In June, 2019, Wayne was named Chief Investment Officer at Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeast PA. In that role, he oversees a team of seven who deliver mentoring, connections, and funding to a portfolio of 175 companies in the 21 counties of northeast PA. This portfolio has received nearly $30 million in funding from Ben Franklin and more than $350 million in outside private capital and federal grants.  

From 2000 until 2019, he managed the Ben Franklin TechVentures incubator program on Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus. (In 2001 and 2012, TechVentures was selected as InBIA’s Incubator of the Year.) In that role, Wayne helped more than 120 client startups launch.  He has been a Board Observer for more than a dozen companies, and is Chair of the Board of Dynalene.

Outside of Ben Franklin, Wayne is a current board member and past President of the Board for Community Action Lehigh Valley (CALV), the region’s most influential anti-poverty agency. He is a member and past President of the Board of the Rising Tide Community Loan Fund. Between 2010 and 2018, he was also an adjunct faculty member at Lafayette College, creating and teaching a course called ‘Building the High-Tech Startup’.

Prior to joining Ben Franklin, Wayne spent 13 years in other economic development, incubator management, and consulting roles in the Lehigh Valley and elsewhere in Pennsylvania.  He has a B.S. in Economics and MBA from Lehigh University. 
 

Robert is an educator and consultant with a nearly 20-year career in optics and photonics, primarily focused on developing new laser and spectroscopy applications, with a heavy emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rowan University with a dual appointment in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Institute (AMMI). In addition to his role at Rowan, Robert also serves as the Director and Principal Consultant at RVC Photonics, LLC. He is a frequent contributor at Laser Focus World Magazine and has contributed features to several other industry publications, including Spectroscopy Magazine, Photonics Spectra, and American Pharmaceutical Review, as well as authoring several peer-reviewed journal articles. He has also written countless application notes, whitepapers, and other technical content. He has been an invited speaker at several international scientific conferences, guest lectured at universities, presented multiple webinars, and holds a patent in the field of Raman spectroscopy.

Sydney Couval is an Investor at NewBound Ventures and Co-Lead of the Strategic Regional Capital working group for Advancing Photonics Technologies. With a degree in Physics, a research background in materials science and network analytics, and extensive experience across the investment landscape, Sydney brings a multidisciplinary approach to advancing innovative technologies.

Emily joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in January 2021. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2010 and her PhD working at UC Berkeley (PhD 2016) and UC Santa Barbara with Professor Rachel Segalman. In her PhD research, she studied the interplay of crystallization and self-assembly in conjugated block copolymers as well as the role of secondary chain shape in the assembly of sequence-defined block copolymers.  She was a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Jennifer Lewis (Harvard) where she focused on the development and 3D assembly of liquid crystal elastomers with light-activated dynamic bonds. From 2010-2012, Emily taught high school chemistry and physics through the Teach for America program. Emily’s accomplishments have been recognized with a Scientista 'Young Professional' Award (2019), a DOE Early Career award (2022), and the Princeton School of Engineering Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award (2023).

Michael A. Fusella is a Principal Research Scientist at Universal Display Corporation in Ewing, NJ. The author of over a dozen peer reviewed publications along with several pending and issued patents, his current research focuses on improving OLED efficiency and stability with plasmonic PHOLED technology.  He received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Dr. Christine Galib is an early-stage startup advisor, adjunct professor, author, and strategic ecosystem builder with experience in wealth management, investing, entrepreneurship, and leadership development.  She loves getting lost in a good book and can be found reading, writing, running, or taking the road less traveled.  At Princeton University, she serves as the Director of Advancing Photonics Technologies, a regional photonics consortium of universities, community colleges, industry, government agencies, workforce development programs, startup development organizations, and technology accelerators.

Claire Gmachl, h24, is Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University; she is also currently Head of Whitman College at Princeton University.  She received the Ph.D. degree (sub auspicies praesidentis) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1995.  In 1996, she joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, to work on Quantum Cascade lasers and microcavity devices. In 2003, Gmachl joined Princeton University.  Her group’s research is focused on mid-infrared photonics, especially Quantum Cascade lasers, mid-infrared intersubband materials and devices, and applications.  Gmachl was the Director of MIRTHE, the NSF Engineering Research Center on Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment, 2006 – 2016.   She has served/serves the university in various interim/associate roles; she teaches in the EGR sequence.  Gmachl has (co)authored more than 350 publications, has given more than 125 invited presentations at conferences and seminars, and holds 30 patents.  Among others, she is an Honorary Member of the Class of 2024 and has received a Lifetime Achievement in Excellence in Teaching Award from the E-council/GEC in 2022; she was an Associate Editor for Optics Express and a member of the IEEE/LEOS Board of Governors. Gmachl is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow and a member of several professional societies.

