Tie Barnes

I am a computer engineering student at RIT in a Bachelor of Science program. I am still enrolling courses. My most passionate fields are computer engineering, electrical engineering, hardware, software, and machine learning for accessibility. 

I don’t know what I want to say, but if you have interesting research that you would like to share, please reach out to me! If you want to chat about STEM topics, I would love to discuss them! Please visit my personal GitHub profile (still developing): https://github.com/E-2xi

Alyssa Bice

I am passionate about aerospace medicine and international collaboration. I serve as Vice Chair of UTK’s AIAA chapter, a Student Ambassador for the Jessica M. Morris Women in Engineering Program, and Lieutenant of Training and Logistics for EMS Vols. I am also a licensed amateur radio technician and EMT. Additionally, I am learning Portuguese to help advance U.S. and Lusophone partnerships in the field. My main and general field of interest is Aerospace Medicine, however, I have several interests listed below: emergency medical services, physiology in extreme environments, biomedical issues in space flight, electronics, amateur radio, radio astronomy, emergency management, space infrastructure, satellites, aviation, Portuguese. 

Clinton Stimpson

I love being outdoors, and solving difficult STEM related problems.

John Neiss

Grew up in North Dakota.  NTID/RIT Alumni ‘09 in Electrical Engineer Technology.  

Kim Lucas

Native of Guatemala 

Alumni of Florida School for the Deaf and Gallaudet University in Computer Science (Bachelors) and Educational Technology (Masters)

Head coach for Robotics and Drones 

Sunday David Ubur

I am currently a third year PhD student in computer science at Virginia Tech. I also serve the department as a teaching assistant, and my advisor as a research assistant.

My research boarders around enhancing emotional expression such as facial, voice and body language gestures in captioning interfaces.

Aside academics, I enjoy traveling, attending conferences, and when not working I enjoy hitting the gym.

Rita Owens

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/rita-owens-keeper-of-nasas-digital-knowledge/

David Parker

  • Who am I – I am a Deaf person and I use Auslan (Australian Sign Language) to communicate.  I am self managed via the NDIS and I can request for an Auslan interpreter.
  • Background – By training and profession, I’m an electrical engineer but I work as a community manager / technical writer.  I’ve tried over the years to learn a little about a lot of things. I sometimes envy the great people of the Renaissance especially Leonardo Da Vinci who had a very real possibility of learning a large fraction of all human knowledge. But when I think of all we have achieved since then and I know I have the better deal. 
  • My motto – “Karma: do good to others that others can do good to you” 
  • Favorite quotes- “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein. “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.” — Richard Feynman  “For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.” — Vincent van Gogh 
  • My main interests – Purple, The Phantom comics, science fiction, science, technology, road cycling, web development, digital systems, software engineering, travelling and camping, family tree research, genetics, Auslan, relaxing with quality red wine and a good movie, gardening and especially growing tulips and finally egyptology.

Johanna Lucht

Johanna was born in Germany and was discovered to be deaf at the age of 3. She graduated from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in May 2014. She had an internship at Armstrong Flight Research Center in summer 2013 and was hired as a full-time engineer in June 2014. As an aerospace flight systems engineer, she has performed several roles such as system integration engineer for SubsoniC Research Aircraft Testbed (SCRAT) project on Gulfstream III 804 maintaining/working with the instrumentation systems and as a software developer for developing and testing the Cruise Motor Controller (CMC) software and several Graphical User Interface (GUI) test tools for the Ground Support Equipment (GSE) on X-57 Maxwell. She has supported several small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) activities. She currently works on X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic X-plane. Her duty is to, in a nutshell, research, design, develop, code, test, maintain, evaluate, and operate aircraft systems while working with the team to solve challenges. On April 4, 2017, Johanna became the first deaf engineer to carry out an active role in a NASA control center during a crewed research flight. During her daily life she uses her sense of humor whenever possible and in her spare time she crochets, quilts, makes jewelries, plays video games, walks outdoors, bakes sweets occasionally to feed her coworkers, and hangs out with friends and family.

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