Speakers
| Dr. Moshe Gavrielov, CEO, Xilinx |
| Dr. Gregory Kovacs, Director, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. John Parmentola, Associate Chief Scientist, United States Army |
MTO and the Outside World
Dr. Brett Giroir, Vice Chancellor of Research, Texas A&M University |
Dr. William Jeffrey, President and CEO, HRL Laboratories |
Ms. Barbara McQuiston, Director, DARPA's Strategic Technology Office |
Dr. John Zolper, Vice President of Corporate Research & Development and Deputy for Corporate Technology & Research, Raytheon |
| Dr. Brad Halsey, Managing Scientist, Exponent, Inc. |
Complexity in Microsystems
Prof. John Rogers, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute and Materials Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Dr. Dennis Healy, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
| Prof. Hideo Mabuchi, Applied Physics, Stanford Universiy |
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vicentelli, The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley |
Dr. Ben Vigoda, CTO, Lyric Semiconductor |
Prof. Mark Neifeld, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Arizona [View Presentation] |
| Prof. Iain Couzin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University |
Actuation and Response in Microsystems
Dr. Amit Lal, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
| Dr. Dennis Polla, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office [View Presentation] |
Prof. Victor Bright, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor, Faculty Director for Discovery Learning, College of Engineering & Applied Sciene Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Dr. Terry Dorschner, Principal Fellow, Raytheon [View Presentation] |
Prof. Oskar Painter, Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology [View Presentation] |
Prof. Mark Rodwell, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Director of Nanofabrication Laboratory, University of California-Santa Barbara |
Prof. Michael Roukes, Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology |
RUMP
| Dr. Michael Fritze, Program Manager, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office - Introduction and Current Challenges [View Presentation] |
Prof. Ken Shepard, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University |
| Dr. Michael Gaitan, Semiconductor Elecronics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology [View Presentation] |
Chip-Scale Energy and Power...and Heat
Dr. Michael Fritze, Program Manager, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. Thomas Kenny, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Prof. Sandip Tiwari, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Lester B. Knight Director of Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, Cornell University |
Dr. Wilfried Haensch, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM [View Presentation] |
| Prof. Paul Hasler, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Tech University [View Presentation] |
Prof. Kenneth Goodson, Mechanical Engineering Department and Director, Microscale Heat Laboratory, Stanford University [View Presentation] |
Prof. Benton Calhoun, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Virginia [View Presentation] |
Cooperative Microsystems
Dr. Jag Shah, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. Adel Saleh, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Prof. Charles Marcus, Physics Department and Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems, Harvard University |
Dr. Charles Bennett, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM [View Presentation] |
Dr. Joseph Pancrazio, Program Director, Extramural Research Program, National Institute of Neurlogical Disorders and Stroke / National Institutes of Health |
Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Distinguished Engineer, Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems |
Dr. Jeremy Kepner, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Sensing and Awareness in Microsystems
Dr. Nibir Dhar, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. Sanjay Raman, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Prof. Albert Pisano, Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, FANUC Professor of Mechanical Systems, and Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University California-Berkeley [View Presentation] |
| Prof. Mark Sherwin, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Dr. David Shaver, Head of the Solid State Division, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. Jeff Rogers, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. John Kitching, Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Building your Future with MTO
Dr. Mark Rosker, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Mr. Michael Blackstone, Contracting Officer and Director, Systems Division, DARPA’s Contracts Management Office [View Presentation] |
Dr. Jeff Rogers, Program Manager, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office |
Dr. Steve Pappert, Associate for S & T Projects, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command [View Presentation] |
Mr. Chris Earl, Special Assistant for Technology Transition, DARPA |
Born in 1943 in New York, Charles H. Bennett received his PhD in chemical physics from Harvard in 1970 under David Turnbull and Berni Alder, continuing this research at Argonne Laboratory under the late Aneesur Rahman. Since joining the research staff at IBM in 1973 he has worked on the thermodynamics of computation, the theory of reversible computation, computational complexity, algorithmic information, classical privacy amplification, quantum cryptography, and quantum information and computation theory. In 1984 he and Gilles Brassard of Montreal devised the first and most widely used protocol for quantum cryptographic key distribution. In 1993, Bennett, Brassard, and coworkers showed that intact quantum states can be transmitted via a combination of classical communication and prior entanglement, an effect called quantum teleportation. His current interests include quantum Shannon theory and the thermodynamics of error correction and fault tolerance. He is an IBM Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is married, with three grown children. His principal hobbies are photography and music. For more information see http://www.research.ibm.com/people/b/bennetc .
Mr. Blackstone serves as a Contracting Officer for the Contracts Management Office (CMO). As Director of the CMO Systems Division, Mr. Blackstone is responsible for management and execution of acquisition programs originating from the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO), and Tactical Technology Office (TTO) as well as management of division operations, personnel, and policy. Mr. Blackstone provides the MTO, IPTO and TTO office directors and program personnel with guidance and assistance in the areas of business and procurement management, to include the formation of acquisition strategy/planning, interpretation of the acquisition regulations, and the proper application of available acquisition instruments (contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, technology investment agreements, other transactions for prototypes).
Victor M. Bright received his BSEE degree from the University of Colorado at Denver in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Dr. Bright is currently the Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty Director for Discovery Learning, College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2005 through 2007, he served as the Associate Dean for Research, CEAS, CU-Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, he was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (1992-1997). Prof. Bright's research activities include micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), silicon micromachining, microsensors/microactuators, opto-electronics, optical, magnetic and RF microsystems, atomic-layer deposited materials, ceramic MEMS, MEMS reliability, and MEMS packaging. Prof. Bright is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of ASME, and an author of over 250 journal papers, conference proceedings, and book chapters in the fields of MEMS, NEMS and microsystems.
Benton H. Calhoun received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests include low power digital circuit design, sub-threshold digital circuits, SRAM design for end-of-the-roadmap silicon, variation tolerant circuit design methodologies, and low energy electronics for medical applications. Dr. Calhoun is a co-author of Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Springer, 2006) and is a member of the IEEE.
Dr. Iain Couzin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associated Faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University since 2007. Before joining the faculty at Princeton, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow in the Sciences at Balliol College. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behavior, and consequently he studies a wide range of biological systems, from brain tumors to insect swarms, fish schools and human crowds. He has published his research in leading international journals including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA and Current Biology. He is an Editor of Behavioral Ecology, Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems, on the Editorial Board of Journal of Nonlinear Science and guest editor of PLoS Computational Biology. In recognition of his innovative research, he was recipient of a Searle Scholar Award in 2008, and the Mohammed Dahleh Award and Distinguished Lectureship from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2009.
Dr. Terry A. Dorschner is a Principal Engineering Fellow with Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems operations in Marlborough, MA. He is the inventor of and long-standing champion for optical phased arrays. He is the recipient of the IEEE’s W. R. G. Baker Prize and Raytheon’s Excellence in Technology Award. Dr. Dorschner is the Principal Investigator for DARPA’s APPLE program.
Dr. Dean Collins
Dr. Dean R. Collins was appointed the Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in March 2005. In this capacity, he is responsible for the monitoring, analysis, and evaluation of research projects directed by the MTO Program Managers. In addition, he is responsible for supporting the MTO Director for the conceptual planning necessary to lead MTO into new program areas far in advance of the current state-of-the-art in the areas of electronics, photonics, MEMS, component architectures, and algorithms. He is also actively involved as a Program Manager himself and manages a number of programs focused on silicon integrated circuits. He initiated and is managing a major new office thrust, TRUST in Integrated Circuits, which is focused on evaluating potential threats from integrated circuits designed or fabricated offshore.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Collins was Director for Advanced Research and Development Activity in Information Technology (ARDA). ARDA functioned as a joint activity of the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense addressing high risk/high payoff Information Technology "problems" which had broad impact across both supporting communities. The focus was to do a "few" things well rather than initiate "many" activities at a shallow level. The annual budget increased 300% during his tenure and funded academia, national laboratories and industry efforts. He was also a member of the Intelligence Community Advanced Research and Development Committee and managed the ARDA Quantum Information Science effort.
Prior to joining ARDA, Dr. Collins was with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He was Chief of the High Performance Systems and Services Division, one of the largest Divisions at NIST. This position focused on Information Technology with a strong commercial bias and the topics investigated ranged from biometrics to electronic books. He also had operational responsibility for NIST's communication networks and high performance computers. Prior to joining the High Performance Systems and Services Division, he was Director of Electronic and Photonics Technology Office of the NIST Advanced Technology Program, where he was responsible for directing high-risk technical programs focused on high commercial economic benefit.
