Joel Wilson is an M.S./Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  His program emphasis is product design, and has gained experience on previous design projects with LeapFrog, IBM, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.  In his Master's research, he designed, prototyped, and demonstrated to firefighters two different head-mounted displays (HMDs).  His Ph.D. is focused on improving the FIRE system and conducting user experiments to determine whether the FireEye and the overall FIRE system is helpful to firefighters.

Andrew Redfern is currently a senior at UC Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Associate of Science degree, with honors in Physics and Science for Engineers, at Sierra College in 2002.  While at Sierra, he was a project leader on a joint effort with JPL and NASA to build custom circuitry and software for the Mars Excavator.  Andrew has focused his research on imbedded system design and wireless sensor networks.  His current research is system design of ad hoc wireless sensor networks and custom hardware design.  Some of the application research Andrew is working on include monitoring networks for dynamometer rooms (Ford Motor Company) and smart building sensor network design, Smokenet, to help occupants and fire fighters evacuate buildings in an emergency (Chicago and Berkeley Fire Departments).

Paul Wright is the Acting Director or CITRIS, Co-Chair of the Management of Technology Program (a joint program with the Haas School of Business), and Co-Director of the Berkeley Manufacturing Institute at UC Berkeley. His research and teaching are in High-Tech Product Design and Rapid Manufacturing. Current projects are in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, Intel, Hewlett Packard, the Berkeley and Chicago Fire Departments, and the National Science Foundation. Today's largest activity is funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and is in collaboration with colleagues in Architecture, the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. Wright and his colleagues are designing and prototyping wireless systems for "time-of-use, demand response power management" throughout California. The wireless prototypes are being created in the Ford Lab - a 2,000 sq.ft. design studio in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Berkeley. Born in London England, he attended Birmingham and Cambridge Universities prior to previous U.S. faculty positions at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University.