VCAT Member Biographies

Dr. Joseph Broz 

(Term expires December 20, 2027)

Dr. Broz has responsibility for leading IBM Quantum’s quantum-centric supercomputing programs and adoption of advanced quantum computing capabilities. Joe joined IBM Quantum in March 2021 after serving as the founding Executive Director of the federally chartered quantum economic development consortium (QED-C) under the National Quantum Initiative Act. He has supported DOE, DOD, Air Force, Army, Navy, DHS, NIH, NIAID, DOJ, and other departments through agency research, consulting contracts, and advisory boards. Prior to the QED-C, he served as Vice President of Applied Sciences at SRI, where he led laboratories in applied science, government business development, technical and business strategy. He also served as VP of Business Development and Research at Titanium Metals, and Laboratory Director of Tenneco, Inc., where he was responsible for product development, manufacturing operations, quality, technology, and environmental management across corporate divisions worldwide. He served as a White House Fellow for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of George H.W. Bush. He was a British American Fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Senior Fellow for National Security and Energy at NORC at the University of Chicago. Broz has a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH) in Zurich.

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Dr. Gaurab Chakrabarti

(Term expires December 1, 2027)

Gaurab is the co-founder and CEO of Solugen. As a physician-scientist, Gaurab took an oath to first do no harm—and for him, that goes beyond patients or medicine. So in 2016, he started Solugen to decarbonize the chemicals industry, one of the most damaging for people and the Earth. Gaurab believes in using biology in unconventional ways to solve incredibly complex problems and is building a world-class team to join him on the journey.

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Dr. Stanley Cheung

(Term expires: September 4, 2028)

Dr. Stanley Cheung is currently an Associate Professor with North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. His research interests are multi-disciplinary and aims to advance integrated photonics in computational and communication systems research – this entails exploring novel heterogeneous semiconductors, architectures/algorithms, and developing a deeper understanding of neuromorphic/quantum-inspired computation that lie close to physics. He has accumulated > 105 journal and conference publications along with 32 U.S patents (50 + pending) and delivered multiple invited talks at international conferences around the world. He has made major key technical contributions to current and past U.S. government customer contracts within DOD, DARPA, DOE, ARPA-E, NSA, NRO, and others. Prior to NC State, he served as a Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories where he played a key role in foundational photonic R&D for next-generation high-performance computing systems for various government agencies.

Dr. Cheung received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Columbia University, and the University of California, Davis respectively.

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Dr. Glenn A. Fox

(Term expires:  April 29, 2027)

Dr. Glenn A. Fox is the Principal Associate Director (PAD) for the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate (PLS) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Glenn joined the research staff at LLNL in 1992, working on and leading numerous synthesis chemistry projects. He has since held a variety of key positions at the Laboratory, including Deputy Division Leader for science and technology (S&T) for the Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate from 1999 to 2002; Director of the Forensic Science Center (FSC) from 2002 to 2006; Deputy Associate Director of S&T for the Chemistry, Materials, Earth, and Life Sciences Directorate from 2006 to 2007; and Chemical Sciences Division Leader from 2008 to 2013. As director of the FSC, he positioned the center as a “hub laboratory” for LLNL programs and federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a recognized leader in the forensic science of weapons of mass destruction.

Glenn assumed his current role in 2013. In this position, he leads a talented team of roughly 1400 technical and support staff that works together to solve complex national security challenges and advance the scientific foundations of the Laboratory in a wide range of areas, including atmospheric, earth, and energy; biology and biotechnology; materials science; nuclear and chemical science; and physics. Since then, he has overseen expansion into newer mission spaces, such as materials for energy and quantum computing, and the formation of new LLNL centers to focus innovation and external engagement, such as the High Energy Density Science Center, Laboratory for Energy Applications for the Future, Space Science Institute, and Livermore Center for Quantum Science.

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Dr. Monisha Ghosh

(Term expires:  March 31, 2026)

Monisha Ghosh is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the co-chair of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) Working Group on Advanced Spectrum Sharing, and Policy Outreach Director for SpectrumX (https://www.spectrumx.org/ ), the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation.

Monisha recently completed a term as the Chief Technology Officer at the FCC in June 2021. In this role she reported to the Chairman of the FCC and was closely involved with setting national strategy and technology specifications related to the explosive growth of broadband wireless communications technologies.  These have included crafting rules and technology implementations for the 6 GHz unlicensed bands, overseeing protocols for the standardized measurement of broadband signals, and open RAN. Prior to that she served in the NSF as a rotating Program Director (2017-2019) where she managed wireless networking research. During her tenure at the NSF she is credited with initiating one of the first large scale programs that targets applications of machine learning to wireless networks.  

During her two leaves of absences at the NSF and FCC, Monisha was concurrently a Research Professor at the University of Chicago where she conducted research on wireless technologies for the IoT, 5G cellular, next generation Wi-Fi systems, coexistence and spectrum sharing. Prior to joining the University of Chicago in September 2015, she has worked extensively in industrial research and development at Interdigital, Philips Research and Bell Laboratories, on various wireless systems such as the HDTV broadcast standard, cable standardization and cognitive radio for the TV White Spaces. She has made active technical contributions to many industry standards, including IEEE 802.22 and 802.11. While at Philips she was responsible for conceiving of and designing the first blind equalization architecture to be incorporated into an integrated circuit product chip (Philips, digital TDA 8960 VSB channel decoder IC for digital TV, 1999).  

