Wearable computing pioneer & AI researcher.
Professor of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Thad Eugene Starner is a pioneer of wearable computing and a founder of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Science and a B.S. in Computer Science in 1991. Then, he earned M.S. in Media Arts and Science and Ph.D., in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory.
While Starner was most well known for being a strong advocate for wearable computing, he helped to create one of the earliest handwriting recognition systems at Georgia Tech as an associate scientist with BBN’s Speech Systems Group. It was the application of pattern recognition and was able to recognize on-line cursive handwriting of six subjects transcribing text with a 26,000 word lexicon and 86 symbols. This system could be adapted to use in a PDA or other tablet-based system, and it later allowed to see the similar pattern of the speech recognition as well.
Patent №: 11962296 (April 16, 2024) – Flexible sensing interface systems and methods. The disclosed flexible sensing interface includes a sensor with a core, conductive inner and outer electrodes, elastic inner and outer dielectric materials encasing these electrodes, and methods for its production and use.
VP Integration at Mojo Vision Inc.
Chris Spindt has held various VP roles in the tech industry since 1991. Chris began their career at Candescent Technologies as VP Technology Development. In 2002, they joined Reflectivity as VP R&D and led a team that developed an XGA chip and passed reliability qualification into an InFocus projector.
From 2007 to 2011, they were VP Integration and R&D at Solyndra, where they were responsible for technology development, process and product integration, and process module development.
From 2011 to 2018, they were VP R&D at ENOVIX Corp. and from 2018 to 2020, they were VP Integration at GlassPoint Solar, where they were responsible for the integrated safety and risk mitigation program as required by the FDA.
Currently, they are VP Integration at Mojo Vision Inc., where they are responsible for the integrated safety and risk mitigation program as well as the experimental and modeling physics necessary to verify electrical/thermal safety, battery hermeticity and other critical elements of the design optimization for safe human use.
Chris Spindt obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Applied Physics from Stanford University and a BA in Physics from UC Berkeley.
Patent №: 11961952 (April 16, 2024) – Dimensional constraints for three-dimensional batteries. The provided secondary battery is designed to limit its expansion during charging and discharging cycles. It features a battery enclosure with an electrode assembly, carrier ions, and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte. The battery uses a primary constraint system with two growth constraints and a connecting member to control longitudinal expansion, ensuring less than 20% increase in size over 20 cycles. Additionally, a secondary constraint system with two growth constraints connected by a member restricts growth in another direction.
Tomoaki Atsumi received the graduation degree from the Department of Electronics and Informatics, Shohoku College, Atsugi, Japan, in 1996.
He joined Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Company, Ltd., Atsugi, Japan, in 1996, where he is currently engaged in the development of memory using oxide-semiconductor FETs, LSI design, and device measurement of oxide-semiconductor FETs.
Patent №: 11963343 (April 16, 2024) – Semiconductor device and operation method thereof. The semiconductor device described includes components to determine a transistor’s threshold voltage. It has a first transistor, whose gate and source are connected, a first capacitor linked to the transistor’s source and back gate, and two switches managing voltage inputs to the back gate and source, with a second voltage applied to the drain.
CEO & Founder, Vibrent Health; Principal Investigator, NIH All of Us Research Program, Participant Technology Systems Center; Principal Investigator, NIH RADx Program.
PJ has 18 years of broad global thought leadership in high tech, healthcare, wellness, media, telecom, mobile, broadband, internet, software, convergence and globalization and specializes in global technology, business and management.
Prior to founding Vibrent, Jain held various senior leadership roles at Sprint, Nextel, AOL, Time Warner and VTech and launched emerging products. He earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering.
Patent №: 11962484 (April 16, 2024) – Using digital devices to reduce health disparities by adapting clinical trials. The systems, methods, and apparatus described involve a monitoring program that uses data from geographically distributed devices. The system categorizes these devices based on their attributes, monitors their performance, assigns performance scores to each category, and adjusts the monitoring program accordingly to enhance diversity and effectiveness.
VP of Medicinal Chemistry at Ranok Therapeutics.
>24 years of pharmaceutical industrial experience at Enanta Pharmaceuticals and Ranok Therapeutics following post-doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Responsible for 8 candidate compounds in different phases of clinical trials and one FDA approved drug – MAVYRET for HCV. ACS Hero of Chemistry 2023 for discovery of MAVARET.
Patent №: 11958879 (April 16, 2024) – Bile acid derivatives as FXR/TGR5 agonists and methods of use thereof. The invention relates to new compounds and their pharmaceutical forms like salts or hydrates, aimed at treating diseases influenced by FXR or TGR5 receptors. It includes pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods for their use in therapy.
Staff System Engineer at Qualcomm Research
Mr. Pezeshki received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 2019. His Ph.D. degree was primarily focused on developing low-overhead interference mitigation techniques for interference-limited environments.
Hamed has been with Qualcomm since 2018 and is currently a Staff Engineer working on research and standardization of 5G millimeter wave technology, with current focus on AI/ML-assisted wireless system design and standardization
Patent №: 11963023 (April 16, 2024) – Early negative acknowledgment indication for a data message. The described technology involves wireless communication systems where a user equipment (UE) can send a predicted negative acknowledgment (NACK) before fully decoding a downlink message if initial decoding suggests a failure. This allows the base station to promptly decide on retransmitting the message, reducing delay.
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