Andrea Goldsmith is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She was previously the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is now Harris Professor Emerita. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, control theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and biomedical devices. She founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna (QTNA), Inc, and she serves on the Board of Directors for Intel (INTC), Medtronic (MDT), Crown Castle Inc (CCI), and the Marconi Society. She also serves on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. She has received several awards for her work, including induction into the Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Dresselhaus Medal, the IEEE Education Medal, the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award, the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ComSoc Armstrong Technical Achievement Award, the Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award. She is author of the book ``Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the books ``MIMO Wireless Communications,” “Principles of Cognitive Radio,” and “Machine Learning and Wireless Communications,” all published by Cambridge University Press, as well as an inventor on 27 patents. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Dr. Goldsmith is the founding Chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. She served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, as founding Chair of its Student Committee, and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. She has also served on the Board of Governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies.  At Stanford she served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and for multiple terms as a Senator, and on its Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership.
 

David B. Graves joined the University of California at Berkeley Department of Chemical Engineering in 1986 after receiving the PhD from the University of Minnesota. He retired from UCB in May 2020 and served as Associate Lab Director at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab from 2020-2022. He is currently Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests are in plasma materials processing and other applications of non-equilibrium, low temperature plasma phenomena. 

Dr. Hatzell is an associate professor at Princeton university in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and department of Mechanical and aerospace engineering. Hatzell’s group primarily work on energy storage and is particularly interested at using non-equilibrium x-ray techniques to probe materials for energy and separation applications.Dr. Hatzell earned her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at Drexel University, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S./B.A. in Engineering/Economics from Swarthmore College. Hatzell’s research group works on understanding phenomena at solid|liquid, solid|gas,  and solid|solid interfaces broadly work in energy storage and conversion. Hatzell is the recipient of several awards including the ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2019), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2019), finalist for the BASF/Volkswagen Science in Electrochemistry Award (2019), the Nelson “Buck” Robinson award from MRS (2019), Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry (2020), and POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers (2021), NASA Early Career Award (2022), ONR Young investigator award (2023), Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2024), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2025).

Katie Hosey is the Data and Research Lead for the Delaware Workforce Development Board, where she specializes in emerging industries and technologies to identify workforce needs and training gaps. In her role, she facilitates ecosystem-building initiatives that connect industry, government, and education to drive workforce solutions. Katie completed her Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Virginia and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Data Analytics and Policy at Johns Hopkins University. Her passions include fostering equitable access to education and advancing clean energy policies.

Ryan Kingsbury is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He completed postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was recognized with a Student Fellowship Award by the North American Membrane Society. Before graduate school he earned a Professional Engineering license and founded a startup company to develop a novel energy storage process.

The Kingsbury group seeks to accelerate development of electrochemical separation technologies that address environmental challenges, including systems for water desalination, industrial waste recycling, and critical mineral extraction. We focus on understanding the ion-selective materials (such as membranes, separators, electrodes, or sorbents) that are present in virtually any electrochemical device. Major areas of focus include 1) connecting observable material performance to molecular-scale thermodynamic and kinetic phenomena 2) developing accelerated materials screening methods for environmental engineering problems, and 3) exploring novel process configurations and driving forces for ion separations.

Alice Kunin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. Alice completed her B.S. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014 with thesis work in the group of Amy Mullin spectroscopically probing energy transfer in molecular collisions. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 as a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow in the group of Daniel Neumark studying the ultrafast dynamics of nucleobase ions as model systems for electron-induced damage to DNA. She was then a postdoctoral associate at Stony Brook University in the group of Thomas Allison working to pioneer a new approach to time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, ‘time-resolved momentum microscopy’ for the study of excitons in two-dimensional quantum materials. Alice moved to Princeton to start her group in January 2024. Her group is focused on developing and applying ultrafast spectroscopic approaches to study dynamics in novel materials and surface photochemistry. 

With over 26 years of extensive experience spanning in IT, workforce development, and education, Pavithra Lakshminarayan has built a dynamic career marked by innovation and strategic leadership. Currently serving as the Sector Strategist at the New Jersey Department of Labor, she plays a crucial role in planning workforce strategies for state projects as well as convene industry leaders for Manufacturing Industry Partnerships. She collaborates closely with business leaders to address workforce needs through data-driven sector strategies, fostering employer-driven collaborations, and aligning educational initiatives with industry demands. She has also demonstrated visionary leadership in children's education, creating impactful programs that cultivate creativity, communication, and confidence among students in underserved communities. Her tenure as a leader in the South Jersey STEM Ecosystem has been instrumental in developing the regional STEM talent pipeline and advocating for innovative educational approaches to broaden the STEM participation in the region. This effort led her to present at various forums including at the NSF Includes Convening on broadening participation in STEM. Her contributions have earned her prestigious accolades, including the "Developing Minds Award" and "STEM Collaborator of the Year Award," highlighting her dedication to advancing educational excellence and innovating workforce development practices. She has also been recognized as an “I Can STEM” role model by the NJ STEM Pathways Network, emphasizing her influence and dedication to inspiring future generations in STEM fields. 

