The Mentors
Mentors 2007-2008
Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos
http://www.eng.uci.edu/user/3
Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos joined the UC Irvine engineering faculty in 1997 as dean and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Under his leadership, the school has grown in stature and size, housing a total of 105 faculty and approximately 700 graduate students and 2,000 undergraduates. He is also the Co-Investigator of the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) program and the Principal Investigator of the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program for UC Irvine.
From 1969-1996, Alexopoulos served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, assuming the roles of associate dean of faculty affairs and chair of the department during his tenure. He is the author of more than 350 professional papers and has served on the editorial boards of numerous professional journals, and as editor-in-chief of Electromagnetics. In 1985, Alexopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has received the IEEE Best Journal Publication Award twice (1985 and 1998). He was named the Engineer of the Year in 2000 by the Orange County Section of IEEE and was given the Engineering Educator Award by the Orange County Engineering Council in 2001. Alexopoulos is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and is a Highly Cited Author in Computer Science. He recently received an honorary doctorate from the National Technical University of Athens in 2005 and the Orange County Engineering Council Award for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering Education in Orange County in 2006.
Born in Athens, Greece, Alexopoulos graduated from the Eighth Gymnasium of Athens in 1959 and received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1965, 1967, and 1968 respectively.
Laurence Brunton
http://pharmacology.ucsd.edu/faculty/brunton.shtml
Laurence Brunton is Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at UC San Diego. His research is focused in three areas: crosstalk among signaling systems, hormone action in the heart, and cellular effects of giardia lamblia.
Susan V. Bryant
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2114
Susan Bryant is Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine. She joined the faculty of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at UC Irvine with a PhD from the University of London, and postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which some adult vertebrates can regenerate functional body parts. With her collaborator, Dr. David Gardiner, this research has resulted in over 100 publications. She has served on several national committees, including the Advisory Boards for the VA Office of Regeneration Programs, and the Indiana University Axolotl Colony, and has also served as Program Director for Developmental Biology at NSF. She currently serves as a member of BIOAC, the Advisory Committee for NSF's Directorate for Biological Sciences, as a member of the of the California Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee (ICOC) of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency for stem cell research, and as a council member of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). She also serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals in her field. In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2005, a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science. Her goals are to facilitate and advance research locally and nationally, and to work for the full participation of women and minorities in the scientific enterprise.
Steve Gaines
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/gaines/gaines_cv.pdf
Dr. Steven Gaines is Susan and Bruce Worster Acting Dean of Science, Director of the Marine Science Institute, and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology and the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara. He is a marine ecologist with ongoing research on marine conservation, the design of marine reserves, the impact of climate change on marine habitats, and the coupling between ocean circulation and the dynamics of marine species. He is a lead investigator of the PISCO project (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), a long term consortium studying marine ecosystems of the west coast of the US, the Santa Barbara Coast LTER (Long Term Ecological Research), studying connections between coastal watersheds and the ecology of kelp forests, and the Sustainable Fisheries Group, a partnership between UCSB and Environmental Defense that promotes sustainable fisheries reform using market based approaches.
M.R.C. Greenwood
http://nutrition.ucdavis.edu/faculty/greenwood.html
Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood is Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Greenwood's research interests are in national science policy, obesity, diabetes, and women's health. Her past research work has been on the role of genetics in the development of obesity and diabetes. She is currently interested in national and international policy in these areas and the role of government in the regulation of food and diet. Dr. Greenwood previously served as Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for the ten-campus University of California (UC) system, the second highest position in the system.
Carl Keen
http://nutrition.ucdavis.edu/faculty/keen.html
Carl Keen is Distinguished Professor in Nutrition and Internal Medicine, the Mars Chair in Developmental Nutrition and the Director of the Foods for Health Institute at UC Davis. He has served on numerous government boards including California's Scientific Advisory Board for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, EPA Environmental Health Grant Review Panels, USDA Human Nutrient Requirements Study, and several NIH panels. Dr. Keen's research group has four main areas of activity: the influence of diet on embryonic and fetal development; the study of gene-nutrient interactions; the study of how diet influences oxidant defense systems; and the influence of dietary flavonoids on vascular health. These research themes are integrated, and approached through a combination of in vitro and in vivo models, including the study of human subjects.
Anantha Krishnan
https://www-eng.llnl.gov/bios/bios_krishnan.html
Dr. Anantha Krishnan is the Director of R&D for Meso-, Micro- and Nano-Technology in the Engineering Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He manages a group of scientists as well as a fabrication facility dedicated to the areas of advanced micro-/nano-fabrication and advanced sensor devices/systems for mechanical, optical, chemical and biological sensing and detection.
