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Faculty Learn from professors who understand the connection between research and real-world experience, and appreciate the distance between ideas and implementation. EMTM courses are developed and led by Penn Engineering and Wharton faculty. The program also draws on other experts with specialized knowledge and experience from both academia and industry. EMTM faculty bring enormous knowledge, know-how and enthusiasm to their teaching, and they value the depth of experience that EMTM students share as well. Interaction is high-quality and high-intensity, and continues beyond the classroom and often after graduation.		Research Insight and Analysis As an Ivy League university committed to research, education and outreach, Penn offers public access to news and analysis on emerging technology and business issues. Online resources include: Research at Penn — a compendium of news about research findings from Penn's 12 schools, including sections focused on Technology and Business. Knowledge@Wharton — a bi-weekly online resource that offers current business insights, information, research and analysis from faculty and industry leaders.
Professors W. Bruce Allen [ Web page ] W. Bruce Allen is a Wharton Professor of Business and Public Policy, Regional Science, and Transportation, and Director of the Wharton Transportation Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Formerly he was Vice Dean and Director of the Wharton Graduate Program. He received his PhD in Economics from Northwestern University (1969) and his BA in Economics from Brown University (1964). His research interests include freight demand theory, impact of transit investments; physical distribution management/business logistics; railroad and motor carrier economics; transportation regulation; and transportation investment and regional economic development. Top of Page
Jeffrey Babin Jeffrey Babin, Managing Director of the business consulting firm Antiphony, serves as a Lecturer in entrepreneurship at the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School. Babin has more than 17 years of experience developing business strategies for emerging companies as well as Fortune 500 clients including AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Intel. Most recently, he served as CEO of Corporate Technology Ventures, a company he founded and grew into one of the nation's premier medical software publishing companies. Jeffrey earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School. He serves as a judge at the Annual Wharton Business Plan Competition and is a frequent lecturer on emerging business strategies. Top of Page
Stanley Baiman [ Web page ] Stanley Baiman is the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Chairperson of the Accounting Department in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS from Ohio State University (1968) and PhD from Stanford University (1974). He has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as a visiting faculty member at Stanford University. Dr. Baiman's research interests focus on the role of accounting information for contracting and decision-making within firms. His work has been published in several leading accounting publications, including The Accounting Review, Management Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Finance. Top of Page
Richard Bayney Richard Bayney is Vice President of Portfolio Planning at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development where he is responsible for providing strategic and analytic support to drug development teams at the Project level and to Senior Management at the Portfolio level. He has built Strategic Planning, Decision Analysis & Portfolio Management departments at Bayer Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Johnson & Johnson and is regarded as a thought leader in the area of Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London, MBA from Columbia University, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Top of Page
Mary Benner Mary J. Benner is Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received a BS from the University of Minnesota (1982), an MBA from Stanford University (1989) and her PhD from Columbia University (2002). Dr. Benner’s research interests are in the areas of organization theory; strategy; technology and innovation; organizational change; and process management. She served in various management positions at Honeywell Inc., and previously held consulting positions with FW Dodge/DRI, and Data Resources, Inc. Dr. Benner received the Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division), 2004 and a number of academic awards. Recent publications include “The Incumbent Discount: Stock Market Categories and Response to Radical Technological Change.” Academy of Management Review (July 2007) and (with M. Tushman) "Process Management and Technological Innovation: A Longitudinal Study of the Photography and Paint Industries." Administrative Science Quarterly (December 2002). Top of Page
Eric F. Bernstein Eric Bernstein, MD, is a distinguished practitioner, researcher and innovator in the fields of dermatology and laser surgery. He received his BS from Duke University and MD from the Yale University School of Medicine. Following fellowships with the National Cancer Institute at the NIH and Hahnemann University, he joined Jefferson Medical College, where he served as the first director of its Laser Surgery Center. His research on a molecular model of skin photoaging led to the development of his firm, DakDak LLC, which performs in vitro phototoxicology testing for pharmaceutical firms and pursues discovery of novel anti-aging and pharmaceutical compounds. Dr. Bernstein holds several U.S. and international patents and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles. A board member of Candela Corporation, he also consults with numerous cosmetic and biotechnology firms. Dr. Bernstein is a graduate of EMTM and has returned to teach a new course in Medical Biotechnology. He serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. Top of Page