Prior to joining the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Advanced Technology Program, Dr. Collins was with Texas Instruments (TI) as Director of the System Components Lab, responsible for all research on III-V devices, nanoelectronics, photonics, and neural networks. Prior to being Director of the System Components Lab, he was Director of the Interface Technology Lab, responsible for all sensor and display research, including LCDs, DLPs, and CCDs. In this position he was also the program manager of one of the first three major DARPA sponsored Artificial Intelligence programs, FRESH, focused on solving logistical problems for CINCPACFLT. Prior to being Director of the Interface Technology Lab he was Director of Charge Coupled Device Lab, responsible for all CCD imaging efforts for military, space, and commercial thrusts.
Dr. Collins's achievements at Texas instruments include Charged Coupled Device Imagers (CCD Imagers) and the Digital Light Product (DLP). The DLP is a light modulator consisting of millions of individual micromirrors suspended above the cells of a random access memory integrated circuit. The DLP technology is used today to produce HDTV sets and viewgraph projectors. He fabricated the first CCD at Texas Instruments and stayed in charge of the project until the corporation had sold the 100,000th device. He initiated both the CCD and the DLP projects at Texas Instruments, provided technical leadership, and made significant technical contributions to both projects.
Dr. Collins received the S.B. (EE), and S.M. (EE) degrees from MIT and his Ph.D (EE) from the University of Illinois, where he was a Westinghouse Fellow. Dr. Collins honors include Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi. He was awarded The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Public Service Group Achievement Award for the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera Texas Instruments Team, the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for Galileo Solid Stat Imaging/ Charge Coupled Device Design and Development, and the United States Department of Commerce Certificate of Appreciation for contributions to the Open Electronic Book Authoring Group.
Dr. Collins is a member of the American Physical Society and a Registered Professional Engineer. He has published more than 40 refereed articles and has ten issued U.S.patents, including the basic patents on the liquid crystal wrist watch.
Dr. Nibir Dhar
Dr. Nibir Dhar joined the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in March 2008. As a DARPA program manager he has interest in developing innovative technologies in a broad field that adds value to the warfighter’s objectives. His interests are in the areas of novel architectures in infrared detectors & imaging, nanoelectronics including NEMS/MEMS components, novel materials synthesis techniques, bio-inspired concepts, and new modality power sources and storage.
Dr. Dhar's interests are in the areas of novel architectures in infrared detectors & imaging, nanoelectronics including NEMS/MEMS components, novel materials synthesis techniques, bio-inspired concepts, and new modality power sources and storage.
Dr. Dhar comes from the Army Research Laboratory where he was leading the Integrated Power and Sensing Technology group to develop infrared sensors, soldier portable power sources (solar cells & thermoelectrics), thin films, nanomaterials development and integration of sensor/power technologies. In this capacity, his major responsibility was to develop technologies relevant for the US Army in infrared imagers, solar cells, thermoelectric power, energy sensors and integration of various technologies to align the Army Research Laboratory’s vision and strategic technology initiatives (STI). He served on three Army STI committees – Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, and Microsystems Technology. He also served as the branch chief for the infrared materials & devices branch, electro-optics and photonics division at the Army Research Laboratory. As a branch chief Dr. Dhar was responsible for a wide variety of infrared focal plane array technology including mercury cadmium telluride materials and focal plane arrays (FPA), quantum well infrared photo-detectors, Type-II strained layer superlattice, and quantum dot infrared detectors. He was also responsible for Inter-Band Cascade Lasers.
Prior to joining the Army Research Laboratory, Dr. Dhar worked as a research engineer for the Army’s Research, Development & Engineering center at Night Vision Electronic and Sensors Directorate (NVESD). At NVESD he was primarily working on Infrared FPA. Prior to working at NVESD he worked as an engineer for the Variable Message Systems (VMS), Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) where he worked on feed-back control loops, RF networks and messaging boards. Dr. Dhar also worked as guest scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland and at the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) LETI at Grenoble, France.
Dr. Dhar received a Masters and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in the area of Microelectronics and Electro-physics. He received a Bachelors’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University. Dr. Dhar has authored numerous papers on various subjects, served as chair person on numerous conferences and committees, and served as co-editor of several conference proceedings. He also mentored and served on eight doctoral thesis advisory committees on various subjects.
Dr. Ronald Esman
Dr. Ronald Esman joined the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) as a Program Manager in June of 2007. Dr. Esman’s primary interest is in the areas of technology, components, and modules for RF/microwave photonics, fiber-optic communication, and radar/EW signal processing.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Esman was a Sr. Program Analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton assigned to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Strategic Technology Office providing Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance, with concentration in the areas of RF systems (including electronic warfare, radar, and communications), signal processing, and photonics technology.
Dr. Esman served as Vice President in charge of Optical Product Development at Essex Corporation from 2004-2006, where he focused on the areas of optical processors, optical spectrum analysis, and optical encryption. While at Essex, Dr. Esman provided technical guidance toward an optical processing technology base for U.S. Government clients and led the optical product development efforts. Dr. Esman also served as Executive Engineer for Transmission Technology at Corvis Corporation from 2000-2004, where he oversaw optical telecommunication transmission technologies and served as a member of the Technical Advisory Board. Dr. Esman was responsible for both terrestrial long haul and ultra long haul Tx/Rx products and the submarine line terminal equipment, which included the ultra long haul Tx/Rx modules, the element management system, WDM, and cable interface.
Dr. Esman also spent 14 years at the Naval Research Laboratory serving first as the Leader of the Fiber-Optic Microwave Group where his activities focused on microwave applications of fiber optics. Dr. Esman then served as Head of the Microwave Photonics Section and finally Head of the Photonics Technology Branch, which performed research at the forefront of opto-electronic science and technology; guided-wave and free-space optics; optical communications; elctro-optics; and RF signal processing. Dr. Esman received five annual NRL Publication Awards.
Dr. Esman received his B.A. (Physics and Math) from Kalamazoo College and his M.S. and Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Esman has co-authored 66 journal articles, 92 conference presentations (21 invited), and has 16 patents. He has served on numerous conference committees including Technical Program Co-chair for OFC2002, General Co-Chair for OFC2004 and Technical Program Chair for MWP99. Dr. Esman established and taught the “Microwave Photonics” short course at OFC and CLEO from 1998 to 2001. He has served two terms as guest editor for the MTT/JLT special issue on “Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Photonics.” He is a member of the Optical Society of America and the IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS). Dr. Esman is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to the development of fiber optic systems for microwave applications and optical fiber research.
Dr. Michael Fritze
Dr. Michael Fritze joined the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) as a Program Manager in August 2006. His interests are in the areas of advanced low power electronics and low volume nanofabrication. Currently, Dr. Fritze is responsible for the 3D Integrated Circuits (3-D IC), Steep-Subthreshold-slope Transistors for Electronics with Extremely-Low Power (STEEP), Radiation Hardening by Design (RHBD), and Technology for Efficient Agile Mixed-Signal Microsystems (TEAM) Program for MTO. Dr. Fritze has published over 60 papers and articles in professional journals and holds several U.S. patents.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Fritze was a Staff Member from 1995-2006 at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). At Lincoln Laboratory, he worked on fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) technology development with an emphasis on novel devices. Particular interests included highly scaled, tunneling-based, and ultra-low power devices. Dr. Fritze also worked in the area of silicon-based integrated optics. Another research interest at Lincoln Laboratory was in the area of resolution-enhanced optical lithography and nanofabrication with particular emphasis on low volume technological solutions.
Prior to Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Fritze held a post-doctoral appointment at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel New Jersey, where he worked in the areas of femtosecond optical spectroscopy and compound semiconductor optical properties. From 1984-1986, Dr. Fritze worked as a technical assistant at Bell Communications Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the area of compound semiconductor quantum well electrical properties.
Dr. Fritze received a Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1994, working in the area of compound semiconductor quantum well physics. He received a B.S. in Physics in 1984 from Lehigh University. Dr. Fritze is an elected member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He is a member of IEEE and SPIE and is active on the program committees of the EIPBN (3Beams) & GOMAC conferences. Dr. Fritze has published over 60 papers and articles in professional journals and holds several U.S. patents.
