Rich Byrne, MITRE
Mr. Richard Byrne is a vice president in The MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. In this role, he directs MITRE's work on behalf of the U.S. intelligence agencies, military intelligence organizations, and the combatant commanders with a particular emphasis on integration topics. Prior to joining MITRE, Mr. Byrne was a founder and engineering manager at VTC, a semiconductor startup where he led the design and production release of more than 150 products over five years. From 1980 to 1985, Mr. Byrne worked as the technical manager of VLSI Design Methods for telecommunication at ITT's Advanced Technology Center where he designed custom, ASIC, standard cell, and gate array products and advanced CAD tools. A member of the IEEE and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Mr. Byrne sits on the board of the AFCEA Lexington-Concord Chapter. In 2010, he received AFCEA International's Benjamin H. Oliver Gold Medal for Engineering. He received the 2006 AFCEA International Meritorious Award for Engineering and the 2004 AFCEA International Golden Link Award. He served as the chairman of the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Design Sciences Board for two years and was a contributor to the first International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Mr. Byrne received a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He is a 2006 graduate of the Harvard Business School General Management Program, where he was elected class speaker.
John Michitson, MITRE
During his 29 year career he has been a technical manager, systems engineer and engaged in research and development, and product management for engineering corporations on the forefront of technology, such as the MITRE Corporation and Bell Labs, as well as Internet startups. He is currently leading a cross-functional team applying technical guidance across several airborne networking programs to ensure interoperability. He is currently spearheading two internal research proposals that leverage open innovation and prediction markets for Federal Government markets. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Merrimack College and recently completed the Entrepreneurship Development Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management. John is very active in his community. He served 10 years on the City Council in Haverhill, Massachusetts, including his last two years as President.
Ricardo Valerdi, MIT
Dr. Ricardo Valerdi is a Research Associate in the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on systems engineering metrics, cost estimation, test & evaluation, human systems integration, enterprise transformation, and performance measurement. His research has been funded by Army, Navy, Air Force, and BAE Systems. Dr. Valerdi is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation and served on the Board of Directors of the International Council on Systems Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Matthew Potoski, Iowa State University
Matthew Potoski is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University where he teaches courses on public management and policy. He has received Iowa State University LAS awards for Early and Mid-Career Achievement in Research. He is Co-Editor of both the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the International Public Management Journal. Dr. Potoski's research investigates public management and policy in domestic and international contexts, including public sector contracting and service delivery, environmental policy, and voluntary regulations. He is co-author with Aseem Prakash of the Voluntary Environmentalists (Cambridge, 2006) and Co-Editor of Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Approach (MIT 2008). He is author or co-author of over thirty articles appearing in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Public Administration Review. Dr. Potoski received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University in 1998 and a bachelor's degree in Government from Franklin and Marshall College.
Rob Henry, MITRE
Mr. Henry has been with MITRE's Center for Acquisition and Systems Analysis (CASA) since 1995 and co-leads MITRE's risk analysis and management community of practice. He has a broad range of risk analysis and management experience developed over ten years supporting a diverse set of sponsors (US Government Classified and intelligence agencies, Office of Secretary of Defense, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Department of Homeland Security, Census Bureau, FAA, Department of the Treasury, NOAA) and MITRE research initiatives. Mr. Henry has a demonstrated ability to assess the risk analysis and management needs of an organization. He develops, tailors, and implements a wide variety of risk analysis and management methodologies, approaches and tools supporting capability-based risk assessments, risk metrics, enterprise risk management, program risk management, risk-informed portfolio analysis, analysis of alternatives, and trade-space analysis. Additionally, Mr. Henry is a trained facilitator and has facilitated numerous risk analysis and mitigation planning sessions. He has provided risk theory and practice training to well over a 1,000 individuals in government organizations. Rob has an M.A. in Teaching, History from Salem State College and a B.A. in History from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Jason Matheny, IARPA
Jason is an Incisive Analysis Program Manager at Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA) and is interested in Statistical Forecasting, Econometrics, Risk Analysis, Human Judgment, Uncertainty, Bio-surveillance, Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation. Jason has a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.B.A. from Duke University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Jon Schuler, MITRE
Jon Schuler has been with the MITRE corporation since 2007, specializing in applied mathematics, statistics, data mining, as well as computational sociology of organizations, program requirements, and other relational dependencies. Prior, Jon spent 12 years in the field of image and signal processing of airborne tactical infrared and hyperspectral imaging sensors for the Department of Navy, and holds a patent on image super-resolution. Professionally, Jon has migrated from the analysis of 'hard sciences' (and correspondingly well-defined data sets), to analysis of the 'soft sciences', represented by subjective assessments and qualitative measurements. Jon strives to tease out actionable, reproducible conclusions from such data sets using non-parametric statistical methods. Jon is a huge fan of 'The Black Swan' and 'Freakonomics'
Thomas Montgomery, Ford
Tom is a Technical Expert in Ford Motor Company's Research and Advanced Engineering. He has a B.S. in Physics and PhD in Distributed Artificial Intelligence from the University of Michigan. Tom has specialized in text mining (data mining from text-based sources), with a recent expansion into prediction markets. Seventeen years in Ford Research has given him the opportunity to contribute to many areas of the company including supply base risk analysis, competitive intelligence, customer satisfaction, survey verbatim analysis, early warning in warranty claims, failure mode simulation, and market share analysis. Tom says, "it is a target-rich environment at Ford -- there is never a dull moment, always another interesting and challenging problem to work on."
David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
David Rejeski directs the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the WoodrowWilson International Center for Scholars, a non-partisan policy research institute in Washington, DC. The program's mission is to explore the scientific and technological frontier, stimulating discovery and bringing new tools to bear on public policy challenges that emerge as science advances. Project areas presently include: nanotechnology, synthetic biology, serious games, participatory technology assessment, and geoengineering. He was recently a Visiting Fellow at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has been an adjunct affiliated staff member at RAND. Between 1994 and 2000, he served as an agency representative (from EPA) to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Before moving to CEQ, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on a variety of technology and R&D issues, including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Strategy. Prior to working at OSTP, he was head of the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. David sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education; the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the National Council of Advisors of the Center for the Study of the Presidency; the Journal of Industrial Ecology; and Games for Change. From 2004 to 2009, he was a member of EPA's Science Advisory Board. He has graduate degrees in public administration and environmental design from Harvard and Yale and studied industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design.
Adam Siegel, Inkling Markets
Adam is the co-founder of Inkling Markets, a yCombinator funded company offering prediction market software and solutions to companies, governments, and non-profits. Before co-founding Inkling, Adam worked at Accenture where he served over a dozen clients across multiple industries for over a decade. He also managed an internal venture fund to seed the development of new ideas and ran a research initiative around next generation user experiences. Adam is a regular speaker at conferences and in M.B.A. classrooms and has been published in Forbes, Risk Management Magazine, and the Journal of Prediction Markets. Adam has a B.A. in Political Science from Indiana University.