Dawn Bonnell [ Web page ] Dawn Bonnell is the Trustee Professor of Materials Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Center for Science and Engineering of Nanoscale Systems (SENS). She received her PhD from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright scholar to the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, after which she worked at the IBM Thomas Watson Research Center. Her current research involves atomistic processes at oxide surfaces, nanometer scale phenomena in materials, and assembly of complex nanostructures. She has authored or coauthored over 150 papers, and edited several books. Dr. Bonnell has served as Founding Board member of the Nanoscale Science and Technology Division of AVS. She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, serves on the editorial boards of several journals and on national and international advisory committees, and is involved with several nanotechnology based companies. Top of Page		Dawn Bonnell: Nanotechnology
Robert J. Borghese Robert Borghese is a corporate attorney in private practice who specializes in advising emerging growth companies in the technology, health-care and financial services sectors. Mr. Borghese is a member of the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches courses on legal issues for growth companies including mergers and acquisitions. He has a JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School, an MA in Financial Economics from King’s College, Cambridge University, England, and a BS in Finance from the Wharton School. Mr. Borghese is the author of M&A from Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, published by McGraw-Hill. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch and CNNfn’s Money Gang to discuss corporate mergers and acquisitions. Top of Page		Robert Borghese: Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Saikat Chaudhuri Saikat Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received hisBSE and BS from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, his MSE from Stanford University in 1998 and his DBA from Harvard University in 2004. His research interests include technological innovation, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational adaptation. Dr. Chaudhuri has consulted for a range of technology-based companies on acquisition and other corporate growth strategies, such as TranSwitch, Diamond-Cluster, and the startup Vox Populi, and has advised the Indian government on IT-based economic development opportunities. Dr. Chaudhuri’s current projects include understanding operational drivers of performance in innovation-targeted acquisitions, based on multi-method field research with leading telecommunications and software companies. Recent publications include the journal article “Integrating Acquired Capabilities: When Structural Integration is (Un)Necessary,” forthcoming in Organization Science, and the book chapter “Managing Human Resources to Capture Capabilities: Case Studies in High-Technology Acquisitions,” in Managing Culture and Human Resources in Mergers and Acquisitions edited by G. Stahl and M. Mendenhall and published by Stanford University Press in 2005. His first article on the subject, “Capturing the Real Value in High-Tech Acquisitions,” which appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1999, continues to be widely used in business schools and amongst corporate managers. Top of Page
Russell Composto Russell J. Composto is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1990. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of his research, he has secondary appointments in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, as well as Bioengineering. He received a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University in 1987 and a BAS in Physics from Gettysburg College in 1982. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Polymer Science at the University of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1990. He has published over 100 refereed papers and 6 invited reviews. He has presented 90 invited talks and had two patent disclosures related to surface modification of biomaterials. He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator from 1991 to 1996 and elected as a fellow of the American Physics Society in 2003. His research interests cover polymer science and biomolecular engineering. Specific areas include polymer surfaces and interfaces, adhesion, and diffusion, as well as a concerted effort on nanocomposite polymer blend and copolymer films. His biomaterials research focuses on manipulating the surface of polymers to elicit control over protein absorption, as well as cell adhesion, orientation, and function. He also has an active research program at the interface of polymer science and biomolecular engineering that combines block copolymer self-assemble as a basis for orienting stiff biological molecules. Top of Page
Kostas Daniilidis Kostas Daniilidis is an Associate Professor of Computers and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Daniilidis received his PhD in 1992 from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and a Diploma (masters equivalent) in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from the national Technical University of Athens. Dr. Daniilidis' research focuses in on the basic questions of space and motion perception with machines and the use of resulting algorithms to create visually compelling immersive environments. He is currently working on projects in digital archaeology; the geometry of omnidirectionsl vision; multi-robot emergency response; and signal processing in non conventional images. Top of Page
Scott Diamond [ Web page ] Scott Diamond is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, a Charter Member of the Institute for Medicine and Engineering and Director of the Master of Biotechnology Program, all at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds secondary appointments in Bioengineering and Pharmacology. He received his BS from Cornell University and his PhD from Rice University. Dr. Diamond has been a consultant for several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and received the Colburn Award in 1999, the highest honor for those under 35 given by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Dr. Diamond has published over 60 papers and patents. His research interests are in non-viral gene transfer, thrombolytic therapy, thrombosis, endothelial mechanobiology, and functional proteomics technologies for phenotyping blood. Top of Page		Scott Diamond: Drug Discovery, Clinical Technology Innovation; Business and Biotechnology
