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AFOSR Director Visits AFIT

Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2017

 



Major Jeffrey Komives' presentation on "AFIT research and education activities on hypersonics" was one of the presentations by AFIT faculty to the AFOSR Director

 

Dr. Frederica Darema, SES, the Director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, VA visited AFIT on 24 April 2017.  During her time here she participated in discussions on AFIT's involvement in hypersonics, photonics, autonomy, and big-data computations.

At AFOSR, Dr. Darema guides the management of the entire basic research investment for the Air Force. She leads a staff of 200 scientists, engineers and administrators, as well as foreign technology offices in London, Tokyo, and Santiago, Chile. 

Dr. Darema is a graduate of the University of Athens, Greece the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of California at Davis, where she attended as a Fulbright Scholar and a Distinguished Scholar. After physics research associate positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Brookhaven National Laboratory, she received an American Physics Society Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship and became a technical staff member in the Nuclear Sciences Department at Schlumberger-Doll Research. Subsequently, she joined the T.J. Watson IBM Research Center as a research staff member and group manager. While at IBM, she also served in the IBM Corporate Strategy Group examining and helping to set corporate-wide strategies. From 1996 to 1998, she completed a two-year interagency assignment at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Prior to her current assignment, Dr. Darema was at the National Science Foundation where she held executive level positions as Senior Science and Technology Adviser and Senior Science Analyst in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate. Dr. Darema's scientific and technical contributions include development of parallel applications parallel algorithms programming models environments and systems performance engineering for the design of applications and of software for parallel and distributed systems.

She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Washington Academy of Sciences.  In addition, she received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Award for Outstanding Leadership and Contributions to the Engineering Profession.
 

 

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