Taste of Tech Seminar: IC2’s Case for Steady, Sustainable Growth in the Tech Sector | Digital Twins – Revolutionizing Semiconductor Industry and Innovation

Taste of Tech Seminar Series

11/22/2024

Lunch will be provided during the seminar

Time

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (EST)

Talk 1: Dr. David Mills is currently a Principal Engineer and the President of Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2).  Prior to joining IC2 in 2014, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida as a member of the Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group in 2010 and 2014, respectively. His education and background is in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors for high-temperature and harsh environments as well as MEMS wall shear stress and pressure sensors developed primarily for the aerospace industry.  By focusing on instrumentation challenges faced by researchers, he is able to help realize IC2’s mission of providing innovative precision instrumentation solutions to the global test and measurement community.

Presentation Title: IC2’s Case for Steady, Sustainable Growth in the Tech Sector
Abstract: This talk will focus on the evolution of IC2 and their non-traditional path to growth and compared to more traditional tech startups. IC2 President, Dr. David Mills will also discuss how they’ve leveraged the SBIR/STTR program to expand the company’s technology base while addressing some of the challenges small businesses face in trying to transition SBIR-funded technologies to the commercial market.

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Talk 2: Dr. Volker J. Sorger is the Paula Rhines Endowed Professor for Semiconductor Photonics. He oversees groundbreaking R&D, technology lab-to-fab transitions and modernized education toward securing key innovations and creating jobs. Being an evangelist of the U.S. CHIPS & Science Act, Dr. Sorger creates and builds public-private partnerships by uniting technical experts, stakeholders and policymakers to strengthen a global semiconductor ecosystem of the “free world.” As such, he crafts global supply-chain partnerships to build bridges between the U.S. and its allies, including Western Europe, Germany, Japan and South Korea, toward accelerating R&D, innovation and manufacturing in semiconductors and photonics. In earlier science-policy activities, he assumed roles in the National Photonic Initiative, adding to the policies of the White House OSTP. Dr. Sorger’s technology and R&D thrusts include, photonic-electronic integrated circuits, AI accelerators, advanced packaging, optoelectronics devices, and chip prototyping. For his work, Dr. Sorger received multiple awards including the SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, top 16 educators in the nation, the Presidential PECASE Award, the Emil Wolf Prize, and the National Academy of Sciences award of the year. Dr. Sorger held editor roles in Optica, Applied Physics Rev., eLight, Chips, and Editor-in-Chief of Nanophotonics. He is a Fellow of The Optical Society (formerly OSA), SPIE, IEEE, IAAM. He holds more than 20 U.S. patents, most of which are licensed to corporations and ventures. He founded and advised several deep-tech and SAAS ventures.

Presentation Title: Digital Twins – Revolutionizing Semiconductor Industry and Innovation
Abstract: This talk will focus on Digital Twins, models of physical representations, that are a revolutionary step to accelerate innovation, improve performance, and reduce cost in the semiconductor industry. In this talk Dr. Sorger will review the state of the art innovations and vision of digital twins in the context of the U.S. CHIPS Act and role of the UF ecosystem.

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