Jehoshua (Josh) Eliashberg [ Web page ] Jehoshua (Josh) Eliashberg is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Eliashberg received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, an MBA from Tel-Aviv University, and a doctoral degree in Decision Sciences and Marketing from Indiana University. He also received an Honorary Masters from the University of Pennsylvania. His publications have appeared in many professional journals and his executive education and consulting activities include: AstraZeneca, AT&T, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Bell Atlantic, Campbell Soup, CTV Television Network (Canada), Franklin Mint, General Motors, Givaudan, IBM, Independence Blue Cross, Johnson & Johnson, Lucent Technologies, Multimedia Development Corp. (Malaysia), Warner Home Video, Woodside Travel Trust, and Wyeth. Top of Page
Peter Fader Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS (1983), MS (1985) and PhD (1987) all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests involve the use of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities across a wide range of industries such as consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, financial services, and music (online and offline). Managerial applications focus on topics such as customer relationship management, lifetime value of the customer, and sales forecasting for new products. Dr. Fader’s current projects include building a variety of predictive and explanatory models for electronic commerce (e.g., forecasting models for website usage and purchasing behavior), the music industry (e.g., understanding the role of pre-launch orders in generating album sales), and consumer packaged goods (e.g., models of new product trial and repeat purchasing patterns). Professor Fader received the Paul E. Green Award for most significant contribution to the practice of marketing research, Journal of Marketing Research, 1997, 2006; best paper award, Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2004. He was recently named as winner of the 2007 Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award, given by the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation to honor an academic’s overall achievement in direct/interactive marketing. Top of Page
Ernest R. Gilmont Ernest R. Gilmont is Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering & Applied Science. Dr. Gilmont teaches management of R&D, innovation and technology, and has previously taught in the Wharton School's MBA program. He received his PhD from MIT. Dr. Gilmont also provides consulting services to industry on R&D strategy and organization, competitive technology intelligence, product and commercial development, and science and technology management issues. He has over 20 years experience in industry, where he held responsible positions in research and development, and in general management. He spent 10 years as a management and venture capital consultant, serves on several boards, and is active as an officer or committee chair in many national scientific societies. Top of Page
Daniel A. Hammer [ Web page ] Daniel Hammer is the Alfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of Bioengineering and Chairman of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioengineering and is a member of the Institute for Medicine and Engineering. Dr. Hammer received his BSE from Princeton University and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, both in Chemical Engineering. He served on the faculty at Cornell University for eight years before returning to Penn in 1996. The author of more than 55 scientific papers, Dr. Hammer's research interests are in the area of cellular bioengineering, specifically cell adhesion and separation and molecular mechanisms of viral-cell infection. Top of Page		Daniel Hammer: Modern Biotechnology
David Hsu David Hsu is the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Finance, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, and Research Policy. He serves as an associate editor of two departments of Management Science, Technology / Innovation / Entrepreneurship and Organizations / Social Networks. At Wharton, Hsu teaches two MBA electives, Entrepreneurship and Technology Strategy. Top of Page
Dwight Jaggard [ Web page ] Dwight Jaggard is Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Director of EMTM. He has served as Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and as Graduate Group Chair. In 1988-1991, he was the first director of EMTM. Dr. Jaggard received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology (1976), and his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America. Dr. Jaggard has published some 115 technical papers, presented over 190 talks, is the author of book chapters and the editor of a book, and holds five patents. He received the S. Reid Warren award for distinguished teaching in 1985, the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback award for distinguished teaching in 1987, and the EMTM award for distinguished teaching in 2003. His technical research focuses on photonics and the electromagnetics of complex media. For the past decade he has worked with leaders and teams interested in enhancing their effectiveness in technology-driven organization. Top of Page
Saleem A. Kassam [ Web page ] Saleem Kassam is the Solomon and Sylvia Charp Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Telecommunications and Networking Graduate Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science . From 1992 to 1994, he was Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department. Dr. Kassam received his BS from Swarthmore College (1972), and his MS, (1974), MA (1974) and PhD (1975 in Electrical Engineering) from Princeton. His research interests are in the area of communications and signal processing. He has published extensively in these areas and is the author of “Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise.” Dr. Kassam is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Top of Page
Howard Kaufold Howard Kaufold is Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Wharton School. He has served as Director of the Wharton MBA Program for Executives since 1993, previously serving for eight years as Associate Director of Wharton's full-time MBA program. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School, and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University. His recently published papers have dealt with valuing leveraged buyouts and re-capitalizations (Journal of Applied Corporate Finance), hedging interest and exchange rate risk of foreign bonds (Financial Management), and the interest rate risk of floating rate notes (Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Portfolio Management). Dr. Kaufold has taught executive education programs for such corporations as DuPont, General Electric, Merck, Merrill Lynch and Nomura. He was the 1984 and 1996 winner of Wharton's Anvil Award for Distinguished Teaching. Top of Page
