RAMS® 2026 Management Committee
General Chair
Dmitry Tananko, SAE, General Dynamics Land System
Vice General Chair
Troy Schwartz, SRE, Boeing
Treasurer
Dave Fernald, ASQ-ECD
Assistant Treasurer
Ed Pohl, IISE, University of Arkansas
Program Committee
Chair: Walter Tomczykowski , ASQ-ECD, Tomczykowski Group LLC
Vice Chairs:
Alex Attia, SRE
Dongmei Chen, IEEE-RS, STEA
Thomas Elliott Boeing
Prince Kalia, NASA
Carol Parendo, ASQ-RRD, Collins Aerospace
Tara Parhizkar, SAE, UCLA
Jonathan Soliman, IEEE-RS
Zhimin Xi, IISE, Rutgers University
Proceedings Editors:
Joel Nachlas, Virginia Tech
Om Yadav, SRE, North Carolina A&T State University
Tutorials Committee
Chair: Bill Haughey, IEST, ReliaTrain
Vice Chairs:
Vasiliy Krivtsov, IEEE-RS, The Ford Motor Company
Caroline Lubert, SRE, James Madison University
Nat Jambulingam, SRE, NASA
Arrangements Committee
Chair: Paul Franklin, IEST, Genpact
Vice Chairs:
Pankaj Shrivastava (Book), ASQ-RRD, Halliburton Company
Vinayak Hegde (Hotel Liaison), SAE
Rong Pan (Secretary/AV/Hospitality), ASQ-RRD, Arizona State University
Publicity & Registration Committee
Chair: James Young , SRE
Vice Chairs:
Miklos Szidarovszky, IEST, Raytheon Company
Ramin Moghaddass, IISE
Advanced Registration Consultant: Ken Dalton, Retired Reliability Engineer
Exhibits Coordinator: David Barber, Scien-Tech Associates