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Transphorm Appoints Six Company Leaders

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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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Transphorm, Inc. (Nasdaq: TGAN)a pioneer in and a global supplier of high reliability, high performance gallium nitride (GaN) power conversion productsannounced today the appointment of six company leaders.

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  • Transphorm, Inc. (Nasdaq: TGAN)a pioneer in and a global supplier of high reliability, high performance gallium nitride (GaN) power conversion productsannounced today the appointment of six company leaders.
  • The roles are being filled by company veterans as well as newly hired experts, strategically building out Transphorms executive bench.
  • Philip Zuk , appointed to Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing, has spent nearly seven years supporting Transphorm in various capacities.
  • Prior to Transphorm, Tushar was Founder and CEO of GV Semiconductor Inc., a company that produced GaN-on-Silicon power HEMTs, controllers, and power systems.

QT Imaging, the University of Illinois, and the Sunnybrook Research Institute Receive $3.1 Million National Cancer Institute Grant for Breast Cancer Treatment Monitoring

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Thursday, October 13, 2022
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NOVATO, Calif., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QT Imaging, Inc., a medical imaging company focused on the development and clinical adoption of novel products for breast cancer imaging, today announced the award of a five-year National Cancer Institute grant to study the progress of neo-adjuvant therapy for women with breast cancer using the QTscan. The grant will use QT Imaging's Breast Scanning System enhanced with reflection back-scatter algorithms developed by the University of Illinois to assess tumor response to treatment in days rather than weeks or months. The study is a collaboration of Dr. James Wiskin, Principal Scientist at QT Imaging, Prof. Michael Oelze in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Dr. Gregory Czarnota from the Radiation Oncology Department of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, Canada. 

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  • Only some women benefit from early-stage chemotherapy for breast cancer.
  • QT Imaging is a privately held company engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of an innovative automated imaging system producing high-resolution transmission ultrasound images.
  • The company has received FDA 510(K) clearance for its QT Imaging Breast Scanner.
  • The QT Imaging Breast Scanner is indicated for use as an ultrasonic imaging system to provide reflection-mode and transmission-mode images of a patient's breast.

In Landmark 'Billion Dollar Sermon' Illinois Tech Announces $1B Campaign to Leverage the Power of Difference and Fuel Chicago's Tech Rise

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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CHICAGO, September 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) announced a historic $1 billion fundraising campaign to further Illinois Tech's founding mission to uplift people from all backgrounds with a technology and professional oriented education that would help meet the needs of the age.

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  • The Illinois Tech Board of Trustees approved the billion-dollar campaign goal at its annual meeting on September 15.
  • Philip Danforth Armour Sr., an industrialist and philanthropist, answered Gunsaulus's call and provided the funds needed to found the university that would become Illinois Tech.
  • Based in the global metropolis of Chicago, Illinois Tech was born to harness the power of collective difference to advance technology and innovation for all.
  • And every day in the living lab of the city, Illinois Tech fuels breakthroughs that change lives.

Carnegie Mellon's Raj Rajkumar Joins Insight LiDAR’s as Technical Advisor

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology company Insight LiDAR ( www.insightlidar.com ) today announced that Raj Rajkumar has joined its Technical Advisory Board.

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  • Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology company Insight LiDAR ( www.insightlidar.com ) today announced that Raj Rajkumar has joined its Technical Advisory Board.
  • In this role, Rajkumar will support Insight LiDAR's development of next-generation, long-range FMCW LiDAR for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and the Autonomous Vehicles market.
  • He also has appointments in the Robotics Institute and the Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon.
  • This patented technology drives Insight LiDARs ability to deliver higher performance at a dramatically lower cost than other LiDAR manufacturers.

NextFlex Awards Five Flexible Hybrid Electronics Pioneers with 2022 Fellow Awards

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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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NextFlex, Americas Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, presented the annual NextFlex Fellow Awards to five deserving individuals, recognizing their outstanding contributions to FHE.

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  • NextFlex, Americas Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, presented the annual NextFlex Fellow Awards to five deserving individuals, recognizing their outstanding contributions to FHE.
  • Each year, NextFlex presents Fellow Awards to individuals who have gone above and beyond to positively impact the FHE manufacturing community.
  • Nick has been instrumental in working inside TTM Technologies to expand the circle of interest in flexible and printed hybrid electronics and NextFlex activities.
  • Jim is a thought leader and is pivotal to the successful development of 3D printed hybrid electronics and conformal electronics.

NYU Langone Receives $8M NIH Grant to Develop State-of-Art Brain Implant to Study Epilepsy

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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."

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  • There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."
  • Prototypes were tested intraoperatively for a period of up to 30 minutes in dozens of patients at both Duke and NYU Langone.
  • Clinical trials using an FDA-approved monitoring implant are expected to begin at NYU Langone Health in 2023.
  • The funding award is from NIH's Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which is aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain.

Motorola Solutions Appoints Dr. Ayanna Howard to its Board of Directors

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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced that Dr. Ayanna Howard has been appointed to its board of directors, effective February 15, 2022.

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  • Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced that Dr. Ayanna Howard has been appointed to its board of directors, effective February 15, 2022.
  • With the addition of Dr. Howard, the Motorola Solutions board will expand to eight directors.
  • Im very pleased to have Dr. Howard join our board and welcome her globally recognized expertise in robotics and artificial intelligence, said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions.
  • I am honored to join the Motorola Solutions board of directors, said Dr. Ayanna Howard.

NTT Research and Technical University of Munich Paper Proposes Design for 3D-Printable Structures for Biological Implants

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Monday, November 15, 2021
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The paper proposes a novel design of 3D-printable and highly deformable structures.

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  • The paper proposes a novel design of 3D-printable and highly deformable structures.
  • The paper discusses the ability of these structures to morph from a narrow, condensed state to larger target shapes, such as stents or meshes.
  • NTT Research entered a joint research agreement with TUM in November 2019 to work on three-dimensionally transformable and implantable electrodes.
  • NTT Research is part of NTT, a global technology and business solutions provider with an annual R&D budget of $3.6 billion.

EPRI, NREL, and the University of Washington to Advance Electric Grid Decarbonization

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Funded through a $25 million DOE award, the public-private consortium aims to enable power-sector decarbonization through 2035.

Key Points: 
  • Funded through a $25 million DOE award, the public-private consortium aims to enable power-sector decarbonization through 2035.
  • "Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services," said Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at EPRI.
  • "This consortium brings together leading experts to research how to enable inverter-based resources to help shape a reliable grid for today and tomorrow."
  • Expected outcomes include the creation of system-stabilizing inverter controllers, simulation techniques, and hardware testbeds that facilitate grid resilience and reliability.

Holder of 20+ US Patents Dr. Cathy Liu Selected as DesignCon's 2021 Engineer of the Year

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
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Cathy has decided to donate her grant to the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of California at Davis to help young engineering students grow.

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  • Cathy has decided to donate her grant to the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of California at Davis to help young engineering students grow.
  • Liu is dedicated to encouraging engineers to take a more active role in the engineering community and breaking down barriers within the industry.
  • The DesignCon community selected the winner, and the award was presented to Liu during DesignCon 2021 held in-person at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
  • Notably, Liu has worked on high-speed transceiver solutions and has previously developed read channel and mobile digital TV receiver solutions.