Vijay Kumar [ Web page ] Vijay Kumar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Kumar’s research includes robotics, legged locomotion, and rapid prototyping. He teaches robotics, dynamics, design and manufacturing, and he is Director of Penn Engineering’s GRASP Laboratory. Dr. Kumar is on the editorial board of the Franklin Institute, an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. In 1991, he was awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Top of Page
David Magerman Dr. David Magerman is a research scientist and former head of production for Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund management firm which manages the Medallion Fund, the Meritage Fund, and the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund. He has been with Renaissance since 1995, helping to design their equities trading system. Before coming to Renaissance, Dr. Magerman was an artificial intelligence researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and later at Bolt Beranek and Newman, developing statistical methods for understanding speech and language. Dr. Magerman graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in 1994. Top of Page
Serguei Netessine Serguei Netessine is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Wharton School in 2001 and has since taught supply chain management courses to MBA, Executive MBA and PhD students. On three occasions he has received a prestigious Miller-Sherrerd MBA Best Teacher award that is given annually to professors who receive highest teaching evaluations. Prof. Netessine's research and work with industry focus on strategic aspects of supply chain management, manufacturing flexibility and airline revenue management. He consulted and worked closely with a number of organizations including Federal Aviation Administration, Gartner Reserach Group, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Lines 'n Things, Kohl's, Safeway and many others. His current projects include empirical studies of supply chain contracting indefense industry and assessment of retail store execution practices. Prof. Netessine earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, and a master's degree in management science and a PhD in operations management from the University of Rochester. Top of Page
Tom Oser Tom Oser is the Consulting Practice Leader for the Telecommunications, Technology and Media (TTM) industries at Decision Strategies International, Inc., a strategy consulting firm serving Fortune Global 100 clients through mid-market customers. He provides strategy consulting advice to clients in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, in addition to the core areas of communications and media. Formerly a partner level executive in Ernst & Young's Telecommunications Sector practice, he is a frequent speaker at national conferences and corporate client events. He earned a PhD in Computer & Information Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MS in Telecommunications Systems from Southern Methodist University, and an MBA in finance and strategy from the Wharton School. Top of Page
Louis Padulo Louis Padulo is Adjunct Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School and President Emeritus of the University City Science Center (UCSC). During a distinguished career, Dr. Padulo has served as President of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and Dean of the College of Engineering at Boston University. He was a visiting professor in the Media Lab at MIT and at the University of Tokyo, and served on the faculty of Stanford University for seven years. He has worked as a computer scientist for IBM, a design engineer for RCA, a systems analyst for the Mitre Corporation, and as a consultant for numerous national and international organizations. The author of two books and several articles, Padulo earned his doctorate at Georgia Institute of Technology, his master's degree from Stanford University, and his bachelor's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, all in electrical engineering. Top of Page
Kathy Pearson Kathy Pearson is Director of Health Care Management Executive at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) at the University of Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. Dr. Pearson is the Academic Director for several executive management programs at LDI, including the GlaxoSmithKline Executive Management Program for Pharmacy Leaders. Her industrial experience includes analytical support for the pharmaceutical industry, various health care providers, the Department of Defense, and several manufacturing companies. She received her BS in Theoretical Mathematics from Auburn University, her MS in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University, and her PhD in Industrial Engineering (with a concentration in statistics) from Northwestern University. Top of Page		Kathy Pearson: Operations Management
Johannes Pennings [ Web page ] Johannes Pennings is the Marie and Joseph Melone Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He received his BA and MA at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and his PhD (1973) at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to Wharton (1983), he taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, and INSEAD. He also is affiliated with Tilburg University, Netherlands. Dr. Pennings’ research interests revolve around organizational design, strategy implementation and innovation. He has published six books and some 80 papers in scientific journals and books. Top of Page
John R. Percival John Percival is Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BA, MBA, and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a member of the American Finance Association and the Financial Management Association. He has authored many articles that have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Dr. Percival has consulted to organizations in both the public and private sectors, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the US Department of Labor, AT&T, Bell South, TRW, Gulf Oil, United Technologies, Ciba-Geigy, Bankers Trust, and many others. Top of Page
