Sam Nunn Security Program
Sam Nunn Fellows
- 2009-10 Pre-Doctoral Fellows
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Christian Braneon
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Christian Braneon is a student in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Water Resources Program within the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is expected to receive his PhD in 2010. In 2005, he earned his BS from Morehouse College in Applied Physics and simultaneously completed the requirements for a BS in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech. In 2007, he earned his MS from Georgia Tech in Civil Engineering. His research interests include surface and subsurface hydrologic processes, integrated river basin management, and water resources policy.
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Peng (Tom) Cheng
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peng Cheng was born in Xian, China, in April 7th 1982. He received both his bachelors in computer engineering and masters in electrical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. His research focuses on reliability physics, low-frequency noise, low-temperature device characterization of SiGe BiCMOS technology, as well as RF circuit design.
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Gina Cremona
Chemical Engineering
Gina Cremona received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research involves using microfluidic technology to characterize behavior of the soil nematode, C. elegans. Gina received a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scholarship for her undergraduate research as well as a DHS fellowship for her graduate research. She has spent multiple summers working at Sandia National Laboratory in the Biosystems Research Department working on microfluidic devices for protein detection.
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Kelly Griendling
Aerospace Engineering
Kelly Griendling graduated in 2006 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech, and in 2008 with an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. She a PhD student at the ASDL under Dr. Dimitri Mavris, with expected graduation in 2010. Her research focuses on the development of methods to support the development of defense architectures and technologies, as well as the development of executable architecting methodologies that support the creation of dynamic trade-off environments and decision-making aids.
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Benjamin Kosbab
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ben Kosbab is a student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is expected to receive his PhD in 2010. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from Rice University in 2006 and his MS in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. His current research work focuses on detailed analyses of container crane structural behavior, and is part of a large interdisciplinary effort to reduce the overall vulnerability of critical port infrastructure to earthquake hazards. Prior research collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis involved the product development and testing of thin carbon grid for use as a shear transfer mechanism, and with Los Alamos National Lab concerning nondestructive structural health monitoring and damage detection techniques using control-feedback expansion of modal space. In addition, he was a member of the structural design team for the offshore oil-and-gas division of Fluor Corporation.
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Jarret Lafleur
Aerospace Engineering
Jarret Lafleur is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL) of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Under the advisement of Dr. Joseph Saleh, he is supported in his studies on flexibility in space systems design by a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship. In addition to his current research work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) System F6 fractionated spacecraft flight demonstration project, he has worked during summers as a Graduate Co-op Student at NASA Johnson Space Center in the Flight Mechanics & Trajectory Design Branch and at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Advanced Design Engineering Group. One of Jarret's key interests as a Sam Nunn Fellow is that of protecting the critically important national and international infrastructure of Earth-orbiting space assets.
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Dickerson Moreno
Nuclear Engineering
Dickerson Moreno is a Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he works in the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center on experiments involving benchmarking radiation detectors. He earned his PhD degree in Nuclear Engineering / Medical Physics at the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2003. He was born in Manila in the Philippines, but currently resides in Oak Ridge, TN.
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Adaora Okwo
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Adaora Okwo is a student in the Economic Decision Analysis program within the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is expected to get her PhD in 2010. Adaora earned her BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University in 2005 then moved to Atlanta to begin her graduate studies. In addition to holding the Sam Nunn Fellowship she holds an IBM FOCUS Fellowship and a STEP Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Her research interests include applied game theory, supply chain management, renewable energy, biofuels development policy and the trade-offs between food and energy security.
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Jason Sherwin
Aerospace Engineering
Jason Sherwin is a PhD candidate in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2005, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in Physics and simultaneously completed the requirements for a music degree with a focus on composition. He continued his studies at Georgia Tech in 2005, completing his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering the following fall semester. He researched and/or published extensively on the following topics: the design of complex systems with neuroscience-influenced computing, the effects of automation in automotive traffic patterns, the preliminary multi-disciplinary optimization of bimodal nuclear thermal rockets for Pratt & Whitney, the design of the propulsion system of the Crew Exploration Vehicle for NASA and the design of a planetary defense system from near-Earth objects.
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- 2009-10 INTA PhD Students
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Yujia He
International Affairs, Science, and Technology
Yujia He is a PhD student in the International Affairs, Science and Technology Program at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and expects to graduate in May 2014. Yujia graduated from Peking University in China in 2009 with a BS in Chemistry. Her research interests involve industrial technology development in developing economies. She is further interested in comparing local technology companies with their multinational counterparts, which may provide insights into the development of local technology industries.
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Mollie Taylor
International Affairs
Mollie Taylor received her Bachelor of Science in Economics from Georgia Tech with high honors. She has worked with Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs performing extensive research during and after her Master's degree pertaining to the technology industry in Atlanta. As a PhD student, her research interests involve the overlap of environmental and food science with the Economics concepts of externalities and globalization.
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