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Senior Vice President, Operations, Tessera
Technologies, Inc.
Donald Bren Professor
Department of Physics, Astronomy & Chemistry, University
of California (Irvine)
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois
(1927-2007)
2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Member, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of
Engineering
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
James R. Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science & Technology,
(UTD)
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Scholar in Residence and Chairman of Nanotech Center Advisory
Board, (UTD)
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences;
Associate Director,
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California
(Berkeley)
Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Division Director, Distributed Scalable
Systems Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
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Nicholas
J. Colella, PhD has served as the Senior Vice President
of Operations at Tessera Technologies, Inc. since August 2001.
From March 2000 to July 2001, Colella served as chief technical
officer and vice president of PolyStor, a lithium ion battery
company supplying the telecom, transportation, and quality
power markets. From October 1996 to March 2000, Colella was
a co-founder, chief technical officer, and executive VP of
Angel Technologies Corporation, a broadband, wireless communications
company. From May 1986 to October 1996, Colella held senior
leadership positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
where he led strategic and theater missile defense programs.
During 1987 to 1988, Colella co-founded nChip, a multi-chip
module company, and served as nChip’s senior director
of products.
Colella was a co-founder of the National Robotics
Engineering Consortium at Carnegie Mellon and served on its
board.
Colella received a MS and PhD in physics from
Carnegie Mellon in 1977 and 1986 respectively. During 1980-81,
he was a member of the technical staff of the University as
a Mellon Institute Fellow and worked on industry-sponsored
research and product developments.
Wilson
Ho, PhD is the Donald Bren Professor of Physics,
Astronomy and Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
Professor Ho received B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from
the California Institute of Technology in 1975 and his PhD
in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He
spent a year at the AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member
of the Technical Staff and was on the faculty of Cornell University
prior to joining the UCI faculty in 2000. For more information
on Dr. Ho, click here.
Joseph
W. Lyding, PhD is a professor in the University of
Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1983.
He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and a full-time faculty member in the
Nanoelectronics and Biophotonics group. His fields of professional
interest are scanning tunneling microscopy, nanofabrication,
nanoelectronics, and IC chip reliability. For more information
about Dr. Lyding, click here.
Kristofer
S.J. Pister, PhD received his BA in Applied Physics
from UCSD in 1982, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering
from UC Berkeley in 1989 and 1992. From 1992–97 he was
an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA,
where he developed three graduate level courses in Micro Electro
Mechanical Systems: MEMS device physics and fabrication, MEMS
system design, and CAD for MEMS.
In 1996 he joined the faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley as an Associate
Professor. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the DARPA
ISAT group, and in 1997 he was chosen to be a part of the
Defense Science Study Group.
During the last five years, his primary research
interest has been the development and use of standard MEMS
fabrication technologies, micro robotics, and CAD for MEMS.
Pister is the inventor of the polysilicon hinge,
now in use by many MEMS groups around the world. Most recently
his work has been in wireless sensor networks and micro optics.
He is an active consultant in the MEMS industry, and has two
patents on MEMS technology and applications.
Rodney
S. Ruoff, PhD is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern
University in the Fall of 2000, Dr. Ruoff was an Associate
Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
for four years. He also previously worked as a staff scientist
in the Molecular Physics Laboratory at SRI International and,
before that, a Postdoctoral Researcher at IBM, T.J. Watson
Research Lab. He is a Fulbright Fellow, Max Planck Institute
für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany
(1988–1989) and received a series of fellowships from
the University of Illinois Foundation (several years of graduate
school career 1981–88).
He served for seven years as Chairman of the
Fullerenes Group of The Electrochemical Society (1992–1998)
and is co-editor of the series “Recent Advances in the
Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes” (Vols. 1–6
in print to date). He co-organized one APS session, and one
MRS session, on fullerenes and nanotubes.
Dr. Ruoff has authored or co-authored over 130
papers and patents on fullerenes, nanotubes, and weakly bound
clusters.
