Jeffrey Glass ( Ph.D., M.B.A.)Sr. Associate Dean and Professor,
Hogg Family endowed chair in Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship
Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Dr. Jeffrey T. Glass' current research interests can be separated into two broad categories: 1) materials synthesis and characterization and 2) innovation management and entrepreneurship. Jeff’s technical research has focused on the growth and characterization of thin films for electronics; primarily carbon nanotubes, diamond, diamond-like carbon, Gallium Nitride, Zinc Oxide and Silicon Carbide. Vapor deposition, sputtering, materials analysis and electronic properties are his areas of interest. Recently he has begun studying carbon-based materials for biomedical applications. The inherent biocompatibility of carbon coupled with its unique chemical and structural variations make it an ideal material for such applications as in vivo electrodes and sensors.
Jeff is also involved in the study of Innovation Management in technology-based organizations with a focus on the early stages of technical development. The management of intellectual property and the formation and financing of new ventures are his focus. His paper entitled, “Managing the Ties Between Central R&D and Business Units,” received the 2004 Industrial Research Institute’s Maurice Holland Award. Jeff has held adjunct appointments at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Case Western Reserve University and North Carolina State University. He has published over 110 papers and book chapters, edited six books and is a co-inventor on 12 patents. He has been a short course instructor for several professional societies and companies and has organized numerous conferences. He has given over 50 invited presentations in 12 different countries. He served as a member of a Presidential Science Advisor’s committee for the assessment of diamond technology in Japan and has received two teaching awards and the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award.
John Muth (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Dr. John Muth, is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering at NCSU, where he also teaches Photonics and Optical Communication courses and conducts research focused on optical properties of wide band gap semiconductors. Muth is a former nuclear submarine officer and retains his commission with the Naval Reserve as a liaison between the fleet and national laboratories. He is also the co-founder of an automated lip synchronization software company called LipSinc.
Tanya Paskova (Ph.D.)
Tanya Paskova has been holding an Adjunct Professor position at MSE department of North Carolina State University since 2009. During her carrier she has held an appointment in the management team of Kyma Technologies Inc (as a Chief Scientist.) and academic positions at several universities (as an Associated Professor of Material Science at Linköping University, Sweden and at University of Bremen, Germany and as Assistant Professor at Sofia University, Bulgaria).
Dr Paskova’s research interests and contributions include: crystal growth of III-V semiconductor compounds and alloys (particularly GaN by HVPE; GaAs, GaAsSb, AlGaAs by MOCVD); growth mechanisms and relation between the growth process and material characteristics; effects of doping on defect formation; strain effects in highly mismatched systems; effects of substrate crystallographic orientation and miscut on the epitaxial growth and device performance; emission mechanisms and electrical transport in III-V semiconductor materials and device structures. She is a leading expert in bulk nitride growth with 15 years of experience in forefront academic and industrial R&D groups focused on bulk growth of GaN with a profound knowledge of all the techniques for bulk nitride growth, close monitoring of the bulk GaN topic worldwide and expertise in bulk nitride materials properties, accomplishments, current challenges and applications.
She is editor and co-editor of two scientific books; author and co-author of invited book chapters and reviews, and of more than 220 scientific papers in peer-review journals; and a co-inventor of four filled patents. She has established herself as one of the top researchers in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors and has been invited to give several talks at international conferences, meetings and workshops, as well as to conduct seminars and lectures at world-recognised universities, national research laboratories and large industrial companies. She has a strong record as a principal investigator on a number of projects granted by MDA, DARPA, AFRL and NSF. She is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth and a member of several referee boards for research foundations and highly recognised physics journals.