FIRST MERCHANTS CORP (FRME)
Sector: Financials
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Sector: Financials
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Director information for FRME
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| FRME | Director | 49 | ["President of Purdue University", "Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering", "John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering", "executive vice president for strategic initiatives", "National Science Foundation\u2019s Alan T. Waterman Award recipient", "National Academy of Inventors member", "Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences member", "IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award recipient", "Guggenheim Fellowship recipient", "co-founder of three startup companies", "founding CEO of DataMi", "science and technology advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State"] | ["Telamon Corporation", "U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee", "U.S. Foundation of Energy Security Innovation"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Director since 2023 age 49 Dr. Chiang became President of Purdue University on January 1, 2023, and is the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From July 2017 to June 2022, he was the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. From April 2021 to December 2022, he was the University s executive vice president for strategic initiatives. He led Purdue Engineering to its first back-to-back top 4 graduate rankings in the U.S. while growing it to be the largest top 10 undergraduate engineering college in the country. As an executive vice president of the University, Dr. Chiang worked with many colleagues to help launch initiatives in national security technology and semiconductor and life science manufacturing, in Discovery Park District at Purdue s aerospace cluster and the Lab to Life residential neighborhood, and in economic growth through federal, state and private-sector opportunities. Previously, he was the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. For his research in wireless networking, Dr. Chiang received the National Science Foundation s Alan T. Waterman Award in 2013, the highest honor presented to an American researcher under the age of 40, and he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in Engineering at Princeton for developing one of the university s first massive open online courses, which has been taught to over 400,000 people. For his pioneering work in edge computing, network utility maximization and wireless resource allocation, he also received the IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award (2022), Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2012), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008) and MIT Technology Review TR35 Award (2007). His research publications on internet congestion control and routing, wireless power control and scheduling, cloud and video optimization, smart data pricing and social learning networks have received over 30,000 citations, with an h-index of 81, and won best paper prizes at IEEE INFOCOM (2012), IEEE SECON (2013) and ACM MobiHoc (2021). As an inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Chiang has 25 U.S. patents, most of which have been licensed and deployed by the communications and networking industry. He co-founded three startup companies in mobile networks, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, based on the research at Princeton Edge Lab, and co-founded a global nonprofit, the OpenFog Consortium, now part of the global Industrial Internet Consortium. He was the founding CEO of DataMi, which has served over 60 million users around the world in bridging the digital divide. As a diplomat and policymaker, Dr. Chiang was the science and technology advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State and initiated the U.S. government s tech diplomacy programs. Since returning from Washington, D.C., in 2020, he co-founded the Krach Institute of Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and serves as the technology and innovation advisor to his home state of Indiana. Dr. Chiang is currently a director of Telamon Corporation, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and the U.S. Foundation of Energy Security Innovation. Dr. Chiang's specific experience and qualifications to serve as a director Dr. Chiang's experience as an educator, university executive and entrepreneur, as well as his skill set related to technology and computing, will help facilitate the Company's economic growth across Indiana and neighboring states.