IMAC Advisory Board
The IMAC Charter can be found at the link below. The purpose of this document is to help you understand the the planning and organization of the conference as well as the roles of the IMAC Advisory Board members and its Committees.
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR
Matt Allen
Matt Allen is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. Prior to that he taught for 15 years in the department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BYU, M. S. and PhD degrees from the Georgia Tech in 2005 and was a post-doc at Sandia National Laboratories. He enjoys playing sheep’s head (Bavarian card game) during breaks at IMAC, trying....
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FUTURE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Tyler Schoenherr
Tyler Schoenherr is a senior member of staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the analytical and experimental structural dynamics departments. He previously worked at Kohler Engines managing the Research and Development Labs. Tyler’s focus is on characterizing dynamic operating environments and designing laboratory tests to reproduce the damage from operating environments. This focus includes...
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Gaetan Kerschen
Michael D. Todd
Michael Todd received his Ph.D. from Duke University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Since 2003 he has been with the Structural Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, where he serves as Distinguished Professor and Chair. His research interests are in ultrasonic and fiber optic structural health monitoring/NDE and decision analytics for SHM/NDE. He has published over 550 journal...
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PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Zhu Mao
Zhu Mao is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and before that, he worked at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2015 to 2021. He received his B.S. from Tsinghua University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and was the Past Chair of the MVUQ Technical Division at SEM. He is currently on...
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Garrison Flynn
Garrison Stevens Flynn completed her Ph.D. at Clemson in 2016 as a U.S. Department of Education GAANN fellow studying propagation of model uncertainties and systematic bias in multi-scale and multi-physics models. She is currently an R&D Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Data Analysis Team of the Test Engineering group. Her research interests focus on statistical methods for inverse analysis of complex systems, with...
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Bryan Witt
EXHIBIT PLANNING COMMITTEE
Timothy Marinone
Tim Marinone is a Project Engineer in the Advanced Test Group at ATA Engineering, Inc. in San Diego, California. His expertise is in modal and vibration testing of complex structures for defense, commercial, and aerospace industries. Tim received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2010 and 2012, respectively, while working in the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Laboratory...
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Vikrant Palan
Dario Di Maio
I have graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University Politecnica delle Marche (IT). I obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. After that, I worked as Post-Doc in the Rolls-Royce Composites technology centre in the Aerospace department of the University of Bristol. After that, I was appointed Assistant Professor of Dynamics in the Mechanical Engineering department of the University of Bristol. I currently...
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SEM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Nuno Lopes
Nuno Lopes is the Executive Director of the Society for Experimental Mechanics where he is responsible for day-to-day operations including the Society’s three archival peer-reviewed journals. Nuno oversees staff and reports to the Executive Director. He has been with SEM since 2013....
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