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- integrates and coordinates mechanical, electrical, and software design
- broad background encompassing supercomputing, robotics, digital electronics, data-mining
- modular robotics and parallel printing
- specialised manufacturing robot to build more efficient solar cells; distributed micro-grid technology
- portable, digital, x-ray units
- Ph.D., Oxford
- directs PARC Cleantech Innovation Program
- holds 60+ patents; responsible for much of acoustic ink-printing patent portfolio (novel inkjet technology based on focused ultrasonics) as well as several inventions for PARC spinout LiveWorks, Inc. (acquired by SMART Technologies)
- previously directed ESH Division at SEMATECH; co-wrote chapter for The Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology
- Ph.D., Applied Physics, Stanford University
- fleet health management, diagnostics and prognostics, electromechanical systems, sensors
- modeling, dynamics, pattern recognition and signal processing, piezoelectric transducers, wave propagation, guided-wave structural health monitoring
- Ph.D., M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
- developing reusable paper printing applications; inkjet systems aimed at printed circuit board printing; novel energy conversion technologies aimed at solar energy and energy scavenging
- applies conventional printing technologies and techniques in novel ways to improve performance or manufacturing
- M.S., Stanford University, in Mechanical Engineering and B.S., MIT
- better ways to manage, use, and produce energy
- developed novel clean energy solutions including wind power, Stirling-thermoacoustic engine, adsorption chiller
- specializes in experimental design, data analysis, systems analysis, modeling
- PhD, MS, physics, Stanford University; MPhil, Cambridge University; BS, Brown University
- over 25 years of experience in water treatment, quality, testing, operations, infrastructure, and measurement
- drinking water, wastewater, industrial water markets
- extensive background from licensing and sales to operations manufacturing and quality systems
- commercialized water technologies in several diverse industries
- commercialization roles at numerous startups -- including VP of Sales and Marketing at OndaVia, Hach Company, and PAX; COO at Microvi Biotech; CEO of H2O Inc. and Pionetics Corporation
- solar cells, solar thermoelectric conversion, rechargeable batteries, fuel cells
- MEMS, laser materials processing, piezoelectric materials and devices
- developed several techniques to improve solar cell performance/cost
- invented laser liftoff transfer method technique to integrate piezo- and other electronic films into Si microsystem devices
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- Big Data
- Clean Water
- Cleantech and Energy
- Content-Centric Networking
- Contextual Intelligence
- Design and Digital Manufacturing
- Health and Wellness
- Innovation Services
- Intelligent Automation
- Optoelectronics and Optics
- Printed and Flexible Electronics
