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Dr.
Robert G. Batchko is the co-founder and CEO of Holochip.
He started Holochip to commercialize his family of patents
in adaptive lens technology. Prior to starting Holochip, Dr.
Batchko was a co-founder, CTO and Principal Scientist of Lightbit
Corporation in Mountain View, CA - a spin-out of his doctoral
research in nonlinear optics at Stanford University. Lightbit,
which manufactures all-optical wavelength converter crystals
for displays, was acquired in 2004 by Arasor International
Limited (ASX:ARR), a developer of integrated optoelectronic
and wireless solutions. Dr. Batchko holds 9 allowed patents
and has published over 30 technical papers. Dr. Batchko was
the 1st Prize recipient of the 1999 Optical Society of America
- Bookham/New Focus Student Award for his research on second
harmonic generation of blue light in backswitch-poled lithium
niobate. In 1999 he was the 1st Prize recipient of Stanford
University's E-Challenge business plan competition, organized
by the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students
(BASES), for his team's business plan on laser-addressed electronic
billboards. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Batchko also holds
a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies and Saxophone Performance
from William Paterson University.
Dr.
Andrei Szilagyi is Holochip's Vice President of Engineering.
Prior to joining Holochip, Dr. Szilagyi was Chief Scientist
and Director of Advanced R&D at NanoMuscle, Inc. where
he managed the development and commercialization of actuator
products based on shape memory alloys for automotive, security,
and consumer electronics applications. Before Nanomuscle,
he was the director of the lithium niobate foundry at Gemfire
Corporation where he managed the periodically-poled LN program
for frequency conversion applications. Prior to Gemfire, he
was the director of engineering and chief technologist at
Radiant Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of precision,
controlled-atmosphere, infrared conveyor furnaces for the
semiconductor, solar cell, electronics packaging, and flat
panel display industries. Before Radiant he was the director
of the Systems Laboratory at Aura Systems, Inc., where he
managed the company's R&D of electroluminescent flat panels
and thin film actuated mirror arrays. Prior to Aura, Dr. Szilagyi
was a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Santa
Barbara Research Center and senior research scientist at Honeywell
Electro-Optics Division. Dr. Szilagyi holds 20 issued patents.
He received his PhD in Physics from MIT and AB degree in Physics
from Harvard University, where he researched nonlinear optics
under Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen. Dr. Szilagyi is a member
of Sigma Pi Sigma, Sigma Xi, and a Malcolm Cotton Brown Fellowship
recipient.
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