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Keith Abate
Director, North American Business Development, Perpetuum Ltd.
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Keith Abate is the Director of Business Development for Perpetuum. Keith comes to Perpetuum with a B.S.E.E. and over 25 years of international technical, sales, marketing and business development experience within the Semiconductor, Industrial Sensors, Aerospace and Energy market verticals. He has extensive experience in the definition and deployment of wired and wireless dynamic sensor monitoring projects for Land, Air, Space and Sea applications. He has successfully managed and deployed measurement and monitoring solutions in the civil, commercial, consumer and military market segments. Prior to Perpetuum, Keith has held ranking positions with Endevco, Meggitt Sensing Systems, Teradyne, Fairchild, Schlumberger and Hewlett Packard.
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Ayman Ahmed
Mixed Signal IC Design Manager, Si-Ware Systems
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Ayman Ahmed; received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is currently an Analog/Mixed-Signal IC design manager at Si-Ware Systems Cairo, Egypt. He started his professional career in 1994 working for Mentor Graphics developing Mixed-Signal behavioral models and design & verification methodologies. In 2000 he joined MEMSCAP as an RF designer of Integer-N and Sigma-Delta Fractional-N PLL Frequency synthesizers using high-Q passive MEMS devices. As one of the founders of Si-Ware Systems in 2004 he worked on designing MEMS-based temperature compensated clock generators and Sigma-Delta PLL Synthesizers. His research interests include low power low jitter temperature compensated clock generation, mixed-signal design methodologies using behavioral modeling and system level design of sensor modules.
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Tom Ales
Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
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Tom Ales is a Research Scientist with the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He received a B.S. in Chemistry in 2000 and a M.S. in Physics in 2006 from The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. In his 13 years with the Company, he has worked with instrumentation and interfacing, electronics/sensing, and quality systems and product testing. He is currently active in exploratory and commercial product/material research and development within Personal Care consumer products focusing on North American operations.
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Robert Andosca
Founder, President and CEO, MicroGen Systems
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Mr. Robert Andosca is Founder, President and CEO of MicroGen Systems, LLC located within the Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) near Rochester, NY. Mr. Andosca also holds the position of Senior MEMS Scientist with ITC. MicroGen is developing a patent-pending MEMS based piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester (PVEH) device and power system for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications.
Mr. Andosca holds an M.S. in Materials Science from UVM, and B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Keene State College. He has authored several patents and papers within the semiconductor and MEMS fields.
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Steve Arms
Founder & CEO, MicroStrain, Inc.
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Mr. Arms received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont in 1983. He has been awarded 30 US patents, and has over 10 pending. He has contributed to 18 journal publications and 44 abstracts/presentations in the areas of advanced instrumentation, wireless sensing, and energy harvesting. Mr. Arms is founder & CEO of MicroStrain, Inc., a Vermont manufacturer of micro-displacement sensors, inertial sensing systems, and wireless data logging nodes for recording & transmitting vibration, temperature, orientation, and strain data.
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Anish Arora
Chief Technology Officer, The Samraksh Company
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Anish Arora is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, co-founder of its Institute of Sensing Systems, and co-founder/CTO of The Samraksh Company. Arora has worked on diverse wireless sensor network applications. Notably, he has led from design to deployment the large-scale persistent perimeter surveillance ExScal Project (for extreme scale) which deployed 1200 WSN nodes across a 1.3km x 0.3km area; the multi-platform, multi-environment, Kansei fabric for application development and testing; and the mote-augmented-cellphone PeopleNet fabric for hosting people-centric applications. His research focus includes the dependability and robustness of these networks.
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Alex Arzoumanidis
Director, Psylotech
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Alex Arzoumanidis founded Psylotech in 2006 to address sensor resolution limitations that he first recognized during his Materials Science doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin. He has five years of research and development experience at Schlumberger, where he made contributions in high temperature elastomers and downhole sealing. His bachelors is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is currently an affiliate at Northwestern University's Segal Design Institute, and he has held a Lecturer position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Jean-Pierre Auffret
Managing Director, Center for Advanced Technology Strategy
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J.P. Auffret is co-founder and director of the Center for Advanced Technology Strategy, and co-founder and vice president of the International Academy of CIO. He is also recent director of the M.S. in Technology Management Program at George Mason University and has been a member of the business school faculty at Mason, the University of Maryland and American University; and physicist-in-residence at American University. He has 25 years of technology industry and academic experience, including management and executive positions, with MCI and its joint venture with British Telecom, Concert. J.P. earned a B.S. degree from Duke University, an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Physics from American University.
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Sam Bacharach
Executive Director Outreach, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC)
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Mr. Bacharach has managed sensors demonstration projects that fused real time data from many sensors, with stored graphics and presented them to decision makers. The OGC is writing standards to meld the outdoor world with buildings and structures and the equipment in them. He believes that a security conscious opening up of sensor data to the world will not only make it a better place to live, but that there is a business case for doing so.
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Walter Bacharowski
System Application Manager, National Semiconductor
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Walt Bacharowski is an Applications Manager with National Semiconductor Corporation’s Amplifier Products Group and has more the 25 years with experience in analog signal processing for sensor interfacing using a wide variety of sensor technologies. Additional experience extends to embedded systems design for industrial and scientific instrumentation. Walt has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Cleveland State University with Post Graduate classes in engineering, marketing and management. Personal interests include electronics, model rocketry, and alternate energy technology.
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Steven Bible
Applications Engineering Manager, Microchip Technology Inc.
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Steve Bible started his career as a Data Systems Technician in the U.S. Navy and spent 11 years repairing mini and mainframe computers. Upon graduation, he served in the Navy’s Nuclear Power program and then joined Microchip, where he provides applications engineering for customers for a variety of PIC® microcontrollers, including those with onboard Radio Frequency and analog capabilities. Steve holds a MS in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California), BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Utah, and an Associates of Science in Electronic Technology from Florida Keys Community College.
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Malcolm Borgendale
Wireless DAQ R&D Manager, National Instruments
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Malcolm Borgendale is the wireless DAQ R&D group manager at National Instruments. In his role, he is responsible for the research and development of NI’s wireless platform, including wireless data acquisition and wireless sensor networks. He is an expert in wireless networking standards, working primarily with IEEE 802.11 and 802.15.4. With a strong background in measurement and control applications, Malcolm leads a team of software and hardware engineers developing new wireless measurement platforms based on cutting edge technology.
