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GTI LeaderShIp L Stephen E. Cross, Executive Director Georgia Tech Ireland Dr. Cross is executive director of Georgia Tech Ireland. He is a vice president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He also holds faculty appointments as a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and in its College of Computing. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2003, he was the director and CEO of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Cross has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S.E.E. from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). holds graduate and postgraduate degrees from Athlone Institute of Technology, Trinity College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. Joseph Dalton Dr. Dalton is a principal research engineer with GTI. He previously worked at the Intel IT Innovation Centre in Leixlip where he was responsible for usage model development and information technology solutions for health care and pharmaceutical supply chains. Before this, he was a research associate at the University of Wales, Cardiff. As a psychologist, Dr. Dalton is particularly interested in technology and human interaction. Dr. Dalton holds a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. His interest areas include RFID systems, mesh sensor networks and models of applied research. Krishan K. Ahuja, Director & General Manager Georgia Tech Ireland Dr. Ahuja, Regents’ Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is the director and general manager of GTI. He also holds the title of Regents’ Researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Prior to moving to Ireland, he was head of the Aerospace and Acoustics Technologies Division of GTRI’s Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory. He is an expert in the field of acoustics and flow control. His industrial experience includes six years at the Rolls Royce aero-engine division in the United Kingdom and 13 years at Lockheed Georgia, USA. He received the prestigious international Award in Aeroacoustics in 1993 from the American Institute of Aeronautics, which also named him Engineer of the Year in 2000. He was made a Fellow of the same society in 2002. He has extensive industrial consulting experience, holds numerous patents, and has authored more than 200 publications. He holds a B.Sc. I Mechanical Engineering and M. Phil. In Aeronautical Engineering from University of London and a Ph.D. From Syracuse University. Robert Funk Dr. Funk is a senior research engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he has worked since 1995. He is currently assigned to the Georgia Tech Ireland office. He has research experience in multiple areas including the IT field, where in addition to the current focus on digital media, he has been involved in development of information systems for intelligent transportation programs. He has also been involved in research programs encompassing acoustics, aerodynamics, flow control and aero-optics. He holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. Jeff Smart Jeff Smart is a GTRI senior research engineer. Prior to joining GTRI, he was a product manager with ARRIS, a Georgia-based global company specializing in the design and engineering of broadband networks. His current fields of interest include Internet protocol television (IPTV) and digital media applications, condition-based maintenance (CBM), IT software applications ranging from logistics to e-commerce and e-learning, and radar and instrumentation systems. He holds B.E.E. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Tech. Finbar (Barry) Dolan Dr. Dolan is associate director of GTI and leads its health care and life science programs. He has more than 15 years of experience in technical, product and strategic research and development with Medtronic Vascular in Galway and Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Dolan chairs a commercialization subgroup of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland and is a member of the Engineers Ireland Council. He is also active in several other industry organizations and is a former chair of the Irish Medical Device Industry Association’s R&D group. A chartered engineer, Dr. Dolan Joan Mahon Joan Mahon is GTI’s office manager and executive assistant to the director. A native of Banagher, Co. Offaly, she lived in Australia for several years where she worked for two of the largest engineering and environmental consultancy firms in Australasia and also a recruitment firm. After returning to Ireland in 2004, she worked at Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare) as PA to the General Manager, before joining GTI in January 2007. www.georgiatech.ie 0 http://www.georgiatech.ie

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Ireland Annual Report - 2007

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