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Erik P. Blasch

Dr. Blasch is a Captain in the United States Air Force working as a ProgramManager for part of the DARPA Dynamic Database program, a member ofInternational Society for Information Fusion executive board, and won numerousrobotics awards. Dr. Blasch holds a PhD in electrical engineering from WrightState University and is completing a PhD in mechanical engineering from theUniv. of Wisconsin. In addition to attendance at the Univ. of Wisconsin MedicalSchool, he holds six masters degrees in electrical, mechanical, and industrialengineering, business, economics, and psychology and a BS in mechanicalengineering from MIT. His interests are fusion, tracking, automatic target recog-nition, and biomedical applications.

John F. Carr

John F. Carr received his BE in Electrical Engineering from Youngstown StateUniversity and his MS in Engineering Management from the University of Day-ton. He works for the Sensors Directorate within the Air Force Research Labo-ratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. His interests include both active and passiveinfrared sensing technology.

Dr. Tammy L. Chelette

Dr. Chellete is a principal investigator at the DynamicEnvironment Simulator (DES) at WPAFB. She earned a Certificate of Registrationas a Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio in 1992 and a Ph.D in BiomedicalSciences from Wright State University in 1994. For the past two years, Dr.Chellette has been performing pioneering research in color perception at high G.Her groundbreaking research has implications for cockpit designers and has beenselected by the Air Force Research Laboratory for presentation to the ScientificAdvisory Board. She was elected Fellow of the Aerospace Human FactorsAssociation in 1999. Since 1997, Dr. Chellete has been teaching at Wright StateUniversity, College of Engineering. Her work has been recognized internationallyand published in prestigious journals including: IEEE Transactions on Systems,Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of Perceptual and Motor Skills, Journal ofIntelligent and Fuzzy Systems, and Automatica.

Robert M. Craven

Robert Craven received his BS degree in Business from Miami University and is certified as a QualityEngineer and a Quality Manager by the American Society for Quality. He has worked for the DefenseDepartment for 22 years, including the last 15 at the Air Force’s Aeronautical Systems Center. He hasworked in the area of design producibility, manufacturing development, and quality assurance on severalprogram teams, including the B-2 Bomber, and is currently working the same with the Joint Strike FighterProgram. He also served as the Project Manger for the Manufacturing Development Guide, currently theAir Force’s primary source of information for implementing systems and practices for ensuring systemproducibility and defect prevention.

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Robert A. Ehret

Mr. Rob Ehret is currently Chief of the Collaborative Simulation Technology and Applications Branch,Information Systems Division, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. Mr. Ehret receiveda Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from The Ohio State University and aMaster of Science degree in Engineering Management in 1991 from the University of Dayton. Mr. Ehretbegan his career 1986 in the Electronic Warfare Division, Avionics Directorate, Wright Laboratory, workingelectronic warfare (EW) modeling, simulation and analysis in support of exploratory development andadvanced research programs. In 1995, Mr. Ehret became a senior team leader in the Collaborative Simula-tion Technology Branch and led the initial implementation of the Air Force Research Laboratory Collabora-tive Enterprise Environment (AFRL CEE). Today Mr. Ehret serves as the Chief of the CollaborativeSimulation Technology & Applications Branch, responsible for management of branch personnel in thedevelopment of technology programs supporting the development of AFRL CEE.

Daniel V. Ferens

Daniel V. Ferens is a Corporate Affordability Officer at Air Force ResearchLaboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, where he directs costanalysis efforts for selected laboratory programs. He is also an Adjunct AssociateProfessor of Software Systems Management at the Air Force Institute of Technol-ogy (AFIT), Graduate School of Engineering, at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton,Ohio, where he lectures in courses in software estimation and software manage-ment in general. Mr. Ferens has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering fromRensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s Degree in Business from theUniversity of Northern Colorado. Mr. Ferens is a lifetime member of the Inter-national Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA) and an active member of theSociety of Cost Estimating and Analysis. He was the ISPA Freiman Awardwinner in 1999 for lifetime achievement, and is listed in the 2001 edition of Who’sWho In America.

