Renee Carder
Bio: PixelEXX Systems is reimagining tomorrow’s cameras so you can capture, analyze, and interpret the world around us in awe inspiring detail. Ninety percent of the information we process is visual…
Renee Carder
PixelEXX Systems, Co-founder & Vice President
Bio:
PixelEXX Systems is reimagining tomorrow’s cameras so you can capture, analyze, and interpret the world around us in awe inspiring detail. Ninety percent of the information we process is visual and we process it 60,000 time faster than text. Thus, it is not surprising that the review and analyses of visual data is critical to enterprises across all industries. The technology can be found in everything from self-driving cars and drones to medical imaging devices and robots. Smart cameras combined with visual technology will reduce errors, improve production efficiency, combat fraud, and enhance our daily lives. Using nano-sized pixels to collect more light, PixelEXX high performance image sensors and cameras will deliver higher resolution, better sensitivity and dynamic range, and enhanced color—all in an unprecedented form factor.
Renee is a visual neuroscientist with deep experience in designing imaging-based experiments and analyzing the subsequent data to extract complex information. She holds a PhD in Neurobiology, Anatomy and Cell Science, and Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
Project Abstract:
Photon detection is a great enabler of pure and applied science with broad reaching benefits. It is not only central to the exploration of the fundamental nature of energy, matter, space and time, but also plays an important role in applications such as light/laser detection and ranging, photography, astronomy, quantum information science, medical imaging, microscopy, and communications. Today, the performance of different classes of photon detectors varies in 1) noise characteristics which sets a floor on the minimum signal intensity that can be observed; 2) saturation characteristics which sets a ceiling on the maximum signal intensity that can be observed; and 3) geometric, absorption and signal conversion characteristics that determine the proportion of the incident signal that can be measured. The company is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to address these critical performance limitations using of a new class of solid-state photomultipliers that exploit optical resonances in semiconductor materials to enhance light absorption and detection. When combined with the ability to generate a large output signal via internal avalanche multiplication, such sensors would significantly improve photon detection and counting with high resolution and with single photon sensitivity. Initial applications will focus on devices used with scintillation detectors, essential instruments in a variety of fields, serving as an effective means of detecting radiation for industrial, defense, medical, and basic-research applications.
Bio:
PixelEXX Systems is reimagining tomorrow’s cameras so you can capture, analyze, and interpret the world around us in awe inspiring detail. Ninety percent of the information we process is visual and we process it 60,000 time faster than text. Thus, it is not surprising that the review and analyses of visual data is critical to enterprises across all industries. The technology can be found in everything from self-driving cars and drones to medical imaging devices and robots. Smart cameras combined with visual technology will reduce errors, improve production efficiency, combat fraud, and enhance our daily lives. Using nano-sized pixels to collect more light, PixelEXX high performance image sensors and cameras will deliver higher resolution, better sensitivity and dynamic range, and enhanced color—all in an unprecedented form factor.
Renee is a visual neuroscientist with deep experience in designing imaging-based experiments and analyzing the subsequent data to extract complex information. She holds a PhD in Neurobiology, Anatomy and Cell Science, and Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
Project Abstract:
Photon detection is a great enabler of pure and applied science with broad reaching benefits. It is not only central to the exploration of the fundamental nature of energy, matter, space and time, but also plays an important role in applications such as light/laser detection and ranging, photography, astronomy, quantum information science, medical imaging, microscopy, and communications. Today, the performance of different classes of photon detectors varies in 1) noise characteristics which sets a floor on the minimum signal intensity that can be observed; 2) saturation characteristics which sets a ceiling on the maximum signal intensity that can be observed; and 3) geometric, absorption and signal conversion characteristics that determine the proportion of the incident signal that can be measured. The company is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to address these critical performance limitations using of a new class of solid-state photomultipliers that exploit optical resonances in semiconductor materials to enhance light absorption and detection. When combined with the ability to generate a large output signal via internal avalanche multiplication, such sensors would significantly improve photon detection and counting with high resolution and with single photon sensitivity. Initial applications will focus on devices used with scintillation detectors, essential instruments in a variety of fields, serving as an effective means of detecting radiation for industrial, defense, medical, and basic-research applications.
Danielle Castley
Bio: Danielle Castley is developing a high-temperature, lightweight neutron-shielding technology that will help reduce costs and increase safety in the nuclear industry. This technology operates at…
Danielle Castley
Becq, Founder & CEO
Bio:
Danielle Castley is developing a high-temperature, lightweight neutron-shielding technology that will help reduce costs and increase safety in the nuclear industry. This technology operates at a higher temperature than existing polymer-based neutron-shielding products. The higher temperature resistance of 300oC instead of 180oC introduces significant opportunities for deploying neutron shielding materials in higher-temperature locations within the reactor containment and/or to improve the safety margin in applications originally designed for shielding with a lower operating temperature. Castley holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Dartmouth College and is the founder of Becq.
