Our Board of Technology Advisors

With the rapid rate of change and innovation, it is essential that experts in their respective fields be tapped regularly and consistently for advice and insight. Our core technology advisory team includes:

William P. King

Chairman William P. King received a B.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the College of Engineering Bliss Professor and and Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois, in the Departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. King was named by MIT's Technology Review to the TR35, which is a list of the 35 most innovative technologists and scientists under the age of 35. Between 1999 and 2001, he worked in the Micro/Nano Mechanics group at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich on "Millipede" Probe-Based Data Storage, widely regarded as the first corporate, product-focused nanotechnology project in the world. He has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest award which the U.S. government can give to an untenured professor, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has won the R&D100 award two times (2007 and 2008). In 2011, technologies from his lab were selected as Innovations that will Change the Way You Manufacture by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has written over 120 journal articles and 20 patents. He is co-founder of two companies, sits on the advisory board at several others, and consults widely on nanotechnology and energy investment opportunities. He is a Member of the DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council.

Allen Tannenbaum

Allen Tannenbaum received a B.A. in Mathematics at Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Harvard University. He is the Julian Hightower Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He holds a joint appointment at Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has held faculty positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, McGill University, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute Zurich), Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Tannenbaum has authored or co-authored about 300 research papers and is the author or co-author of three books: “Invariance and Systems Theory,” “Feedback Control Theory” (with J. Doyle and B. Francis), and “Robust Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems” (with C. Foias and H. Ozbay). He also edited two volumes “Feedback Control, Nonlinear Systems, and Complexity” (with B. Francis), and “Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision” (with Peter Olver). He is writing “Curvature Flows, Visual Tracking, and Computational Vision” with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), due out in 2006. He holds four patents in medical imaging and has licensing agreements with General Electric for a neuroanalysis package. He has been an Associate Editor of several journals including the Journal on Control and Optimization, Systems & Control Letters and the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. He has won several awards including the Kennedy Research Prize and the George Taylor Research Award, and he given a number of plenary talks at professional associations including the American Mathematical Society, SIAM, and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2000. He has done research in image processing, medical imaging, computer vision, robust control, systems theory, robotics, semiconductor process control, operator theory, functional analysis, cryptography, algebraic geometry, and invariant theory.

Past Advisors

David Parekh

David Parekh, past chairman of the IP2Biz Board of Technology Advisors, earned a B.S. at Virginia Tech and an M.S.E.E., an M.S.M.E. and a Ph.D. at Stanford University. Prior to joining United Technologies Research Center as Director/VP Research, Parekh was Deputy Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Associate Vice Provost for Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his GTRI role, Parekh was chief operating officer of an applied research organization of more than 1,200 research faculty, technical and administrative staff, and students. GTRI provides solutions through customer-focused R&D for government and industry throughout the world in aerospace, biotechnology, energy systems, information and telecommunication technologies, health and environmental systems, and sensor systems. Dr. Parekh had primary responsibility for research operations, business development, commercialization, and strategic investment. He also held a joint faculty appointment as a Professor in Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. His innovative research in the embryonic field of active flow control has targeted applications in advanced propulsion systems, aerodynamic flow control, jet noise reduction, and environmentally-safe coatings removal systems. In 2000, he founded Georgia Tech’s Fuel Cell and Battery Technology Center, and led the development of a fuel-cell powered aircraft. Dr. Parekh’s endeavors have been characterized by the parallel pursuit of coordinated basic and applied research aimed at a rapid transition of scientific discoveries to major product advancements. He has directed numerous university-industry research teams in partnership with government sponsors including NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Before joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Parekh worked at McDonnell Douglas and in the Boeing Phantom Works organization. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma engineering honor societies.

Mark Allen

Mark Allen received a B.A. in Chemistry, a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, and a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an S.M. and a Ph.D. in Microelectronic Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Allen is the J.M. Pettit Professor and Regents Professor in Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a joint appointment at Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Dr. Allen has been active in microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology for the past 20 years, authoring or co-authoring approximately 250 conference and journal publications and approximately 25 U.S. patents. His entrepreneurial activities include co-founding Redeon, Inc., a company formed to commercialize microneedle technology (acquired by Biovalve in 2001), and co-founding CardioMEMS, Inc., a company developing wireless implantable sensors for measurement of physical properties from within the human body.

Elliot Chaikof

Elliot Chaikof earned a B.A. and an M.D. at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his residency in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and his residency in Vascular Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Chaikof is the John E. Skandalakis Professor of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Emory. He also holds five secondary appointments. A member of the American Surgical Association, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, he has won numerous honors and awards. He currently serves on several editorial boards including Annals of Vascular Surgery, Current Cardiology Reviews, and Vascular. Dr. Chaikof's clinical interests include the treatment of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms; carotid artery disease; and other vascular disorders. His research interests focus on development of an advance generation of cardiovascular materials, devices, and pharmacotherapeutics based upon the principles of biomimetics, molecular engineering, and nanofabrication technologies.