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Bert Bruggeman
VP of Operations, SVTC Technologies
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Bert Bruggeman led the creation of Cypress' Silicon Valley Technology Center, the precursor to SVTC. Under Bruggeman, SVTC Technologies has become a profitable enterprise and a leader in the emerging area of semiconductor development fab services. Prior to this role, Bruggeman was part of the executive management team of Silicon Light Machines, a start-up in the field of optical MEMS devices, where he was responsible for operations and product engineering. He joined Cypress Semiconductor from IMEC, Belgium, in 1996. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 publications in the field of process development and semiconductor operations and holds one U.S. patent. Bruggeman holds an MSEE from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Tyler Bryant
Physicist, PNI Sensor Corporation
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Dr. Bryant earned a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Davis, an M.S. in Physics from San Francisco State University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His specialty is research and development of algorithms for sensor systems. He has extensive expertise in modeling and embedded algorithm development. Currently his work focuses on development of PNI’s enabling technologies, supporting IP and algorithm development.
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Greg Burneske
Trace Technologies, Inc., Consultant
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Mr. Burneske is formerly Vice-president of Engineering for Winland Electronics and is currently a consultant in new product development techniques with Trace Technologies, Inc. He has nearly 20 years of product development experience in the EMS industry and has been responsible for design and manufacturing transition for electronic products in consumer, industrial and medical markets. Mr. Burneske has extensive experience with 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz unlicensed wireless systems for wireless video and wireless sensor applications. Recently, Mr. Burneske's focus has been on the development of low-power wireless sensor networks used for critical environment monitoring based on 2.4 GHz technology and the 802.15.4 protocol. Mr. Burneske is a graduate of Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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Tom Chang
President, CTI Consulting
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Tom Chang is the President of CTI Consulting. CTI is a business development consulting firm which represents APM (Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc.), a MEMS foundry service provider.
Tom Chang is a business development specialist for sensors and MEMS with over 25 years of engineering and management experiences in magnetic recording, data storage, MEMS, semiconductor and nanotechnology. Tom has been a founding member for several start-up’s including Vice President of Product Development at Dastek which was successfully acquired in 1992.
Tom Completed Stanford Business School Executive Program (SEP) in 2001 and attained Stanford nanoscience and nanotechnology certificate in 2003. Tom holds M.S. Chemical Engineering from UC Davis and BS from National Tsing-Hua University of Taiwan.
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Darron Collins
VP of Sales and Market Engineering, Symphony Acoustics
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Darron Collins is VP of Sales and Market Engineering with Symphony Acoustics in Rio Rancho, NM. His key responsibilities are the development of the Symphony technology Market and Sales efforts to support this technology; including market research and strategy, product development, Sales channel and Partner support, and strategic business development.
Before Joining Symphony, Darron led Colibrys SA business development efforts and drove the Seismic Sensing Business Units. His sensor experience spans more than 20 years and includes companies such as Honeywell Sensing and Control, Emerson Process, and Texas Instruments. He holds a BBA from the M.J. Neely School of Business at Texas Christian University.
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Tim Cummins
CEO & Founder, ChipSensors Ltd
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Tim Cummins is CEO & Founder of ChipSensors Ltd, a CMOS-sensor startup company, with offices in Ireland and Boston MA. He has over 20 years of design and executive management experience with Westinghouse, and with Analog Devices where he built some of his designs into $100M business units.
He holds 12 US patents in CMOS IC design, including some recently issued patents on the use of low-K dielectrics in RF-CMOS as humidity and gas sensors. He has published several IEEE papers and is a visiting lecturer and guest speaker at industry conferences and panels.
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Ayman Elsayed
Mixed Signal IC Design Manager, Si-Ware Systems
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Ayman Elsayed; received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1989 and 1994 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in RFIC design from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2000. He is currently an Analog/Mixed-Signal IC design manger at Si-Ware System, Cairo, Egypt. Before Joining Si-Ware in 2004, he was with INTEL Corporation for almost 5-years where he worked on several wireless/RFIC projects. Mr. ElSayed has served two internships with the RFIC design team at Conexant, Newport Beach California in 1996 and 1998. He has published several papers and gave conference presentations in the field of Analog Mixed-Signal IC design. Mr. ElSayed holds one US patent. His current areas of interest are Analag/Mixed-Signal for MEMS interfaces including ADC/DAC design for sensing and actuation, temperature calibration, and system level/architecture design.
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Shahin Farahani
System Engineer, Freescale
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Dr. Shahin Farahani has been a system engineer for Freescale semiconductor since 2003, where he and his colleagues are engaged in designing System-on-Chip transceivers for short-range wireless networking. He has received his PhD from Arizona State University and has been selected as the Young Engineer of the Year by IEEE Phoenix section on Feb 2008. Dr. Farahani’s book, entitled “ZigBee Wireless Networks and Transceivers” is a comprehensive resource for wireless sensor networking using ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4.
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Christopher Fisher
MPD Applications Engineer, Analog Devices, Inc.
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Christopher J. Fisher received his Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to graduation, he worked with Analog Devices, Inc. in San Jose, CA in the Precision Linear Amplifier group as a Design Co-Op and in Wilmington, MA with RFW group as an Applications Engineer Co-op. Christopher has worked as a consumer Applications Engineer in the Micromachined Products Division located in Cambridge, MA since graduation in 2008.
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Kenneth Foust
Manager, Customer Technical Support, Kionix, Inc.
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Ken Foust received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Alfred University. Before joining Kionix, he was a Product Engineer for IBM Microelectronics (Essex Junction, VT) where he coordinated the fabrication of advanced custom and foundry CMOS microprocessors. At Kionix, Mr. Foust is a senior applications engineer and manages the Company’s customer technical support department. He works closely with customers in developing and integrating the sensor solutions that will enable the next generation of motion-enabled consumer products.
