

Associate Provost, and Director

of International and Transnational

Affairs, University ofMassachusetts Boston

Prof. Eunsook Hyun, Ph.D., is Professor, Associate Provostand Director of International and Transnational Affairs atthe University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. She is cur-rently leading the University's development of academic andresearch programs with transdisciplinary, transnational,and transcultural (TTT) foci; directing International VisitingScholar Academy (IVSA) program focusing on transdisci-plinary teaching, research, and curriculum transformation inhigher education; increasing the availability of study-abroadprograms for both students and faculty; streamlining adminis-trative processes for international students; and collaboratingwith campus members and international partners to enrichTTT elements of teaching, curriculum, research and engage-ments. She holds a Ph.D in Curriculum & Instruction focus-

ing on Curriculum Studies from the Penn State University,Pennsylvania, USA. Prof. Hyun is an established scholarand experienced administrator in higher education. Throughher scholarships, Prof. Hyun has widely published in manyareas, including curriculum theorizing; higher education cur-riculum, developmentally and culturally appropriate practice(DCAP), early childhood education, teacher education, criti-cal pedagogy, gender studies, bilingual education, theory ofteacher reectivity and multiple/multiethnic perspective-tak-ing, inquiry-oriented reective supervision, technology andyoung children, environmental education, academic deans'

involvement/accountability in college students' academicsuccess, internationalization of higher education institutions;and minority faculty recruitment and retention. Since 2002,Prof. Hyun is a selected member of the Professors of Curricu-lum, which is one of the highest honors in curriculum studies.Her books include Teachable moments: Re-conceptualizingcurricula understandings- Studies in the Postmodern Theoryof Education (2006), Making sense of developmentally andculturally appropriate practice (DCAP) in early childhoodeducation (1998), Transformative Teaching and CurriculumPractice in Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Approach (inprogress), etc. One of her recent articles is TransdisciplinaryHigher Education Curriculum Transformation: A Complicat-ed Cultural Artifact. Research in Higher Education Journal(2011).

Dr. Alan Barhorst

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department


Dr. Alan Barhorst is Professor of Mechanical Engineeringat Texas Tech University and participates in the Transdisci-plinary PhD program there. Dr. Barhorst has served inter-nationally as Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinatorfor Texas A&M University at Qatar (Doha). Dr. Barhorst hashad the opportunity to develop an Engineering degree pro-gram centered on Mechanical Engineering but incorporatingsignicant liberal arts curricula for a private liberal arts univer-sity in Texas that is exploring expansion of its offerings intoengineering. Dr. Barhorst's research interest span traditionalMechanical Engineering elds as well as bridging the disci-

plines in biology, paleontology, nano-science, and medicine.Dr. Barhorst has industrial experience in aerospace and pe-troleum industries.


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THURSDAY, June 7, 2012

PLENARY SESSION - X

Joint Plenary Talk

Dr. Patricia Rosenfeld and

Dr. Frank Kessel

9:00 am - 9:30 am, Thursday, June 7

Room:A101

THE PROMISE(S) AND POSSIBLE PERILS OF

TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:

BACK TO THE FUTURE (2.0)?

Dr. Patricia Roseneld

Carnegie Scholar in ResidenceRockefeller Archives Center

As of November 2011, Patricia Roseneld is pursuing a pro-gram to develop a framework for global philanthropy aroundshared values at the Rockefeller Archives Center in SleepyHollow, New York. As chair of the Future Generations Boardof Trustees, she is guiding a restructuring of the institutionto become an incubator of social change innovations draw-

ing on its global base of country programs and alumni fromits graduate school. Moreover, as part of Carnegie Corpora-tions Centennial activities, Roseneld has completed a his-tory of the Corporations one hundred years of grantmakingoverseas and on international affairs in the United States.The expected publication date is mid-2012. She is also serv-ing as Centennial Advisor to Carnegie Corporation.

