The affairs of the organization will be managed by the TheATLAS Board of Directors. The Board of Directors will be chosen from qualified applicants and will have full control of Academy activities, subject to the limitations of the By-Laws, Academy policies, procedures, and the Law of the State of Texas. Academy policies, and procedures must conform to the provisions of the Bylaws. TheATLAS Bylaws can be approved and amended only by the voting members of the Academy. The voting members of the Board of Directors will consist of the President, the Vice President, and the Board Members. The term of each Board Member and TheATLAS Chairman of the Board will be five years. Although Board Members’ service will be limited to one full term, additional terms can be sought.
 Dr. Raymond T. Yeh, Honorary Boar member
Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally (the only top-ten ranking department at Maryland then). He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE. He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. Most recently, he co-authored his first business book “Zero Time” published by John Wiley & Sons. in August, 2000. In 1983, he turned down an offer to head up the software division of Microelectronics and Computer Company (MCC)- a company set up by 20 large companies to counter the threat of Japanese’ 5-generation technology, to become an entrepreneur. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member to several organizations. He has also served as a management consultant to many nations including United Nations, US, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore as well as to world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Siemens (Germany), Agribusiness (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hatachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards, etc. In 1979, he helped Dr. K.T.Li—long time economic and finance minister of Taiwan, to design the Institute of Information Industries (III) as a means to help Taiwan in its second economic transformation based on IT. In 1981, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee for the US Department of Defense to develop its software vision, which later become the STARS program with more than $100 million invested. The British ministry of defense also copied the concept with a similar project.In 1983, Premier Zhao of China asked his help to transform China into a software export country. Dr. Yeh was working with researchers in 13 elite institutions in China with two training centers set up at the Beijing University in Beijing and Fu Dan University in Shanghai as well as the design of two software factories in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively. The project produced an integrated Software Engineering Environment in 1986, on a par with the commercial product in the US. Dr. Yeh withdrew from this project shortly after completion of this technology and training of several hundred software engineers to focus on his second company with the Department of Defense as its primary customer. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the ICC Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design and Process Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden-core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement, as well as Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan, among others.Dr. Yeh also practices energy healing and is currently working on his second business book.
 Dr. Ramamoorthy, Board Member
Professor Ramamoorthy’s distinguished career traces back to the 1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell, Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell’s first transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-program digital computer designed for process monitoring and control. In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, later becoming chair of the computer science department. He developed, with his students, the FACES System for automated test generation and evaluation techniques. These test techniques were successfully applied to discover programming errors in Bell laboratories’ Safeguard Missile Defense System for the US Army and were intended to defend Minuteman silos located around the US from enemy attack. In 1971, these techniques were modified for reuse at NASA’s Space Shuttle Structural Test Facility in Huntsville, Alabama. At UC Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Most recently, his research investigations have focused on service industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationships between software and service engineering. IEEE Society has honored Ramamoorthy’s achievements with the Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in 1997. A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has published more than 150 papers, co-edited three books, and holds patents in computer architecture, software engineering, computer testing and diagnosis and databases. He holds two undergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.
 Dr. Vicki Rainey, Board Member
Dr. Vicki Rainey is a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee. She received her B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee – Martin (1968), an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi (1970), a Ph.D. in Higher Education (mathematics concentration) at the University of Mississippi (1979), and an M.A. in Counseling from Amberton University (2001). Dr. Rainey began her career as a math teacher for the Memphis City Schools from 1969 through 1975. In the Fall of 1975, she joined the mathematics staff at Shelby State Community College (consolidated as a part of Southwest Tennessee Community College) where she attained the rank of Associate Professor of Mathematics. In November of 1980, Dr. Rainey left West Tennessee to work as a software engineer for E-Systems, a small defense company in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. In 22 years at the Texas location, including acquisition by the defense giant Raytheon, she rose to the rank of Director, Software Engineering responsible for the management and technical direction of up to 850 engineers. As Director, Software Engineering, Dr. Rainey worked with several universities to aid in the coordination of industrial needs and academic curricula. She was also active in the efforts to integrate engineering concepts into other academic areas through sponsoring of transdisciplinary education. Dr. Rainey presented her ideas through publications, national presentations, international presentations, and development of societies and academies to further these ideas. Her involvement with the theory behind the way engineering processes blend with other subjects and the way engineers approach problem solving, led her to pursue a degree in counseling. After completing her counseling degree and "retiring" from Raytheon to return home, Dr. Rainey was hired as an instructor of developmental mathematics at Dyersburg State Community College.
 Dr. Tim Maxwell, Board Member
Dr. Tim Maxwell, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, had many years of industrial experience prior to pursuing academic profession. Dr. Tim Maxwell has been one of the driving force behind the conception and the development of the transdisciplinary model for education and research. Dr. Maxwell has written numerous technical papers and modules on transdisciplinary education. Dr. Maxwell’s contributions to teaching and research have been recognized by numerous honors and awards.  Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Board member
Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi received his B.S. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Keio University and the Dr. Eng. degree in information Security from Chuo University in Japan. He originally joined NEC in 1963, in the Computer Software Development Department. While with NEC, he was a member of the team that designs the Operating systems and Database systems. He has served as the vice president in NEC Soft. He pioneered the design of information security systems and the collaboration with the universities in the USA. He was a head of the research and development group on the next generation electronic voting system funded by the NICT in Japan. Currently he is serving as a full professor in the Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University and as a visiting professor in the Bioinformatics Research Institute, Waseda University since 2004. He has been a Keynote and plenary speaker at several international conferences, such as IEEE-ICTAI, HASE, BIBE, and ISM. He is a fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS).
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