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Randy Frank
President, Randy Frank and Associates
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Randy Frank is President of Randy Frank & Associates, Ltd., a consultancy that focuses on sensors, power and automotive electronics. Randy is a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and an IEEE Fellow, author of the book Understanding Smart Sensors, 2nd Edition, and former board member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.
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Roy Freeland
CEO, Perpetuum
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Roy joined Perpetuum as CEO in 2004. A Cambridge engineer graduate, he has over 25 years international experience in senior positions at technology-based companies. Prior to joining the company he successfully ran Meggitt Electronics, was Group General Manager at Bowthorpe (Spirent) and CEO of United Industries.
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Doug Frost
Vice President / Senior Director, PaRR Inspections
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Douglas D. Frost PE, Senior Vice President of Dewberry and Project Director of PaRR Inspections (a Joint Venture of Dewberry and URS Corp) has more than 20 years of experience managing large and diverse government engineering and management contracts. Doug’s federal government client list includes Department of Defense (Army, Navy & Marines), United States Geologic Survey, Department of Energy and most recently the Housing Inspection Program under the Response and Recovery Division of FEMA/DHS. Under the FEMA contract Doug directs a diverse team of professionals in areas of IT, Logistics, GIS, Warehouse Automation, Quality Assurance, and Asset Management.
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Vivian Funkhouser
Principal, Global Healthcare Solutions, Motorola
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Vivian Funkhouser has worked in healthcare marketing/sales for nearly 20 years, devising strategies for medical devices and healthcare IT solutions. At Motorola, she handles benchmarking and trend analysis for all Enterprise Mobility products from RFID to communication devices that support healthcare workers. She previously worked for McKesson as marketing project manager for bedside scanning solution AcuScan/Admin-Rx, the first and most mature of any medication administration solution on the market today.
Vivian has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University and a Master’s in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.
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Thomas Gessner
Director, Fraunhofer Research Institution
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Thomas Gessner studied physics and received the degree in physics in 1979, the PhD degree in 1983 from the Dresden University of Technology and the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree from the Chemnitz University of Technology in 1989. Since he joined the ZMD Dresden as a project manager for interconnect systems in 1983, he has been actively involved in the area of micro technologies. Since 1991 he is the Director of the Center for Microtechnologies and since 1993 Professor for Microtechnology, both at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Prof. Gessner was the Director of the Chemnitz Branch of Fraunhofer IZM, too. On July 1st 2008 the Chemnitz Branch of Fraunhofer IZM became the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS. Since that time Prof. Gessner is the director of Fraunhofer ENAS.
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Joseph Giachino
Associate Director, WIMS ERC
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Mr. Giachino joined the University of Michigan in 2001 as an Associate Director and the Director of External Programs (Industrial Liaison) for the Michigan-NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) in Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS). In this position he develops and coordinates Center research activities with member companies and facilities technology transfer to our industrial partners.
Mr. Giachino obtained a BS (Engineering Physics) and an MS (Physics) from New York University, and after positions at Teledyne-Isotopes, Babcock and Wilcox and Bailey Controls, he joined Ford Motor Company in 1976. He received the Henry Ford Technology Award for the development of the Silicon Capacitance Absolute Pressure Sensor (SCAP) device. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for “contributions to micromechanical and microelectromechanical control systems”.
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Bishnu Gogoi
Director of Technology Development, HVVi Semiconductors
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Dr. Bishnu Gogoi is the Director of Technology Development at HVVi Semiconductors, Phoenix, Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1998. He worked in Motorola Semiconductors and Freescale Semiconductors, from 1997 to 2005 working on MEMS sensors and actuators, Microsystem technology and CMOS integration. Dr. Gogoi has extensive experience in technology development and transfer to manufacturing and has over 50 filed and issued patents.
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Neil Gordon
CEO, Early Warning Inc.
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Neil Gordon is President and CEO of Early Warning Inc, which has an exclusive license to commercialize NASA’s nanotechnology-based biosensor platform. Over the past 27 years Neil was involved in the commercialization of diverse high technology offerings in information technology, aerospace and defense, engineering-construction, and nanotechnology sectors. In 2000 Neil led a nanotechnology business consulting practice at Sygertech and became president of the Canadian NanoBusiness Alliance where he was involved in 20 nanotechnology projects throughout the world. Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.
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Roger Grace
President, Roger Grace Associates
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Roger H. Grace is president of Roger Grace Associates, a Naples Florida-based marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology, which he founded in 1982. He is a co-founder and Past President of the Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation (MANCEF). His background includes over 40 years in electronic circuit design, applications, and manufacturing engineering; project management; product marketing; and technology consulting.
Mr. Grace has specialized in sensors for over 25 years with a focus on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology. He has authored over 70 technical papers; organized, chaired, and spoken at numerous international professional conferences.
His educational background includes a BSEE and MSEE (as a Raytheon Company fellow) from Northeastern University, and the MBA program at U.C. Berkeley.
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Tom Graver
Director, Micron Optics Inc.
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Tom Graver is Director of the Optical Fiber Sensors Group at Micron Optics. Since 2001, he has extensively promoted the use of fiber sensors in diverse industrial applications and assisted numerous customers—both in civil and defense sectors—with their infrastructure monitoring needs. Prior to joining Micron Optics, Mr. Graver served as Director of Operations within the Manufacturing Research Center at Georgia Tech. Throughout his more than 25 year career, he has been focused on leveraging sensing technologies for process improvement—precision machining, robotics, rapid prototyping, energy efficiency, structural integrity. He holds degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering, and management.
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Dr. Kevin Grazier
Investigation Scientist & Science Planning Engineer, Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
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Dr. Kevin Grazier holds the duel titles of Investigation Scientist and Science Planning Engineer for the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. He earned B.S. degrees in computer science and geology from Purdue University, and a B.S. in physics from Oakland University. He earned his M.S. in physics from Purdue, and then went to UCLA for his doctoral research in planetary physics, performing long-term large-scale computer simulations of early Solar System evolution. While in graduate school, he worked at the RAND Corporation, processing Viking imagery in support of the Mars Observer Mission. At JPL he has written mission planning and analysis software that won numerous JPL- and NASA-wide awards. Dr. Grazier still continues research involving computer simulations of Solar System dynamics, evolution, and chaos.