Roseneld stepped down in October 2011 as the Program Di-rector for the Carnegie Scholars Program, which she helpedlaunch in 2000. The program initially supported individualscholarship in the Corporation's elds of interest. Beginningin October 2004, the Scholars Program focused on supportof scholars working on issues related to Islam and Muslim

societies and communities. Roseneld led the Corporation'sprogram on strengthening human resources in developingcountries from 1990-1998 and the program on international

Dr. Frank Kessel

Professor, Individual, Family and

CommunityEducation, and

Senior Fellow in the Robert Wood

Johnson Foundation Center for

Health Policy at the University of

New Mexico

Frank Kessel is a Professor in the College of Education atthe University of New Mexico (UNM), where he is also a Se-nior Fellow and member of the leadership team in the RobertWood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy. Prior tojoining UNM in the fall of 2005, Kessel completed a 12-yearspell as Program Director for the Culture, Health and HumanDevelopment Program at the Social Science Research Coun-cil (SSRC) in New York. Also responsible for SSRC initiativesat the intersection of the social, psychological and bio-medicalsciences, he has consulted with Canadian groups engagedin inter-disciplinary research on health, advised the NationalCancer Institute on its Science of Team Science initiative,

and contributed to several national and international confer-ences and publications in the area of Inter/Trans-Disciplinari-ty. Also, building on his work with the SSRCs Program on theArts, Kessel guided the School of American Ballet througha process that laid the ground for signicant institutional in-novation.

With a primary interest in human development and ancil-lary issues in the philosophy and history of psychology andthe social sciences, as well as matters at the intersection ofpsychology with education and the humanities, Kessel hasheld academic positions at the University of Houston, theUniversity of Alberta, and the University of Cape Town. He

has also been involved in international early education ef-forts, rst as Research Director of the Early Learning Centre

in Cape Town and then as Scientic Associate at the Ber-

Frank Kessel and Norman Anderson (a revised second edi-tion, re-titled Interdisciplinary Research, was published inwinter, 2008). An article on "The Ethics of international Grant-making", co-authored by Roseneld, Courtenay Sprague andHeather McKay was published in the winter 2004 specialissue on Leadership, Values and Ethics of the Journal ofLeadership and Organizational Studies. Computer SocietyTechnical Committee on Semantic Computing, founder ofthe IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computingand the IEEE International Conference on Internet OperatingSystems, founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal

of Semantic Computing, and a main author of the book Se-mantic Computing (eds. P. Sheu, H. Yu, C.V. Ramamoorthy,

development from 1998-2000. From 1999-2007, concurrentlywith chairing the Scholars Program, she served as specialadvisor to the vice president and director for strategic plan-ning and program coordination.

Prior to joining Carnegie in 1987, Roseneld developed andmanaged the social and economic research component ofthe UNDP/World Bank/World Health Organization SpecialProgram for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases andwas the program economist. From 1979 to 1986, she workedwith the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation as a member and

chair of the Foundations Tropical Disease Advisory Com-mittee. Earlier she worked on problems of environment anddevelopment at Resources for the Future, an environmen-tal economics research institute based in Washington, D.C.Roseneld holds an A.B., cum laude from Bryn Mawr Collegeand a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's Department ofGeography and Environmental Engineering. She was chosenas a Rockefeller Foundation Environmental Affairs Fellow in1975 and worked, in part, with the foundation's schistosomia-sis project in Saint Lucia. She received an honorary doctoratein social science from Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thai-land in 1998.

Roseneld is an active member of the Council on ForeignRelations and the Century Association. She serves on theInternational Advisory Committee of the Wagner School ofPublic Policy of New York University, where she had been anadjunct professor from 2000 to 2003. She currently servesas a member of the board of the Harry Frank GuggenheimFoundation, Global Fund for Children, Future Generations,and World Scout Foundation USA. Over the period 1990-2010, she has been a member of the Johns Hopkins Univer-sity Alumni Council for the Whiting School of Engineering, theInternational Committee of the Council on Foundations andthe Council- European Foundation Centres Joint Workinggroup on Principles of Accountability for International Grant-

making, the Committee of Reference on Corporate SocialResponsibility for Friends Ivory Sime, Inc., the School Com-mittee of Friends Seminary, the National Advisory Commit-tee to the Presidential Search Committee for Spelman Col-lege, the Conference Committee of the New York Academyof Sciences and the Steering Committee of the Markle Foun-dation's Global Digital Opportunity Initiative. She chairedthe Bio-Behavioral-Social Perspectives on Health WorkingGroup, an interdisciplinary health project for the Social Sci-ence Research Council and the National Institutes of HealthOfce of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 1999-2002.

