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at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences, among others. Dr. Kamangar has taught from high school to the doctoral level, with significant experience in teaching and mentoring minority students. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles, many in top-tier journals, that have received over 10,000 citations. Dr. Kamangar was one of the founding members and instructors in the Students’ Research Center at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and served as a national trainer for creating new chapters in other Iranian universities. He used this experience to receive a large grant ($23 million) from the National Institutes of Health to train young students from underrepresented backgrounds to become future leaders in biomedical research. Dr. Kamangar has received several awards for his research and training accomplishments, including the National Institutes of Health Merit Award and the National Cancer Institute’s Director’s Innovation Award.
North Carolina A&T University NANOENGINEERING Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar Professor and Chair, Nano Engineering Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar is a professor and chair of the nanoengineering department at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. He also serves as an associate director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. For the past twenty-five years, he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of polymeric composites and ceramic matrix composites. Presently he is involved in the reengineering of several H-46 and H-47 helicopter components for Naval Air Systems Command. In the past, he has worked on the one- step processing of Composite Armored Vehicle in consortium with University of Delaware-CCM and UC San Diego. In the modeling area, he is working on blast simulations for the Humvee vehicles subjected to various TNT blasts loadings and atomistic modeling of polymers embedded with CNTs and alumina nanoparticles. He is also involved in high-velocity impact modeling of ceramic matrix composites and polymeric matrix composites embedded with electro spun nanofibers. He has worked with federal laboratories in the areas of fatigue, impact, and finite element modeling of woven composites, including for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, NASA-Langley Research Center, National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has collaborated with Rice University, Texas A&M University, Tuskegee University, Air Force Institute of Technology, University of Dayton, Florida State University, Prairie View A&M University, University of Delaware, Texas State University, University of Minnesota, and University of California, San Diego.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY Dr. Jagannathan “Jag” Sankar Distinguished Professor/ERC Director Advanced materials and nano-scale science and
engineering are expected to impact the human race through next-generation technology, ranging from structural materials to smart structures and from microelectronics to medicine. Some of the areas, such as nano-engineered structural materials, biomaterials, fuel cells, nano-coatings, nano-catalysts, membranes, novel sensor materials, and biologically inspired materials, developed under the leadership of Dr. Sankar are already playing major roles in energy, nanotechnology, and homeland security issues. Since 2003 Dr. Sankar has been recognized through special congressional appropriations at the Hill to establish and continue nanoscience and technology-based centers dedicated to homeland security. His doctoral research was a pioneering effort in applying fine-scale microscopy to the mechanical property evaluation of weldments. This work has been used by the American Welding Society to determine the health and safety of large structures in the transportation and energy sectors. Dr. Sankar’s energy, enthusiasm, and tireless efforts over the past 24 years have resulted in the Center for Composite Materials Research in 1988 and the NSF- funded Center for Research Excellence in Science. In 2003 he established the Army’s Center for Multifunctional Materials for Homeland Security, and in 2004 he established the Center for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials for the Navy. He is the site coordinator of the NSF-Nanoscale Science Engineering Center, which is going through the next five-year renewal. He has graduated 30 MS students and 12 Ph.D.s as advisor, and a few as co-advisor, and has mentored more than 40 Ph.D.s and facilitated advanced materials and nanotechnology for many undergraduates, K–12 students, and Guilford and other county school teachers.
North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Elham (Ellie) Fini Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Dr. Elham (Ellie) Fini is an
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. She is the director of the Sustainable Infrastructure
Materials (SIM) lab, which is a state-of-the-art research facility that conducts research on transportation and construction materials. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 on characterizing interfacial properties of crack sealants. She has been a research affiliate at MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering since 2011 and is currently serving as a Fulbright professor at Aalborg University of Denmark. She has been an invited speaker at Kavli Frontiers of Science at the National Academy of Science, and she also served as a program director for
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