In addition to his JPL duties, Dr. Grazier is active in teaching the public about science and space. He teaches classes in stellar astronomy, planetary science, cosmology, and the search for extraterrestrial life at UCLA and Santa Monica College. He has served on several NASA educational product review panels. He is also a planetarium lecturer at LA’s landmark Griffith Observatory. Dr. Grazier has been featured in several documentaries; he co-hosted the premier episode of Discovery Channel’s Science Live! Kid’s Edition and co-anchored CNN’s coverage of Cassini’s Saturn orbit insertion with Miles O’Brien.
Dr. Grazier is also currently the Science Advisor for the PBS animated educational TV series The Zula Patrol, and for the science fiction series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. He recently served as author/editor for the books The Science of Dune and the Science of Michael Crichton for the BenBella Books Science of Popular Culture series, and is the co-author for the upcoming book The Science of Battlestar Galactica.
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Eric Gregori
Embedded Firmware Product Specialist, Freescale Semiconductor
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Eric Gregori is an Embedded Firmware Product Specialist at Freescale Semiconductor. He is a robot enthusiast with 15 years of embedded firmware design experience and special interest in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and programming for Windows Embedded CE and Linux operating systems. Eric runs EMGRobotics.com, authored the Robot Vision Toolkit, and developed the RobotSee Interpreter open source projects. He is working towards his Masters in Computer Science, and holds 10 patents in industrial automation and motion control.
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Burkhard Habbe
VP Business Development, Micropelt GmbH
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Before joining the thin film thermoelectric chip maker located in Freiburg, Germany Burkhard completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Munich’s Technical University and worked as automation engineer during his early career. Since then Burkhard has held various senior positions in sales, marketing and business development in technology driven industries including software, videoconferencing, microelectronics and machine vision. Today he is excited about taking the unique capabilities of Micropelt’s thin film thermoelectrics to the relevant world markets which include energy harvesting for low power electronics such as wireless sensors, low-power micro-cooling in photonics, rapid thermal control mostly in bio-chemistry, and a range of thermal and caloriometric sensing applications.
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Michael Hanssmann
President, AltaStream, Inc.
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Michael Hanssmann is President of Altastream, Inc. Michael has over 20 years of experience in the industrial automation market. Prior founding to Altastream, he co-founded Techware Systems, a company that helped pioneer tool automation in the semiconductor, which was sold to Brooks Automation. Michael is a Professional Engineer who earned his BS in Electrical Engineering (Controls Specialty) at the University of British Columbia.
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David Henderson
CEO and Chief Technology Officer, New Scale Technologies, Inc.
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David Henderson is Founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of New Scale Technologies. He has nearly 25 years of experience in engineering, new product introduction, worldwide market and business development. David’s technical expertise is in mechanical and precision systems engineering. He has published or presented numerous papers and holds several patents in precision positioning systems. His innovations have earned rewards including “Product of the Year” honors from Elektronik, “Golden Mousetrap” award from Design News, "Ultimate Product of the Year" at EE Times ACE Awards David has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Johannes Herrnsdorf
Dipl.-Phys., MiNaCon
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Studies of physics at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany - diploma in physics 5 years leading a development group for electrochemical sensors at WTW Weilheim Germany 5 years technical consultant at ZENIT, a consulting angency of the Ministry of Ecconomics, State of North Rhine Westphalia 1988 one of the founders of HL-Planartechnik GmbH, one of the first MST and MEMS-companies in Germany. In 2005 HLP had 130 employees and 11 Mio € annual turnover with sensor applications and was acquired by Measurement Specialties Inc., a global operating sensor OEM supplier.
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Perry Holman
Principal Design Engineer, Honeywell International
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Dr. Perry Holman has been involved in the research, design, and development of sensors for 15 years. Currently, he is a Principal Design Engineer with Honeywell Sensing and Control in Richardson, Texas. Dr. Holman is the author of 7 papers, and holds 5 US patents. He is the author of “Magnetoresistance Transducers And How to Use them as Sensors,” a design handbook on magnetic sensors. Dr. Holman is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Stephen Horowitz
Lead Engineer - Micro and Nanosystems, Miltec Corporation
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Stephen holds a Ph.D., M.S., B.S. in Electrical Engineering all from the University of Florida. Stephen has over 9 years of experience in designing, modeling, fabricating and characterizing micro- and nano-systems. This includes leading teams in designing and developing: a wireless, optical pressure sensor for on-blade, rotorcraft measurement applications; a micromachined,optical Moiré-based floating element shear-stress sensor for aeroacoustic applications; a fiber-optic, Michelson interferometry-based, floating element shear stress sensor; MEMS-based acoustic sensors; energy harvesting systems; and aircraft acoustic liner technology. Stephen holds multiple patents and is well published in the micro- and nano-systems community.
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Ken Johnson
President, Solidica
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With an extensive background in advanced research and development, strategic management, commercialization and business development, Dr. Johnson leads Solidica's continued growth in the multiple markets it serves. Commencing his tenure with the company in 2004, then as Vice President, Strategic Development, Dr. Johnson was key in expanding Solidica's product portfolio and expanding its customer base into several key new markets. Prior to joining Solidica, Dr. Johnson was a Commercialization Executive with Delphi Corporation in Troy, MI, where he led a variety of new venture development activities. Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University.
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Ralph Kling
Chief Architect, Crossbow
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Ralph Kling is the most senior technical member of Crossbow's management team, and joined Crossbow is 2006. Kling is responsible for leading the wireless engineering team at Crossbow and for related efforts for new product strategies, technical directions, and standards activities. Prior to Crossbow, Kling spent 16 years at Intel Corporation where he pioneered Intel's creation of the Imote1 and Imote2 platforms as Director of the Sensor Network Organization, and was instrumental in developing certain aspects of Intel's 64-bit Itanium family of microprocessors. Kling is an inventor on over 20 pending and issued United States patents. Kling is a Fulbright Scholar from Germany, and received both Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Renard Klubnik
Applications Engineer , Wilcoxon Research
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Renard Klubnik has been an Application Engineer at Wilcoxon Research for two years, with over 30 years of experience and expertise in the sound and vibration field. Mr. Klubnik was an applications engineer for several industry leading firms, like Bruel & Kjaer, CSI and MB Dynamics. His professional experience also includes work as a reliability engineer and years as an independent consultant for on advanced noise and vibration analysis techniques. He has contributed to the noise and vibration community as co-founder of the Northern Ohio Chapter of the Vibration Institute, and was its chairman for the first two years.
