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Aaron Bent, CEO abent@gmzenergy.com Aaron is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur, whose history has included bringing products to market in the defense, optical, test, telecommunications, and broadcast industries. He has served in executive leadership roles in sales, marketing, engineering, and business development. Most recently, Aaron served as North American GM for Polatis Photonics, a subsidiary of Polatis, the world’s leading telecommunications all-optical switch vendor. Aaron was co-founder and President of Continuum, a company funded by Flagship, Prism, Boston Millennia, JK&B and other leading venture firms. He is a Founding Fellow of the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC) Fellowship Program, a landmark program to accelerate executive leadership in the clean tech market. Aaron earned his PhD and MSc from MIT’s Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received a number of academic awards and patents, and has numerous contributed and peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Gang Chen, Founder gchen@gmzenergy.com GMZ Energy co-founder and Warren Towneley Rohsenow Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, MIT. Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He was an assistant professor at Duke University from 1993-1997, and associate professor at University of California at Los Angeles from 1997-2000, and moved to MIT in 2000/ He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) fellow. He has published extensively in the area of nanoscale energy transport and conversion and nanoscale heat transfer. He serves on the editorial boards for four journals in heat transfer and nanotechnology and chairs the advisory board of ASME Nanotechnology Institute. Professor Chen has extensive experience on the thermal conductivity of nanostructures and thermoelectric transport theory and property measurements. The Chen group has generated initial experimental data demonstrating a significant reduction in the thermal conductivity of superlattices and has developed a theoretical framework that explains the experimentally observed reduction in the thermal conductivity. Based on extensive experimental and theoretical studies, he and his co-workers developed the nanocomposite strategy for enhancing ZT. Dr. Zhifeng Ren, Founder zren@gmzenergy.com GMZ Energy co-founder and professor in the Physics Department at Boston College. Dr. Ren received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 1990. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is the recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award of Boston College in 2006. Dr. Ren’s current focus is on nanomaterials synthesis, characterization, and applications including carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires of ZnO, Si, Ge, etc., nanocrystals of Si, Ge, PbTe, PbSe, Bi2Te3, Sb2Te3, Bi2Se3, etc. He has published 205 peer reviewed papers and has 26 patents. Dr. Ren is the co-founder of NanoLabs Inc. and Solasta Inc. |
