Dr. Pier Marzocca serve as PI for the GDC project. Professor Marzocca has been working in the field of Aerospace Engineering since 1996 and specializes in multi-physics modeling and characterization of advanced materials and structures, dealing with the interactions among advanced structures and fluids, magnetic, electric, and thermal fields. In the area of green and renewable technologies, Dr. Marzocca research interests includes design, performance characterization and system integration of wind turbine and other energy systems, Dr. Marzocca′s received several awards including the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the SAE. He is currently an Associate Fellow of AIAA, the Chair of the SAE Unmanned Aircraft System Technical Committee, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering and the Journal of Thermal Stresses.

Dr. Kerop Janoyan received his B.S., M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2001, respectively, and is a Registered Profession (Civil) Engineer in California. He an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where he also serves as the Executive Officer. Dr. Janoyan was elected By-Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University where he spent his sabbatical stay in 2009. His research and development expertise covers a broad range of related topics with a strong focus on aspects of intelligent structural systems, in-service diagnostics, machine health monitoring, and parametric modeling of mechanical response from stochastic field measurements. Dr. Janoyan has an extensive history of participation in various academic and joint industrial projects tailored toward application of advanced sensing and diagnostics approaches for infrastructure, industrial, and environmental systems.

As a former employee at GE research center, Dr. Achuthan was a key member of the team who developed GE′s fiber optic sensor system for the measuring real time temperature and strain inside the Radiant Syngas cooler (RSC) for Integrated Gassification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant at Tampa Electrical Company′s (TECO) power plant in Tampa, Florida. This $3.7M project was funded by Department of Energy (DoE). Dr. Achuthan was in charge of finding solutions to mitigate the challenges posed due to extreme conditions (high temperature, small strain, slag penetration, slag impact etc). The developed system successfully gathered data continuously for 60 days, more than the design period. Dr. Achuthan has also worked in the area of fiber optic sensor development for fouling detection. Dr. Achuthan received his Ph.D. from Purdue University (2004), his M.E. from the National University of Singapore, Singapore (2000), and an M.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India (1998). Dr. Achuthan′s research, as a faculty member in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department at Clarkson University, is in the areas of solid mechanics and advanced materials. He is interested in studying and solving problems associated with the development of next generation of fiber optics sensors, and ″small″ scale devices such as MEMS and nanodevices. In the advanced materials area Dr. Achuthan′s current focus include multiscale modeling of ferroelectric material behavior, Molecular Dynamic simulation of nanomaterial behavior, and developing composite materials for harsh environment conditions. Dr. Achuthan is also working on structural impact problems and thermal stress analysis problems for refractory structures. Dr Achuthan has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and received several patents. http://www.clarkson.edu/mae/faculty_pages/Achuthan.html.

Prof. Matthews is currently the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS), the editor of ACM Operating System Review and a member of the Executive Committee of US-ACM, the U.S. Public Policy Committee of ACM.

She has written several popular books including "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization" and "Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action". Her research interests include virtualization, cloud computing, computer security, computer networks and operating systems.

At Clarkson, she leads several hands-on computing laboratories including the Clarkson Open Source Institute and Clarkson Internet Teaching Laboratory.

Professor Bird specializes in energy and environmental politics, policy networks, electricity governance, and environmental risk. He focuses on siting policy, regulatory issues, and implementation for the GDC Project.