Roseneld has written extensively on health, economics andinterdisciplinary research approaches and has served as an

advisory editor for Social Science and Medicine. In May 2003,Oxford University Press published Expanding the Boundar-ies of Health and Social Sciences, co-edited by Roseneld,


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nard van Leer Foundation in The Hague. His further con-nection to the philanthropy sector came as Senior ProgramAssociate at the William T. Grant Foundation in New York.

A major thread in most of these endeavors is Kessels com-mitment to facilitating creative conversations across conven-tional disciplinary and sub-disciplinary lines. This has beenreected in the numerous conferences and symposia he hasorganized and the range of volumes he has edited, but per-haps most completely in Kessels programmatic work at theSSRC, where he helped bring to fruition the collective work of

a variety of inter-disciplinary, sometimes international, groupsof scholars. In a related vein, he has consistently been con-cerned with the reciprocal engagement of research andscholarship with broader social issues.

Kessel is an elected Fellow of both the American Psycho-logical Association and the Association for Psychological Sci-ence and a member of several other professional organiza-tions. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesotaand his M.A. at the University of Cape Town.

Dr. Phillip C. Y. Sheu

Professor

EECS and Biomedical Eng.


PLENARY SESSION - XI

Dr. Phillip C. Y. Sheu9:30 am - 10:00 am, Thursday, June 7

Room:A101

SEMANTIC COMPUTING FOR

INTER-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES.

Dr. Phillip C.Y. Sheu is currently a professor of EECS andBiomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees from the Universityof California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Com-puter Science. He has published two books: (1) IntelligentRobotic Planning Systems and (2) Software Engineering and

EnvironmentAn Object Oriented Perspective, and morethan 100 papers in data/knowledge engineering and seman-tic computing.

PLENARY SESSION - XIIDr. Bosheng Zhou

10:00 am - 10:30 am, Thursday, June 7

Room:A101

Dr. Bosheng Zhou

Honorary Dean of Software

Engineering Institute of Beijing

University of Aeronautics &

Astrophysics (BUAA)

China

Dr.Bosheng Zhou is the founder and honorary Dean of Soft-

ware Engineering Institute of Beijing University of Aeronau-tics and Astrophysics (BUAA). He is Chairman and CEO ofCyber Keji Park Inc. in USA and Beijing Cyber Science andTechnology Inc. in Chinaa partnership with Software En-gineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU/SEI)to provide the process improvement services in China. Hewas the Chief scientist and project director of Chinas rstnational software project on Integrated Software EngineeringEnvironment, which pioneered Chinas software industry. Hewas also the rst Chief CMMI instructor in China. Professor.Zhou has received numerous awards including First ClassAwards in Science and Technology in China as well as Distin-guished Contribution Award from Beijing Science and Tech-nology Committee. He has published more than 100 papersand translated more than 20 books on a variety of topics insoftware engineering and management.

CHINA'S SOFTWARE INDUSTRY -- A 30 YEAR

REVIEW

Dr. Sheu is a Fellow of IEEE and SDPS, founder of the In-stitute for Semantic Computing, founding chair of the IEEEComputer Society Technical Committee on Semantic Com-puting, founder of the IEEE International Conference on Se-mantic Computing and the IEEE International Conference onInternet Operating Systems, founding editor-in-chief of theInternational Journal of Semantic Computing, and a main au-thor of the book Semantic Computing (eds. P. Sheu, H. Yu,C.V. Ramamoorthy, A. Joshi and L.A. Zadeh, Wiley & IEEEPress, 2010).