Project Abstract:
Becq is a radiation shielding materials company whose technology will help to reduce costs and increase safety in the nuclear industry. Becq’s core competency is currently neutron shielding technology. Innovation in the neutron shielding market has lagged in the past several decades and Becq’s technology is a breakthrough for the field. Becq’s initial product offering, NE-300, is a lightweight, high-temperature neutron shielding material. The key differentiation of NE-300 over existing materials is a temperature resistance of 300oC instead of 180oC. NE-300’s higher operating temperature introduces significant opportunities for deploying neutron shielding materials in higher-temperature locations within the reactor containment and/or to improve the safety margin in applications originally designed for shielding with a lower operating temperature. While NE-300 currently exceeds the requirements for many applications in the nuclear industry, the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow Becq to perform the additional development necessary to validate the long-term use of this product and prepare it for commercialization.
Becq’s vision is to become first-in-sales in the $1 billion international neutron shield materials market over the next decade by becoming the dominant supplier to the commercial nuclear industry and expanding into the defense and space markets. Becq has the long-term goal of becoming the largest radiation shielding company and one of the largest materials suppliers in the world.
Bio:
Danielle Castley is developing a high-temperature, lightweight neutron-shielding technology that will help reduce costs and increase safety in the nuclear industry. This technology operates at a higher temperature than existing polymer-based neutron-shielding products. The higher temperature resistance of 300oC instead of 180oC introduces significant opportunities for deploying neutron shielding materials in higher-temperature locations within the reactor containment and/or to improve the safety margin in applications originally designed for shielding with a lower operating temperature. Castley holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Dartmouth College and is the founder of Becq.
Project Abstract:
Becq is a radiation shielding materials company whose technology will help to reduce costs and increase safety in the nuclear industry. Becq’s core competency is currently neutron shielding technology. Innovation in the neutron shielding market has lagged in the past several decades and Becq’s technology is a breakthrough for the field. Becq’s initial product offering, NE-300, is a lightweight, high-temperature neutron shielding material. The key differentiation of NE-300 over existing materials is a temperature resistance of 300oC instead of 180oC. NE-300’s higher operating temperature introduces significant opportunities for deploying neutron shielding materials in higher-temperature locations within the reactor containment and/or to improve the safety margin in applications originally designed for shielding with a lower operating temperature. While NE-300 currently exceeds the requirements for many applications in the nuclear industry, the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow Becq to perform the additional development necessary to validate the long-term use of this product and prepare it for commercialization.
Becq’s vision is to become first-in-sales in the $1 billion international neutron shield materials market over the next decade by becoming the dominant supplier to the commercial nuclear industry and expanding into the defense and space markets. Becq has the long-term goal of becoming the largest radiation shielding company and one of the largest materials suppliers in the world.
Joe Fortenbaugh
Actinic, LLC
Bio: Joe Fortenbaugh is designing, developing, and testing formulations of thermally cured thermosets which can directly and rapidly produce cured composite thermoset materials upon photothermal…
Joe Fortenbaugh
Actinic, Co-founder & CEO
Bio:
Joe Fortenbaugh is designing, developing, and testing formulations of thermally cured thermosets which can directly and rapidly produce cured composite thermoset materials upon photothermal heating. This type of heating can be used to bring rapid, on-demand curing to a wide range of thermally cured thermoset polymers. The goal is to develop silicone and epoxy resin formulations for use in additive manufacturing using carbon fiber, ceramics, graphene, metals, and metal oxides fillers. Joe holds a PhD in Chemistry from Penn State University.
Project Abstract:
Actinic specializes in bringing new thermally cured thermosets to the 3D printing market. They take commercially available materials, reformulate them, and develop the formulations for use in 3D printing. These formulations are capable of extremely rapid heating/cooling cycles (sub microsecond), which allows for the materials to be 3D printed. Actinic is currently expanding their material portfolio and developing a custom-built 3D printing system. This would be particularly significant for the Department of Defense (DOD) and industrial applications where manufacturing at point of use will be critical for solving prototyping, supply chain, and logistical challenges.
Bio:
Joe Fortenbaugh is designing, developing, and testing formulations of thermally cured thermosets which can directly and rapidly produce cured composite thermoset materials upon photothermal heating. This type of heating can be used to bring rapid, on-demand curing to a wide range of thermally cured thermoset polymers. The goal is to develop silicone and epoxy resin formulations for use in additive manufacturing using carbon fiber, ceramics, graphene, metals, and metal oxides fillers. Joe holds a PhD in Chemistry from Penn State University.