Chris Earl is the Special Assistant to the Director for Technology Transition, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA engages in advanced basic and applied research and development projects essential to the Department of Defense, and pursues cutting-edge technology that may be incorporated into joint programs, programs in support of deployed U.S. forces or selected Military Departments. Mr. Earl directs and oversees the DARPA Technology Transition staff (including senior Active Duty military and supporting contractor staff) and serves as a senior program specialist, providing professional level support and programmatic advice.
Prior to assuming his duties as DARPA, Mr. Earl was employed by SRI International as a Senior Technical Advisor, providing professional services to DARPA. He is a retired Navy Captain, having served on numerous submarine and surface ship commands, including command of USS Louisville (SSN 724). He served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (several separate assignments, including Executive Assistant to OPNAV N8). He also served 1 year with the Department of State in The Senior Seminar.
Mr. Earl is a native of Glendale, California. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy (1976), a MA in Public Administration from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2003), and a MBA in Financial Management from National University (1983). He also completed the National Security Management Course at Syracuse University in 1997, as well as serving as Deputy Director of the Course in 2001.
Dr. Gaitan is the Leader of the Semiconductor Electronics Division’s Enabling Devices and Integrated Circuits Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His group’s mission is to develop measurements and standards to support the electronics industry in the fields of Micro Nano Technology, Bio Electronics, and Power Electronics. Before becoming group leader in 2006, he established (1993) and led the group’s Micro Nano Technologies project. His accomplishments as a project leader include developing research programs on standardized test methods for IC and MEMS technologies, CMOS foundry MEMS, thermal flat panel displays, microwave power sensors, and microfluidic systems for forensic DNA identification. He also led (2001 – 2006) a highly successful NIST multilaboratory research program on Single Molecule Measurements that resulted in an emerging Bio Electronics thrust in the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. He has received the Department of Commerce Bronze (1993) and Silver (2002) Medals in recognition of these technical accomplishments. Dr. Gaitan is a member of the Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi honors societies, and a senior member of the IEEE. He has published over 90 archival journal papers and 10 patents.
Moshe Gavrielov serves as president and CEO of Xilinx. He is responsible for formulating the company’s overall strategy, vision and focus necessary for Xilinx to continue its pace of rapid growth and expansion.
Gavrielov brings nearly 30 years of executive management and engineering experience with semiconductor and software companies to his new position at the helm of Xilinx. Most recently, he served as executive vice president and general manager of the fast-growing verification division at Cadence Design Systems. Before that, Gavrielov spent seven years as CEO of Verisity, Ltd., where he grew the company from a $4M start-up, taking it through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2001, to a $70M publicly -traded company, ultimately acquired by electronic design automation leader Cadence in 2005.
Previously, Gavrielov spent nearly ten years at LSI Logic Corp., where he served in a variety of executive management positions, including executive vice president for the $1.3B products group, senior vice president of international markets, general manager for Europe, and general manager of the ASIC division. Gavrielov began his career in engineering and engineering management at National Semiconductor and Digital Equipment.
Gavrielov earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, Israel. He possesses five patents.
Dr. Brett P. Giroir is Vice Chancellor for Research for The Texas A&M University System. In his role, Dr. Giroir provides strategic leadership for research and innovation at the System’s nine universities, seven state agencies, and comprehensive health science center including 27,000 faculty and staff, 109,000 students, and a budget >$3 billion annually. Dr. Giroir also leads the System efforts to develop partnerships with external agencies, foundations, academic institutions, and commercial corporations to enhance the System’s mission of research, teaching, service and outreach.
Dr. Giroir is a native of Marrero, Louisiana. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Alpha Omega Alpha. His post doctoral training was conducted at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Dallas under the mentorship of Dr Bruce Beutler. Dr. Giroir remained on the faculty at UT Southwestern from 1993-2004, achieving a rank of tenured Professor. He held two endowed chairs, and served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at UT Southwestern Medical Center, as well as the first Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. He has published extensively in both the basic and clinical literature, with special emphasis on host-pathogen interactions and novel therapies for life threatening infectious diseases. From 2004 until 2008, Dr Giroir accepted the opportunity to serve in the federal government as Deputy Director, then Director, of the Defense Sciences Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va. There Dr. Giroir directed a research portfolio of approximately $450 million annually that spanned from fundamental physics to human biology. He led the establishment of a comprehensive biology/biomedical program that enabled breakthroughs such as brained-controlled prosthetics and natural approaches to improve immune resistance to diseases. He developed and implemented a portfolio of programs that fundamentally changed the nation’s ability to respond to emerging pathogens or intentional biological attacks. For his DARPA service, Dr. Giroir was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.
Dr. Giroir is currently a member of the federal Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, charged with improving national security against weapons of mass destruction. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, a NASA-funded consortium of institutions studying the health risks related to long-duration spaceflight and developing countermeasures to mitigate the risks. He is a former member of the American Board of Pediatrics, the Defense Sciences Research Council, The NASA Planetary Protection Panel, and an alumnus of the Defense Sciences Study Group.
Dr. Kenneth E. Goodson is Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Goodson was educated at MIT and spent two post-doctoral years with the Materials Group at Daimler-Benz AG. The group studies thermal transport phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures, energy conversion devices, and microfluidic heat sinks, with a focus on those occurring with very small length and time scales. He and his group have published more than 100 archival journal articles, 150 conference papers, and ten books and book chapters, which have been recognized through best paper awards at SEMI-THERM, the Multilevel interconnect Symposium, SRC TECHCON, and the IEDM. He is a co-foudner of Cooligy, Inc., which was acquired by Emerson in 2005 and manufactures microfluidic heat sinks.
Wilfried Haensch received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in the field of theoretical solid state physics. He started his career oin Si technology 1984 at SIEMENS corporate research Munich. There he worked on high field transport in MOSFETs. In 1990 he joined the DRAM alliance between IBM and SIEMENS to develop quarter micron 64M DRAM. From there he moved in 1996 to INFINION’s manufacturing facility in Richmond VA to be involved in the production of various generations of DRAM. In 2001 he joint IBM TJ Watson Research Center to lead a group for novel devices and applications. He is currently responsible for the 15 nm node and device, the exploration of device concepts beyond the 15nm node, and new scaling concepts for memory and logic circuits. He is the author of a text book on transport physics and author/co-author of more than 100 publications. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding Research in 1983.
Mr. Brad Halsey is a Managing Engineer in Exponent’s Technology Development practice. He recently returned from eight months in Iraq where he supported the Rapid Equipping Force (Army) as Lead Engineer in the REF Lab in Baghdad. He quickly developed technologies in the Lab (and sometimes with assistance from Exponent CONUS facilities and engineers) to provide solutions to the dynamic problems of war. With a background in chemistry, optics, and materials science, as well as military service (LT, USN), Mr. Halsey has expertise in polymers, coatings/paints, novel coating application processes, linear and non-linear optical materials, material/chemistry characterization (FTIR, UV/Vis, NMR, ICP/MS, FESEM, GC/TOF/MS, IR radiometrology), biochemistry, infrared detectors, MEMS devices, nano and meso physiochemical systems, meta-materials, polyceramics, electrophoretic deposition, and military demonstrations, vehicles, operations, and technologies (especially signature control and TTL). He has managed and performed on projects with DARPA, ARL, NRL, MANTECH, SOCOM, CIA, and others involving highly classified technologies and field tests. Mr. Halsey also has specific expertise in Naval operations and tactics. Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Halsey was a Senior Research Engineer at SRI International where he managed and contributed to several highly classified, special access programs involving diverse teams of scientists, engineers, and disciplines. Before that, Mr. Halsey served as the Combat Systems Officer, Combat Information Center Officer, Intelligence Officer, and Electronic Warfare Officer onboard USS BRIDGE during OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH.
Dr. Hasler is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and has been with Georgia Tech since 1997. Dr. Hasler received his M.S. and B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 1991, and received his Ph.D. From California Institute of Technology in Computation and Neural Systems in 1997. Dr. Hasler co-founded Gtronix in 2002, where he currently is CSO and a member of the BoD, and co-founded Neuromorfix in 2007, where he is chairman of the board. His current research interests include low power electronics, mixed-signal system ICs, floating-gate MOS transistors, adaptive information processing systems, "smart" interfaces for sensors, cooperative analog-digital signal processing, device physics related to submicron devices or floating-gate devices, and analog VLSI models of on-chip learning and sensory processing in neurobiology.