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Srinivasan Krishnan
R&D Manager, Unilever
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Dr. Krishnan began his career in Unilever as a Research Scientist in the Fluid Formulation and Processing group. His current responsibilities include the design, development and deployment of skin measurements including those deployed in-stores to assist beauty consultants. Dr. Krishnan's work has been published in various skin bioengineering and dermatological publications. He has also several patent applications in process. Dr. Krishnan received his Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai in Chemical Engineering, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from City University of New York in Chemical Engineering.
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Tina Lamers
Director of Marketing, axept
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Tina Lamers is Director of Marketing at axept, a company focused on custom design, development, and manufacturing of MEMS systems. She has held that position since May, 2007. Prior to joining axept, she worked for Avago Technologies, focusing on the management and marketing of RF and acoustic MEMS technology development. Ms. Lamers spent ten years at Agilent Technologies managing integrated circuit and RF MEMS technology projects, and at Hewlett Packard Company in various semiconductor manufacturing and development positions. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and PhD in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Jim Lavelle
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
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Mr. Lavelle is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s New York office. He is responsible for the firm’s efforts with Industrial and Environmental Technology manufacturing and services companies.
Mr. Lavelle has worked in investment banking for more than two decades, and is equally comfortable on domestic and cross-border transactions. He became a Houlihan Lokey shareholder in 2004. Mr. Lavelle came to Houlihan Lokey from the Nassau Group, Inc., a corporate strategy and mergers & acquisitions advisory firm that he founded and successfully managed for more than 12 years. His clients include numerous North American and European public and private companies, ranging from emerging growth-oriented companies to established middle-market leaders to multibillion-dollar global enterprises. About a quarter of his assignments have been integrated strategic advisory and/or proactive buyside mandates for large, strategic acquirers. The rest of his mandates have been primarily exclusive sellside projects, along with a smattering of private placements. Prior to establishing Nassau, Mr. Lavelle spent five years at Baring Brothers & Co. in New York and London. Earlier, he was at Booz Allen & Hamilton, where his fields of expertise were international M&A advice and business strategy development.
Mr. Lavelle graduated cum laude with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was once profiled in Forbes magazine for his entrepreneurial talents.
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Khanh Tuan Le
Strategic Marketing and Systems Engineering, Texas Instruments
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Khanh Tuan Le is a strategic marketing and systems engineer at Texas Instruments, Low Power RF, working on technology platforms and products including radio transceiver and system-on-chip devices for low power wireless applications. His previous working experience includes research and implementation of satellite mobile phones and patent strategy.
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Youbok Lee
Technical Staff Engineer, Microchip Technology Inc.
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Youbok Lee is a technical staff engineer at Microchip Technology Inc. He has been with Microchip since November of 1997, when he joined the company as a passive RFID device engineer. Currently, Dr. Lee is working on PIC® microcontrollers and Microchip’s analog and interface products. He has over 20 years of industry experiences in RF, embedded circuits and remote sensing applications. Dr. Lee holds a BS from the Yeungnam University in Korea, an MS from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and a Ph.D. from the Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
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Frank Liu
Lead Design Engineer, GE Sensing
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Frank Liu is a Lead Design Engineer with GE Sensing in Billerica, Mass. His specialty is laser spectroscopy for moisture and gas sensing. Since joining the Company in 2006, he has been focused on the development of spectroscopy-based sensing method and system, including tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy. He received a PhD in physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and prior to joining GE, did his postdoctoral research work at the Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Sheng Liu
Co-founder and VP of Professional Services, Millennial Net, Inc.
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Sheng Liu is a Co-founder and Vice President of Professional Services at Millennial Net. His team helps commercial and industrial companies and OEMs develop and commercialize wireless sensor network technologies and applications. Prior to becoming a co-founder of Millennial Net, Sheng was a Senior Development Engineer at Raytheon Electronic's Systems Design Laboratory, where he played a critical role in designing aircraft precision approach and landing systems. Before Raytheon, Sheng was a research scientist at MIT. Sheng received a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, an M.S. degree from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. degree from MIT.
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Jeff Matsuura
Vice President - Alliances and Partnerships, Center for Advanced Technology Strategy
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Jeff Matsuura is the vice-president for Alliances and Partnerships at the Center for Advanced Technology Strategy and Counsel at the technology law firm, the Alliance Law Group, with primary practice areas of legal, regulatory, and public policy issues associated with technology and intellectual property licensing, online publishing/media, digital rights management, emerging technologies and scientific research, and new venture development; Formerly served as Director of the Program in Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law. Fifteen years of management and executive experience at MCI, The Discovery Channel, Satellite Business Systems, Comsat Systems, and TELE-TV; Author of six books including: “Law of the Internet” (with co-author George Delta, “A Manager’s Guide to the Law and Economics of Data Networks”, Security, Rights and Liabilities in eCommerce”, “Managing Intellectual Assets in a Digital Age” and Nanotechnology Regulation and Policy Worldwide; B.A. – Duke University, J.D. University of Virginia, M.B.A. (Executive MBA Program) – The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Alexis Mendez
President, MCH Engineering LLC
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Dr. Alexis Méndez is President of MCH Engineering LLC. Dr. Mendez has over 20 years of experience in optical fiber technology, sensors and instrumentation. He was the former Group Leader of the Fiber Optic Sensors Lab within ABB Corporate Research (USA) where he lead R&D sensor activities for fiber Bragg grating downhole pressure and temperature sensors and conducted research to investigate hydrogen effects on fibers. He has written over 45 technical publications, taught several short courses on fiber sensors, holds 5 US patents and is recipient of an R&D100 award. Dr. Mendez holds a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown.
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Jay Mitchell, Ph.D.
President, ePack Inc.
