Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board provides high-level vision and guidance to the Executive Committee and reviews organizational and programmatic assessment twice yearly to ensure continuous improvement. The Advisory Board is made up of a diverse set of senior academic, industry, and nonprofit leaders.

“ERVA represents one of those rare opportunities where we can come together as an engineering community to influence and catalyze our joint investments to improve human condition and tackle some of the biggest challenges we face.”

Henry Jerez

Senior Vice President for AI Infrastructure, Oracle

“ERVA is an opportunity to be the thought leaders for the grand challenges facing engineering and society in the 21st century.”

Darryll Pines

President
University of Maryland College Park

“ERVA is creating an exciting platform for the engineering research community to look into the future collectively and collaboratively, and to focus our most impactful endeavors on addressing national and global challenges.”

Grace Wang

President
Worcester Polytechnic University

Cammy Abernathy

Dean, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida
Christopher Cramer

Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer, UL Research Institutes
Dan Reed

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Utah
Darryll Pines

President
University of Maryland College Park
Dawn Tilbury

Professor, Robotics, University of Michigan
Frederic Bertley

President and CEO
Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
Grace Wang

President
Worcester Polytechnic University
Henry Jerez

Senior Vice President for AI Infrastructure, Oracle
Joan Ferrini-Mundy

President
University of Maine
Kenneth Ball

Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University
Nadine Aubry

Provost and Senior Vice President, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Richard O. Buckius

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Tejal Desai

Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor of Engineering, Brown University
Theresa S. Mayer

Vice President for Research
Carnegie Mellon University