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William Neale William Neale is the Director of Visualization at Kineticorp, LLC, a Denver-based forensic engineering and visualization firm. Prior to joining Kineticorp, he was Director of Animation at Knott Laboratory, another forensic engineering and reconstruction firm. Throughout his career, the daily focus of his professional activities has been on video analysis, photogrammetry, videogrammetry, computer modeling, and visualization. William has authored and presented over 25 peer-reviewed, technical articles related to video analysis, photogrammetry, and reconstruction and has testified throughout the country in Federal and State courts. Some of the high-profile cases he has worked on include the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys Practice facility in Dallas, Texas, the special effects accident that occurred in the blockbuster film Transformers 3 “Dark of the Moon” and the reconstruction of the Princess Diana accident which has been featured on The Discovery Channel. Mr. Neale’s work was also recently featured on TNTs Cold Justice. Mr. Neale received the 2006 Arch T. Cowell award for his research in video tracking and photogrammetry and received funding for research in this field from DriveCam - The Driver Science Company, Ford Motor Company, The Milwaukee Brewers, and The National Football League (NFL). Mr. Neale received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Architecture degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied photography, videography, and computer visualization. Steve Neemeh Steve Neemeh joined LHP in 2015 to lead the expansion of the west coast operations and currently serving as General Manager LHP West - Solutions Architect. He is also leading the development of all safety critical applications, including ISO 26262 / functional safety. Prior to that, Steve was running research and development for Siemens Rail Automation. He was responsible for all aspects of product development and strategy including product line management, project management, hardware, software, and systems design and testing. Steve has spent his entire career in product development in software, electronics, and electro-me- chanical systems. He has held a variety of roles in engineering, ranging from design engineer to project management, and depart- mental leadership in technology organizations. Steve attended Concordia University in Montreal Canada, and Purdue University in Indiana, and has a Master’s degree in Engineering. Steve resides in Yorba Linda, California, with his wife Jennifer and two children. William de Ojeda William de Ojeda, PhD, PE, is the Engineering Director of WM International. He is responsible for the development of specialized fuel injection, air management and controls systems for automotive and truck applications. Formerly, Dr. de Ojeda was a Product Manager within the Advanced Combustion and Controls Group at Navistar’s Powertrain Division. He has led several DOE and NSF sponsored programs to demonstrate advanced combustion concepts, high engine efficiency, and the use of alternative fuels. He has been responsible for the design and
journals and reports for the UK government and industry. His website muelaner.com is a leading metrology source with over 28,000 visitors annually. Fariborz Musavi Dr. Musavi has over twenty years of industry experience with strong leadership and management background and a proven track record of taking several products to mass production. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver (WSU Vancouver). Prior to joining WSU, he held several industry positions, including a Design Engineering position at EMS Technologies Inc., Lead Design Engineer position at DRS Pivotal Power, Group Leader at Alpha Technologies, Manager of Research and Engineering at Delta-Q Technologies Corp., and the most recent position as Director of Engineering at CUI Inc. While working at Delta-Q Technologies, a leading provider of battery charging solutions, he led a team of researchers and engineers to conduct research and development on the next generation of on-board battery chargers for electric vehicles. He developed a 3.3 kW on-board charger in collaboration with Delphi Automotive LLP. Dr. Musavi is an author/co-author of more than forty-five journal and conference papers as well as a book chapter, and two patents. He is a recipient of the first best paper award from IEEE Industry Applications Society. Prof. Musavi earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, a M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Gholam-Abbas Nazri Dr. Nazri is currently the technical director of new technologies at Frontier Applied Sciences and Technologies, LLC and is also Professor of Physics at Wayne State University. Dr. Nazri began his career as a Research Scientist at General Motors Global Research and Development Center after two years of postdoctoral fellowships at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also served as a visiting Professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris France, Institute of Condense Matter Chemistry at Bordeaux France, and Institute of Materials at Nantes, France. He is an active organizer of Symposia on advanced batteries and is on the International Science Advisory Board of several Lithium Battery Meetings and Conferences. Dr. Nazri has published over 100 scientific papers, 12 proceedings volumes, two text books on science and technology of lithium batteries, and is the holder of 15 U.S. patents. His research interests are in the area of corrosion and corrosion protection, design of new materials for advance batteries for transportation, supercapacitors, solid-state hydrogen storage materials, electrochemical catalysis, synthesis of novel materials, and advanced analytical techniques for real-time study of electrochemical systems. Dr. Nazri received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Center for Electrochemical Sciences, Case Western Reserve University where his theses focused on Corrosion and Passivation of Ferrous Alloys.
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