Gregg H. Gunsch

G. H. Gunsch received his B.S.E.E. from the University of North Dakota, hisM.S.E.E. degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and hisPh.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as a faculty member of AFIT’s Graduate School ofEngineering and Management since 1990, retiring from 20 years of military servicein 1999 and remaining onboard as a civil servant. His technical interests includeinformation system security & assurance, information warfare, computer forensics,artificial intelligence and machine learning.

B. Chahira M. Hopper

She is also a member of the Executive Committee. See that section for her biography.

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Anthony Kadrovach

B. A. Kadrovach received his BSEE from Wright State University and his MSEE from the Air ForceInstitute of Technology where he is currently pursuing his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering. His technicalinterests include VLSI modeling, simulation, and design automation as well as concurrent and distributedsystems design for both hardware and software. He has been involved extensively in design and test ofhardware/software systems for real-time image processing.

Stuart Kramer

Stuart Kramer received a BSEE from Colorado State University, a MSSE from the Air Force Institute ofTechnology, and a PhD from the University of California at San Diego. He recently completed a 23-yearAir Force career, ending as Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Tech-nology. He is now an independent consultant specializing in systems engineering.

Denise M. Martinsek

D. M. Martinsek received her BS and MS in Electrical Systems Engineeringfrom Wright State University. She has been a civil servant employed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base since 1977 in what is now called the Sensors Direc-torate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her technical interests includeairborne fighter radar systems, bistatic radar, space-based radar, antennatechnology and signature technology.

Michael T. Mills

Michael T. Mills is an electronic engineer at the Air Force Research LaboratoryInformation Directorate and has worked as a civil servant at Wright-PattersonAFB for over 29 years supporting ASC engineering, major weapon systemprogram offices, and the laboratories. His experience consists of avionicscomputer hardware and software development, support software tool andlanguage development. He currently manages research areas in system leveldesign, software wrapper technologies for legacy systems, and open systemarchitecture demonstrations. Mike received his BEE degree in electrical engi-neering from Ohio State University in 1970 and his MS degree majoring incomputer science from Wright State University in 1979 and has completedseveral software engineering courses at the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Tony K. Quach

Tony K. Quach received the B.S. degree in systems electrical engineering from Wright State University in1988 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton in 1994. Since 1989, hehas been involved with the research and development of solid state microwave devices and integratedcircuits at the Sensors Directorate at Wright Patterson AFB.

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Richard B. Sanderson

Richard B. Sanderson received a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Physics from Syracuse University.Since 1972, he has been working for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB oninfrared sensors, target/background signatures, and missile warning.

James S. Sewell

Jim Sewell received his BSE in Biomedical Engineering from Wright StateUniversity. Since 1982 he has been involved in the development of high perfor-mance compound semiconductor device and circuit technologies at the AirForce Research Laboratory. His current interest is in wide bandgap transistordevelopment for use in high power applications and in harsh environments.

Dr. Jennifer Seitzer

Jennifer Seitzer is in her third year as an assistant professor in the ComputerScience Department. She graduated with her Ph.D. in June of 1997 for herwork in theoretical artificial intelligence. In May of 1998, Dr. Seitzer was invitedto work in the Networking Lab studying computer networking under DouglasComer at Purdue University for three months. Her current research and studyinvolves both intelligent systems and computer networking for which she hasbeen funded by several organizations including the National Science Foundation.Dr. Seitzer’s current projects involve distributing a large knowledge-basedreasoning system onto a Beowulf cluster, and involve extending rule discovery tometa-pattern discovery with an emphasis on cycle mining.

Michael A. Temple, PhD

Currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Degrees include a BSEE andMSEE from Southern Illinois University, received in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the AirForce Institute of Technology awarded in 1993. Dr. Temple’s research interests include electromagneticpropagation phenomenology, adaptive and interferometric clutter erasure (ACE / ICE), high range resolution(HRR) radar, precision emitter location, digital and spread spectrum communications, and complex waveformgeneration and analysis. Results of sponsored research activities in Command, Control, Communications andIntelligence (C3I), radar signal/signature processing and analysis, and Electronic Warfare (EW), have beenadopted by and/or successfully transitioned to multiple Air Force, DOD, and other national agencies.

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No Photo or Bio was available at press time for the following Technical Program Committee Members:

Richard D. RichmondSteve L. Drager