Prof. George K. Hung received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Bioengineering, and Ph.D. in Physiological Optics, all at U. C. Berkeley. He is currently a full professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. He has published extensively in the areas eye movement control, nearsightedness development, and sports science. Also, he has developed a wireless device that measures eye, head, and putter motions during the golf putting stroke as well as eye, wrist, and elbow movements during the basketball free throw. His books include: “Models of Oculomotor Control”, World Scientific (2001); “Models of the Visual System” (2002) and “Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports” (2004), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (transferred to Springer Publishers); and “Biomedical Engineering Principles of the Bionic Man”, World Scientific (1st Edition – 2010; 2nd Edition - 2023). Professor Hung was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He has served on the NIH study panel, and has been an expert reviewer for various prestigious journals such as: Vision Research, Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Journal of Behavioral Optometry, and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Jani Macari Pallis, PhD earned BS and MS degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Health Systems, an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD at the University of California, Davis in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. She is a full professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. She is the founder and director of the Extreme Environments Lab at the university, which conducts research in both high altitude and underwater vehicles. She is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Society of Women Engineers, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology. She was awarded the first University of Bridgeport Outstanding Faculty Award in 2022, received the Connecticut Technology Council’s Women in Innovation award for Academic Innovation and Leadership in 2016 and Georgia Tech Distinguished Alumni for the Department of Industrial Engineering. She founded and is the CEO of Cislunar Aerospace, Inc. Her work in sports engineering has centered on aerodynamics in sport and specialized in sports balls and water vehicle sports. Dr. Jill L McNitt-Gray, PhD FASB FISB FNAK earned her PhD at The Pennsylvania State University and is the Lloyd Armstrong Jr Chair in Science and a Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. She is the Director of the USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory and is a Fellow in the American Society of Biomechanics, International Society of Biomechanics, and the National Academy of Kinesiology. She received the 2023 Geoffery Dyson Award from the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport and the 2016 Jim Hay Award from ASB for her research in the control and dynamics in sport. Her impact in the field is recognized by the 2020 Women in Science and Engineering Architect of Enduring Change Award, the 2020 Jean Landa Pytel Award for her mentorship, multiple leadership roles within professional societies of biomechanics and as a biomechanist for multiple national governing bodies of sport.