Jyoti leads the Optical and Thermal Design group at Princeton, which focuses on understanding and controlling nano-to-macro scale radiative heat flows in both natural environments and artificial surfaces, with characterizing and mitigating ambient heat in a warming world as a guiding theme. On the scientific front, he focuses on photonic and plasmonic metamaterials and designs with novel optical properties. On the Civil and Environmental Engineering front, he designs scalable materials that radiatively thermoregulate and make human environments more sustainable and climate resilient. His other research interests include optical design for heat detection and characterization, modelling large-scale impact of radiative cooling designs for geoengineering, and optical/radiative phenomena in the natural world.

Matthew Menyo is Head of Product at Carbon, where he leads the development of hardware, materials, and software tools that power the next generation of additive manufacturing. Over the past decade at Carbon, Matt has played a pivotal role in the development and commercialization of several high-performance resins that have gone on to create top-performing pads in Riddell and CCM helmets, precision components for Ford and Lamborghini, and thrusters for NASA’s autonomous robots.

Matt holds a B.S. in Materials Science from Penn State and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an undergraduate, he spent a summer as a researcher with Professor Richard Register, and he welcomes the opportunity to return to Princeton—this time, to share insights on the current state & future of advanced manufacturing.

Julia Mikhailova is an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, where she leads research on ultra-intense ultrafast light-matter interactions. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, followed by postdoctoral work at the A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany. Mikhailova's honors include a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator award, a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, an Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship from Princeton, and a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Lac Nguyen is Quantum Technology Lead at Quantum Computing Inc. She works with passionate and talented scientists and engineers with diverse backgrounds to design and develop open quantum systems on lithium niobate platforms that are resilient, SWAP-C capable, room-temperature, scalable, and sustainable. She has more than eight years of experience in quantum information science, quantum optics, and quantum and classical communication. She holds multiple patents that present core technologies at QCi, including the Edison Patent Award in Science and Technology in 2023.

Dr. Alex Norman is the Executive Director of Princeton Materials Institute (PMI). Prior to joining Princeton University, Alex has held various positions in R&D technical leadership in industry including ExxonMobil, United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies) and Ingredion. Most recently Alex was the Director of Materials R&D for a NJ-based biomaterials start-up company, Modern Meadow.  Alex holds a BS degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked on the self-assembly and transition kinetics of aqueous block polymers. During his postdoctoral studies at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Maryland and New York University, Alex worked on X-ray, neutron and light scattering to probe structure and morphology across a variety of polymer and protein solutions. Throughout his industrial career, Alex continued to work with National Labs and University core facilities to bring SAXS capabilities to solve industrial problems and support product development. Alex has held positions as a Program Chair at the PMSE division of the American Chemical Society and currently is a symposium organizer for the TechConnect World meetings.

Richard A. Register is Director of the Princeton Materials Institute and Eugene Higgins Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University.  His research interests revolve around micro- and nanostructured polymers, such as semicrystalline polymers, block copolymers, polymer blends, and ionomers, ranging across their synthesis, physics, properties, applications, and recycling.  Previously, he served as chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering from 2008-2016, and as Director of the NSF-supported Princeton Center for Complex Materials from 2005-2008.  He received the Charles M.A. Stine Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002, and was honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award in 2018 and Distinguished Service Award in 2023, both from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Chemical Society, and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.  He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin (with Stuart Cooper *67), and a Master of Chemical Engineering Practice and bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from MIT.

Andrew Rosen is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research group leverages recent advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning, and quantum-chemical calculations to predictively design new materials for a more sustainable future. Previously, Andrew was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley where his research was focused on uncovering unique electronic structure properties in solid-state materials as part of the Materials Project team led by Prof. Kristin Persson. Andrew earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University where he studied redox processes in metal–organic frameworks in the groups of Prof. Randall Snurr and Prof. Justin Notestein.

Michele L. Sarazen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. Her research group couples synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical investigations of porous crystalline materials as catalysts and adsorbents for sustainable fuel and chemical production with an emphasis on reaction and deactivation mechanisms. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, at the Pennsylvania State University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before arriving at Princeton, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award, Robert Augustine Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, AIChE 35 under 35, ICC Young Talent Laureate, Howard B. Wentz, Jr. Junior Faculty Award, National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering, and The Catalysis Review “Mover and Shaker.” She has served as a Division Director and D&I Task Force member for AIChE in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Director of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, Associate Editor for Applied Catalysis B, Early Career Board member for Journal of Catalysis and Applied Catalysis A, and ACS CATL Division Program Chair.