Dr. Hasler received the NSF CAREER Award in 2001, and the ONR YIP award in 2002. Dr. Hasler received the Paul Raphorst Best Paper Award, IEEE Electron Devices Society, 1997, IEEE CICC best paper award, 2005, Best student paper award, IEEE Ultrasound Symposium, 2006, and IEEE ISCAS Sensors best paper award, 2005. Dr. Hasler is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Hasler is a member of the Institute for Neural Engineering (INE) and the organizing committee for the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering workshop. Dr. Hasler's research has led to over 200 publications and over 20 patents or currently reviewed patents.
Dr. Michael Haney
Dr. Haney joined DARPA in 2006 as a Program Manager for the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). His principle areas of interest are in the application of photonics technologies in new computing, switching, signal processing, and power conversion systems.
Dr. Haney is on leave from the University of Delaware, where he is a professor and a former Photonics Center Director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining the University of Delaware (in 2001), Dr. Haney was an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. In 1998 he co-founded Applied Photonics, Inc., an optical engineering company that developed and demonstrated novel concepts in high-density optical interconnects. Previous to joining GMU (in 1994), he held positions as Director of Photonics Programs at BDM Corporation and Group Leader for Electro-optic Systems at General Dynamics.
Dr. Haney received his BS (1976) from the University of Massachusetts in Physics, MS (1978) from the University of Illinois in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. (1986) from the California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. He has contributed to over 100 journal and conference publications and has several issued and pending patents. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Dr. Dennis Healy
Dr. Dennis Healy rejoined DARPA in 2003 as a Program Manager for the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). He previously headed the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program in DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO).
Dr. Healy manages several programs where mathematical algorithms play a central role in the optimization, control, and exploitation of microelectronic and optical systems. The Analog-to-Information (A-to-I) program is exploring new ways to extract information from complex signals, seeking significant reduction of the sampling resources required by classical Shannon representations, effectively concentrating meaningful information into less data. The Multiple Optical Non-redundant Aperture Generalized Sensors (MONTAGE) program investigates an analogous approach in the optical domain, freeing imaging cameras from some of the constraints classical Fourier optics to develop new imaging sensors with radically different form, fit, and function compared to existing systems. The Non-Linear Mathematics for Mixed Signal Microsystems (NLMMSM) program seeks to provide increased ability to extract signals from noisy and interfering backgrounds by dealing more effectively with the non-linearities inherent in all electronics processing.
Adaptability is another theme of Dr. Healy's programs. The STAP-Boy program exploits the raw processing power of inexpensive computer video-processing chips to perform space-time adaptive processing (STAP), a core technique applied to modern radar systems. The Intelligent RF Front-Ends (IRFFE) program is developing microsystems that self-adapt to changing operating and internal conditions enabling wideband radio-frequency receivers and transmitters to automatically compensate for performance variations through a broad range of operating conditions. The Advanced Digital Receiver (ADR) program raises the bar on analog-to-digital converters to achieve wideband digitization without sacrificing dynamic range. The Chemical Engineering at Molecular Scale (CHEMS) program looks at closed-loop manufacturing techniques that "learn" how to create high-value synthetic materials in ways that both exploit and shortcut the evolutionary processes of natural biological systems.
Finally, the CAD-qt program integrates the latest physics modeling with a revolution in robust optimization in a "search engine" capable of guiding designers to revolutionary classes of robust high performance quantum devices; in effect, "teaching" new intuitions not imparted by classical experience. Particular emphasis is placed on solving the design inverse problem for robust designs, which can be manufactured with good yield of functional parts despite variabilities in manufacturing process.
In addition to his responsibilities at DARPA, Dr. Healy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, he was an associate professor in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments at Dartmouth College and was Summer Faculty Fellow at the Naval Ocean Systems Center (now SPAWAR). He holds Bachelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and earned a Doctorate in Mathematics from UCSD in 1986.
Dr. Healy has authored over 90 publications on the subjects of mathematical physics, statistics, optical sciences, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, magnetic resonance, signal and image processing, mathematics, applied mathematics, and theoretical computer science. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Fourier Analysis and its Applications and the IEEE press series on Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Healy has graduated six doctorate students in computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics.
Dr. Stuart Horn is a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA. Stuart Horn received a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1967, an MS in Physics from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1970, and a PhD in Physics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1974.
He began his professional career at the Naval Ordinance Lab in White Oak, Maryland in 1967 as a physicist working on explosives research and came to NVESD at Fort Belvoir in 1968 as a research Physicist working on the development of small cryogenic coolers. As a Group Leader, he conceived, and developed the Split Stirling cooler which he later received a patent on. This became the standard common module cooler for the small 1st Generation Common Module Systems. In 1973, he and his group were transitioned to the Systems Division to help get the common module components into production and help establish second sources. He received the NVESD Technical Achievement of the year award for this accomplishment. He further improved the cryogenic cooler in 1981 by inventing a linear drive version that substantially increased the MTBF and reduced acoustic noise. This became the standard cyrogeic cooler for the second generation FLIR program.
In 1986, Dr. Horn became the Team Chief for the Automation and Applications Team, where he developed a feature level fusion program and an improved payload for the Apache and LHX Helicopters.
In 1987, Dr. Horn became the Team Chief for the Uncooled Device Development Team, where he set up an in-house uncooled material capability, and won a $30 million DOD BTI initiative. Using this money, he pushed this technology and came up with the first small higher performing thermal rifle sight and missile seeker sensor.
In 1994, Dr. Horn became the Branch Chief for the Infrared Technology Branch and established an in-house capability to grow HgCdTe material as well as labs for studying cooled and uncooled detectors. He also competed for Dual Use Army money and won about $50 million for mostly uncooled sensors. He also won Dual use money for SWIR tube development. Uncooled sensors now were a significant competing technology for the manportable camera market as a result and were transitioned to the System’s Divisions.
In 1998, Dr. Horn was promoted to Division Senior Scientist working on developing a low light level solid state imaging sensor for overcast starlight conditions, developing Third Generation cooled sensors, and managing congressional plus up money for cooled third generation detectors and two and three dimensional laser imaging. In 2005, Dr. Horn retired from the Government after 38 years and became a rehired annuitant for NVESD.
Dr. Horn has been an Army member of DOD reliance panel, Army study committees, TTCP, MSS program committee, and AGED working groups. He has over 40 publications and 19 patents. He established national workshops on low temperature high performance thermoelectric coolers, smart sensors, and third generation sensors. Dr. Horn has been invited to give talks at universities, conferences, and industry.
On September 15, 2008, Dr. William Jeffrey was named President and
CEO of HRL Laboratories, LLC in Malibu, CA.
Prior to joining HRL, Dr. Jeffrey served in the Bush Administration as the
Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within
the Department of Commerce. Dr. Jeffrey also served in the Executive Office
of the President as Senior Director for Homeland and National Security and
the Assistant Director for Space and Aeronautics within the Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP). Earlier in his career, Dr. Jeffrey was the
Deputy Director for the Advanced Technology Office and Chief Scientist for
the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) and the Assistant Deputy for Technology at the Defense
Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Dr. Jeffrey started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected
Honorary Member of ISA, recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.
He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University and his B.Sc.
in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Thomas Kenny
Thomas Kenny is a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA. He is serving in this capacity while on leave from his faculty position as a Professor in the Design Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University. He received his B.S. (1983) degree in Physics from the University of Minnesota, and his M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees, also in Physics, from the University of California, Berkeley.
From 1989-1994, Dr. Kenny was a research physicist in the MicroDevices Lab at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on MEMS-based sensors for future NASA and DOD missions. Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1994, he has led a research program on MEMS sensors, devices for detecting ultra-small forces, and device and instrument packaging. He has also worked in collaboration with Stanford colleagues Professors Kenneth Goodson and Juan Santiago on closed-loop cooling for microprocessors, which was funded by the DARPA HERETIC program. This research led to the formation of Cooligy, a venture-backed startup that has raised $45M and employs 40 people.
- Dr. Kenny's recent research, supported by the DARPA HERMIT program, has focused on encapsulation of inertial sensors and resonators. This work has led to the formation of SiTime, another venture-backed startup that recently raised $25M and opened its doors in January 2005. He is the author or co-author of more than 35 patents and more than 70 journal publications.