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Jay Mitchell is president and co-founder of ePack Inc., a company which uses state of the art wafer-level bonding and feedthrough technologies to provide packaging solutions for MEMS and other micro-devices. In the fall of 2002, he began the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in mechanical engineering and finished his degree in January of 2008. In his research he developed a Au-Si eutectic wafer-level packaging process and a low temperature localized heating technique for the hermetic/vacuum packaging of MEMS and microsystems. In 2000 and 2001, he worked for Movaz Networks in the testing and design of micromirrors for telecommunications applications. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University in 1999 and 2000, respectively. His research interests include: MEMS, micromachining technologies, micromachined sensors, actuators, and micro packaging.
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Norman Mottram
VP Business Development, Phase IV Engineering
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Norm Mottram VP of Business Development for Phase IV Engineering and has over 20 years experience in technology and business development. Norm started as an engineer for IBM, later moving into leadership and senior management roles in operations, product development and business development for capitol equipment and medical device companies. During the past five years Norm developed an interest in wireless asset monitoring, leading him to co-found a company to pursue wireless monitoring opportunities. He joined Phase IV Engineering in 2005 to continue this work. Norm has a BSEE (University of Glasgow, UK) and MBA (Daniels College, University of Denver).
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Geoff Mulligan
Chairman, IPSO Alliance
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Geoff Mulligan is Chairman of the IPSO Alliance. He is also the Chair of the IETF 6Lowpan Working Group. He provides consulting in the areas of sensor networks, wireless design and protocols and has helped build a number of embedded IP sensor network projects for the US Military, Commercial building management and home control and energy management. He is excitied about the opportunity to bring the "Internet of Things" to fruition.
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Jayanth Murthy
Microchip Technology
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As Applications Engineer with Microchip Technology’s High-Performance Microcontroller Division, Jayanth Murthy designs and develops application firmware and hardware, application notes, technical documents and provides customer support for Microchip’s 16- and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers. Jayanth’s areas of focus include DSP, audio and graphic applications. He has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialty in DSP, communications and video processing.
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Stefan Nikles
MEMS Design Engineer, MEMSIC
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Stefan Nikles received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005, where he worked on a micromachined implantable electrode for chronic recording of neural signals. Prior to joining MEMSIC, Stefan worked at Boston Scientific for 2 years on implantable neural stimulation electrodes.
Stefan is now a MEMS Design Engineer at MEMSIC where his primary efforts involve design and development of micromachined thermal-based accelerometers.
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Harry Ostaffe
Sr. Market Manager, Powercast
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Harry Ostaffe is Sr. Market Manager for Powercast and has 20 years experience in the fields of computing, industrial controls, and telecommunications. He is currently focused on enabling lifetime power and battery-free power solutions for wireless sensor networks. Previous roles include Director, Product Marketing for Ericsson and Marconi for data networking, Manager of Market Development at Lucent Technologies for Optical Networking and Broadband Access, Process Control Systems Engineer at Bayer, and a Product Development Engineer at IBM. He earned a B.S.E.E. from Penn State University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Kenneth Parker
V.P. for Market Strategy, The Samraksh Company
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Kenneth Parker is the co-founder and V.P. of The Samraksh Company where he has played a key role in developing mote-scale radars. He was the Lead System Architect (LSA) for the final years of the DARPA NEST program, he designed several key platform enabling features of the first BlackBerry while at Research in Motion (RIM), and did pioneering work in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR) while at the Environmental Research of Michigan (ERIM). His current research interest is load time weaving of aspects for large scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).
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Dan Piroli
Senior Vice President, Point Six Wireless
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Dan Piroli is the Senior Vice President of Point Six Wireless. His role is to direct business expansion with a focus on developing wireless sensor monitoring solutions for OEMs and Value Added Resellers. Under his direction, Point Six has become a major supplier of wireless technology to OEMs throughout the world with a “blue chip” customer list consisting of Best Buy, Bank of America, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Dick’s Sporting Goods among others. He brings 20 years of measurement and control experience and results oriented marketing to Point Six. Prior to joining Point Six, Dan was the North American Business Director at Honeywell International responsible for directing the Sales and Marketing of control systems to Fortune 500 companies.
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Kris Pister
Founder and Chief Technologist, Dust Networks Inc.
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The inventor of Smart Dust and a longtime leader in the academic wireless sensor networking community, Kris Pister co-founded Dust Networks in 2002 to deliver his vision of a commercially robust wireless sensor networking platform. Kris is the chief architect of Dust Networks’ patent pending Dust SmartMesh™ technology, and also provides a strong technology vision for the company and for the wireless sensing industry- Kris is a frequent invited speaker and lecturer on wireless sensor networking and related core technologies. Prior to founding Dust, Kris successfully commercialized or licensed micromachine technologies with Tanner Research, OMM Inc., Xactix, and Sony. Kris holds a PhD and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley and a BS from UC San Diego.
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Anthony Policastro
Chief Scientist, PROTECT, Smiths Detection, Inc.
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Dr. Policastro is Chief Scientist, PROTECT Solutions at Smiths Detection. From 1998 - 2007, he led the development of a crisis management system for chemical attacks for high threat infrastructures such as subways, transportation terminals, and buildings. That system involved the evaluation of competing sensor devices and inetgration of those devices into a command and control system. Dr. Policastro spent 38 years at Argonne National Laboratory in the areas of security systems, CBRNE technology and integrated systems.
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Mick Popa
Engineer Associate, Ecolab
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Mick Popa has spent 20 years in research and new product development in the US. He received a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, Romania. He has six US patents for contributions to the development of rapid prototyping technology while working for Stratasys, Inc and participated in the design of many commercially available sensors while working for Banner Engineering and as a consultant for various organizations. Mick currently works as an Associate Engineer for Ecolab in Saint Paul, MN.
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Matt Ream
Vice President of Marketing, Blue Spark Technologies
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With more than 18 years in high-tech engineering, Matt Ream is responsible for worldwide marketing for Blue Spark Technologies (formerly Thin Battery Technologies), a leading producer of thin printed carbon-zinc batteries. Previously, Matt held senior positions with Zebra Technologies, a leading provider of RFID and on-demand printing solutions, where he was responsible for launching the industry’s first commercial RFID "smart label" printer/encoder. As a respected expert in RFID applications and systems, Ream has published numerous articles and papers on RFID and presented at many industry conferences. He has also been active in RFID standards work for ISO, ANSI and EPCglobal.
