Faculty & Staff

Core Staff

	S. Narayanan, Ph.D. Executive Director Dr. Narayanan is executive director of the Wright State Research Institute and Professor and Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech. Dr. Narayanan has executed over $7.5 million of coll... Read More
	Ryan Fendley Director Ryan D. Fendley was named the Director of the Wright State Research Institute in August of 2010. Mr. Fendley was instrumental in the strategic development and formation of the Institute. He has served the Institute since its inception in 2007, first as Business Manager, and most recently as Dire... Read More
	Terry Rapoch President Terry Rapoch was named President of Wright State Applied Research Corporation (WSARC) in June 2011. He joined daytaOhio in 2005 as Chief Technology Officer and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in July 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was NCR’s loaned executive on the regional team... Read More
	Dennis Gosney Business Development Manager Dennis Gosney is Business Development Manager for the Wright State Research Institute. Mr. Gosney has 33 years of experience in the disciplines of program/project management, business process re-engineering, data/process analysis/modeling, software development, and business development. He has a ... Read More
	Mark Wysong Program Manager Mark Wysong serves as the Program Manager of the Wright State Research Institute focused on delivering quality research, technology, and services to our customers. He is also responsible for business development and the capture of new opportunities for the institute. Mr. Wysong has a broad commer... Read More
	Aaron Miller Project Manager Aaron has nearly 15 years of experience in the disciplines of project management, operations research, financial analysis, process engineering, data analysis, and information technology (IT). He has more than 10 years of consulting experience and has supported the United States Air Force and Depa... Read More
	David Gross, Ph.D. Chief Engineer Dr. Gross joined WRSI in April of 2009 as Chief Engineer for Systems Integration and Test. He is the Principal Investigator for the Intelligent Control and Evaluation of Teams (ICE-T) program for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Control Science Center of Excellence. This program conducts ... Read More
	Phani Kidambi, Ph.D. Research Engineer Phani Kidambi, Ph.D., is a Research Engineer at the Wright State Research Institute. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from JNTU, India, in 2004, Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University in 2006 and Ph.D. i... Read More
	Julie A. Skipper, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Dr. Skipper joined WSRI in July 2010 as a Research Associate Professor. She also holds an academic position as Assistant Professor in Wright State’s Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering. Her research interests include diagnostic medical imaging, image processing, h... Read More
	Amy T. Neidhard-Doll, Ph.D., P.E. Research Associate Professor Amy T. Neidhard-Doll is a Research Associate Professor at the Wright State Research Institute. She received her B.S.B.M.E. degree in 1993 and M.S.E. degree with a focus in Rehabilitation Engineering in 1994 from Wright State University. She received her Ph.D. in engineering with a focus on humans... Read More
	Melinda Forsythe Assistant to the Executive Director Melinda Forsythe has been Assistant to the Executive Director of the Wright State Research Institute since its inception in January 2007. She directs the daily office activities of the Research Institute, including supervision, financial management of operating expenses and research funding accou... Read More

Program Faculty

Doug Petkie, Ph.D. Faculty Program Director

Dr. Doug Petkie is an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering and the faculty Program Director of Emerging Technologies for the Wright State Research Institute. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in experimental Atomi...
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Brian Rigling, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Dr. Brian D. Rigling received the B.S. degree in physics-computer science from the University of Dayton in 1998 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Since July 2004, he has been with the Department of Elect...
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Raghavan Srinivasan, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1983
M.E., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, 1980
B.Tech., Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1978