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Materials science and engineering alum Jim Gable '93 has been named vice president of innovation and president of Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), effective February 1, 2022.
Gable, who has developed broad commercial, operations, and technology experience over his 23 years at Chevron, was most recently overseeing the development and deployment of downstream-related technology for the corporation and served as vice president of Chevron Technical Center.
He succeeds Barbara J. Burger, who is retiring from the company after 34 years.
Electrical and computer engineering alum David Bader ’90 ’91G has been named a Fellow of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.
A Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Bader is one of 71 top innovators recognized in the 2021 class of ACM Fellows. He is also founder of NJIT's Department of Data Science and inaugural director of its Institute for Data Science.
He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Lehigh in 1990 and his MS in computer engineering in 1991.
The Los Angeles Times featured electrical engineering alum Scott Willoughby '89 in a story featuring the professionals behind the James Webb Space Telescope that was launched on Christmas Day from French Guiana, on South America’s northern coast.
