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Wednesday May 21
4:30-6:30pm
CNSI Auditorium
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CNSI Auditorium
The Society for Post-Doctoral Scholars (SoPS), Engineering Graduate Student Association (EGSA), and Entrepreneur Association (EA) present an educational seminar series featuring the Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA) and the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).
- Learn about the opportunities to incubate your research at the Institute for Technology Advancement
- Learn about the relationship between TCA investors and entrepreneurs at Language Weaver
Speaker Bios
Dr. Derek Cheung
Director
Institute for Technology Advancement
Dr. Derek Cheung, an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, is the Director of the ITA. Dr. Cheung is the former president of Teledyne Scientific and Imaging LLC. He is also the former president and CEO of Rockwell Scientific Company, LLC, where he spent more than 30 years.
Dr. Cheung spent most of his career at Rockwell Scientific, from his initial technical assignments developing infrared focal plane arrays until becoming President and CEO. Through his 30 years of service, he led the transformation of the Rockwell Science Center from a corporate research and development lab into a stand alone, for-profit high-tech enterprise, Rockwell Scientific Company (RSC). His leadership at RSC resulted in the transition of numerous high-value technologies to various Rockwell business units, as well as the spin-out of three new companies with industrial partners and venture capital investors. During his progressive career at RSC, he directed technical efforts in information sciences, III-V semiconductor technologies, electro-optics devices, and high-performance infrared sensor technologies.
Dr. Cheung has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His thesis work at Stanford was on GaAs-AlGaAs solar cells and photo-detectors. He has served on the US Army Science Board, US Air Force Advisory Board on Electronics, Optics and Electro-Optics, Visiting Committee of Engineering & Applied Sciences Division for the California Institute of Technology, and the Industrial Advisory Committee for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA.
Dr. Cheung spent most of his career at Rockwell Scientific, from his initial technical assignments developing infrared focal plane arrays until becoming President and CEO. Through his 30 years of service, he led the transformation of the Rockwell Science Center from a corporate research and development lab into a stand alone, for-profit high-tech enterprise, Rockwell Scientific Company (RSC). His leadership at RSC resulted in the transition of numerous high-value technologies to various Rockwell business units, as well as the spin-out of three new companies with industrial partners and venture capital investors. During his progressive career at RSC, he directed technical efforts in information sciences, III-V semiconductor technologies, electro-optics devices, and high-performance infrared sensor technologies.
Dr. Cheung has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His thesis work at Stanford was on GaAs-AlGaAs solar cells and photo-detectors. He has served on the US Army Science Board, US Air Force Advisory Board on Electronics, Optics and Electro-Optics, Visiting Committee of Engineering & Applied Sciences Division for the California Institute of Technology, and the Industrial Advisory Committee for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA.
Dr. Daniel Marcu
Chief Technology and Operating Officer
Language Weaver
Daniel is a recognized leader in natural language processing (discourse parsing, text summarization, and machine translation). He is also a Project Leader at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor in the University's Computer Science Department.
Mr. Richard Morganstern
Past President
Tech Coast Angels
Mr. Morganstern has over thirty-five years of legal, business and finance experience. He was the former Managing Partner of a Beverly Hills based intellectual property and business litigation and counseling law firm. He was the former Chairman of a NASD licensed investment banking firm which focused on arranging funding, principally from foreign sources, for domestic early stage technology companies. He was the co-founder of Language Weaver, Inc. the worlds leading supplier of statistically based natural language translation systems. Mr. Morganstern currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Tech Coast Angels and as a past President of the Tech Coast Angels (LA network), whose members are the leading source of angel funding and guidance for early stage, high growth companies in Southern California. He serves as a member of the Advisory Board of USC's Center for Technology Commercialization, a guest lecturer for the California Institute of Technology Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program and a Distinguished Speaker at USC's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
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