Scientific Advisory Panel

Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Cornell Unversity

Emmanuel P. Giannelis is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering. In addition to his primary appointment in Materials Science and Engineering, Giannelis is a member of the Fields of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research interests include polymer nanocomposites, nanobiohybrids, nanoparticle fluids and flexible electronics. His group is internationally recognized as one of the leading groups in polymer nanocomposites.

Giannelis is a member of several organizations and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Small, Chemistry of Materials and Macromolecules. He has co-organized half a dozen conferences or symposia on Nanocomposites and has delivered more than 370 Invited Talks and Seminars. He is the author or co-author of 150 papers and 10 patents. He is a member of several professional organizations and a corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is a highly cited author in Materials Science and he is listed as one of the top 25 cited authors on Nanotechnology by IS.

Ole Isacson

Harvard University

Ole Isacson is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Center for Neurogeneration Research/Neurogeneration Laboratories at McLean Hospital and an NIH Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence grant awardee. Dr. Isacson is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center and Principal Faculty of Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He obtained his doctoral degree in Neurobiology at University of Lund in Sweden in 1987, joined Harvard in 1989 and established a research laboratory in Neuroregeneration.

Dr. Isacson is a founding member and past President of the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair, as well as the current President of the International Cell Transplantation Society. He is on the board of numerous scientific journals, and serves as a scientific reviewer and advisor to the NIH, DOD, FDA, and Parkinson and other neurological disease community groups. He had significant advisory roles in several early biotechnology companies, and is currently the business advisor to GilaGen. Dr. Isacson is author or co-author of over 200 research publications in neuroscience and neurology, and three books in his field.

Yongmin Kim

University of Washington

Yongmin Kim is a Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1975, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, and was the W. Hunter and Dorthy L. Simpson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering from 2004-2007.

Dr. Kim's research interests include medical imaging and computing, ultrasound systems, electronic medicine, distributed diagnosis and home healthcare, and molecular imaging. He and his research group have made 85 inventions that have led to 70 patents, transferred the invented technologies to industry with 25 licenses, and helped commercialization of these technologies. He edited the Handbook of Medical Imaging and is a contributing author to a number of other books. He has more than 450 research publications and is the editor of 13 Conference Proceedings. Dr. Kim has been a consultant to NIH, NSF, U.S. Army, MITRE, Texas Instruments, Intel, Siemens, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Canon, Samsung, Micron, and many other companies.

Eric Mazur

Harvard University

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in experimental physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1981, Dr. Mazur joined Harvard University’s faculty in 1984, and obtained tenure six years later.

Dr. Mazur has served on numerous committees and councils, including advisory and visiting committees for the National Science Foundation, has chaired and organized national and international scientific conferences, and presented for the Presidential Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He serves asconsultant to industry in the electronics and telecommunications industry. In 2005 he founded SiOnyx, a company that is commercializing black silicon, a new form of silicon developed in Mazur’s laboratory. Dr. Mazur is author or co-author of 209 scientific publications and 12 patents.

Matthew O’Donnell

University of Washington

Matthew O’Donnell is the Dean of Engineering at the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. He obtained a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics at Notre Dame, and most recently served as chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Earlier steps on his career path included postdoctoral fellowship and senior research associate positions at Washington University, St. Louis, a research fellowship at Yale University, and a decade of private-sector experience as a research and development physicist at General Electric.

Dr. O’Donnell is an expert in ultrasound imaging and leads cutting edge explorations of new imaging of coronary arteries, optoacoustic arrays, and elasticity and molecular imaging. He is principal or co-principal investigator on numerous research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies. He holds 50 patents and has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications. He is an associate editor of the journal Ultrasonic Imaging, a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health Imaging Study Section, a fellow of both IEEE and AIMBE, and a member of Sigma Xi, and the American Physical Society.

Kang Shin

University of Michigan

Kang G. Shin is the Kevin and Nancy O’Connor Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. After earning a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978, he was on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and then held several visiting positions including U.S. Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and HP Research Laboratories.

Dr. Shin is an expert on distributed real-time computing and control, computer networking, fault-tolerant computing, and intelligent manufacturing. His current research focuses on Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive networking and computing to guarantee efficient flow of data, as well as on embedded real-time OS, middleware, and applications, all with emphasis on timeliness and dependability. He has authored/coauthored over 650 technical papers and numerous book chapters, and has served as the General Chair for several international technology symposiums.

Judah Weinberger

Columbia University

Judah Weinberger is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, Associate Attending Physician at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and panel member of Medical Devices Advisory Committee, CDRH, US Food and Drug Administration. He earned a Ph.D. in Immunology at Harvard University and an M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1980, and has held hospital appointments and academic appointments at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School respectively.

Dr. Weinberger is an expert on cardiology. In addition to his current appointments, he has served as the Director of Cardiac Catheterization Research as well as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Columbia University. Furthermore, he is on the editorial boards for Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and American Journal of Therapeutics, and previously served on the boards of Vascular Radiotherapy Monitor and Cardiovascular Radiation Medicine. He has authored/co-authored over 90 publications, abstracts, chapters, editorials, and reviews, and he is the inventor on 14 patents.