Dr. Bruce M. Kramer

National Science FoundationSenior Advisor for Engineer-

ing and coordinator of inter-

disciplinary and cross-direc-

torate activities in the Division

of Civil, Mechanical and

Manufacturing Innovation.

NSF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

BRUCE M. KRAMER is a graduate of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (S.B., S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1979). Dr.Kramer co-founded and was Director of Engineering of ZoomTechnologies, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, a NASDAQcompany and leading producer of modems and wireless net-working products marketed under the Zoom, Hayes, Practi-cal Peripherals, and Global Village brands. He is the holder

of three U.S. patents and has consulted to and conductedresearch projects on behalf of major industrial companies in-cluding General Electric, United Technologies, Boeing, Lock-heed and Cincinnati Milacron. He served on the faculty of Me-

Panel objectiveMultinational, coordinated, cooperative, transdisciplinary in-ternational research projects will be discussed. In such a situ-ation, the existence of scientic networks is the cornerstone

of efciency and project success. The objective of this panelis to understand the factors that encourage international col-laborative research projects in a cross-cultural context andthe inuence of scientic networks in particular.

KEYNOTE PANEL - V

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Bruce Kramer

National Science Foundation (NSF)

KEYNOTE PANEL - V

Multi-National Research and

Educational Programs

Moderator: Dr. James Smith

11:00 Am - 12:30 pm,Thursday, June 7

Room:A101


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KEYNOTE PANEL - V


Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

TheATLAS

Honorary Board member

Dr. Jeffery J. P. Tsai

PresidentAsia University

Taichung, Taiwan

Atila Ertas

Professor


Department


Dr. A. Ertas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, receivedhis masters and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He had 12years of industrial experience prior to pursuing graduate stud-ies. Dr. A. Ertas has been the driving force behind the con-ception and the development of the transdisciplinary modelfor education and research. His pioneering efforts in trans-disciplinary research and education have been recognizedinternationally by several awards. He is a Senior ResearchFellow of the ICC Institute at the University of Texas Austin, aFellow of ASME, and a Fellow of SDPS. Dr. Ertas has earnedboth national and international reputation in engineering de-sign. Dr. Ertas published 4 books and edited more than 35conference proceedings. Dr. Ertas contributions to teachingand research have been recognized by numerous honorsand awards. The honors and awards include: Presidents Ex-cellence in Teaching; Pi Tau Sigma Best Professor Award; PiTau Sigma Outstanding Teaching Award; Halliburton Awardin recognition of outstanding achievement and professional-ism in education and research; College of Engineering Out-standing Researcher Award; George T. and Gladys HangerAbell Faculty Award for overall excellence in teaching andresearch; and Presidents Academic Achievement Award. Healso received the most prestigious SDPS George KozmetskyDistinguished Achievement Award and Excellence in Lead-ership Award. Most recently, he was recognized as one of

the distinguished former students of Texas A&M, MechanicalEnginering Department. He has published over 150 scienticpapers that cover many engineering technical elds. He hasbeen PI or Co-PI on over 50 funded research projects. Underhis supervision more than 170 MS and Ph.D. graduate stu-dents have received degrees.

Dr. Po Chi Wu

Management Department,

School of Business &

Management

and


Department, HKUST, Hong Kong

PLENARY SESSION - XIIIDr. Po Chi Wu

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Thursday, June 7

Room:A101

LEADERSHIP AND SYSTEM DESIGN --

A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Po Chi Wu, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Management Depart-ment, School of Business & Management and Department ofMechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Hong KongUniversity of Science & Technology (HKUST)