Dr. Jeremy Kepner
Jeremy Kepner received a B.A. with distinction in Astrophysics from Pomona College (Claremont, CA). After receiving a DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellow in 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Astrophysics at Princeton University in 1998 and then joined MIT Lincoln Lab. His research is focused on the development of advanced libraries for the application of massively parallel computing to a variety of data intensive signal processing problems on which he has published many articles. Jeremy is most proud of the opportunity hehas had to be the principal architect, PI or otherwise co-lead several very talented teams. These teams have produced a number of innovative technologies that have broken new ground in several domains.
Dr. John Kitching
Dr. John Kitching received his PhD. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and then joined the Time and Frequency Division at NIST. His research interests include atomic clocks and frequency standards, precision sensors, and applications of semiconductor lasers to problems in atomic physics and frequency control. Most recently, he and his group pioneered the development of microfabricated devices based on atomic vapor cells for use as frequency references, magnetometers and other sensors.
Dr. Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy currently serves as a Distinguished Engineer with the Sun Microsystems Physical Sciences Center in San Diego, California and Principle Investigator for Sun’s photonics R&D. Previously he was with AraLight as its President and CTO as part of one of Lucent’s first optical communications spinouts. Prior to that he was a member of technical staff in the Advanced Photonics Research Department of Bell Labs. Dr. Krishnamoorthy has over 150 technical publications, holds 40 patents, and serves on the technical advisory board for several optical technology start-ups and venture funds. He has won several individual and team awards including the Eta Kappa Nu young electrical engineer award, the IEEE LEOS distinguished lecturer award, the Horizon award for innovation, the 2004 ICO International Prize in Optics, and the Chairman’s Award from Sun Microsystems.
Dr. Gregory Kovacs
Dr. Kovacs received a BASc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, an MS degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD and an MD degree from Stanford University.
Dr. Kovacs has been on the Stanford faculty since 1991, most recently as Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Medicine. His laboratory has carried out a wide variety of projects in MEMS, mixed-signal electronics, medical instruments and space-related biomedical systems. His teaching experience covers undergraduate and graduate courses in analog circuit design, MEMS, biomedical engineering. In addition, he has considerable experience in K-12 outreach and enjoys teaching at all levels. Recently, he was involved in helping found Stanford’s Bioengineering department, designing and leading implementation of the core curriculum track. He has published extensively in technical literature, including authorship of an engineering textbook and several book chapters.
He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, held the Noyce Family Chair, and was a Terman and then University Fellow at Stanford. He was the Thomas V. Jones Faculty Development Scholar at Stanford. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Prior to joining DARPA, he was a long-standing member of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Research Council (DSRC), and has served as Associate Chair and Chairman. In this capacity, he has led or co-led studies on a variety of topics from chemical and biological agent detection and decontamination, miniaturized biological instrumentation, jungle warfare technologies, and many others. In addition he has participated in numerous military field activities.
He also has extensive industry experience including co-founding and providing technical guidance for several companies, including Cepheid in Sunnyvale, CA, supplier of advanced instrumentation for clinical and research nucleic acid diagnostics.
In 2003, Dr. Kovacs served as the Investigation Scientist for the debris team of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, having worked for the first four months after the accident at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. In this role, he carried out physical, photographic, x-ray, chemical and other analyses on selected items from the nearly 90,000 pounds of recovered debris and worked toward understanding the nature of the accident. He also served as the Medical/Engineering Liaison for the Crew Survival Integration Investigation Team (SCSIIT), exploring crew module and medical forensics aspects of the accident.
He has considerable field experience in alpine, underwater and jungle environments. He was a member of a NASA team that climbed Licancabur volcano (19,734 ft.) on the Chile/Bolivia border and carried out dive experiments in the summit lake in November of 2003, serving as medical, physiologic research, and photography lead. In November 2004, he was medical, physiologic and safety lead for another expedition to Licancabur that included an altitude adaptation study, sonar mapping of the summit crater lake, and underwater photography, of which he carried out the video portion. Privately, he has climbed several of the west coast volcanoes, including Shasta, Adams, Rainier, and St. Helens.
Dr. Kovacs has logged several hundred microgravity parabolas aboard NASA’s KC-135 and C9B reduced gravity test aircraft. In this setting, he has served as Principal Investigator on a series of physiologic monitoring experiments in 2004 and as photographer for testing of a telerobotic surgical system in zero- and lunar-g in 2007.
Dr. Kovacs is a private pilot, scuba diver, and a Fellow National of the Explorers Club.
Dr. Amit Lal
Dr. Amit Lal is the Program Manager of the MEMS Exchange (MX), Harsh Environment Robust Micromechanical Technology (HERMIT), Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC), Navigation Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscopes (NGIMG), and Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) programs in the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA.
Dr. Lal received his B.S. from California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1996 in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- In 1997 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2001 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering where he is on leave from as an Associate Professor. At Cornell University he leads the SonicMEMS Laboratory focus where the research includes development and applications of high-intensity silicon based ultrasonic actuators, linear and nonlinear ultrasonics, microfluidics, the use of radioactive thin films to enable autonomous microsystems, and piezoelectric microactuators. He has more than 80 publications, and holds 13 patents in the microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology. His students have received several best paper awards in the area of ultrasonics. He serves on ADCOM of the IEEE Ultrasonics Frequency and Frequency Control Society.
Hideo Mabuchi works in experimental and theoretical aspects of physical measurement and control. He is currently appointed as a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, and is a past recipient of fellowships from the A. P. Sloan Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Charles Marcus is Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Center for Nanoscale Systems. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1990 and was an IBM postdoc at Harvard 1990-92. He was on the faculty in Physics at Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, and returned to Harvard University. Prof. Marcus is the recipient of the 2006 Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, the A.P. Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Faculty Fellowship from the NSF, and the ASSU Teaching Award from Stanford University. Prof. Marcus has published over 130 research papers. Research activities include the realization of spin-based qubits for quantum information processing and the realization of topological quantum computing schemes based on the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state. Marcus is also exploring the use of quantum dots in medical imaging, focusing primarily on materials with long nuclear spin relaxation as an imaging agent for magnetic resonance imaging.
Ms. McQuiston has more than 25 years of experience in both research and management of high-technology government and commercial programs. Her experience includes strategic planning and development of new and innovative sensor technology for the biotechnology, medical, aerospace and environmental markets; negotiation for technology agreements and technology transfer from large research institutes, government, and laboratories to the commercial sector; and technical oversight for research and development efforts for various government agencies.
As the Director of DARPA's Strategic Technology Office, Ms. McQuiston's key focus areas include sensors and signal processing for chemical and biological defense systems; robust, secure self-forming networks and communications systems; information operations; sensors and signal processing for underground facilities location and characterization, maritime operations, and space-based and theater-wide information, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors.
Prior to joining DARPA, she served as the Assistant to the President for the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, performing strategic planning in areas of advanced research and technology. From 2000-2006, Ms. McQuiston was President of McQuiston and Associates, a management consulting firm working with technology start up companies. She supported institutes in global technology management and research and founded numerous companies, including the QuanStar Group in New York, where she concentrated on a JPL/CALTECH startup company, QWIP Technologies, Inc., advancing quantum well infrared technology. She also founded Soar Technology, and served as a member of the Board of Directors.
Ms. McQuiston's research has focused on technology in advanced electro-chemical and electro-optical sensor design, and she has served as the Principal Investigator for several clinical protocols related to wound healing and medical imaging at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center. In prior years, she served as adjunct to the faculty, supporting ongoing research at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department.
From 1992 to 2000, Ms. McQuiston held executive positions in industry, including Vice President of YSI for Product Development, Vice President of Research and Business Development for Sytronics Inc., and served on numerous Boards and in Advisory positions. Her early career focused on research involving the application of systems and control theory. From 1981 to 1992, Ms. McQuiston performed research involving the application of systems and control theory for Systems Control Technology, Inc. From 1978 to 1981, she worked in the NASA Ames Research Center, Educational Programs and Public Affairs Office, and was a member of the Pioneer and Voyager Space Projects. Under the direction of Charles Hall, Dr. Van Allen, Dr. Garth Hull and Michael Donahoe, her responsibilities included lecturing and dissemination of technical and educational information from the Pioneer and Voyager programs.