Monisha received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991, and her B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India) in 1986. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Dr. Michael J. Holland

Term expires October 24, 2027)

As Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Research Strategies, Mike Holland supports faculty as they develop cross-disciplinary research collaborations. He manages the Pitt Momentum Funds, runs Big Proposal Bootcamp, and coaches faculty as they develop large, team-based proposals. Holland helps coordinate the University’s response to research policy opportunities in support of its strengths and long-term goals.

Prior to coming to Pitt, Holland served as Executive Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, a graduate-level informatics program established in 2012 focused on understanding and improving the quality of life in cities. Previously, he spent 13 years in Washington, DC, overseeing federal research and development programs as the Senior Advisor and Staff Director in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy and as the program examiner in the White House Office of Management and Budget with responsibility for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and Cerro Grande Fire Activities. Holland has also served as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and on the staff of the US House of Representative’s Committee on Science.

Mike is board chair of The Coleridge Initiative, a non-profit data science company spun out of NYU; chair of the steering committee for the AAAS Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering section (X); board member of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Innovation & Science; and current member and past chair of the UNC Chemistry Advisory Board. He previously served as a member of NSF’s Business & Operations Advisory Committee, NIST’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee, and the National Research Council’s Chemical Sciences Roundtable. Holland earned his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Dr. Jacqueline (Jack) Meszaros

(Term expires December 20, 2027)

Jacqueline (“Jack”) Meszaros currently serves as a Scientist Emerita for the U.S. Geological Survey. Jack was formerly the Science and Technology Advisor for Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Resilience at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she coordinated disaster-relevant research activities. She also represented NSF on the Federal interagency bodies that support disaster-relevant research, including the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, the National Windstorm Impacts Reduction Program, and the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Landslide Hazards.

From 2015-2019, Jack served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Senior Policy Advisor and Assistant Director for Natural Hazards Resilience. In this capacity she acted as authoritative consultant to the President’s Science Advisor and others in the Executive Office of the President, including National Security Council and Office of Management and Budget. She also led multiple National Science and Technology Council subcommittees responsible for science policies to advance national resilience, including those relevant to natural hazards, space weather, earth observations, and critical infrastructure.

Before her Federal service, Jack was a professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, and Temple University, with research focused on decisions about ambiguous and low-probability risks, including earthquakes, accidents, and vaccines. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Medical Decision Making, among others.  

Jack earned her Ph.D. and M.S. at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her bachelor’s degree is also from Penn.

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Dr. Cherry A. Murray

(Term expires:  April 29, 2027)
 

Cherry Murray, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Emerita, John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

She obtained B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests evolved from experimental condensed matter and surface physics to nanotechnology, innovation, R&D of telecommunications networks, to science, technology, national security and energy policy, science diplomacy and global sustainable development.

From 1978 to 2004, Murray held research and executive positions at Bell Laboratories, eventually becoming Senior Vice President for Physical Sciences and Wireless Research.  She then served at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology from 2004 to 2009.  She was dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2009 until 2014.

Murray served as the Director of the US Department of Energy Office of Science, from 2015 until 2017, overseeing $6 billion in competitive scientific research as well as the management of 10 national laboratories. She was a professor at Harvard until her retirement in 2019, when she moved to University of Arizona as Professor of Physics and Deputy Director of Research at Biosphere2 until July 2025.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership, past Chair of the Board of Governors of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, and past co-chair of the United Nations 10-Member Group, Murray has received the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation as well as the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award and George E. Pake Prize. She is co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences Report Review Committee and a member of the National Academy of Engineering Council.

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Dr. Mark Pierpoint

(Term expires:  March 31, 2026)

Mark Pierpoint is an Executive Emeritus consultant for Keysight Technologies, leveraging his more than 35 years experience across the electronics test & measurement industry to accelerate research partnerships, guide M&A and develop the next generation of executive leaders for the company.

Over his career, Mark held multiple management positions in R&D, Manufacturing and Sales across various businesses within Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies and Keysight in both the US and Europe.  He is credited with developing a scientific approach to sales and marketing ahead of modern cloud based tools, as well as driving improved R&D productivity and leading change management. From 2005 to 2010 Mark brought together what was then Agilent’s disparate technology centers into a single, focused, Technology & Services Organization which set the pathway for R&D leadership through common engineering, breakthrough research and engineering services. Mark led Keysight’s move into modular and modular software, growing the business from zero to over 150M$ in 5 years. In 2017 Mark led the acquisition and later the integration of Ixia, helping to fuel Keysight’s growth in communications.

Mark has presented at multiple technical and industry conferences on subjects ranging from measurement technology, including AI in measurement, to communications, cybersecurity and radar techniques. With his strong foundation in measurement science, traceability and standards, Mark served on the UK’s National Physical Laboratories’ scientific and technology advisory council, from 1996 until 1999. He also serves on several major university engineering school advisory boards, helping to align academic and industrial needs and advance innovation.

Mark earned his PhD in Microwave Engineering and BSc (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds in the UK.