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PEOPLE:

 

Chang-Jun Bae

  • developing new rechargeable battery electrodes that allow a marked improvement in energy and power density
  • demonstrated new ways of manipulating properties of ceramic active materials in the Li-ion battery
  • Ph.D., Material Science Engineering, University of Michigan; postdoctoral work, MIT

 

 

Alan Bell

 

 

  • expert in building and integrating systems that span electronic hardware, software, and mechanical disciplines
  • systems for biotechnology equipment and inkjet
  • B.S., Computer Science, UC California Irvine

 

 

 

Lara Crawford
  • interface between planning and control, as well as the control and coordination of large-scale distributed, networked, embedded systems
  • simulation, robotics, learning control, biologically inspired control
  • Ph.D. in Biophysics & M.S. in Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley; A.B. in Physics, Harvard

 

Craig Eldershaw
  • 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

 

Scott Elrod
Scott Elrod
Vice President, Hardware Systems Laboratory

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  • 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

 

Sean Garner
  • manages Energy Systems group at PARC
  • experimential physics
  • experience in optics, electronics, micromechanical systems, microfabrication, vacuum, cryogenics
  • Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University

 

 

Rob McHenry

 

 

  • Energy Technology Program Manager
  • development, execution, and strategy for PARC's energy portfolio
  • formerly program manager at DARPA Tactical Technology Office
  • Marine Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy; Nuclear Engineering, MIT

 

 

 

Ajay Raghavan
  • 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 

 

Saroj Sahu
  • focuses on novel electrochemical chemistry and energy technologies
  • building devices for efficient energy storage, energy generation, and water management
  • BSc from Stewart Science College, Utkal University, India and M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Saga University, Japan

 

David Eric Schwartz
  • analog and digital CMOS circuit design, biosensing, and software engineering
  • interface between electrical engineering, biochemistry, electrochemistry
  • B.S., Mathematics, Brown University; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

 

Eric Shrader
  • 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

 

Sylvia Smullin
  • 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

 

Mark Stephenson
  • 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

 

 

Baomin Xu
  • 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

 

Xinjian Zhou
  • develops new business opportunities in China for PARC’s breakthrough clean water platform technology Hydrodynamic Separation (HDS) and other technologies
  • Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University; B.S. in Physics from Peking University