As a venture capitalist and entrepreneur for more than 25years, Dr. Wu has expressed his passion for innovation byinvesting in high-tech and life science companies in SiliconValley, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He has been Founderand President of Allegro Capital, Vice President and head ofthe west coast ofce for Advent International, and ExecutiveVice President of China Venture Management (subsidiary

of China Development & Industrial Bank in Taipei, Taiwan).As an investor, he has been a director of private and publiccompanies, and interim CEO. His early corporate experienceincludes having been Vice President for R&D of a small pub-licly held immunodiagnostics company. His involvement withChina started 10 years ago, and led to co-founding Dragon-Bridge Capital in 2006, a merchant banking rm bridging Chi-nese and US technology companies. Through his teaching,at HKUST, the University of San Francisco, Peking University(Beijing), and at UC Berkeley, he has inspired and mentoredmany young entrepreneurs. He has a Ph.D. in Biochemis-try & Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a B.A.in Mathematics & Music from the University of California at

Berkeley.

chanical Engineering at MIT from 1979 to 1985 and of GeorgeWashington University from 1985 to 1995. Since 1991, hehas been at the National Science Foundation, as ProgramDirector for Materials Processing and Manufacturing, Direc-tor of the Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial In-novation, Director of the Division of Engineering Educationand Centers, and coordinator of Nanoscale Science and En-gineering Centers for the Directorate for Engineering. He iscurrently the Senior Advisor for Engineering and coordinatorof interdisciplinary and cross-directorate programs in the Di-vision of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation. Dr.

Kramer studied Japanese manufacturing industries as a visit-ing researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineeringfor Production at the University of Tokyo in 1989. During the1998-99 academic year, he taught product development andmanufacturing at the University of California, Berkeley as avisiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.Dr. Kramer was conferred the rank of Fellow of the Schoolof Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2007. He hasalso been awarded the F.W. Taylor Medal of the InternationalInstitution for Production Engineering Research, the BlackallAward of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers andthe R.F. Bunshah Medal of the International Conference onMetallurgical Coatings, all in recognition of outstanding con-tributions to the manufacturing research literature. In 1996,he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highesthonorary award granted by the National Science Foundation.

COFFEE BREAKSEvery day

10:30 am-11:00 am; 3:30 pm- 4:00 pmJune 5 - June 8, 2012


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FRIDAY, June 8, 2012

SPECIAL SESSION ON

Software Engineering

IN MEMORY OF

DR. SUMIT GHOSHSession Chair: Dr. H. Yamaguchi

9:00 am - 10:30 am, Friday, June 8

Room:A101

Opening Remarks

Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy

andDr. Raymond T. Yeh

Dr. Sumit GhoshChairman

Computer Science Department

The University of Texas at TylerDr. Sumit Ghosh was the recipient of the 2004 IEEE ComputerSocietys Technical Achievement Award. He was the PrincipalInvestigator of a proposal on Organic Semiconductor Modelingand Simulation, that was funded by US Senate and US Houseof Representatives under Special Appropriations through theUS Army Research Lab. He received his B.Tech. degree fromthe Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (India), and hisM.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA. Sumitheld the title of Thomas E. Hattrick Endowed Chaired Professorof Information Systems Engineering in the ECE Departmentat Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey;

served as the associate chairman for research and graduateprograms in the Computer Science and Engineering Depart-ment at Arizona State University; was on the faculty of Com-puter Engineering at Brown University, Providence, RI; served

INVITED SESSION - IIIUncertainty in Biomechanics

Session Developer & Chair:

Dr. Simon M. HsiangTexas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Friday, June 8

Room:A101

INVITED SESSION - IV

Transdisciplinary Design

Methodologies and their

Applications

Session Developers & Chairs:

Dr. Yong Zeng, Concordia University,Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Dr. Derrick Tate

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, June 8

Room:A101

as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research (Area 11)in Holmdel, NJ; and worked as Member of the Technical Staffat Fairchild Advanced Research and Development Labs in PaloAlto, CA. He was the primary author of 5 reference books: Hard-ware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles (IEEEPress); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simulationof Complex Systems (IEEE Press

Documents

International Congress THE IMPACT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY ON MULTINATIONAL EDUCATION&RESEARCH PROGRAMS, Asia University,Taichung, Taïwan, June 4-9, 2012