Marilee Wheaton, INCOSE President, is a SERC Doctoral Fellow at USC and was sworn in as President of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) at the International Workshop in January 2022. Ms. Wheaton served the previous two years as President-Elect of INCOSE, during which time her leadership and commitment to team building has played a critical role in the organization. She is also a Systems Engineering Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) headquartered in El Segundo, California. In this role, she is responsible for providing technical leadership and building capability across the corporation to include digital engineering, enterprise systems engineering, systems architecting, and model-based systems engineering. Her previous assignment was as the executive director and general manager of The Aerospace Institute, which coordinated all education, training, and staff development activities at the corporation. Wheaton has held several executive level technical leadership positions at Aerospace and was a prior director with TRW Systems providing leadership for cost estimation, metrics, and quantitative management goals.  She is a Fellow of INCOSE, AIAA and SWE, and a senior member of IEEE and SMCS.

Sam Kwong, SMCS President, received his B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Ph.D. from Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), he was a Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada. He was responsible for designing diagnostic software to detect the manufacturing faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He later joined Bell-Northern Research as a Scientific Staff member working on the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) project. Kwong is currently Chair Professor at the CityU Department of Computer Science, where he served as Department Head and Professor from 2012 to 2018. Prof Kwong joined CityU as a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1989. Prof. Kwong is currently the associate editor of leading IEEE transaction journals, including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He has filed 24 US patents, of which 13 have been granted. He has co-authored three research books, eight chapters, and over 300 technical papers. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited more than 25,000 times with an h-index of 70.

William Miller leads the INCOSE FuSE initiative and has fifty years of experience in the conceptualization and engineering of communications and information technologies, products, and services. Mr. Miller is an adjunct professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, where he teaches graduate courses in systems engineering fundamentals, system architecture and design, and systems integration. He previously served as program technical director and chief systems engineer at Bell Laboratories with assignments as product manager and program manager at AT&T. Mr. Miller earned his M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a Life Member of the IEEE and SMCS, and Senior Member of INCOSE where he is the former technical director (2013-2014) and currently is the editor-in-chief of INSIGHT practitioners’ magazine. He received the INCOSE Founders Award in 2017 for support to INCOSE that has enabled the organization to grow and evolve, driving a collaborative culture of engagement, one of working together in pursuit of INCOSE’s greater mission, constantly working as both an ambassador and a connector for both the profession and the organization.