Dr. Krishnan was a Program Manager at DARPA from 1999 to 2005. He managed several programs in the area of nano-bio-technology for the Defense Sciences Office as well as programs in the area of high performance microelectronic circuit design for the Microsystems Technology Office. From 1989 to 1999, Dr. Krishnan held various positions, including Vice-President for Advanced Technology, at Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Corporation (CFDRC) where he managed several projects in the areas of semiconductor processing technology, MEMS/bio-MEMS, supercritical fluid technology, crystal growth and aerospace/rocket propulsion
Dr. Krishnan obtained his doctoral degree (in Mechanical Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has more than 60 publications in international journals and conferences.
Dennis Matthews
http://cbst.ucdavis.edu/people/dlmatthe/dennis-l-matthews-ph-d
Dr. Matthews is the Director of the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at UC Davis. He also holds a joint appointment at UC Davis College of Engineering and School of Medicine, is the Program Leader of the Medical Technology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and an Associate Director at the UC Davis Integrated Cancer Program. An expert on the radiative properties of ions in plasmas as well as in the conversion of laser light into X-rays, Dr. Matthews is widely acknowledged to have invented and developed the x-ray wavelength lasers.
Mentors Team
Lynne Chronister
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Davis
Expert in research administration and management
http://research.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm?id=OVC,0,1067,1088,1205
David McGee
Executive Director, Technology Transfer and Business Development, UC Davis
Over 20 years of senior management experience in the biotechnology industry
http://www.innovationaccess.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm?id=OVC,23,1729,1735,1740
Tod Stoltz
Industry Relations Officer, Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology, UC Davis
Over 10 years of senior management experience in the biotechnology industry
Albert P. Pisano
http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/pisano/
Albert (Al) P. Pisano is a Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was elected to Fellow status in 2004. At UCB, Professor Pisano holds the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has previously served as Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory, the largest organized research unit on the UC Berkeley campus (with over $73 million in research funds each year).
Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he held research positions with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Singer Sewing Machines Corporate R&D Center and General Motors Research Labs. From 1997-1999, he served as Program Manager for the MEMS program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA, where he expanded the MEMS research portfolio to 83 contracts awarded nationwide with a total MEMS research expenditure in excess of $163 million distributed over 3 fiscal years. His research interests and activities at UC Berkeley include MEMS for a wide variety of applications, including RF components, power generation, drug delivery, strain sensors, biosensors and disk-drive actuators.
Professor Pisano is the co-inventor listed on 20 patents in MEMS and has authored or co-authored more than 190 archival publications. Since 1983 he has graduated over 33 Ph.D. and 64 MS students. He is a founder in six start-up companies in the areas of transdermal drug delivery, transvascular drug delivery, sensorized catheters, MEMS manufacturing equipment, MEMS RF devices and MEMS motion sensors.
David G. Schetter
schetter@uci.edu
David G. Schetter is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Alliances at UC Irvine. He established the Office of Technology Alliances (OTA) in 1990 to serve as a focal point for campus intellectual property administration and corporate/university interactions involving research and technology transfer. He serves on the boards of a number of industry trade groups and is an advisor to the UC President on technology transfer matters. Mr. Schetter's career spans 32 years at the University of California in various research and administrative capacities, including Assistant Director of a large interdisciplinary Organized Research Unit and ten years as Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies & Research for the UCI campus. His research interests are in information technology, its use and impact in organizations.
Matt Tirrell
http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/~ceweb/faculty/tirrell/resume.htm
Dr. Matthew Tirrell is the Richard A. Auhll Professor of Engineering and the Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. From 1977 to 1999 Tirrell was on the faculty of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he served as head of the department from 1995 to 1999. His research has been in polymer surface properties including adsorption, adhesion, surface treatment, friction, lubrication and biocompatibility. He has co-authored about 250 papers and one book and has supervised about 60 Ph.D. students. Tirrell's research is focused on the manipulation and measurement of interfacial properties of materials used in applications from coatings and adhesion to lubrication and bioengineering.
George R. Tynan
http://tynan-pc.ucsd.edu/
George R. Tynan is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then spent several years studying the effect of sheared flows on plasma turbulence on experiments in the Federal Republic of Germany and at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He returned to UCLA and helped develop a concept for a new fusion experiment currently under construction. He joined the UC San Diego faculty in July 1999 after spending several years investigating the application of low-temperature plasmas to the creation of nano-meter scale semiconductor circuits. His current research interests include basic studies of plasma turbulence and transport, low-temperature plasma physics with applications to materials processing, and plasma-nanocluster interactions.
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