Ron Pierantozzi Ron Pierantozzi is the former Director of New Business Development at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 500 manufacturer of chemicals, gases and materials. In that role, Ron led a group of corporate entrepreneurs whose objectives were to develop the next generation of businesses for Air Products. Ron received his PhD degree in Chemistry from Penn State University and has held several technology management positions at Air Products. He is the inventor or co-inventor of 32 US patents and has authored 16 publications, most recently in the winter 2008, Sloan Management Review. For the past several years, Dr. Pierantozzi has been teaching EMTM‘s Introduction to New Business Initiation course . Top of Page
Maurice Schweitzer Maurice Schweitzer is Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. He is interested in the negotiation process, and much of his work focuses on deception and trust. His work has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Management Science. He serves on the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Dr. Schweitzer earned his BA from the University of California, and his MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches negotiations in Wharton's executive education, MBA and undergraduate programs, and has received several distinguished teaching awards. Top of Page		Maurice Schweitzer: Negotiations
Scott A. Snyder Scott Snyder is the President and COO of Decision Strategies International, a management consulting firm that focuses on scenario-based strategic planning and decision-making. He has over 18 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning, decision support systems, and technology management for both Fortune 500 companies and start-up ventures. Dr. Snyder also has significant expertise in telecommunications and information systems including enterprise applications, CRM, analytics, satellite communications, wireless, broadband, and other emerging technologies. Dr. Snyder is a part-time faculty member of Penn Engineering and has lectured at the Wharton School, MIT, and RIT. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management. Top of Page
Stefan Spinler Stefan Spinler is the acting Chair in Operations Management at the Leipzeig Graduate School of Management. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in Operations Management at the Wharton School. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, and a PhD in Operations Management from Otto-Beisheim Graduate School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. Dr. Spinler worked as a process integration engineer in the semiconductor industry and has made frequent visits to major manufacturing and process industry companies in France and Germany. His main research interests are in the area of real options in theory and applications. He has co-authored a number of papers on the novel and promising field of options in supply contracts. Top of Page
Val Tannen [ Web page ] Val Tannen is Professor of Computer and Information Science. He came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 after receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Tannen’s current research is on technologies for the integration of heterogeneous distributed information sources. His general research interests include programming languages, databases, parallel processing, logic in computer science, and bioinformatics. Top of Page		Val Tannen: Enterprise Software Development
Christian Terwiesch Christian Terwiesch is Associate professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, and has received several teaching awards from the Wharton MBA and Executive MBA programs. He also holds a visiting appointment at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. His research on areas such as product development, managing the R&D portfolio and supply chain management appears in many of the leading academic journals. Dr. Terwiesch has also researched with and consulted for various organizations, including BMW, Dell, Intel, Medtronic, Merck, and several large hospitals. He is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used textbook in operations management published by McGraw-Hill Irwin. Dr. Terwiesch holds a Masters in Business and Information Technology from the University of Mannheim, Germany, and a PhD from INSEAD. Top of Page
Lyle Ungar [ Web page ] Lyle Ungar is Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Former Director of EMTM, he is currently Associate Director of the Penn Center for BioInformatics. He also holds secondary appointments in Chemical Engineering and Computational Genomics, and in the Operations and Information Management Department of the Wharton School Dr. Ungar received his BS from Stanford (1979) and his PhD from MIT (1984). His research interests include machine learning and data mining for applications ranging from bioinformatics to e-commerce. Dr. Ungar has also worked extensively in electronic commerce, including auction mechanism design. Top of Page		Lyle Ungar: Data Mining
Jan Van der Spiegel [ Web page ] Jan Van der Spiegel is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Interim Chairperson of the Electrical Engineering Department in the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MS (1974) and PhD (1979) from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is currently Director of the Center for Sensor Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Van der Spiegel’s main interests are in the areas of integrated circuit technology and materials, biologically inspired solid state image sensors, and analog-to-digital converters. Top of Page		Jan Van der Spiegel: Microelectronics
Alexander van Putten Alexander van Putten is a Lecturer, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he lectures on entrepreneurial management. Currently he is a managing director of Triad Consultants, Ltd., which specializes in strategic and business planning. Consulting clients include Procter & Gamble, Metropolitan Life, Scott Printing, Delaware River Port Authority, Bayer Pharmaceutical, Johns Hopkins University. Prior to teaching, Alex was a senior vice president of Chrysler Capital Realty where he was responsible for the company's national real estate investments. In addition to a corporate career, he had previously built three successful companies revolving around arbitrage and finance. Top of Page
Santosh Venkatesh Santosh Venkatesh is Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 1986 and has received the University's Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. His research interests are in probabilistic modeling, statistical communication, machine learning and neural computation, and he has published extensively in these areas. Dr. Venkatesh received the BTech with distinction in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Top of Page
Gregg T. Vesonder Gregg Vesonder is Director of the Communication Software Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research. He also is Adjunct Professor of Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Vesonder has developed and managed software systems supporting operations, e-commerce, sales support and data mining. He has been involved in software tool development for speech recognition, C++ compilers, artificial intelligence and software design and analysis. At Bell Labs Software Technology Center Dr. Vesonder served on software architecture review boards and focused on software process improvement using Object Oriented and agile process methodologies. He is both a Bell Labs and an AT&T fellow. Dr. Vesonder received a BA in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an MS and PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. Top of Page		Gregg Vesonder: Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
Rob Weber Rob Weber is Senior Fellow for the Fisher Program in Management and Technology and President of Intellifit Corporation a provider of body scanning technology for multichannel apparel applications. His entire career has focused around starting and building technology based enterprises, including operational roles as President of Elastomeric Technologies, a specialty electronic connector manufacturer, Marketing Director for Ensoniq Corp, a leading manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and multimedia products and President of knoa, an e-learning software company. He has also served as Managing Director of the business consulting firm Antiphony where he focused on technological innovation strategies. Weber has invested in dozens of start-up technology ventures through angel venture groups Robin Hood Ventures and the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group Fund, both of which he co-founded. He is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a BSE from the Wharton School and BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Top of Page
Karen Winey Karen I. Winey is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, as well as Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, at the University of Pennsylvania. Winey earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts under the direction of Prof. Edwin L. Thomas. After spending 17 months as a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, she joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Winey held the position of Visiting Scientist at Dupont during the Fall 2004 and Fall 2005 semesters. Among her accomplishments, Prof. Winey received an NSF Young Investigator Award (1994) and was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003). Since joining Penn in 1992, Winey has developed research expertise in polymeric materials that includes ion-containing polymers, block copolymers, and polymer nanocomposites with a specialty in materials manipulation and morphological characterization. She has authored over 100 papers in these various fields and has received two U.S. patents. Recently, Winey published an invited review article entitled, “Polymer nanocomposites containing carbon nanotubes” in Macromolecules (2006, 39, 5194-5205) and co-edited the April 2007 special issue on this topic for MRS Bulletin, a publication of the Materials Research Society. Winey has previously served the Division of Polymer Physics within the American Physical Society as the Program Chair in 2002 and as a Member-at-Large, 2001-2004. She is currently the Chair of Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference scheduled for 2010. She has served on the editorial advisory board of Macromolecules and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics Edition. At Penn, Prof. Winey has proven to be a versatile and effective teacher having taught both core and elective courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Winey has served her department and the engineering school in various capacities including Chair of the Engineering Faculty Council (7/03-6/04), Chair of the MSE ABET Committee (1/05 – 12/06), and SEAS Faculty Personnel Committee (9/07 - present). Top of Page
Keith Weigelt [ Web page ] Keith Weigelt is Professor of Management at the Wharton School. His research interests include strategic planning, corporate compensation structures, and managerial decision-making. Dr. Weigelt’s articles have appeared in both academic journals and the popular press. He received his BS and MBA from Michigan State University and his PhD from Northwestern University in 1985. Dr. Weigelt has worked with corporations on projects that entailed applying a game theoretic framework to business problems. His models have been used to evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities by companies in the financial, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. Top of Page		Keith Weigelt: Strategic Management
Z. John Zhang Dr. Z. John Zhang is a Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelors degree in Engineering Automation and Philosophy of Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China), a Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and also a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Wharton in 2002, John taught pricing and marketing management at the Olin School of Business of Washington University in St. Louis for three years and at Columbia Business School for five years. John’s research focuses on competitive pricing strategies and the design of pricing structures. He has published numerous articles in top marketing and management journals on various pricing issues such as measuring consumer reservation prices, price-matching guarantees, targeted pricing, access service pricing, the choice of price promotion vehicles, and channel pricing. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Quantitative Economics and Marketing and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. He is also an area editor for Marketing Science, and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing. He won the 2001 John D.C. Little Best Paper Award and 2001 Frank Bass Best Dissertation Award, along with his co-authors, for his contribution to the understanding of targeted pricing with imperfect targetability. Top of Page
Director Dwight Jaggard [ Web page ] Director, Executive Master’s in Technology Management Professor of Electrical Engineering Top of Page

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