Barry Myers, MD, PhD, MBA - Duke University

Senior Associate Dean and Anderson-Rupp Professor for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization
Pratt School of Engineering
Director Duke Center of Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy

Dr. Barry Myers is one of two Assistant Directors of the Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics; he is also conducting research in two of the SCIB domain areas. His research examines the biomechanics of head impact neck injury, with the goal of injury prevention. He is considered by many as the preeminent researcher in this field worldwide, with more than 100 manuscripts and publications in the area.(Click here to learn more.)

David F. Meaney, PhD- University of Pennsylvania

Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery

Dr. David Meaney is the director of SCIB's Research Domain One: Head and Brain Injury; working with Dr. Susan Margulies and Dr. Beth Winklestein, also at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Meaney is involved in generating the scientific foundation to be used to predict the probability of head injury as a result of motor vehicle crashes. This information will be used in the development and validation of SIMon. Enhancing the predictive capabilities of SIMon is the primary focus of Research Domain One.(Click here to learn more.)

Jeff Crandall, PhD - University of Virginia

Principal Investigator, UAB Injury Control Research Center
Director, UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Jeff Crandall, Director of the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, has focused his research on the mechanisms of injury under impact loading conditions. The author of nearly 100 scholarly articles and more than 200 additional conference presentations, book chapters, abstracts and posters, Dr. Crandall was selected in 2005 for a United States Government Award for Engineering Excellence. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, where he serves as Chair of the Pedestrian Dummy Task Group.(Click here to learn more.)

Albert I. King, PhD- Wayne State University

Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Director, Bioengineering Center

Dr. Albert King is responsible for the computational side of the SCIB's SIMon validation project being conducted at Wayne State University. His research interests include brain injury finite element modeling, impact trauma, low back pains, and orthopaedic biomechanics. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. King has received many honors for his work, including a Smithsonian Medal in 1998, the IRCOBI Aldman Award in 2003, and the AAAM Award of Merit in 2004. He has published dozens of articles in peer reviewed journals, in biomechanics and other related fields.(Click here to learn more.)

Bharat K. Soni, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAB
President, CSS, Inc.

Dr. Bharat K. Soni earned a BS (1971) in statistics (minor: mathematics) and an MS (1974) in statistics (minor: operations research) at M.S. University in India; he earned his PhD (1978) in applied mathematics at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX. After finishing his PhD, he served as a program analyst at Sverdrup Technology, Inc., and adjunct associate professor in mathematical sciences at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. In 1987, he became an associate research professor in the computer science department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, then was appointed associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University in 1988, where he achieved the rank of professor in 1994. In 1991 he became president of CSS Inc. in Starkville, MS, and in 2000 became Director of the Center for Computational Systems at the Engineering Research Center at MSU. In 2002, he was appointed Chair and Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Dr. Soni is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computations and the Journal of Computer Aided Design. He has chaired a number of national and international conferences. In 2000 he was recognized as an Outstanding Researcher at MSU, and in 2001, he was recognized as an eminent scholar in the College of Engineering at MSU. He was the Hearin-Hess Distinguished Professor in the MSU College of Engineering in 1991-92, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1998-99 and 2000-01.