Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Ken Crozier
Professor Ken Crozier is the Principal Investigator of the Harvard MIPS Center.  Professor Crozier's research interests include optical MEMS, plasmonic nanostructures, photonic crystals and near-field scanning optical microscopy.  Professor Crozier received his PhD and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Federico Capasso
Professor Capasso's research interests include quantum cascade lasers, plasmonics, photonics and Casimir forces.  Federico Capasso received his PhD from the University of Rome, Italy. 

He joined Harvard University on January 1, 2003 after a 26 years career at Bell Labs where he was made Bell Labs Fellow in 1997 and in addition to his research activity held several management positions: Department Head (1987 –2000) and VP of Physical Research (2000-2002).

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His recent awards include the King Faisal International Prize for Science, the Arthur Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society and the IEEE Edison Medal.

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Jonathan Bernstein
At Draper Laboratory, Dr. Bernstein has developed MEMS sensors including tuning fork gyros, accelerometers, hydrophones and microphones. Current research interests include biomedical and defense applications of MEMS. Previously he was VP of Technology at Corning IntelliSense Corporation, where he developed electromagnetic and electrostatic mirror arrays for optical switches. 

Dr. Bernstein has numerous publications and holds more than 32 patents in the MEMS field.

David Carter
Dr. David Carter's research interests include nanofabrication, nanolithography and MEMS.  He received his PhD from the Massachusetts of Technology.

Harvard Medical School

Dale Larson
Dale Larson is the Director of the Technology & Engineering Center at Harvard Medical School.

He is a Mechanical Engineer by training, with 20 years of product development experience in industry. His strength is in the design of instrumentation (high throughput hematology analyzer, high speed gas chromatography Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer, immunochemistry analyzers) and laboratory automation (protein extraction from whole blood, high throughput lab design and implementation, custom LIMS).

The majority of his experience has been in the medical device (surgical tools, irrigation pumps, viral inactivation systems) and clinical diagnostic fields (in vivo viscometer, infectious disease analyzer), with additional experience in scientific instrumentation, telecommunications equipment, and consumer products.

Harvard Medical School

James Hogle
James Hogle is the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Medical School, Professor of biophysics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Hogle is best known for his work on the structure and function of viruses and viral proteins using a combination of x-ray crystallography and cryoelectron microscopy.

Professor Hogle earned his B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and the Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1978.

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Mark Tuominen
Professor Tuominen carries out research in the fabrication and physics of nanoscale devices and materials.

This includes two primary research areas: nanostructures from self-assembling block copolymer templates and nanoscale device physics. The first area addresses the general scientific challenge of fabricating nanoscale structures using diblock copolymer films. The second research area explores issues involved in single charge transport.

This includes single-electron investigations of mesoscopic superconductors and, more recently, experimental and theoretical studies on charge shuttle devices. Professor Tuominen is co-director of the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing and MassNanoTech at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his PhD in Physics and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Tuominen Group

Mark Achermann
Professor Achermann’s research focuses on the optical spectroscopy of nanoscale materials, specifically semiconductor, metal and organic nanostructures.

We study the carrier and energy relaxation dynamics of nanostructures and the dynamics of interfacial interactions in hybrid excitonic/plasmonic materials. Understanding this behavior in functional nanomaterials will promote the implementation of these materials in solid-state lighting, sensor, and light-harvesting applications (e.g. solar cells).

In addition to standard, steady-state optical characterization, our experiments rely on various time-resolved optical spectroscopy techniques in combination with far- and near-field optical microscopies.

Professor Achermann received his PhD in Experimental Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Achermann Group

U.S. Genomics

Jonathan Larson
Dr. Jonathan Larson is a Principal Investigator at U.S. Genomics.

U.S. Genomics Website

Jeffrey Krogmeier
Dr. Jeffrey Krogmeier is a Member of Technical Staff at U.S. Genomics.

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Zhengyu Huang
Dr. Zhengyu Huang is the Vice President of Sales and Business Development of RSoft Design Group. Zhengyu is responsible for the worldwide sales and business development for all products of RSoft Design Group. Dr. Huang has over 12 years industrial and technical experience in the areas of optical communication and optoelectronic applications. At RSoft, Dr. Huang has managed the application development, technical support, and commercialization of photonic design automation (PDA) tools. Dr. Huang also has led RSoft's consulting service and has been the Principal Investigator or co-PI on government-sponsored programs for next-generation PDA tools.

Prior to joining RSoft, Dr. Huang was a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he provided strategic consulting service for leading multinational and startup companies in telecommunication, automobile, consumer goods and e-commerce industries on critical management issues including market entry, strategic business development, business growth and operation.

Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where he developed novel photonic devices for high-speed optical communication network. At Iowa State University, Dr. Huang received the M.S. in Physics and Microelectronics and conducted research in the area of photonic crystals. Dr. Huang has authored over 20 technical papers in leading scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Huang received the B.S. in Physics from Peking University.

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Rajesh Menon
Dr. Rajesh Menon is a co-founder of LumArray.  Lumarray is a lithography company with a state-of-the-art-patented technology, developed at MIT, that departs from a century old tradition of conventional optics. LumArray’s technology, Zone-Plate-Array Lithography (ZPAL), integrates recent advances in microfabrication, micromechanics and fast computing to produce a lithography tool that will handle the lithographic needs of the decades to come.

Dr Menon earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

LumArray Website

Alexei Erchak
Dr. Alexei Erchak is the Chief Technology Officer of Luminus Devices.  Luminus Devices develops and manufactures innovative, high-power, solid state lighting solutions for high-definition televisions and other display products. Its patented PhlatLight™ (Photonic Lattice) technology and manufacturing processes deliver a new level of performance to solid state lighting, making new applications both technically and commercially possible.

Luminus continues to break new ground in the design, fabrication, packaging and thermal management of extreme high-power, solid state light sources, and is dedicated to providing complete solutions that enable customers and strategic partners to commercialize new solid state lighting applications.

Dr Erchak received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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