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Sokwoo Rhee, Ph.D.
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Millennial Net
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Sokwoo Rhee brings to Millennial Net unique interdisciplinary expertise in wireless communication and industrial and biomedical instrumentation. Before he joined Millennial Net, he was a research associate at MIT focusing on wireless biomedical instrumentation. At Millennial Net, he developed the breakthrough design for ultra-low-power wireless instrumentation circuitry and the power-efficient ad-hoc networking protocol which make up the core of Millennial Net's miniature wireless sensor networking devices. During his career at MIT, he designed and implemented several innovative biomedical sensors for wireless physiological monitoring, including an ambulatory health monitoring device called the Ring Sensor. He also designed and implemented several novel electromechanical systems and time-critical embedded software environments, including a Windows NT-based, real-time operating extension. As Chief Technology Officer, he drives the research and development strategy for Millennial Net. Sokwoo holds an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Michel Saint-Mard
Managing Director, TAIPRO Engineering
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Michel Saint-Mard is a civil engineer of 39 years old, managing director of TAIPRO Engineering. He accumulated more than 8 years of industrial experience in the development of space cryogenic applications before working in the field of smart systems at the University of Liege. Since 3 Years, he is the responsible of the MICROSYS laboratory in Belgium. This laboratory aims at the packaging of smart systems.
Beginning of this tear, he created a start-up called TAIPRO Engineering with the objectives to develop TAIlored Microsystems improving PROduct or PROcess of industrialists.
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Carl Schrubbe
Engineering Manager, Joral LLC
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Carl is currently the Engineering Manager for Joral LLC located in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Carl is the patent holder for the Non-Contact magnetic encoder design and heavily involved in new sensor product development. Since graduating as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 1980, Carl has worked in product design and manufacturing as well as sales and marketing. In 2005, Carl co-founded Joral Devices to supply rugged rotary encoders and other sensors to the forestry marketplace. By 2008, the company had invented and developed a line of non-contact encoders to complement the existing shaft driven lines. In July 2008, GS Hydraulics of New Berlin acquired Joral Devices and created the current Joral LLC. GS Hydraulics has freed Carl from much of the day-to-day business operations and provided a exciting environment for creative new product development.
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John Schwartz
Technology Strategist, Digi International
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Schwartz joined Digi in July 2006 as Technology Strategist with more than 10 years of embedded, RF design and project management experience. In this position, he evaluates new standards and technologies, resulting in proposed product direction. He also provides product training internally and externally, and supports technical media relations and white paper development. Prior to joining Digi, Schwartz’s major responsibilities included Director of Applications Engineering at Maxstream, a Digi-acquired company.
Schwartz holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.
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Tom Skwara
Director of Technology, Electrochem Solutions
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Tom Skwara is the Director of Technology at Electrochem Solutions, a subsidiary of Greatbatch Ltd. He joined Electrochem in 2007 as a result of the company’s acquisition of IntelliSensing, a wireless sensor manufacturer founded by Tom in 2004. IntelliSensing pioneered the deep integration of ZigBee technology with various sensing methods to provide high performance wireless sensors and systems for several demanding markets. Electrochem continues wireless sensor development and expands on integration with the company’s primary and secondary power technologies. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and is a member of the IEEE and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Prabhu Soundarrajan
Chief Scientist and Director of Applications Development, H2scan Corporation
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Prabhu Soundarrajan is the chief scientist and Director of Strategic Applications at H2scan Corporation at Valencia, CA. Prabhu currently directs research with Sandia National Labs, an H2scan partner and major petrochemical plants, refineries, process plant to introduce novel solid state sensors to the oil and gas industry. Prabhu is a member of ISE, Foresight institute, Eurochlor, APS, NHA, ISA, and IFPAC. He holds degrees in chemical engineering, polymer engineering, and management.
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Leland 'Chip' Spangler, Ph.D.
Aspen Technologies
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Dr. Spangler received his PhD in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan in 1988. He joined Aspen Technologies in 2001, bringing with him more than 25 years of IC and MEMS experience at Ford Microelectronics, Intel, and other companies. At Aspen, Chip oversees all product and advanced packaging development programs in the Engineering & Development Services Department, which he directs. He is currently an editor for the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), and he serves on the International Steering Committee for the IEEE Transducers Conference. Most recently he was the Technical Program Chair for the 2006 Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop and was the General Chair for the same conference in 2008.
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Michael Steffan
Senior Field Applications Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor
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Michael Steffen is a Senior Field Applications Engineer for Freescale Semiconductor. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1998 from Northern Illinois University. Michael started his career at Honeywell Sensing and Control designing monolithic pressure sensors, hall-effect sensors, mass air flow sensors, and turbidity sensors. Michael’s 11 years of experience include design and implementation of accelerometers, pressure sensors, and proximity/capacitive touch sensors in consumer and industrial applications. His additional experience extends to embedded microcontroller applications, interfacing various sensor designs, mixed signal circuitry for sensor conditioning, and hardware and software adaptive filtering for sensors. In his current position with Freescale, he brings a high degree of skill and knowledge for incorporating sensor designs into customer projects and designs and also holds several patents for sensor designs and integrations.
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Matthias Steiner
Senior Design Engineer - Industry & Medical BU, Austriamicrosystems
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Matthias Steiner received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2005. He then started his career in microelectronics development at Austriamicrosystems AG in Unterpremstaetten, Austria, where he became appointed as Senior Design Engineer in 2008. His areas of expertise include the design of low noise high linearity sigma delta converters and amplifiers, digital design of complex state machines, microelectronic system specification and design for testability. He is very skilled in practical verification and perfection of microelectronic circuits.
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Peter Stephenson, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist, Emerging Technology Group, Innovation Center, Humana Inc.
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Peter Stephenson is a Principal Scientist with the Emerging Technologies Group of the Innovation Center in Humana. His role is the Academic Research Coordinator for Humana’s University Consortium, which involves managing the research undertaken between Humana and MIT’s Media Lab, the School of Cinematography, and the GamePipe Lab at USC, the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, University of Miami, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Dr. Stephenson also runs the Rapid Prototyping Internship Program, which provides students from partnering universities the opportunity to work on real world problems that are important to the Company. He has twenty years of experience in academic and industrial R&D concentrating on computer graphics and emerging technologies.
