J. GEOFFREY CHASE 51 Otara Street Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] EDUCATION: 1/92 – 1/96 Stanford University, Stanford, California Ph.D. in Civil Engineering - Division of Structures & Geomechanics 9/89 – 12/90 Stanford University, Stanford, California M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - Division of Applied Mechanics General Motors Fellow 8/82 – 5/86 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with High Honors PROFESSIONAL and ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: University of Canterbury Dept. of Mechanical Engineering 8/00-present Distinguished Professor (Inaugural Inductee) 1/14 – present Director of Mechatronics Programme 6/11 – 02/17 Professor, Chair 1/07 – 12/13 Reader/Associate Professor 1/05 – 12/06 Senior Lecturer 1/02 – 12/04 Lecturer 8/00 – 12/01 University of Otago School of Medicine 9/03-present Honorary Professor, Dept of Medicine 1/11 - present Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dept of Medicine 9/03 – 12/10 University of Liege 1/09-present Adjunct Professor (Collaborateur Scientifique) 1/09 – present Visiting Professorships: o Northwest Polytechnical University, Aeronautics Department, Xi’an, China, 2-4 weeks per year 2019-present – funded by CSC and NPU o University of Liege, Institute of Physics, Hemodynamics Research Centre, Liege, Belgium, 3-12 weeks per year 2008-present – funded by Erskine Grant Award and RSNZ. o Aalborg University, Faculty of Engineering, Science & Medicine, Dept of Health Science & Technology, Centre for Model-based Medical Decision Support (MMDS), Denmark August- September 2007 – funded by Danish government and Aalborg University. o Taiwan National Science Council (NSC) visitor to: National Taiwan University (NTU), National Chung-Hsing University, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), October 10-21, 2007. Responsibilities: Research & teaching of dynamic systems and control, and engineering mathematics across Mechanical, Electrical, and Mechatronic Engineering. Service and leadership responsibilities: Director of Mechatronics includes all curriculum, organisation, accreditation, outreach and financial management/planning for this 150+ student program. It also includes capital expenditure planning and management for the program and its links across two departments. Promotions at College level and application management jointly with head of department. Also management of all professorial (our top level) promotions within the department. Business case development, including financial modeling and analysis, for department initiatives in research and teaching, including staffing levels and resourcing. Tiro Medical (formerly: Boundary LifeSciences Ltd) 3/05-present Co-Founder, Board of Directors Company formed to develop soft-tissue screening systems for breast cancer diagnosis. Venture funded by Canterbury Development Corporation, Powerhouse Ventures, Callaghan Innovation and others. Orit Ovosi Szoftver (Hungary) 7/17-present Co-Founder, Board of Directors Subsidiary / spinout of Tiro Medical. Company formed to develop model-based glycemic control and in-silico modeling systems and services. 2.2g & 2.2g-Force (since 10/2017) 6/17-present Co-Founder / License Holder Company formed to develop seismic and repetitive motion dissipation problems in a range of structural systems. Venture funded by Powerhouse Ventures Ltd, Callaghan Innovation, and others. Changed to licensing contract by university when other IP holders could not agree, role: consultant and shareholder in developing the business. Intersection LifeSciences Ltd 8/06 to 1/11 Co-Founder, Board of Directors Company formed to commercialize model-based therapeutics for optimized patient monitoring, diagnosis and therapy. Jointly founded with the Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC, Christchurch). Infineon Technologies Corporation 1/00 to 9/00 Senior Applications Engineer Develop applications for the highly parallel Infineon Carmel DSP core. Responsible for feasibility analysis and development of software test cases in C and Assembly, discovering advantageous applications, recommendations on future core technical development, technical marketing, technical seminar development and presentation, and significant customer interaction and customer support. GN ReSound and Technical Service Providers 6/99 to 10/99 Consultant Design, optimization and implementation of speech processing algorithms, using Matlab, SIMULINK and Dspace™, for high fidelity, digital earpieces and hearing aids. Responsible for advanced filtering algorithm design for signal conditioning to yield high quality sound with minimal noise, modulation, and feedback. Specific algorithms developed in the areas of noise reduction, automatic gain control, active feedback