2007 Sessions
Rochester, New York 2007 Speakers:
Dr. Edward A. Ashton
Chief Scientific Officer, VirtualScopics, Inc.
Edward Ashton serves as Chief Scientific Officer for VirtualScopics, Inc, where he leads research programs in oncology,
neurology and cardiovascular health. Prior to joining VirtualScopics, Dr. Ashton was a lead signal processing engineer
at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. Earlier in his career, Dr. Ashton spent three years as a research engineer with
the Naval Research Laboratory, where he received the Alan Berman Research Publication Award and was
nominated for the Edison Award for Applied Science. He received both his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering
from the University of Rochester, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow as well as a Sproul Fellow,
and his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Loyola College.
Ben W. Ebenhack
Sr. Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Ben W. Ebenhack is a Sr. Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, where he teaches
courses including "Energy Resources" and "Energy Alternatives Lab." He co-created, with an Anthropology professor, a course
assessing Sustainability in Transportation. He chairs the Curriculum Committee of the University of Rochester's faculty
Sustainability Roundtable and is the founding faculty advisor for the university's Engineers for a Sustainable World student
chapter. He is also the founder and Chairman of Board of the AHEAD Energy Corporation, a public charity that seeks to assist
Developing Countries in their energy transitions. AHEAD has been involved recently in working with the southern African nation
of Mozambique. He formerly held several positions with a multi-national petroleum company and has particular expertise in
Formation Evaluation technologies, including a patent and other discoveries. He holds BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering
from Marietta College and the University of Wyoming respectively. He is the author of the textbook,
A Non-technical Guide to
Energy Resources: Availability, Use and Impact, from PennWell publishers, in 1994 and authored the "Energy Policy" section
of
Our Fragile World: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, UNESCO, 2001
Dr. Philippe Fauchet
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester
Dr. Philippe Fauchet is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester,
where he also is a Professor of Optics, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering, and a Senior Scientist at the Laboratory
for Laser Energetics. Dr. Fauchet has nearly 30 years of experience in silicon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology for
applications in energy, photonics, and biology. His research on nanoscale silicon has led to hundreds publications in leading
technical journals and numerous plenary and invited presentations in major international conferences, and has been widely featured
in the international media. In the 1990's, he founded the Center for Future Health, where scientists, engineers, physicians,
nurses, and social scientist work together to develop devices that can keep people healthy. Presently he is involved with a major
Energy Research Initiative at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical
Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a member of various boards for industrial and governmental
entities, and the co-founder of a high-technology company.
Matthew Fronk
Chief Engineer for Research, Development, and Advanced Product/Process Engineering for Fuel Cell Systems, General Motors
Matt has over 25 years of Engineering and Development experience in Advanced Technology with General Motors. He began his
career with Rochester Products Division of GM in Rochester and was part of Delphi through the mid 90's. He was assigned
leadership responsibility for GM's Fuel Cell program in 1990 and did his early Fuel Cell work at Los Alamos National Lab in
New Mexico before returning to Rochester in 1996. He is currently Chief Engineer for Research, Development, and Advanced
Product/Process Engineering for Fuel Cell Systems at General Motors. He also serves on the Engineering oversight boards for
the Mechanical Engineering departments at both Union College and Penn State University.
Outside of work Matt was involved with Boy Scouts for over 10 years and also served as the Scoutmaster of Troop 10 in Honeoye
Falls. He has been involved with the Honeoye Falls girls' basketball program for the past 10 years as well serving as both
travel and summer league coach. He resides in Honeoye Falls with his wife Donna and their three children.
John Hart
President. Lumetrics, Inc.
John Hart has over 30 years of engineering, business development and general management experience with Fortune 500 firms such
as Bausch and Lomb and Allergan. John also has extensive expertise in startup companies with the development of Lumetrics,
ASE Instruments, and Holotek, all companies in the field of Optics, Photonics and Imaging.
John was an early Board member of the Rochester Regional Photonics cluster, a not for profit trade association, and is its
current Board President. In addition, John sits on the Boards of the Infotonics Technology Center, New York Photonics and
Lumetrics.
In March of 2003, John and his 3 other founding partners successfully licensed novel technology from the research labs of
Eastman Kodak and formed Lumetrics to develop and commercialize a series of products. Lumetrics received initial pre-seed
funding from High Technology of Rochester, seed funding from University Technology Seed fund (managed by Trillium), 2 angel
investor rounds of convertible debentures and in late 2005, an "A" round of investment led by Stonehenge Capital, New York State
Small Business Technology Investment Fund and the Rochester Angel Network.
Lumetrics is now manufacturing and selling its products (trade name OptiGauge) into its 3 primary markets; Optics, Medical
devices, and Ophthalmics, and has moved sales beyond initial first unit installations into multiple purchases and rollout into
the customers factories.
Dr. Eduardo Ismodes
Dean School of Sciences and Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Dr. Eduardo Ismodes was born in Lima, Perú in 1958. He studies Mechanical Enginering, Renewable Engineering,
Communications and Entrepreneurship, and is Co-Founder of the Electronic Engineer Department at the Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Perú (PUCP). He is also the founder of both the Innovation and Development Center (CIDE PUCP)
and E-QUIPU, Organizational System for the Development of Science and Technology.
He is a writer of Technical and non Technical Books in Electricity, Mathematical Problems, Technology, Science and Technology
and Short Tales. He served as President of IEEE Peru Section from 1999 to 2001 and has served as Dean of the School of Sciences
and Engineering, PUCP since 2002.
Steven J. Loucks
Deputy Director, Director Engineering Division, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
As Deputy Director of the LLE and Division Director of the Engineering Division, Steven Loucks is responsible for the overall
operation of LLE including the OMEGA laser facility and providing engineering support to Laboratory programs. He is recognized
for his leadership, management, and overall engineering expertise. In addition to his leadership role at the Laboratory, he serves
in several other capacities within the University.
Mr. Loucks joined LLE in 1990 as Division Director of the Administrative Division. In 1994 he also became the Director of the
Engineering Division and led the successful completion of the OMEGA Upgrade laser project on cost and on schedule. In 1997 he
was assigned the concurrent responsibility of Deputy Director of the Laboratory. He has been inspirational in improving the
operational and administrative efficiency and effectiveness of the Laboratory. During his tenure, the shot rate on OMEGA increased
to over 1400 shots per year to provide additional shots to the National Laboratories in support of the National Stockpile
Stewardship Program. Concomitantly the OMEGA system availability and experimental effectiveness have increased to greater than 90%.
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Dr. Ching W. Tang
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Dr. Ching W. Tang obtained his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and his Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1975. In 2006 he was appointed the Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering of the University of
Rochester after a 31-year research career at the Kodak Research Laboratories. Dr. Tang is internationally known for his pioneering
work on organic solar cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which is often cited as the basis of modern organic
electronics. He holds more than 70 U.S. patents and has published over 70 papers, including several milestone papers. Dr. Tang
is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Society for Information Display and a member of the National Academy
of Engineering. He has received a number of awards, including the Carothers Award from ACS, the Jan Rajchman Prize from SID, the
Daniel E. Noble Award from IEEE and the Humboldt Research Award.