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Charlie Stiernberg
Product Manager, National Instruments
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Charlie Stiernberg is the product manager for National Instruments wireless and Ethernet data acquisition product line. Charlie began his career at NI in 2004 as an applications engineer in the Engineering Leadership Program. He has specialized in data acquisition applications at NI for more than four years, developing applications, presenting at conferences, and authoring articles. Charlie received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in embedded systems.
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Gordon Taylor
VP Engineering, Inprox Technology
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Gordon B. Taylor is VP Engineering at Inprox Technology Corporation. Gordon is a leading developer of advanced inductive and capacitive measurement systems; and has along history of technology and product development in automotive and aerospace markets. Gordon holds a number of patents in the areas of sensors, automotive products and aerospace systems; holding a 25 year record of technical leadership and project management.
Gordon founded and was the President of Taylor Engineering for over 25 years doing contract manufacturing and system development for numerous customers. He has been awarded multiple patents over the last 25 years, mostly involving innovative engine sensors, systems and designs.
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Joost van Kuijk
Coventor
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Joost van Kuijk (pronounced "Yoast vun Coke") received his PhD from the Micro-Mechanics group at the MESA institute at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. After this he started as an application engineer at Microcosm Technology. He than became Technical Director for Europe at Coventor before taking his current position as VP of Marketing and Business Development in 2005. At Coventor he has been spokesperson at many conferences and in the media to promote Coventor's MEMS Design solutions worldwide.
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Benedetto Vigna
Group VP, General Manager, STMicroelectronics
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Benedetto Vigna is a pioneer of micromachining activity in STMicroelectronics. He has been responsible for design, manufacturing, and marketing of ST’s MEMS products which have been successfully adopted by large consumer equipment manufacturers, including Nintendo for its novel user interface in the Wii game console, in mobile phones, and a wide range of other communications and consumer applications. Vigna has filed more than 100 patents on micromachining, authored numerous publications in this field and delivered many invited talks. He also serves as industrial consultant for the President of the Italian Scientific Research Center (CNR).
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Reid Wender
Vice President of Marketing, Triad Semiconductor
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Reid Wender has been Vice President of Marketing for Triad Semiconductor since 2005. He spends his days helping system designers get their ideas into via configurable silicon. Prior to joining Triad, Reid was VP of Engineering for the Semiconductor Division at QuVIS, a leading digital cinema company. He has 20 years of ASIC design and project management experience at companies including Nextwave Silicon, ASIC International, Philips, and IBM. He holds a BSEE from the University of Tennessee.
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George West
President & Senior Analyst, West Technology Research Solutions
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Mr. West has over 25 years of experience in Business Development, Technical Marketing and Engineering Management positions. After a fifteen year career as a systems engineer, manager and designer of software and signal processing applications for the aerospace and medical equipment industries he moved to Sun Microsystems where he held a variety of customer facing roles primarily in channel sales and strategies. In 2004 Mr. West left Sun Microsystems to join WTRS performing roles as both analyst and business development and was appointed President in 2006. His research focus is the impact of macro trends on technology adoption.
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Darold Wobschall
President, Esensors Inc.
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Dr. Wobschall is President of Esensors Inc. and a former member of the EE faculty of the University at Buffalo. He has worked in the areas of electronic instrumentation, sensor development, and bioengineering, taught courses on electronic instruments and given seminars on sensor-related topics at national meetings for many years. He is the author of a book on electronic instruments, several patents and over 50 technical papers. Currently he is developing a series of networked sensors, including Internet sensors, wireless sensors, and gas monitors. As a member of IEEE 1451 working groups he is developing open-source protocols for smart transducers.
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Beth Wozniak
President of Sensing & Control, Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions
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Beth Wozniak joined the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) team as president of Sensing and Control in 2005.
Prior to this appointment, Beth was the vice president of Business Integration for ACS, leading the overall integration of the former Novar Intelligent Building Systems into several ACS businesses. Under Beth’s leadership, this acquisition outperformed financial plans, met integration commitments and demonstrated increasing value to Honeywell customers and shareholders.
Beth also served as vice president of Six Sigma Plus for ACS and was the vice president of Engineering & Program Management for the Engine Systems & Accessories Aerospace Business, a $1.3B business, supporting both military and commercial engine, airframe and airline customers.
In 1990, Beth joined Honeywell as a project engineer working on environmental control systems for commercial and regional aircraft applications. She continued to deliver solid results for Honeywell while serving in various engineering, integrated supply chain and business management positions. Prior to joining Honeywell, Beth worked for Atlantis Aerospace as a design engineer working on aircraft simulator systems.
Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and a master’s degree in business administration from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Dan Wright
Electrical Engineer, Leviton
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Dan Wright joined Leviton July 2007 and has been working on occupancy sensors for the LMS devision out of Tualatin, Oregon. In February 2008 Dan began working with EnOcean and Eugene out of the Utah office on a complete wireless solution including wireless solar occ sensor, unpowered switch, and powered receiver switch. Prior to his work with Leviton Dan worked at Pixelworks for eight years as a senior application engineer for projector, TV, and monitor applications.
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Eugene You
Applications Engineering Manager, EnOcean Inc.
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Eugene You has extensive experience in RF, switching mode power supplies and industrial automation. At Kennecott Utah Copper, he invented a self-powered wireless Electrolytic Refining Cell Monitoring System employing more than 1000 nodes in the wireless network. The system revolutionized the monitoring system for electrolytic refining and electrowinning. The technology was subsequently commercialized by Finland-based Autotec, a leading mining industry technology provider. Eugene then became chief architect for the state of art Trulite KH4 integrated fuel cell system. Eugene has Masters degrees in EE and Automation from both the University of Utah (USA) and South China University of Technology (China).
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Joel Young
CTO, VP of Research and Development, Digi International
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Joel Young has more than 22 years of experience in developing and managing data and voice communications. Mr. Young joined Digi International as Vice President of Engineering in June 2000 and is currently the Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technical Officer. In his current role, Mr. Young is responsible for research and development of all of Digi’s core products.
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