Dr.Stan David received his Ph.D. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently holds adjunct professorships at the University of Pittsburgh and the Colorado School of Mines. In 1977 he joined ORNL, where he is currently leader of the Materials Joining and Nondestructive Testing Group in the Metals and Ceramics Division. He is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, ASM International, and the American Welding Society. He is the editor-in-chief of a new journal, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, published by the Institute of Materials, London.
Dr. David has received several awards from the American Welding Society: the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award in 1998, the William Irrgang Memorial Award in 1996, the 1992 Honorary Membership Award, the Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award in 1990 for the most valuable contribution to welding metallurgy, the 1981 Lincoln Gold Medal for best technical contribution of the year, and the McKay-Helm award in 1980 for significant contributions in the field of welding. In 1997 he was awarded the Elegant Work Prize of the Institute of Materials, London, for his publication on single-crystal welding. In 1994 he was the recipient of the Champion H. Mathewson award from The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. He served as the general chairman of the International Conference on Trends in Welding Research, sponsored by ASM International in 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1998. He was also awarded the 1987, 1988, and 1990 Jacquet-Lucas Gold Medal Award by the International Metallographic Society and ASM International. He received the Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Technical Achievement Award in 1987 and 1989 and the Publication Award in 1988.
He developed the Basic Energy Sciences welding program at ORNL and was appointed task leader and national coordinator of the Welding Science Program. His current interests include solidification behavior of welds, welding inter-metallic alloys, phase stability, process modeling, and residual stresses in weldments.
Dr. David is a member of The Metallurgical Society, the American Institute for Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, ASM International, the American Welding Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has contributed to more than 200 papers in the fields of solidification and welding metallurgy and is the editor of seven international conference proceedings. He serves on several national committees of professional societies and industrial advisory boards. He was appointed a corporate fellow in 1992.
Tuan Vo-Dinh received a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1975 and is currently a corporate fellow and group leader of the Advanced Monitoring Development Group at ORNL. His research interests include monitoring techniques for process, environmental control and environmental analysis, laser techniques for trace analysis using luminescence and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, cancer detection and biomedical diagnostics, and environmental and biomedical sensors (antibody biosensors, gene probes, biochips for HIV, TB, p53, cancer diagnosis).
Dr. Vo-Dinh has received five R&D 100 Awards (1996, SERS gene probe; 1994, spot test for PCB; 1992, SERS optical data storage; 1987, fluoro-immunosensor; and 1981, PNA dosimeter). He has also received the Lockheed Martin Technology Commercialization Award (1998); the BER-50 Award for Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (1997); the Inventor of the Year Award, Inventors Club of America and Tennessee Inventors Association (1996); two Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer, (1995, 1986); the Thomas Jefferson Award, Martin Marietta Corporation (1992); the Languedoc-Rousillon Award (France) (1989); and the Gold Medal Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1988).
Dr. Vo-Dinh has authored more than 220 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the author or editor of seven books. He holds 16 U.S. patents, five of which have been licensed by DOE to private companies for commercial development. Dr.Vo-Dinh has presented more than 100 invited lectures at international meetings in universities and research institutions. He has organized and chaired over 10 national and international conferences in environmental and biomedical research areas. He served as the Honorary Chairman of two International Symposia on Analytical Sciences held in Deauville, France in 1993 and in Montreux, Switzerland in 1994.
Dr. Vo-Dinh is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and editor of the international journal Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds. He also serves or has served as an associator editor of ANALUSIS, and as a member on the editorial and advisory board of Applied Spectroscopy, Talanta, Spectrochimica Acta Reviews, and the Journal of Biomedical Optics. He is also the editor of the book series on Advances in Environmental and Process Control Technologies. Dr.Vo-Dinh serves as chairman of Commission on Optical Detection Methods for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), chairman of the ASTM Subcommittee on Fiberoptics, and the U.S. delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Industrial Advisory Group.
Dr. Vo-Dinh was appointed a corporate fellow in 1994.
Dr. C. T. Liu received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science from Brown University. He has been employed at ORNL since 1967, where he is currently the leader of the Alloying Behavior and Design Group in the Metals and Ceramics Division. During his career, he carried out both basic and applied research on advanced structural materials. Because of his outstanding contributions to this field, he was named the Scientist of the Year by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., and appointed as a corporate fellow in 1985. He was appointed a senior corporate fellow at ORNL in 1997.