Dr. Ruoff holds five U.S. Patents.
Paul
S. Weiss, PhD is an Associate Professor of Chemistry
at The Pennsylvania State University, where he began his academic
career as an assistant professor in 1989. He received his
S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry from MIT in 1980 and his
PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley
in 1986, working with Prof. Yuan T. Lee on crossed molecular
beam reactions of excited atoms. He was a post-doctoral member
of technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1986-1988 and
a Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1988-1989.
He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington,
Department of Molecular Biotechnology from 1996–1997,
and at the Kyoto University, Electronic Science and Engineering
Department and Venture Business Laboratory in 1998 and 2000.
He is the founder and CEO of Atolytics, Inc., a company devoted
to developing and commercializing atomic-scale imaging and
spectroscopy techniques and instruments.
He has published over 100 scientific publications
and patents and has given over 200 invited and plenary lectures.
Since joining Penn State, Weiss has been awarded a National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991–1996),
the Scanning Microscopy International Presidential Scholarship
(1994), the B. F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award (1994),
an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1995–1997),
the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award
for Graduate Education in Chemistry (1996), and a John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997). He was recently
elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (2000).
Weiss has served on numerous federal advisory
boards and conference organizing committees. At Penn State,
he is a member of the Interdisciplinary Solid State Program,
the National Science Foundation Glass Center, and the Membrane
Transport Group of the Biotechnology Institute. He is on the
Executive Board of the Center for Materials Physics and on
the Advisory Board of Alpha Chi Sigma, the chemistry honor
fraternity. He currently serves on the U.S. National Committee
to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American
Physical Society, the American Vacuum Society, Sigma Xi, and
the Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh.
Peter
Will, PhD is the Director of the Distributed Scalable
Systems Division at USC/Information Sciences Institute and
is a Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering
at USC. He received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering
and a PhD in non-linear Control Systems in the Faculty of
Science at the University of Aberdeen. At ISI, Will’s
Distributed Scalable Systems Division conducts research on
design, manufacturing, and distributed collaborative enterprises;
including the design of low-power CMOS systems, advanced microprocessor
architectures, microelectromechanical processes and devices,
reconfigurable robots, electronic purchasing, collaboration
and negotiation technology, and the MEMs Information Clearinghouse.
He also co-founded USC’s Institute for Molecular Robotics.
Prior to joining ISI, Will spent fifteen years
at IBM’s Yorktown Research Lab, seven years with Schlumberger,
and five years at HP Labs. At IBM, he was a researcher and
manager, working in robotics, 3-D robot vision, tactile and
force sensing, chip and wafer inspection, LANDSAT image rectification,
and processing and compression of image and audio. He started
and led activity on robotics, 3-D solid geometric modeling,
high level robot task languages, and path planning. His work
resulted in the IBM RS/1 robot in 1982. At Schlumberger he
directed work on the Design/Manufacturing Interface for the
delivery of instrumentation for down-hole oil well evaluation
at the Well Products Division, AI for oil exploration at Schlumberger-Doll
Research, and VLSI Systems at Schlumberger-Fairchild Research.
At HP Labs, he initially directed the Manufacturing Research
Center on scheduling, design for manufacturability and microassembly
of microwave MCM’s. He was then given additional responsibility
for the Measurement and Manufacturing Center, directing work
on III-V semiconductors, photonics and high speed circuits,
analytical chemistry, superconductivity, and medical instrumentation,
and in this position was responsible for starting HP's research
activity on micromechanics for handling, identifying and measuring
small quantities of liquids and macromolecules.
Will has over fifty publications and ten patents.
He has been very active on government committees, most notably
as chair of three NSF advisory committees and as Chair of
the National Academy Study on Information Technology in Manufacturing.
For six years he was a member of the ISAT group working with
DARPA. In 1990, he was awarded the International Engelberger
Prize in robotics.
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