Noted physicist, technical designer and inventor. Co-designer of the first commercial array process at Raytheon Computer, used primarily for seismic exploration. Designed a machine for the National Severe Storm Center enabling the first digital Doppler radar for tornado detection. While Project Engineer at Ling Electronics designed state of the art array processor used by Naval Research Laboratories for acoustic vibration testing of satellites.

Patented with W.B. Culbertson a fundamental method for using a defective machine to find its own faults. Principal Investigator and Architect of the MOSAIC processor supercomputer.

Joined Hewlett-Packard in 1991 as Project Manager for Teramac, a trillion operations per second reconfigurable computer- used to perform DNA sequence matching and MRI based brain artery detection at 100 times workstation performance. Teramac is the largest defect tolerant processor ever made.

Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (NPI, www.nano-proprietary.com) and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Nanotech, Inc. in Austin, TX, guiding the company to become a pioneer in nanotechnology in general and a leader in the display industry utilizing electron field emission from carbon films/carbon nanotubes, in particular.

Dr. Yaniv is an authority in electro-optics, liquid crystal technology, amorphous semiconductors, technology commercialization and business management. He has published over 200 articles, holds more than 50 patents, and has extensive contacts in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Far East.

"Nanotechnology will completely restructure industries and economies and is recognized as technology disruptive to every field. Entire business segments are going to disappear while new exciting segments will be created. Major government initiatives by countries all over the world and large funds have already been committed to win the nanotechnology race."

Was on the Nobel Prize team which discovered C60 and fullerenes in 1985. Work focused on chemical reactivity and photophysics of carbon clusters with and without endohedral metal atoms. After a postdoctoral position involving femtosecond dynamics measured by Raman spectroscopy, joined Texas Instruments. In 15 years at TI has worked on late stage R&D for memory and ASIC chips. For the past 8 years has worked on advanced photolithography using 193nm light. In 2006 he was assigned to IMEC in Belgium to bring immersion lithography into production.

Creator of lifelike character robots, noted for conversational intelligence, energy efficiency and great expressions. His patented F’rubber material enabled the world’s first expressive humanoid "Albert Hubo." Awards from National Science Foundation and include $1.5 Million Texas "Emerging Technology Fund" grant to realize consumer, animated robot products in amazing use of MEMS and NEMS. Shown in numerous art Shows. Published with IEEE, IROS, SPIE and AAAI and others.

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Also heads Versilant Services in providing infrastructure and consulting services in nanotechnology, natural resources and biopharmaceuticals. Won a NASA contract to produce high-strength composite materials, and received an innovation award from the space agency. Dr. Kuper is a renowned speaker raising awareness of nanotechnology at large corporations, public bodies as well as the Department of Defense.

Micromen is engaged in the research and development of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM).

Key in organizing nanotechnology related projects and issues within the HJY Fluorescence Division where nanotechnology is an increasingly important focus. Coordinates with the international HJY Fluorescence team to stimulate the application of photoluminescence as one of the main tools for academic research and industrial applications of nanotechnology. Has over 20 years experience in the field of fluorescence technology along with a wide array of international contacts and collaborations in both the academic and industrial nanotechnology arenas. Before joining HJY two years ago, filled an appointment for 8 years as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. HJY markets the World's most sensitive research-grade instruments and has played an important role in many of the major discoveries and subsequent characterization of the semiconducting properties of carbon nanotubes and quantum dots.

Doctoral studies focused on the development and optimization of in-situ sensors for the characterization of high pressure and high-density plasma. Also, Dr. Teboul designed a new concept of Langmuir probe, and he developed an innovative theoretical model based on electron-neutral collisions and ions recombination for accurate measurement of the electron density in high collisional plasma. After his doctoral position, joined HORIBA Jobin Yvon Inc as application scientist. Was promoted after two years as the Director of the US Thin Film Division that develops and manufactures spectroscopic ellipsometers and end point detectors. Work focused on thin films characterization and advanced process control. Member, Optical Society of America; The International Society for Optical Engineering; American Vacuum Society.

Over twenty-seven years experience in design and fabrication of microsensors and microactuators. Current research includes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) , silicon micromachined gas chromatography systems and organic semiconductors. Member of numerous professional societies. Lectures and publishes internationally.

Devoted ten years in ink jet development with Xerox R&D and seven years in liquid display research at Texas Instruments. She has a number of technical publications and U.S. and foreign patents in the fields of ink jet technology and liquid crystal displays. Holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Texas in Physical Organic Chemistry.

Dedicated to production of nanophotonic integrated circuit. ARP’s design and technology makes it possible to produce integrated photonic devices with smaller form, improved performance and higher density on a chip having applications in communications, computing and sensing. Originator of new concept of photonic wave guide.

Chair of the intermediate and graduate laboratories. Research includes Nano-Bio Technology (manipulation of nanoscale biological molecules) as well as low temperature STM, molecular sprintonics and alternative energy. Numerous awards, fellowships and professional associations. Is associate editor of "Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy."

Third-year student majoring in Nanosystems Engineering with concentration in Microsystems engineering. Also plans another major in Computer Science. Currently working with Dr. Ville Kaajakari doing various research projects of Microsystems and nanosystems. Is an officer of newly established SNES (Society for Nanosystems Engineering Students.)

Dedicated to production of nanophotonic integrated circuit. ARP’s design and technology makes it possible to produce integrated photonic devices with smaller form, improved performance and higher density on a chip having applications in communications, computing and sensing. Originator of new concept of photonic wave guide.