Peter Schiffer is professor of physics at Princeton University and Princeton’s Dean for Research. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He subsequently held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University, where he was the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics from 2019 to 2023. He also has served in various university leadership roles and was a senior fellow of the Association of American Universities from 2020 to 2023.  His research interests focus on experimental studies of magnetic materials and nanostructures, especially the class of materials known as geometrically frustrated magnets and the frustrated nanostructures known as artificial spin ice. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has served in various leadership roles in the American Physical Society, including the chair of both the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications and the Division of Materials Research, as well as on the Council of Representatives and the Board of Directors.

Daniel Schmidt is a Manager and Senior Engineer at IBM Research in Albany, NY where he leads a team of engineers driving metrology developments for next generation semiconductor manufacturing. He received his undergraduate degree in Microsystems Technology in Germany and earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010. After three years of postdoctoral research, Daniel accepted a position as Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. In 2016, he left academia to start an industry career at GlobalFoundries before joining IBM Research in 2018. Daniel has co-authored 100+ conference papers, 60+ journal articles, 20+ US patents and applications, as well as three book chapters. He is a guest lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and serves as a committee member at multiple international conferences.

Aditya Sood is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute. His group works in the areas of nanoscale thermal transport, microelectronics, and ultrafast science. Aditya received a PhD and MS from Stanford University in materials science, and BS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He completed postdoctoral training at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before starting at Princeton in January 2023. He has received the ACS-PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award (2023), the Early Career Award from the AVS Nanoscale Science & Technology Division (2022), the LCLS Young Investigator Award from SLAC (2021), the MRS Postdoctoral Award (2022), the MRS Gold Graduate Student Award (2017), Batra Gold Medal from IIT (2011), and two SEAS Commendations for Outstanding Teaching (2023).

Sanfeng Wu is an assistant professor of physics at Princeton University. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, and received his Ph.D. from the department of physics at the University of Washington in 2016. He was the Pappalardo Fellow in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before receiving his appointment at Princeton. His main research areas are condensed matter physics, two-dimensional quantum matter and devices, and quantum information processes. He has received several awards and honors, including the Moore Foundation Award for the EPiQS Flexible Funding Ideas (2023), an AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2023), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2023). He is also an associated faculty member at the Princeton Materials Institute and the Princeton Quantum Initiative.

Lilia Xie received an AB in Chemistry with a Certificate in Materials Science and Engineering from Princeton University in 2014, and completed her PhD in Chemistry at MIT in 2020. After postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley, she returned to Princeton in 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute. She is interested in combining solid-state and molecular chemistry to realize emergent electronic and magnetic properties in new materials.

Saien Xie is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University. His group studies scalable syntheses of atomically thin materials and scalable device integrations for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Saien Xie received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2018. He was a Kavli postdoctoral fellow at Cornell before joining Princeton University in 2022. He received the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering in 2024.

Dalia Yablon is the founder of SurfaceChar, an AFM and nanoindentation based measurement, consulting, and training company in the Greater Boston area since 2013.  Dalia also serves as Technical Program Chair of TechConnect World.  In addition to editing a book on “SPM in Industrial Applications” (Wiley), Dalia’s research focuses on nanomechanical characterization methods and soft material characterization.   She holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University.  

Professor Nan Yao is a leading scholar with core expertise in materials characterization for interdisciplinary research and applications. Yao is the founding director of the Imaging and Analysis Center and the inaugural professor of the practice in the Princeton Materials Institute. As a teacher, he is an eleven-time teaching award recipient at Princeton. As a scientist, he has published two books and over 300 scientific articles with contributions including the co-discovery of the first natural quasicrystal, a finding that has revolutionized the science of natural crystal chemistry by identifying the third form of solid in nature besides crystalline and non-crystalline. He has received numerous honors, including election to the Microscopy Society of America, the Royal Microscopical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Aydin Yeniay serves as the Director of Technology at Cybel-LLC. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Lehigh University in 2000. Before joining Cybel, Dr. Yeniay accumulated extensive experience in the field, including four years as an engineer at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, 12 years as a Senior Engineer and R&D Director at Photon-X LLC, and serving as a Team Leader at BILGEM. His areas of expertise include fiber amplifiers, high-power single-mode fiber lasers, free-space optical systems, planar optical waveguides, nonlinear fiber optics, and Mid-IR generation. Dr. Yeniay is a certified Project Management Professional and has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications.