March 26 - 29, 2025 – MVP Arena Albany, NY

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2024 JUDGES

Judge Advisors

Dr. Gregory Mohr
Advisor Engineer, Naval Nuclear Laboratory

John Neun
Engineer, John A. Neun, LLC

Judges

Peter Altenburger
Director of Substation Engineering, National Grid

John Ashcroft
Engineering Manager, Naval Nuclear Laboratory

Bridget Powers Beggs
Engineer, National Grid

Mark Blow
Sr Staff Technical Project Management, Global Foundries

Dr. Jeffrey Braunstein
Professor of Practice in Electrical Engineering, SUNY Albany

Robert Brennan
SMTS Equipment Engineering, Global Foundries

Lynn DeRose
Senior Scientist, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory, GE Research

Gregg Dick
IBM, Software Engineer, retired

Wayne Gannett
Senior Water Resources Engineer, Colliers Engineering and Design

Dr. Yifan Gao
Process Engineer, Applied Materials

Dr. Jeffrey Goldmeer
Global Hydrogen Leader, GE Vernova

Lauren Imel
Toshiba Business Solutions

Dr. Lauren Kelly
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Robert Knazik
Safety Engineer, Applied Materials

Viet Nguyen
Process Integration Engineer, Applied Materials

Sarah Osgood
Vice President of Government & Regulatory Affairs, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

Tyler Reynolds
Principal Process Engineer, Global Foundries

Andrea Schmitz
Principal Engineer, GE Aerospace Research

Kathryn Schultz
State University of New York at Cobleskill

Dave Shaddock
GE Global Research

Jon Slaughter
IBM Research

Walt Silva
Engineering Manager, Naval Nuclear Laboratory

Dr. Mac Sudduth
President, Museumhelpline.com

Jacob Tobin
Field Service Engineer, Applied Materials

Matthew Twohig
Senior Engineer, National Grid

Dr. Douglas Wildes
Principal Scientist (physicist), GE Global Research, retired

Robert Zack
Process Engineer, Applied Materials