Mark A. Neifeld received the B.S.E.E. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1991 respectively. In August 1991 he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. Professor Neifeld is also a member of the faculty of the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona and has co-authored more than 200 conference and journal papers in the areas of computational sensing, optical storage, parallel coding and signal processing, optoelectronic device simulation and CAD, computer generated holography, character recognition, neural networks, and optical processing systems. He presently directs the Optical Computing and Processing Laboratory within the ECE Department at the University of Arizona and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Oskar Painter received his B.S.E.E. from the University of British Columbia in 1994, his Masters Degree of Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2001. In 2000 he helped found Xponent Photonics, an optical start-up company developing surface-mount photonics for telecom and data networking applications. In 2002 he returned to the California Institute of Technology, joining the faculty in Applied Physics. Dr. Painter’s general research interests lie in studying new and interesting ways in which light behaves within micro- and nano-scale dielectric and metallic structures. Currently, specific areas of research include: semiconductor cavity QED, opto-nanomechanics, integrated microphotonic and microwire “atom-chips”, Quantum Cascade lasers, surface-plasmon physics and devices, and silicon optoelectronics. Dr. Painter was the co-chair of the OSA Nanophotonics Meeting in 2006 and the International Symposium of Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures in 2007.
Joseph J. Pancrazio earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa), Charlottesville, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. His Ph.D. training focused on the ion channel electrophysiology using the patch clamp technique. After postdoctoral training in pharmacology in the Department of Anesthesiology at UVa as a recipient of a National Research Service Award, he received a joint appointment in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor of research at the University of Virginia in 1991, where he taught graduate level courses in Neuropharmacology and Bioelectronic Systems. In 1997, he joined Georgetown University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as an Assistant Professor working at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. In 1998, he joined the NRL as a Principal Investigator at the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, becoming the Head of Code 6920, the Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics, in 2002. At the NRL, Dr. Pancrazio led an extramurally supported project including biologists and engineers for the development and demonstration of a biosensor system based cultured neuronal networks for environmental threat detection. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters and review papers, and has two patents. Dr. Pancrazio joined the Repair and Plasticity Cluster of NINDS in January of 2004, where his primary research interests include: 1) neural engineering and neuroprosthesis; 2) novel neural repair technologies and biomaterials, and 3) neural information processing and control.
Steve Pappert served as a Program Manager in the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office from 2003 to 2008 managing a portfolio of programs in the areas of RF electronics and photonics. Dr. Pappert is a proven technology leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of government and commercial sector experience. He brings a unique blend of technical proficiency and management skills with well over 100 technical publications and presentations as well as co-founding and serving as chief executive at a small telecommunications start-up company from 2001-2003. Dr. Pappert is currently with the US Navy’s SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, CA
John Parmentola has built a career as a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator. His extensive background in science and technology spans three decades of fundamental research, technology development and acquisition, and manufacturing technology. He has broad experience in the private sector, academia and has held many positions in the Federal government and Defense Community. Born in the Bronx, New York, Dr. Parmentola received his BS degree in Physics cum laude from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1971 and his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977.
He currently serves as Director for Research and Laboratory Management for the US Army, directing laboratory management policy for all Army laboratories, research, development and engineering centers—including the Army’s Basic and Applied Research programs spanning 12 basic research disciplines and 14 technology areas at the Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Institute, Army Corps of Engineers, and Simulation and Training Technology Center. He also oversees Environmental Quality technology, Manufacturing Technology, Small Business Innovative Research, and Army High Performance Computing programs—with a combined annual budget of roughly $750M. His responsibility encompasses policy for personnel systems, laboratory infrastructure, laboratory security, and Base Realignment and Closure.
Before coming to the Army, Dr. Parmentola was Science and Technology Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Energy, where he provided technical, budgetary, and programmatic advice to DOE leaders for more than $7B in science and technology investments—including Defense, Non-proliferation, Science, Fossil Energy, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Energy and Environmental programs.
Prior to joining the US Department of Energy, he was co-founder of the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the newly formed Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), where he led a diverse group of 20 scientists and engineers in addressing major national challenges concerning the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Dr. Parmentola has been Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation, where he worked in applying advanced technology in the areas of arms control verification, strategic offense/defense integration, and strategic command, control, and communications associated with the $1.8B Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade Program.
Earlier in his career, he was Executive Director for the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society, a postdoctoral fellow with the Program of Science and Technology for International Security at MIT, conducting pioneering research on directed energy technology, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Laboratory for Nuclear Science of MIT, where he made fundamental research contributions to nuclear physics. In the field of science, technology, and public policy, he was a Fellow at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies and a Research Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Dr. Parmentola is also co-founder of a successful publishing company, Travel Media Corporation, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer for over 15 years. Travel Media Corporation (TMC) specializes in cross-selling premier hotel properties for leading hotel chains throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and Hawaii through the production and distribution of in-room magazines. TMC also publishes a Spanish version of Departures Magazine for American Express Gold Card members in Latin America. TMC’s clients have included Marriott, American Express, Hyatt, Hilton, Westin, Radisson, Ramada, Air Aruba Airlines, Copa Airlines of Panama, Destination Hotels and Resorts and Insignia.
Dr. Parmentola was presented the 2007 Presidential Rank Meritorious Award, was the Air Intelligence Agency nominee for the R. V. Jones Central Intelligence Agency Award, and has been a recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Award for his many contributions to the US Army. He is a recipient of the Alfred Raymond Prize, Sigma XI Research Award, was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has presented and published over 150 speeches, papers, and articles in science and technology policy and is the author of an authoritative book on space defense
Albert (“Al”) P. Pisano is a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) and currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, having been appointed Chair in July 2004. He joined the University of California in 1983. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was elected to Fellow status in 2004. In 2008, he was named among the “100 Notable People” by the Medical Devices and Diagnostic Industry (MD&DI) Magazine. At UCB, Professor Pisano holds the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has previously served as Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory, the largest organized research unit on the UC Berkeley campus (with over $73 million in research funds each year). Professor Pisano received his B.S. (1976), M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he held research positions with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Singer Sewing Machines Corporate R&D Center and General Motors Research Labs. From 1997-1999, he served as Program Manager for the MEMS program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA, where he expanded the MEMS research portfolio to 83 contracts awarded nationwide with a total MEMS research expenditure in excess of $168 million distributed over 3 fiscal years. His research interests and activities at UC Berkeley include MEMS for a wide variety of applications, including RF components, power generation, drug delivery, strain sensors, biosensors, micro inertial instruments, disk-drive actuators and nanoimprinted sensors & circuits. Professor Pisano is the co-inventor of more than 20 patents in MEMS and has authored or co-authored more than 200 archival publications. Since 1983 he has graduated over 35 Ph.D. and 65 MS students. He is a founder in six start-up companies in the areas of transdermal drug delivery, transvascular drug delivery, sensorized catheters, MEMS manufacturing equipment, MEMS RF devices and MEMS motion sensors.
Dr. Dennis Polla
Dr. Dennis L. Polla joined DARPA in 2004 as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). He received B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
He has held faculty positions at the University of California - Berkeley, Yale University, and the University of Minnesota where he is presently on leave. Since joining the University of Minnesota in 1987 he has held joint academic appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Department of Biomedical Engineering as the Earl E. Bakken Endowed Chair. He has held a variety of administrative positions, including Director of the Microtechnology Laboratory, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute, and founding Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. His current research interests are in nanobiotechnology, nanostructures, and MEMS.
Dr. Polla is a former Presidential Young Investigator and a recipient of the W. M. Keck Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Dr. Polla served as President and CEO of SurroMed Pte Ltd, Singapore; Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology - Nanotechnology Laboratory, Singapore; and Faculty Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He has served in several national security advisory roles for the Defense Science Board, DARPA, U.S. Navy CNO, Naval War College, U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and U.S. Department of Energy.
Dr. Sanjay Raman
Sanjay Raman received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (with Highest Honor) from Georgia Tech in 1987. From 1987-1992 he served as a nuclear trained submarine officer with the U.S. Navy. During this time he was primarily responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a Sturgeon-class fast attack submarine and its S5W nuclear reactor. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal (1991) and Navy Achievement Medal (2 awards, 1990 and 1992), as well as various unit awards.
