About Us

  Ph.D. in Physics, 30+ years developing optics and electronic devices and systems, CEO/Founder of Rolith, Inc. and Innovasonic, Inc., CTO of Metamaterial Technologies, Inc., Co-founder/CMO at Applied Microstructures, Inc; winner of “Best Manufacturing Technology” award at IDTechEx for Nanoweb® transparent conductor technology. 

Ph.D. in Material Science; Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder of Autonomic Materials Inc. and Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. His group focuses on fabrication of 3D structured materials for applications in energy storage and advanced optics. 

Ph.D. in Physics, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Grainger College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His group fabricates, tests, and models photonic sensors, circuits, and instrumentation, and develops novel device processing techniques. 

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research group currently develops novel optical fiber designs and technologies, high power laser sources including laser host materials, and LiDARs. 

Ph.D. in Engineering, an expert in the design, analysis and prototype development for optical devices and subsystems. CEO of Photia, technical lead at Rolith, Inc. and Innovasonic, Inc.