NIST Speakers Bureau

Colleges and universities: bring NIST’s renowned experts to your classrooms with the NIST Speakers Bureau. Our speakers can offer extensive expertise in their fields, as well as a high-level overview of NIST. Allow us to share our world-class science with your students and faculty.   

Speakers will be provided as their schedules permit, generally at no cost to your school. Their travel costs will be covered by NIST. In the event NIST’s travel budget does not permit a speaker to participate, the speaker may be able to attend if the school covers travel costs. 

Request a Speaker 

Send an email to NIST-speakers-bureau [at] nist.gov (NIST-speakers-bureau[at]nist[dot]gov) at least six to eight weeks before your event and include:

• Name/title and email/phone of requester
• Institution and department
• Type of event (undergraduate, graduate, department, etc.)
• Preferred date, location and time (in-person only)
• Preferred topic 
• Requested speaker (if known)

If you have a specific speaker in mind, we’ll coordinate their availability. If you need help finding the right speaker, we’ll work with you to tailor the speaking engagement and topic. View our speaker bios to learn more about available speakers.

Meet Our Speakers 

Advanced Communications 

• Rick Candell – Wireless communication systems
• Tasshi Dennis – Waveform metrology, quantum networking
• Nada Golmie – Media access control and protocols for wireless networks
• Chris Holloway – Antenna metrology, Rydberg–based sensors
• Jeanne Quimby – Telecommunications measurements
• Aric Sanders – Trusted spectrum testing

Artificial Intelligence 

• Peter Bajcsy – Artificial intelligence/machine learning
• Justyna Zwolak – Artificial Intelligence/machine learning, quantum science

Bioscience

• Elizabeth Kelley – Biomanufacturing, biophysics, colloids, scattering
• Anne Plant - Cells, microscopy, cell-based therapies

Chemistry

• Cameron Miller - Germicidal UV applications

Buildings and Construction

• Tanya Brown-Giammanco – Disaster and failure studies
• Lisa Ng – Indoor air quality, building performance
• Vance Payne – HVAC

Cybersecurity 

• Julie Haney – Cybersecurity and privacy
• Amy Mahn – Cybersecurity and privacy
• Carl Miller – Cybersecurity and privacy, quantum science
• Cherilyn Pascoe – Artificial intelligence/machine learning, cybersecurity, technology policy
• Anoop Singhal – Cybersecurity and privacy

Environment

• Craig Brown – CO2 capture and direct air capture, gas separation and storage
• Vincent Ferrero – Circular economy, digital twins

Fire

• Giovanni Di Cristina Torres – Fire dynamics, fluid mechanics, wind tunnel research

Forensic Science

• John Butler - Forensic DNA profiling and analysis
• Haiying Guan – Digital forensics
• James Lyle – Digital forensics
• Alan Zheng - Future of forensic firearm analysis 

Information Technology 

• George Awad – Infortmaion retrieval
• Bob Bohn – Cloud Computing
• Shanée Dawkins – Human factors, usability
• Susanne Furman – Human factors, usability
• Sandy Ressler – Virtual reality
• Simon Su – Virtual reality

Infrastructure 

• Aron Newman – Cement, concrete, and polymer degradation

Manufacturing 

• Rosemary Astheimer – Smart connected manufacturing systems
• David Deisenroth – Additive manufacturing, optical metrology
• William Harrison – Robotic intelligence/agility and simulation as applied to manufacturing
• Brandon Lane – Additive manufacturing
• Yan Lu – Big data, additive manufacturing, machine learning
• Nehika Mathur – Sustainable manufacturing systems, circular economy
• Bala Muralikrishnan - Manufacturing metrology: large-scale metrology system performance evaluation
• Guodong (Goron) Shao – Digital twins

Mathematics and Statistics 

• Ronald Boisvert – Computational science, applied mathematics
• Jeffrey Fong – Computational science, applied mathematics
• Amanda Koepke – Statistics

Metric

• Elizabeth Benham - The Metric Program 

Metrology 

• Leon Chao - Mechanical engineering for mass and force instrumentation
• Ako Chijioke - Acoustics, vibrations, dynamic force
• Chris Crowley - Air speed measurement techniques
• Steve Eckel - Pressure and vacuum metrology
• Toby Herman - Temperature scales
• Chris Meyer - Fundamentals of humidity measurements
• Nate Orloff – Microwave materials, on-wafer metrology
• Anne Plant - Irreproducibility, confidence in research measurements
• Joe Rice - Fundamental radiometric standards, how scientists establish light measurement scales from first principles
• John Stoup - Manufacturing metrology: coordinate and complex form metrology

Neutron Research 

• Peter Beaucage – AI for materials science, neutron and X-ray scattering
• Nicholas Butch – Quantum materials, superconductivity, magnetism, neutron scattering
• Wangchun Chen – Polarized neutron and 3He, and applications
• Ronald Jones – Neutron scattering, materials science and engineering 
• Brian Kirby – Neutron scattering, instrumentation, reflectometry
• Nicholas Maliszewskyj – Neutron scattering and detection, motor controls
• William Ratcliff - Neutron scattering, magnetism, artificial intelligence, topological materials

Physics 

• Ian Coddington – Optical frequency combs, greenhouse gas measurements
• Susana Deustua - Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae
• Alex Liddle -  Nanotechnology and semiconductors
• Jeffrey Lynn – Materials physics, condensed matter physics
• Bill Phillips – Laser trapping and cooling
• Albert Rigosi – Quantum hall physics
• Laura Sinclair – Optical frequency combs, optical time transfer
• Angie Hight Walker – Raman spectroscopy

Quantum Science

• Victor Albert – Quantum science
• Thomas Gerrits – Quantum science
• Scott Glancy – Quantum science
• Oliver Slattery – Quantum science
• Daniel Slichter – Quantum information processing with trapped ions

Resilience 

• Marc Levitan – Inclement weather resilience
• Juan Fung – Economics
• Maria Dillard – Disaster science, sociology, social science, community resilience

Timekeeping

• Kyle Beloy – Atomic clock theory
• Tara Fortier – Optical frequency combs and clock comparisons
• Matt Hummon – Microfabricated clocks with integrated photonics
• John Kitching - Quantum, time and frequency 
• William McGehee – Atomic devices for clocks and quantum sensing

Transportation 

• Michael Dunaway – Smart cities
• Ed Griffor – Automotive vehicles
• Prem Rachakonda – Sensing and perception for robotics and autonomous vehicles