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Appendix B: Interviewee Bios
Appendix B: Interviewee Bios
Pages 59-69
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David Agus Agus is one of the world's leading cancer doctors and a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, where he leads the university's Westside Cancer Center and Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He advocates for new technologies and approaches for personalized health care, and cofounded Navigenics and Applied Proteomics with these goals in mind.
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His research group is developing chip-integrated arrays of photonic sensors that detect signatures of diseases at their earliest stages, thus helping clinicians choose the best personalized treatment plans. Laurie Dean Baird Baird is a strategic consultant in media and entertainment and focuses on emerging technology, social practices, and business models in the changing media landscape.
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Robert Dennard (NAE) Dennard is a retired IBM Fellow known for inventing dynamic random access memory (DRAM)
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He is now CEO of DeNovo Sciences, whose cancer research and diagnosis platform offers an alternative to painful and invasive biopsies and could one day make it possible to detect cancer before primary tumors are discovered. Doug Hart Hart is an MIT professor of engineering and a principal investigator in the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory.
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Brian Hinman Hinman is a venture partner at Oak Investment Partners, where he focuses on investments in information technology and clean energy. He cofounded PictureTel, Polycom, 2Wire, and Mimosa Networks, where he currently serves as CEO.
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She founded Agile Equities LLC, a venture development company specializing in emerging technology companies. Aaron Koblin Koblin is best known for his innovative uses of data visualization and crowdsourcing.
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Thomas Miller Miller is executive director of the Entrepreneurship Initiative, initiator of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, and vice provost for Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) at North Carolina State University, where he is also a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Beth Simone Noveck Noveck directs the Governance Lab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is the Jacob K
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He is an expert on batteries, and the overarching theme of his work is electrochemistry in nonaqueous media. Amy Salzhauer Salzhauer founded Ignition Ventures, a firm that matches a network of world-class researchers with a select group of business strategy consultants who focus on technology strategy and new venture creation.
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Nina Tandon Tandon studies electrical signaling in the context of tissue engineering. She is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the Cooper Union, and works as an electrical and biomedical engineer at Columbia University's Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering.
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APPENDIX B 69 Luis von Ahn An entrepreneur and associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, von Ahn is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing, or as he calls it, human computation. His goal is to build systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.
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