Gina Lee-Glauser
Director

2-212 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
(315)443-1060
leeglaug@syr.edu

Dr. Gina Lee-Glauser is an Associate Vice President for Research and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Her area of expertise include Structural Dynamics and Control; Active and Passive Vibration Control; Learning Control; System Identification.
Dr. Lee-Glauser’s educational endeavors consist of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission member; Involved in undergraduate engineering curricular reform; Institution-wide interdisciplinary forum facilitator; promotion and support of Underrepresented minority students and Women in STEM.

Dr. Lee-Glauser has an overall responsibility of the University’s Office of Technology Transfer and Industrial Development and the CASE Center: support activities such as invention disclosures/protections, market and negotiate license agreement, and joint industrial projects, support incubator tenants, and the CASE Co-Op program. Dr. Lee-Glauser proactively facilitates and nurtures collaborative interactions between University (faculty, post-doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students) and New York industries to accelerate transfer of University knowledge to substantially increasing economic and innovation impact on New York industries.

341 Link Hall
Syracuse University
(315)443-4013
varshney@syr.edu

Dr. Pramod K. Varshney received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (with highest honors), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, 1974, and 1976 respectively. Since 1976 he has been with Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He served as the Associate Chair of the department during 1993-96. His current research interests are in distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory, wireless communications, image processing, radar signal processing and parallel algorithms. He has supervised twenty-five Ph.D. dissertations, authored or coauthored over seventy journal papers and over one hundred sixty conference papers. He is the author of Distributed Detection and Data Fusion, published by Springer-Verlag in 1997.

While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Varshney was a James Scholar, a Bronze Tablet Senior, and a Fellow. He is the recipient of the 1981 ASEE Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award. He was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE in 1997. He was the guest editor of the special issue on data fusion of the Proceedings of the IEEE, January 1997. In 2000, he received the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE and Chancellor's Citation for exceptional academic achievement at Syracuse University. He serves as a distinguished lecturer for the AES society of the IEEE. He is the current President of International Society of Information Fusion.

2-212 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
(315)443-1061
rchopkin@syr.edu

Robert Hopkins received his BS degree in engineering from Clarkson University in 1976 and his MBA in 1987, also from Clarkson University. Prior to joining the Case Center in 1991, he worked for nine years as a production engineer with Allied-Signal Corporation (now Honeywell) and four years as an operations manager/controller for Otisca Industries, a small research and development company in the energy industry.

2-212 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
(315)443-5018
ddimaggi@syr.edu

David DiMaggio is Program Manager of the Syracuse University CASE Center Industry Co-Op program. His extensive background includes experience with employers and college career centers to develop recruiting strategies to facilitate the connection between college students and local employers. He is active with professional trade organizations and various economic development agencies in the promotion of college internship programs.
Upon his retirement from GE in October 2004 after 25 years of service, David has served in various roles to assist college students in their career preparation. He served as Interim Director of the Clarkson University Career Center during the 2005 Fall Semester and is a frequent panelist on college and high school career forums.

He was Manager of Education and Development at GE Supply, a division of the General Electric Company. His responsibilities included the development and implementation of training and professional leadership programs for the 2500+ employees of GE Supply. He was responsible for recruiting and university relations at several colleges and universities across the US. In addition, David was s the Program Manager for the Distribution and Sales Program, an entry-level leadership development program at GE Supply.

David, a native of Rome NY, attended Clarkson University and Utica College where he majored in Mathematics.

Sharon Russo
CASE Project Coordinator

2-212 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
(315)443-1060
slrusso@syr.edu