Jan Mahar

Jan Mahar is a senior instructor at the College of Information Science and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the College of IST at Penn State in 2001, she was an IBM consultant in areas such as SAP, e-Business Applications, and Project Management for ten years and an IBM employee in their development lab and corporate graphics areas for nine years. Mahar's current grant work is with U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, working primarily with various universities across the United States. At IBM and now at Penn State, she has been active in recruiting and mentoring women in computing, at the undergraduate level. Previous to her current assignment, she was IST's Assistant Director of Business and Career Solutions where her primary role was creating partnerships with corporations.

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David Hall, PhD.

Dr. David Hall has more than 25 years of experience in research, research management, and systems development in both industrial and academic environments. Dr. Hall has performed research in a wide variety of areas including celestial mechanics, digital signal processing, software engineering, automated reasoning, and multi-sensor data fusion. During the past 15 years, his research has focused on multi-sensor data fusion. He is the author of over 175 technical papers, reports, book chapters, and books. Dr. Hall is a member of the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) Data Fusion Working Group. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Data Fusion Center based at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2001, Dr. Hall was awarded the Joe Mignona award to honor his contributions as a national leader in the Data Fusion Community. The Data Fusion Group instituted the award in 1994 to honor the memory of Joseph Mignona. Dr. Hall was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2003.