Following his tour of duty with the Navy, he returned to graduate school at the University of Michigan and received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1998 in the area of novel millimeter-wave integrated antennas and electronics
Dr. Raman joined the faculty of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech in January 1998 as an Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. Dr. Raman's research interests include: RF/microwave/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and antennas; high-speed/mixed-signal ICs and SoC integration; interconnects and packaging; RF MEMS/NEMS and MEMS sensors; micromachining, solid-state technology, and nanotechnology; and integrated wireless communications and sensor microsystems. He has over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, one book chapter, and a number of other invited and workshop presentations in these research areas. He has also graduated over 20 M.S. and Ph.D. students who have taken positions throughout the RF and electronics industries. His programmatic interests at DARPA include silicon-based millimeter-wave transceivers, adaptive RF/mixed-signal ICs, and integrated/smart antennas.
Dr. Raman has been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques since 2005. He also currently serves on the technical program committee of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium. His academic honors include: 2007 Virginia Tech College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award; 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (1999 NSF CAREER Award); and 1996-97 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Postgraduate Fellowship.
Mark Rodwell is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSB. He also directs the UCSB Nanofabrication laboratory and its participation in the NSF National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1988. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories during 1982-1984. His research group works to extend the operation of electronics to the highest feasible frequencies. Their research thus includes semiconductor devices (diodes, transistors, photodiodes), semiconductor fabrication process, circuit design, interconnects, instruments, and communications systems. Particular interests include InP bipolar transistors, III-V ICs operating above 100 GHz, and high frequency IC design in both III-V and Silicon VLSI technologies. His group's work on GaAs Schottky-diode ICs for subpicosecond / mm-wave instrumentation was awarded the 1997 IEEE Microwave Prize. Prof. Rodwell was elected IEEE Fellow in 2003.
Dr. Jeffrey Rogers
Jeffrey Rogers joined DARPA as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in June of 2008. A common thread of his programs is using intrinsic problem complexities to enable new or improved functionality. In many cases this involves harnessing dynamics or gaining additional understanding from using a different perspective. Examples include using nonlinearity in MEMS/NEMS to enhance capabilities, managing laser instabilities, developing quantum engineering to enable design of mesoscopic devices, and early detection of traumatic brain injury. A common thread of Dr. Rogers's programs is using intrinsic problem complexities to enable new or improved functionality.
Prior to joining DARPA he was simultaneously a Research Scientist in Computational Physics at HRL Laboratories (Malibu) and visiting faculty at California Institute of Technology in Control and Dynamical Systems. On the industrial side he was responsible for a lab-wide effort applying nonlinear sciences. Projects included self-organizing laser arrays, managing group behavior of UAVs, and millimeter wave devices. On the academic side he worked on MEMS/NEMS, statistical mechanics, multiscale modeling, and condensed matter physics.
Jeff earned four degrees in physics. A Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (2001) emphasizing nonlinear science and fluid mechanics. A M.S. from Emory University (1996) with emphasis on condensed matter and complex systems. A M.S. from Florida Atlantic University (1994) focusing on applied mathematics and computational science, and a B.S. from Florida Atlantic University emphasizing dynamical systems and theoretical biology.
Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002. He currently holds a primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and is affiliated with the Beckman Institute, the Materials Research Laboratory as well as the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Chemistry. Prof. Rogers' research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication as well as materials and patterning techniques for unusual format electronics and photonic systems.
Michael Lee Roukes is Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. Concurrently, he holds a Chaire d’Excellence in Nanoscience in Grenoble, France from the Réseau Thématique de Recherche Avancée (RTRA). Roukes was founding Director of Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute from 2003-2006, and now serves as its Co-Director, along with his long-time collaborator and friend, Professor Axel Scherer. Roukes also is the co-founder and co-director of the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale integration), a close and vital international collaboration led by Caltech’s KNI and scientists & engineers at the CEA/LETI-Minatec in Grenoble (www.nanovlsi.org). Roukes completed undergraduate majors in both physics and chemistry at theUniversity of California Santa Cruz. Thereafter he earned a Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University, focusing upon electron transport in microstructures at ultralow temperatures under Nobel Laureate, Robert. C. Richardson. Subsequently, he joined Bell Communications Research as a Member of Technical Staff / Principal Investigator in the (then-new) Quantum Structures Research Group, where he carried out some of the earliest explorations of the physics of nanoelectronic devices. In 1992 he joined the tenured faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he has since built nanofabrication and research facilities and established a large nanoscience research group, now heavily involved in cross-disciplinary collaborations. Roukes' scientific interests range from quantum measurement to applied biotechnology− with a unifying theme of the development, application, and very-large-scale integration of complex nanostructures. He has published and written extensively on nanoscience and nanotechnology, has lectured at most major research centers worldwide, and is active on many national and international committees promoting this field. For 19 years Roukes has been happily married to his “soul-mate and partner”, Anna Gay Del Vescovo, and together they have the privilege of being the parents of two wonderful boys, Nicholas and Matteo.
Dr. Mark Rosker
Dr. Mark J. Rosker joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in July 2003. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981, and his M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University. Dr. Rosker came to DARPA from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA where he has been a member of the Submillimeter Wave Advanced Technology Group. From 1986 to 1989, he was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Caltech, where he performed fundamental studies (cited in the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) observing the dynamics of unimolecular chemical reactions in real-time.
Dr. Rosker joined the Rockwell Scientific Co. (RSC), Thousand Oaks, CA, in 1989. His technical work there began in the Applied Optics Department, where he conducted research in the area of nonlinear optics, including photorefractive oscillators and visible and infrared frequency conversion materials and devices, time-domain spectroscopy of optical materials, and optical power limiters. He subsequently joined and eventually became the manager of the Device Chemistry Department within the Materials Science Division at RSC. In 1999, he was named manager of the Microwave and Photonics Department (now called RF Circuits and Applications) within RSC's Electronics Division. This group is well known for its pioneering development of millimeter wave quasi-optics, GaAs PHEMT and InP HEMT MMICs, photonic bandgap-based millimeter wave waveguides, and electronically scanned antenna technologies.
Dr. Rosker has authored more than 70 technical papers and conference proceedings.
Dr. Adel Saleh
Dr. Saleh joined DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO) as a Program Manager in January 2005. Prior to joining DARPA he was a Founding Partner of Monarch Network Architects in Holmdel, New Jersey (2003-2005), Chief Scientist and Vice President of Network Architecture of Kirana Networks in Red Bank, New Jersey (2002-2003), Vice President and Chief Network Architect of the Corvis Corporation in Columbia, Maryland (1999-2002), Department Head at AT&T Bell Labs / AT&T Labs in Holmdel and Murray Hill, New Jersey (1991-1999), and Member of the Technical Staff of AT&T Bell Labs in Crawford Hill Lab, Holmdel, New Jersey(1970-1991) conducting research on microwave, wireless and optical communications systems, subsystems, components and devices.
Dr. Saleh led the AT&T effort on several cross-industry DARPA consortia on optical networks which pioneered the vision and built proof-of-concept testbeds for all-optical networking in backbone, regional, metro and access networks.
Dr. Saleh was a member of the Networks, Access and Switching Subcommittee of OFC (1995-1997), Chair of the same Subcommittee for OFC (1998), Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC (1999), General Program Co-Chair of OFC (2001), and a Member of the OFC Steering Committee from (2001-2006). He was an Associate Editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners (IEEE) J-SAC Optical Communications and Networking Series from 2002 to 2005. He has published more than 100 papers and talks and holds more than 20 patents.
- He holds Ph.D. and S.M. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. Degree with First Class Honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He received the AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award for Sustained Achievement in 1985, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has been on the Faculty since 1976. He obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree ("Dottore in Ingegneria") summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 1971. He is an author of over 800 papers and fifteen books in the area of design tools and methodologies, large-scale systems, embedded controllers, and hybrid systems. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1982 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, since 1998.
Dr. Shaver is Head of the Solid State Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he oversees research in such varied areas as high performance imaging sensors, deeply scaled silicon microelectronics, solid state lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, superconductive devices, and biological agent sensors. His current personal technical interests have included development of photon-counting sensors and 3-D-integrated imagers, and technology related to trusted electronics. Before his present position, Dr. Shaver led the Submicrometer Technology Group, which pioneered the development of 193-nm-wavelength optical lithography. He also served as Chief Scientist and Director of Research for Micrion Corporation (now part of FEI) where he was involved in the development of focused ion-beam and laser-beam microchemistry systems for photomask, microcircuit, and flat-panel display repair and modification. He received his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. For relaxation, he enjoys aerobatic flying.
