Cyril L WilliamsDr. Cyril L. Williams, P.E. is currently a Senior Research Engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (ASI), U.S. Army Research Laboatory Distinguish Scholar, and Federal Engineer of the Year 2015 (Department of the Army). He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Fatigue and Fracture) from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, then M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Shock Compression Science) from The Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Army's Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the structure-property relationships in condensed matter under extreme dynamic environments. He started his career as a design engineer with the American Bottlers Equipment Company (AMBEC) in 1992 and later joined E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. in 2000 as a Consultant in Reliability and Mechanical Testing (Engineering Mechanics Group). Dr. Williams is a licensed Professional Engineer in Delaware (#13160) and Maryland (#44307). He is currently the executive head of ASME Government Relations (Delaware Section), member of the American Physical Society (APS)-Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (SCCM) Executive Committee and an active member of several research societies including the Sigma Xi, Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (TBP). He has given numerous invited talks nationally and internationally including University of Cambridge (Cavendish Laboratory), California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London (Institute of Shock Physics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read More Read Less