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VCAT Membership Since 1988
| Name | Title and Organization | Years Served |
|---|---|---|
| Duane Adams | Vice Provost for Research Carnegie Mellon University | 1996-2002 |
| Allen Adler | Director, Sensors & Electronics Laboratory, HRL Laboratories, LLC | 2016-2022 |
| Jay A. Alexander | Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Keysight Technologies | 2018-2021 |
| Thomas Baer | Executive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center Stanford University | 2006-2012 |
| Ruzena Bajcsy | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley | 2008-2011 |
| Arden L. Bement | Vice President, Technical Resources, Service and Technology Department TRW, Inc. | 1985-1990* |
| John G. Bollinger | Dean, College of Engineering University of Wisconsin | 1987-1991* |
| Rodney Brooks | Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab | 2014-2020 |
| Joseph Broz | Vice President of Quantum BD- Public and Academia IBM Quantum | 2025-present |
| Dwight D. Carlson | President and CEO SITCA, Inc. | 1996-2002 |
| John F. Cassidy | Senior Vice-President, Science and Technology (retired) United Technologies Corporation | 2005-2008 |
| Vinton G. Cerf | Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist | 2007-2013 2018 -2024 |
| Edward M. Chait | Vice President, Business Development Intergen | 1992-1995 |
| Gaurab Chakrabarti | CEO/co-founder, Solugen | 2024-present |
| Sujeet Chand | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Rockwell Automation | 2010-2016 |
| Milton M. Chang | Chairman New Focus, Inc. | 1996-1998 |
| Uma Chowdhry | Chief Science and Technology Officer Emeritus Dupont | 2010-2015 |
| Rita R. Colwell | Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus, Canon U.S. Life Sciences | 2014–2020 |
| Scott C. Donnelly | Senior Vice President, GE Corporate Research & Development General Electric Company | 2003-2005 |
| Nolan M. Ellison | President Cuyahoga Community College | 1998-1999 |
| George Fischer | Senior Vice President & Group President Verizon Enterprise Solution | 2018-2024 |
| Paul A. Fleury | Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics Yale University | 2006-2012 |
| Gary F. Floss | Managing Director Bluefire Partners | 2002-2008 |
| Glenn A. Fox | Principal Associate Director Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 2024 - present |
| Michael Garvey | President and CEO, M-7 Technologies | 2015-2021 |
| Monisha Ghosh | Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Chicago | 2023 - present |
| Louise K. Goeser | Vice President, Quality Ford Motor Company | 1998-1999 |
| Jeanette G. Grasselli | Director, Corporate Research and Analytical Sciences BP America | 1988-1993 |
| Peter Green | Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering; Department Chair, Materials Science and Engineering; Professor, Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering University of Michigan | 2008-2011 |
| Richard F. Gross | Corporate Vice President of R&D The Dow Chemical Company | 2002-2004 |
| Deborah L. Grubbe | Vice President, Group Safety BP International and Corporate Director, Safety and Health DuPont Safety, Health, and Environment | 2001-2006 |
| William Happer | Professor, Department of Physics Princeton University | 2007-2008 |
| Lloyd Harriott | Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Virginia | 2002-2004 |
| Tony Haymet | Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor Emeritus University of California, San Diego | 2009-2015 |
| Victoria F. Haynes | Vice President, R&D and Chief Technology Officer B.F. Goodrich Co. | 1996-1999 |
| Edward C. Heffron | Director, Food Division Michigan Department of Agriculture | 1988-1994 |
| Lou Ann Heimbrook | Vice President, Global Operations, Merck Research Laboratories Merck & Co., Inc. | 2003-2009 |
| Robert J. Hermann | Senior Vice President, Science and Technology United Technologies | 1992-1998 |
| Michael J. Holland | Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Research Strategies, University of Pittsburgh | 2024-present |
| William M. Holt | Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Emeritus, Technology and Manufacturing Group Intel Corporation | 2012-2018 |
| William G. Howard, Jr. | Senior Fellow, National Academy of Engineering Senior Vice President and Director of R&D Motorola | 1988-1994 |
| Jennie Hunter-Cevera | President University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute | 2001-2005 |
| Waguih Ishak | VP and Chief Technologist Science and Technology Corning Incorporated | 2016-2022 |
| Dana "Keoki" Jackson | Senior Vice President and General Manager, MITRE National Security Sector MITRE Corporation | 2018-2024 |
| Anthony M. Johnson | Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR) University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) | 2021- 2024 |
| Eric Kaler | President University of Minnesota | 2018-2024 |
| Karen E. Kerr | Senior Managing Director, Advanced Manufacturing GE Ventures General Electric | 2011-2017 |
| Donald B. Keck | Vice President, Research Director (retired) Corning, Inc. | 2004-2007 |
| Mehmood Khan | Chief Executive Officer Life Biosciences | 2018-2024 |
| Conilee G. Kirkpatrick | HRL Laboratories | 1999-2002 |
| Fred W. Kittler | Managing Director Velocity Capital Management | 1994-2000 |
| Shaygan Kheradpir | Chief Operating Officer Barclays Global Retail Bank Formerly: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Verizon Communications | 2010-2013 |
| Pradeep K. Khosla | Chancellor University of California, San Diego | 2008-2014 |
| Caroline A. Kovac | Vice President, Life Sciences Solutions IBM | 1999-2003 |
| Katharine Ku | Chief Licensing Advisor Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati | 2018-2024 |
| Robert W. Lucky | Executive Director, Communications Sciences, Research Division AT&T Bell Laboratories and Vice President, Applied Research Bellcore | 1991-1995 |
| Steven A. Malone | Director of Weights & Measures Program Nebraska Department of Agriculture | 1998-2001 |
| William D. Manly | Senior Vice President Cabot Corporation | 1984-1989* |
| Thomas A. Manuel | President (retired) Council for Chemical Research | 1999-2005 |
| Jason P. Matusow | General Manager, Corporate Standards Group Microsoft Corporation | 2022 - present |
| James C. McGroddy | Senior Vice President of Research (retired) IBM T.J. Watson Center | 1995-2001 |
| Michael McRobbie | President Indiana University | 2010-2012 |
| Jacqueline (Jack) Meszaros | Former Science and Technology Advisor for Natural Hazards, Disasters and Resilience at the National Science Foundation (NSF) | 2025-present |
| James W. Mitchell | Director, Materials, Reliability and Ecology Research Laboratory Lucent Technologies | 1999-2002 |
| Cherry A. Murray | Deputy Director for Research, Biosphere2, Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Arizona | 2024- present |
| Richard S. Nicholson | CEO American Association for the Advancement of Science | 1990-1993 |
| Edward J. Noha | Chairman Emeritus CNA Financial Corporation | 2004-2007 |
| Roberto Padovani | Executive Vice President and Fellow Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | 2011-2017 |
| Michelle Parker | Vice President and Deputy General Manager Space and Launch Defense, Space & Security Boeing | 2022- present |
| Mark Pierpoint | Keysight Technologies, Inc. | 2023- present |
| Wayne H. Pitcher, Jr. | Technology Management Consultant | 2001-2004 |
| Hemma Prafullchandra | Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft M365 Security & Compliance | 2014-2020 |
| Elsa Reichmanis | Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology | 2007-2010 |
| Alton (Al) D. Romig, Jr. | Vice President The Skunk Works® Advanced Development Program Engineering and Advanced Systems Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company | 2009-2015 |
| Robert J. Saldich | President and CEO (retired) Raychem Corporation | 1994-2000 |
| F. Raymond Salemme | President and Chief Scientific Officer 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals and CEO Linguagen Corporation | 1999-2005 |
| Howard D. Samuel | Senior Fellow National Policy Association | 1995-2001 |
| Juan M. Sanchez | Vice President for Research University of Texas, Austin | 2000-2006 |
| Thomas A. Saponas | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (retired) Agilent Technologies | 2004-2006 |
| Maxine L. Savitz | General Manager, Ceramic Components AlliedSignal Inc. | 1993-1999 |
| April Schweighart | Product Business Manager (retired) Motorola | 2000-2006 |
| James W. Serum | President SciTek Ventures | 2004-2010 |
| Theodore Sizer II | Vice President, IP and Optical Research Leader Nokia Bell Laboratories | 2015-2021 |
| William P. Slichter | Executive Director, Research Materials, Science and Engineering Division AT&T Bell Laboratories | 1988-1992 |
| Darlene J.S. Solomon | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Agilent Technologies | 2010-2016 |
| William J. Spencer | Vice President, Corporate Research Group Xerox Corporation | 1988-1990 |
| E. David Spong | President, Integrated Defense Systems (retired) The Boeing Company | 2005-2008 |
| W. Wyatt Starnes | Chairman and CEO SignaCert, Inc. | 2005-2008 |
| Nam P. Suh | Professor, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1990-1994 |
| Alan I. Taub | Professor, Materials Science and Engineering University of Michigan and Retired, Vice President, GM Global Research and Development General Motors Company | 2008-2014 |
| David L. Tennenhouse | Principal Research Specialist MIT Lab for Computer Science | 1996-1997 |
| Dr. John J. Tracy | Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Engineering, Operations & Technology The Boeing Company | 2013-2016 |
| Masayoshi Tomizuka | Cheryl and John Neerhout, Jr., Distinguished Professor University of California, Berkeley | 2001-2002 |
| David Vasko | Director Advanced Technology, Strategic Development Rockwell Automation | 2017-2023 |
| G. King Walters | Dean, Physics Department Rice University | 1992-1995 |
| Gail Folena-Wasserman | Senior Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Development MedImmune | 2017-2023 |
| Albert C. Westwood | Vice President, Research and Technology Martin Marietta Corporation | 1990-1996 |
| George M. Whitesides | Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry Harvard University | 1994-1997 |
| Lynn R. Williams | President (retired) United Steel Workers of America | 1996-2000 |
| Robert T. Williams | Vice President, U.S. Operations Division Caterpillar Inc. | 2003-2009 |
| David Wilson | President Morgan State University | 2015-2017 |
| *Membership carried over from the NBS Visiting Committee to the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology created in 1988. | ||
Created June 2, 2009, Updated November 19, 2024