Don
Paul is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
of Chevron Corp. and is responsible for the company's three technology
companies: Energy Technology, Information Technology, and Technology
Ventures. Previously, Paul served as Vice President of Technology and
Environmental Affairs for Chevron Corp., a position he assumed in 1996,
and was responsible for Chevron's worldwide health, safety, and environmental
policy and compliance. Paul began his career with Chevron in 1975 as
a research geophysicist with Chevron Oil Field Research Co. in La Habra,
California. He has held a variety of management positions of increasing
responsibility in both upstream operations and technology, including
President of Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. and President of Chevron
Canada Resources Ltd.
Paul is a member
of the external advisory boards for the Energy Laboratory and Department
of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences of the Massachusetts Inst.
of Technology and the School of Earth Sciences Advisory Board of Stanford
U., Board of the Councilors, Viterbi School of Engineering, University
of Southern California. He is a member of the Natl. Research Council
of the U.S. Natl. Academy of Science and served on the 1997 Presidential
Panel on Federal Energy R&D. He holds a BS degree in applied mathematics,
an MS degree in geology and geophysics, and a PhD degree in geophysics,
all from the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology.
C.
L. Max Nikias, a nationally recognized leader in multimedia
and Internet technologies, was appointed the Provost of University of
Southern California in July 2005. Prior to that he served as the Dean
of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Before becoming dean in 2001,
he was the founding director of the school's Integrated Media Systems
Center the sole National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
for multimedia and Internet research.
As a result of his research achievements in digital signal processing,
which lies at the core of multimedia technologies, he was named a Fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991, when
he was 38. His research interests also include biomedical engineering,
digital communications and military radar and sonar. He holds eight
patents, has published more than 100 academic articles, 180 conference
papers and three textbooks. He also has a security clearance and continues
to serve as a defense consultant.
Nikias joined USC in 1991 as a professor of electrical engineering,
and served as associate dean from 1992 to 2001. He previously held academic
appointments at Northeastern University in Boston and the University
of Connecticut in Storrs. He graduated from the National Technical University
of Athens in 1977 with a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering.
He earned his M.A. and his Ph.D., in 1982, in electrical engineering
from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