Dr. Liu is an author or coauthor of more than 270 technical publications, including several conference proceedings and handbook and encyclopedia articles. He shared the 1995 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Materials Characterization and the Paper of the Year Award from the Japan Institute of Metals in 1996. His papers have been cited extensively by the materials community. In terms of the impact of his scientific papers, Dr. Liu was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information in 1995 as one of the top five individuals in the world whose papers were highly cited in journals of materials sciences and engineering. He has given numerous invited talks at international and national conferences and workshops, including several keynote lectures. He won three I•R 100 awards and received 19 U.S. patents for his innovative work on the development of new high-temperature structural materials. At present, he is an editor of the Journal of Intermetallics, an associate editor of Materials Letters, and an editor of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. In 1990, he was named a principal editor of the Journal of Materials Research. He was also honored by Brown University as a distinguished alumnus in 1985 for his scientific and technological accomplishments.
Dr. Liu is very active in professional society activities. He is a fellow of three societies: The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), ASM International, and the International Precious Metals Institute. TMS has limited its living fellow members to less than 100 in the world. He has been involved in organizing more than 23 international and national conferences sponsored by TMS, the Materials Research Society (MRS), ASM International, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He has chaired three TMS committees (Alloy Phases Committee, Acta Met./Hume Rothery Award Committee, and the Fellow Award Committee) and served as a member of many ASM/NRC councils, panels, and committees for TMS, MRS, ASM International, and the National Research Council.
Mirang Yoon completed her doctorate in physics in 1997 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducted research with Professor Simon Mochrie on the equilibrium morphology and the kinetics of morphological changes of self-organized nanoscale structures on Si(113) and Ge/Si(001) surfaces. Her graduate work was sponsored by the Joint Services Electronics Program Graduate Fellowship, by the Department of Physics at MIT, and by the Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister Award from the Association for Women in Science. She earned her undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University in 1992. Since joining ORNL in October 1997 as a Wigner fellow, Yoon is continuing her research in the Thin Films and Microstructures Section of the Solid State Division.
Jian Shen is a graduate Ph.D graduate in physics in 1996 from Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mikrostrukturphysik and Martin-Luther University in Germany under the direction of Prof. Juegen Kirschner. In his Ph.D work he has developed a systematic method to investigate the correlation between structure and magnetism of thin films, and was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal by Max-Planck Society. He continued his postdoc research in the same institute before he joined ORNL as a Wigner fellow in 1998. He is working on magnetic thin films and spin polarized STM in Solid State Division's Surface Physics group with Dr. David Zehner.
Olivia (Libby) West of the Environmental Sciences Division was born in Quezon City, Philippines. She is married to Brian West who is a development engineer in the Engineering Technology Division. Their son Jonathan is 2½ years old. At home, they celebrate Christmas in the tradition of the Philippines.
Libby came to East Tennessee to work at ORNL and her research area is in the development of environmental remediation and characterization technologies. Libby was awarded a Wigner fellowship in 1991, the Rocha Medal for thesis on rock mechanics in 1993 and the Best paper award for Spectrum ‘98.
Dr. Thomas Zacharia heads the Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) division focusing on high performance computing and computational science. His research activities center around high performance computing, computational materials science and materials processing, including crashworthiness modeling of lightweight metals and composites, modeling of combustion processes for the pulp and paper industry, and artificial intelligence and neural networks for sensing and control of automotive welds. His research into high performance computing for manufacturing processes includes superplastic forming, casting/solidification, and the stamping process. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 papers in these fields, and has presented numerous invited lectures in the U.S. and overseas. Dr. Zacharia received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College in 1980, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Clarkson University in 1987. He has served as adjunct faculty at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York and at the University of Tennessee. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. Since he came to ORNL in 1987 as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Metals and Ceramics Division, Dr. Zacharia has received several awards. A list of his awards, presentations, and publications is on the Computational Materials Science web site.
Dr. James Weifu Lee is currently a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and winner of the Department of Energy's Office of Science Young Scientist Award (1998) and a U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1999). The Presidential Early Career Award was in recognition of his research and development contributions at ORNL. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Photobiology, and the
Biophysical Society. He obtained his M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees from Cornell University and came to ORNL in 1992. His interests focus on the following three research areas:
Along with his coworkers, Dr. Lee has received two awards from the President of Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation—the 1996 Lockheed Martin Research and Development Technical Achievement Award and the 1997 Technical Publication Award—and two awards from the Society for Technical Communication/East Tennessee Chapter—a 1997 Award of Achievement in Publications and a 1998 Award of Merit in Publications. He is listed in the fourth edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Dr. Lee has recently been selected for the 1998 U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Research Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Lee has many publications, inventions, and presentations.
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