Special Advisor to CITRIS: Dr. Steven Ray

Dr. Steven Ray received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Bristol in England and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He has a twenty-seven year track record of initiating and leading technical R&D projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His expertise is in information interoperability and standards for domains including the smart electrical grid, electronic business, supply chains and manufacturing, and in the application of semantics and ontologies to standards. He led the establishment of a new extramural program (TIMA - Technologies for the Integration of Manufacturing Applications) on assignment to the NIST Advanced Technology Program, and served as Chairman of the IGES/PDES Organization that coordinated the U.S. participation in the creation of the STEP product data standard (STEP - Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data, ISO 10303). He has served on numerous strategic and technical advisory boards to organizations such as the University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research, PDES Inc., Semiconductor Research Corporation, US PRO, and is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley.