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Dr. Nicole Hutchison is a Research Engineer at the SERC. Her primary work through the SERC includes the Helix project. Previously she was a member of the BKCASE research team. Before joining Stevens, she spent 5 years working for Analytic Services, supporting the US Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. She holds a PhD in systems engineering from Stevens and her INCOSE CSEP.

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Sergio Luna is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests include the implication of social media information on emergency management systems, enterprise modeling, and network abstractions. Prior to joining
Stevens, Sergio was a Research Assistant at The Research Institute for Manufacturing and
Engineering Systems (RIMES) in El Paso, TX. Sergio holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a
MS in Systems Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso.

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William Miller is a Senior Researcher for the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology with over 40 years professional experience in systems engineering, program management, and product management. At Bell Laboratories, he worked as a Member of the Technical Staff on the concept formulation, development, introduction and operational improvement of commercial telecommunications services and then as the Systems Engineering Manager in the concept formulation, development, introduction and operational improvement of specialized communications systems for government and defense. He was Product Manager for a business communications product in the AT&T General Departments and Program Manager for development of advanced technology for the last mile in the AT&T Local Infrastructure and Access Management organization. He is a systems engineering consultant to industry and government. Bill is the editor-in-chief of INSIGHT magazine, past Technical Director and former Secretary of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He is a member of the IEEE. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He comes to the practice of systems engineering as a control and communications systems engineer.

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Dr. Hoong Yan See Tao is a postdoctoral researcher at SERC. Hoong Yan recently graduated with a PhD in systems engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 2017. She has been working with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) on different projects since 2015. She was the Summer Pre-College Program Instructor for Systems Engineering and the IEEE Millburn STEM Coding Club Instructor in 2016. She was the recipient of the Stevens Outstanding Female Graduate Student Leader Award (2015) and the Stevens Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award (2014). She was the president of the INCOSE Student Division at Stevens (2013-2014). Hoong Yan earned her BS and MS in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). At UTEP, she worked in the Research Institute for Manufacturing and Engineering Systems and was the team leader for two NASA and Texas Space Grant Consortium design challenges. She was also the president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) student chapter at UTEP (2011). Hoong Yan worked as an engineering and technical writing specialist with EdComm, Inc.

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Dinesh Verma received the Ph.D. (1994) and the M.S. (1991) in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He served as the Founding Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology from 2007 through 2016. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a US Department of Defense sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) focused on systems engineering research. During his fifteen years at Stevens he has successfully proposed research and academic programs exceeding $150m in value. Verma served as Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland from 2003 through 2008. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration.

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Gregg Vesonder is an Industry Professor in Software Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the Director of The Software Engineering program and Director of the Altorfer Design Studio Lab. Prior to this role he served as Executive Director of the Cloud Platforms Research Department at AT&T Labs Research. His Department at AT&T Labs Research focused both on Cloud Platforms and Mobile and Pervasive Systems.

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Jon Wade, Ph.D., is a professor of practice at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego where he is the director of convergent systems engineering designing transdisciplinary education and research programs oriented around the fundamental principles of contemporary closed-loop systems engineering design. Previously, Dr. Wade was a research professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology where he also served as the chief technology officer of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) UARC. His industrial experience includes serving as executive vice president of Engineering at International Game Technology (IGT), senior director of Enterprise Server Development at Sun Microsystems and director of Advanced System Development at Thinking Machines Corporation. His research interests include complex systems, future directions in systems engineering research and the use of technology in systems engineering and STEM education. Dr. Wade received his S.B., S.M., E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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