cancellation, pitch-shifting, and automatic signal compression. Reflectivity Inc. 1/99 to 5/99 Independent Consultant Design and optimization of digital micro-mirror devices for a small startup company. Established several new analytical and finite element modeling methods delivering superior correlation and saving the customer significant development time and cost, while increasing their knowledge of the device. Characterized design space, selected feasible designs for performance and manufacturing. Hughes Space and Communication and Ensemble Systems 6/98 to 1/99 Independent Consultant Customized real time satellite control system software for the 601HP spacecraft. Responsible for architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and testing a portion of the ground station control system procedures for this spacecraft. Resolved multiple spacecraft engineering and operations issues related to the paradigm of the graphical software upon which the system is based. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) 9/95 to 1/98 Member of the Research Staff Research on Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and active structural control and strengthening problems – Smart Matter. Experimental and theoretical work including design and testing of several MEMS-based control systems, using robust H-infinity, optimal, decentralized, and non-linear control. Led team from concept through implementation. General Motors Corp, CPC Engineering 7/86 to 1/92 Project and Senior Project Engineer Analyzed and optimized over 8 new vehicle systems using FEA and other techniques. Developed models and procedures for test lab validation, full vehicle and structural element design input, and specifications for vehicle vibration performance. Created new optimization and design techniques to improve analysis capabilities and productivity. The models were applied to develop more than 5 vehicle platforms. Awarded General Motors Fellowship to attend Stanford University for Masters degree CONSULTING and ADVISORY BOARD ACTIVITY: 1. Monarch Medical, Medical Advisory Board, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2013- 2. Medtronic Inc, Consultant, Northridge, CA, USA, 2008- 3. Syft Technologies, Medical Advisory Board, Christchurch, NZ, 2004-6 4. Envara Inc, Inde. Consultant, Raanana, Israel, 2000-2003 5. Sandbridge Technologies, Inde. Consultant, White Plains, New York, 2002-2003 6. Environment Canterbury (E-Can), Inde. Consultant, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001 RESEARCH and PROJECT EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW: brief overview by area Biomedical Systems: Model-based therapeutics for managing hyperglycaemia in critical care and ambulatory individuals. Includes new highly accurate model-based insulin sensitivity tests. Developed models, methods and algorithms to quantify agitation and improve sedation in ICU. Cardiovascular models and parameter ID methods for real-time diagnosis and decision support. Lung mechanics modeling for optimal mechanical ventilation strategies in ARDS patients. Digital Imaging-based Elasto-Tomography (DIET) elastographic breast cancer screening technology. Founded 4 startup companies in model-based therapeutics (Boundary Lifesciences, Intersection Lifesciences, Tiro Medical) with 2 subsidiary EU Ventures (Orit Medikai (Hungary) and Tiro UK (United Kingdom)). Smart and Next-Generation Structures, Health Monitoring & Control: Wide variety of adaptive filtering based structural health monitoring methods. Semi-active, optimal and passive control of large-scale structures, including extensive non-linear finite element simulation and design, and passive designs. Several full-scale experimental works. Optimal MEMS-based buckling control featured on ABC News, The New York Times. Helped found 2 startups in Christchurch (C&M Technologies and 2.2g) in structural technology. MEMS Devices & Modeling: FEA-base analysis, design, and optimization of MEMS micro-mirror devices. Non-linear FEA tools for the dynamic analysis of non-linear, high speed MEMS devices, including snap-in, zipping and squeeze film damping effects, for Eastman Kodak. Design of a high speed MEMS air jet valves using smart materials and PCB batch fabrication. Digital Signal Processing: Designed and implemented real time, digital filtering algorithms for feedback cancellation, noise reduction, automatic gain control, and pitch shifting for digital hearing aids with GN ReSound. MPEG-4 encoder and decoder applications analysis to remove over 50% of the required Mcycles of computation using an Infineon Carmel DSP core for Infineon AG. Chip specific applications analysis focusing wireless LAN and digital audio SoC designs. Aerospace and Satellite Systems: Analysis and development of real time ground control software for the HS601HP