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Dr. Jayant Ratti, was the first Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. He also received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and was awarded a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication from the University of Delhi, India in 2006. He had been leading the engineering efforts on the dragonfly development program at Georgia Tech campus. Among his achievements are the “Best Design” Award for the Dragonfly Robot at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (GTRIC 2011); “First Prize” for the Dragonfly Robot at the Robotics Innovation Conference and Competition (RICC 2011), held at Woburn, MA. 5 technology patents to his name for Biologically-Inspired Micro Aerial Vehicle Designs; over 20 Journals and Conference publications in the domain. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of robotics expanding into embedded-systems, controls, mechatronics, machine vision, Unmanned Ground/Air Vehicle design/development/integration. He has won numerous design awards and competitions in robotics internationally which also include the “Most Innovative Design” design award at the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) in 2006, held at US Army Base in Fort Benning, Georgia

Emanuel Jones, is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His focus has been in the areas of design and manufacturing. He joined the Micro Aerial Vehicle design team in 2010, later publishing work in the International Conference on Robotics and Automation and working to develop novel and energy-efficient methods of aerial vehicle actuation, in pursuit of developing the world’s smallest mission-capable flying systems. Simultaneously, he obtained a minor in Aerospace Engineering while at Georgia Tech. During graduate school, Emanuel’s focus was primarily on mechatronic systems and controls. Various work includes the design and development on a golf cart-sized autonomous ground vehicle for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition held in Michigan, and his own UGV presented with his UAV research at the Robotics Innovation Conference and Competition in Boston. His interests are towards robotics, mechatronics, mechanics and controls for unmanned vehicles.

Jonathan Goldman, has been active in the Atlanta entrepreneurial community for over sixteen years and has served on the management teams of startups, and has more than 25 years in technical sales/business development. He currently serves as CTO & VP of Engineering, for Hydro Phi Technologies, a hydrogen-on-demand technology, targeting logistics fleets, heavy equipment and marine vessels with a solution to dramatically reduce fuel consumption and emission. In 2007, he helped co-found Suniva, a photovoltaic manufacturing firm, out of Georgia Tech, where he served as Director of Business Development, and was instrumental in achieving a backlog in long-term purchase agreements in excess of $1B. Prior to this, he served as Associate Director for VentureLab, Georgia Tech’s faculty commercialization mechanism, where he helped the program achieve international recognition. During his 5-year tenure, he helped start more than 10 companies that, collectively, have raised more than $90M in venture and grant funding, including Nuventix, Verco Materials, and LumoFlex. Prior to VentureLab, Mr. Goldman served in senior management positions at several start-up companies including: Nexidia Communications, a venture-backed Georgia Tech spinout, and the leading provider of scalable audio mining and speech analytics; smallbizplanet.com, a provider of small business search engines for web portals, Genuity, a provider of IP messaging and related services to F1000 clients, and Telinet Communications, an early pioneer in the web-based unified messaging market. Earlier in his career, he sold epitaxial crystal growth reactors as Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Riber to corporate, government and university customers; then performed a similar role at BOC Coatings’ Plasma Science unit, delivering environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes into both research and production environments. Mr. Goldman began his career as an engineer on NASA’s Space Shuttle & Space Station programs for Rockwell International. Mr. Goldman is a co-founder and former Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta. He is a member of the Materials Research Society and regularly serves as a reviewer for NSF’s SBIR Program. He received his B.S. Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1983, and an M.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the School of Material Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1989.

Dr. Robert Michelson, received his BSEE in 1973 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; his MSEE in 1974 and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently consulting through Millennial Vision, LLC in the area of UAVs with emphasis on biologically inspired MAV/NAV, while also working in the areas of stratospheric and high altitude tropospheric unmanned airships, and remote sensing. Has been Director and Principal Investigator (PI) for over 30 major projects during career at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Was GTRI Director for stratospheric airship programs and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts project to develop an autonomous Mars surveyor for flight in the lower atmosphere of Mars. Was also Director of the DARPA Mesomachine effort to develop an “Entomopter” (mechanical insect-like multimode aerial robot). Was Director for the Department of Transportation’s Traffic Surveillance Drone project. Directed project to develop the avionics suite for an Air Force Robotic Air-to-Air Combat vehicle. Directed project to specify dual-mode IR/MMW seeker parameters for a lethal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. Responsible for generating remote flight control system specifications for Soviet “HAVOC” and “HOKUM” gunship drone simulators for the U.S. Army. Directed programs to develop a Ka-band Linear ECM Source (KABLES) for the Army, and to develop a Sonar Scan Converter for the Navy. Directed program to create a Coherent Repeater to test foreign threat assets. Directed NASA’s Sirenian Tracking Project, which involved remote electronic sensing of location and tracking of the aquatic mammal Trichechus manatus. Chief designer of the target processing unit for the Army’s Environment and Radar Operation Simulator (EROS). Dr. Michelson has been the Adjunct Associate Professor to the School of Aerospace Engineering teaching classes in avionics for UAVs and Micro/Mini Air Vehicle (MAV) Design. Dr. Michelson has been the author of over 100 publications in various journals, books, conferences across the world. He holds 3 patents in the field of Micro Aerial Vehicle Design and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also presently the Editor for Robotics Systems, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. In 1998 Dr. Michelson received the Pioneer Award (highest level of recognition within the unmanned systems industry). Dr. Michelson is also the recipient of the “2001 Pirelli Award for the diffusion of scientific culture”. For endeavors related to the Entomopter, he was been recognized by the Top Pirelli Prize and recognitions in Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

Dr. Dan L. Horton, received his BS, Zoology, 1973 from Clemson University; MS, Entomology, 1978 from Clemson University and PhD, Entomology, 1982 from University of Arkansas. He has been Professor at University of Georgia from 1982 to present. His specializations and work include: 1982-1984 Poultry, 1984-1996 Fruit, 1996 to present Fruit & Ornamentals. He is from 2000 to present the Adjunct Professor & peach entomologist at Clemson University and from 2007 the Extension Entomology Coordinator with activities including: Chair Southern Professional Fruit Workers (SEPFW) Standing Committee on Regionalization; Senior IPM Advisor to Georgia Peach Council & South Carolina Peach Council. He has authored numerous journal articles, handbooks, conferences papers on Entomology and IPM and plant health. His involvements include - Entomological Society of America; - Georgia Entomological Society- Journal of Entomological Science, Editorial Board, 1986-1993, - National Peach Council, Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Association. Dr. Horton holds numerous leadership positions including : Leader in regionalization of southeastern university fruit programs; Contributor to fruit IPM & pesticide policy dialogues; Implementation of orchard-floor-management and alternate-row-middle spraying in southeastern peaches; Leader in export markets for blueberries (ca. 25% of crop, which was $100 million in 2009). He has worked for 4 years on facilitation of export of GA & SC peaches. Dr. Horton has been the recipient of a number of national awards in Extension Entomology and Crop Extension Programs: Southeastern Branch Entomological Society of America, Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension, 2010; D. W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Extension, 2007; Clemson University, Cooperative Extension Achievement Award to the Peach Team, 2007; Mr. Peach Award, Georgia Peach Council, 2004 (which is a grower award, and is seldom conferred on scientists) W.B. Hill Award, 2002 (University of Georgia’s highest recognition for Outreach) Carol R. Miller Distinguished Service Award, 1997 (National Peach Council's highest recognition for scientists); Lincoln Memorial Lecturer, University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology, 1997; University of Georgia Distinguished Service in Public Service Medal, IPM Team, 1983