Kenneth L. Shepard received the B.S.E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Research Staff Member and Manager with the VLSI Design Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he was responsible for the design methodology for IBM's G4 S/390 microprocessors. Since 1997, he has been with Columbia University, New York, where he is now Professor. He also was Chief Technology Officer of CadMOS Design Technology, San Jose, CA, until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2001. His current research interests include on-chip test and measurement circuitry, low-power intrachip communications, power electronics, and CMOS mixed-signal design for biological applications. Dr. Shepard was Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the 2002 and 2003 International Conference on Computer Design, respectively. He has served on the Program Committees for ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, ICCAD, DAC, ISCAS, ISQED, GLS-VLSI, TAU, and ICCD. He received the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize in 1992, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998, the 1999 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association, and the 2006 Distinguished Professor recognition from NYSTAR. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Dr. Mark Sherwin is a Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (soon to be upgraded to the Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology) at UC Santa Barbara. He received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his Ph. D. from UC Berkeley, both in Physics. His research interests include materials, sensors, sources, high-Q resonators, terahertz-optical mixing, and the development of novel experimental methods for terahertz frequencies. He recently became a Fellow of the American Physical Society with a citation reading "For important experiments on non-equilibrium dynamics in semiconductor quantum structures driven by intense terahertz electric fields." He holds two patents and has co-authored more than 120 articles in scientific journals.
Dr. Jagdeep Shah
Dr. Shah joined DARPA in August 2001 where he has made a number of seminal contributions to optical and electrical properties of semiconductors, ultrafast coherent and incoherent dynamics in semiconductors and their nanostructures, and to the understanding of ultrafast dynamics of electronic, optoelectronics and photonic devices.. Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Shah was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (1996-2001), Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, AT&T (1985-1996), and Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, AT&T (1967-1985) in Holmdel, NJ. He has more than 300 technical publications, including one book and one edited book.
Dr. Shah received his B.S. from the University of Bombay in 1962, and Ph. D. from MIT in 1967. He is the recipient of the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America (2000), Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Award from the American Physical Society (1996-1998), Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award (1990), and the Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award (1985).
- Dr. Shah is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, Solid State Sciences Committee (SSSC), and the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as the General Chair and Program Chair for many prestigious international conferences as well as assisting with a number of government and professional panels. Dr. Shah is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He is the recipient of the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America (2000).
Dr. Devanand Shenoy
Dr. Shenoy joined DARPA in March 2007 after being detailed to DARPA as a Program Manager from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC for a year and a half. He is currently managing four programs in MTO in the electronics, photonics, and sensing area: the Supermolecular Photonics Engineering (MORPH) program, Recognize IED and Report (RIEDAR), Hemispherical Array Detector for Imaging (HARDI) and Spin Torque Transfer Random Access Memory (STT-RAM).
Dr. Shenoy's interests are in exploiting novel concepts based on new materials and/or architectures for revolutionary electronic and photonic components and devices.
Dr. Shenoy received his B.S. in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics at Bangalore University in Bangalore, India; his M.S. in Physics from the same university specializing in Solid State Physics; and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India on critical point phenomena in condensed matter using photon correlation spectroscopy.
He developed postdoctoral experience in laser light scattering from polymer systems at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Case Western Reserve University. He later served as Research Faculty in Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the polyethylene oxide/water system led to publications in high-impact journals such as Nature. At the Naval Research Lab (NRL) in Washington, DC, he led and contributed to several DoD projects including nanopore-based DNA sequencing, dispersion and alignment of single walled carbon nanotubes, uncooled IR sensor based on pyroelectric liquid crystals, underwater acoustic detection utilizing high birefringence complex fluids, artificial muscles with nematic polymers, and photo-aligned liquid crystal alignment layers.
Dr. Shenoy has served on the DoD Display Technology Panel and belongs to multiple societies including; American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and the International Society for Photo-Acoustic and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He has served as referee for reputed publication journals such as Nano Letters and Physical Review letters and has more than 50 publications and a book chapter.
Dr. Shenoy's recent NRL awards include four invention awards, an NRL contribution award, the technology transfer award, and a special act award for exceptional performance significantly exceeding normal job requirements.
Dr. Henryk Temkin
Dr. Henryk Temkin joined DARPA in July 2005. Prior to arriving at DARPA he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech and Colorado State Universities (1992-2005) where his research focused on large bandgap semiconductors, carrier dynamics in lasers, and integrated optics.
Between 1977 and 1992 Dr. Temkin was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ. In this position, he made a number of contributions to studies of optical and electrical properties of semiconductors, physics and technology of semiconductor lasers, development of quantum well lasers for optical communications, and development of advanced epitaxial growth methods. Dr. Temkin received his M.A. in Physics from Yeshiva University in New York City (1972) and Ph.D. in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ (1975).
He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginneers (IEEE) and has more than 400 technical publications, including one monograph and one edited book. Notably, Dr. Temkin was a recipient of the 2008 IEEE
Sandip Tiwari, a native of India, was educated starting in Physics before moving to Electrical Engineering, attending IIT Kanpur, RPI, and Cornell, and after working at IBM Research, joined Cornell in 1999. He has been a visiting faculty at Michigan, Columbia, and Harvard, the founding editor-in-chief of Transactions on Nanotechnology and authored a popular textbook of device physics. He is currently the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and the director of USA’s National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network. His research has spanned the engineering and science of semiconductor electronics and optics, and has been honored with the Cledo Brunetti Award of the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, the Young Scientist Award from Institute of Physics, and the Fellowships of American Physical Society and IEEE. Particular joyful to him is discovering scientific explanations, uncovering new phenomena, inventing new devices and technologies, and moving in directions that are of broader societal use. His current research interests are in the challenging questions that arise when connecting large scales, such as those of massively integrated electronic systems – a complex system, to small scales, such as those of small devices and structures that come about from the use of nanoscale, bringing together knowledge from engineering and physical and computing sciences. Through National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and in his personal life, he is also active in bringing broader education, openness and understanding and cooperation across this world.
Dr. Ben Vigoda is currently the CTO and founder of Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. In Cambridge, MA where he works on the intersection of statistical inference and electronic computing hardware. In 1997 he received his B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College with a specialization in statistical physics. He then worked at HP Labs where he helped fund and transfer technologies from academic labs to product divisions, including sensor technologies found in every HP laser printer. He received his PhD from the MIT in 2003 with Professor Neil Gershenfeld. Over the past years, he has been a Visiting Scientist at MIT, co-teaching the course Computation in Physical Systems based on a textbook he is authoring for Cambridge University Press. After MIT, he worked as a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs developing technology that subsequently led to Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. Dr. Vigoda is the author of many journal publications and holds a number of US patents.
John C. Zolper is the Vice President of Corporate Research & Development and is the Deputy for Corporate Technology and Research for Raytheon Company. He has been with the company since December 2007.
Raytheon Company, with 2008 sales of $23.2 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, and technical services. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs over 72,000 people worldwide.
Dr Zolper is responsible for working with Ms. Heidi Shyu, Corporate Vice President of Technology and Research, on the development and execution of an integrated enterprise-wide technology and research vision and strategy. He is a participant on the Engineering & Technology Council as well as the Deputy Chair of the Technology Leadership Team.
Prior to his current position, Dr Zolper was the Director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was responsible for strategic planning and execution of a portfolio of over 75 research programs with an annual budget over $400M covering all areas of advanced component technology including electronics, photonics, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), algorithms, and component architecture.
Prior to being appointed Director of MTO, Dr Zolper was the Chief Scientist/Deputy Director of MTO and a program manager in the same office. Dr Zolper was a primary contributor in initiating DARPA’s multi-year $250M Wide Bandgap Semiconductor program and was the lead program manager for the Technology for Frequency Agile Digitally Synthesized Transmitters (TFAST) program that established new levels of transistor and mixed signal circuit performance based on aggressively scaled Indium Phosphide Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs).
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr Zolper was a program officer at the Office of Naval Research from 1997 to 2001 where he managed a portfolio of basic and applied research in advanced electronics.
From 1989 to 1997, Dr Zolper was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. Dr Zolper also spent time at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia from 1988 to 1989 as a Unisearch Post-Doctoral Fellow performing research on high efficiency silicon solar cells.
Dr Zolper was awarded the Exceptional Public Service Award from OSD in 2007. He was awarded the PhD and MEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1987 and 1985, respectively, and a BA in Physics from Gettysburg College in 1982. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is widely published.