Project Abstract:
Actinic specializes in bringing new thermally cured thermosets to the 3D printing market. They take commercially available materials, reformulate them, and develop the formulations for use in 3D printing. These formulations are capable of extremely rapid heating/cooling cycles (sub microsecond), which allows for the materials to be 3D printed. Actinic is currently expanding their material portfolio and developing a custom-built 3D printing system. This would be particularly significant for the Department of Defense (DOD) and industrial applications where manufacturing at point of use will be critical for solving prototyping, supply chain, and logistical challenges.
Thomas Foulkes
AquaQuant Laboratories Inc.
Bio: Thomas Foulkes is deploying the next generation of high-performance central processing units and graphics processing units required to feed the power demand for elastic cloud computing, big…
Thomas Foulkes
AquaQuant Laboratories, Founder & CEO
Bio:
Thomas Foulkes is deploying the next generation of high-performance central processing units and graphics processing units required to feed the power demand for elastic cloud computing, big data analytics, complex simulations, and artificial intelligence. The technology creates a higher computational density by transferring heat with direct, water immersion cooling across nanoengineered, durable, and scalable hierarchical porous coatings deposited holistically on electronics. Foulkes holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Project Abstract:
AquaQuant Laboratories Inc. is commercializing scalable nanostructured surfaces to increase the speed (Gflops) and density (Gflops/m3) of high-performance computation through two-phase, water immersion cooling.
Electronics thermal management requires both nano- and macro-scale perspectives. Thomas Foulkes has researched advanced cooling techniques and electro-thermal co-design to increase the power density of converters for electric vehicles. He founded AquaQuant Laboratories Inc. (AQL) in 2017 to tackle the electro-thermal demands of next generation data centers.
Bio:
Thomas Foulkes is deploying the next generation of high-performance central processing units and graphics processing units required to feed the power demand for elastic cloud computing, big data analytics, complex simulations, and artificial intelligence. The technology creates a higher computational density by transferring heat with direct, water immersion cooling across nanoengineered, durable, and scalable hierarchical porous coatings deposited holistically on electronics. Foulkes holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Project Abstract:
AquaQuant Laboratories Inc. is commercializing scalable nanostructured surfaces to increase the speed (Gflops) and density (Gflops/m3) of high-performance computation through two-phase, water immersion cooling.
Electronics thermal management requires both nano- and macro-scale perspectives. Thomas Foulkes has researched advanced cooling techniques and electro-thermal co-design to increase the power density of converters for electric vehicles. He founded AquaQuant Laboratories Inc. (AQL) in 2017 to tackle the electro-thermal demands of next generation data centers.
Erica Grant
Quantal Security Inc.
Bio: Erica Grant has a PhD in Quantum Computation from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a BS in Physics from Virginia Tech. At Virginia Tech, she was a leader in a service organization…
Erica Grant
Quantal Security, Founder & CEO
Bio:
Erica Grant has a PhD in Quantum Computation from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a BS in Physics from Virginia Tech. At Virginia Tech, she was a leader in a service organization dedicated to educating safety and awareness. Through that organization, she met individuals whose stories were moving. In graduate school, she became interested in the DefCon hacking conferences which published seminars on YouTube that demonstrate security weakness in nearly every field. After learning of the weaknesses in smart locks and how they can be exploited, she clearly saw how her knowledge of quantum information could be applied to securing connected devices.
Project Abstract:
Quantal Security Inc. offers a patented hardware and software smart technology that generates completely random and unpredictable digital keys to protect every door in a facility. They help secure government building, manufacturing facilities, laboratories, hotels, hospitals or any other premises which needs to be totally secure.
They can retrofit existing access control systems with proprietary hardware and software. This could mean adapting a particularly sensitive part of a building, or applying changes across an entire premise. Their hardware is innovative, and almost invisible. The sleek, modular design provides an integrated charging cable and wall mounting adhesive for easy placement in any building.
Bio:
Erica Grant has a PhD in Quantum Computation from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a BS in Physics from Virginia Tech. At Virginia Tech, she was a leader in a service organization dedicated to educating safety and awareness. Through that organization, she met individuals whose stories were moving. In graduate school, she became interested in the DefCon hacking conferences which published seminars on YouTube that demonstrate security weakness in nearly every field. After learning of the weaknesses in smart locks and how they can be exploited, she clearly saw how her knowledge of quantum information could be applied to securing connected devices.
Project Abstract:
Quantal Security Inc. offers a patented hardware and software smart technology that generates completely random and unpredictable digital keys to protect every door in a facility. They help secure government building, manufacturing facilities, laboratories, hotels, hospitals or any other premises which needs to be totally secure.
They can retrofit existing access control systems with proprietary hardware and software. This could mean adapting a particularly sensitive part of a building, or applying changes across an entire premise. Their hardware is innovative, and almost invisible. The sleek, modular design provides an integrated charging cable and wall mounting adhesive for easy placement in any building.