Raj Gupta
33 Vandewater Street, Suite 205  San Francisco, CA 94133  +1.415.362.3694  gupta@terahz.org
SUMMARY
 15+ years in silicon sensors and electronics, MEMS, micromachining, photovoltaics & fuel-cells.
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Successful inventor, manager, invited speaker & panelist, and author of 20+ papers and 3 patents.
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Co-founder of two companies leading to more than $15M of venture capital investment.
Keywords: Accelerometers; gyroscopes; capacitive, piezoresistive & piezoelectric; photovoltaics; optics; VLSI
EDUCATION
1993-1997
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cambridge, MA
1991-1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cambridge, MA
1987-1990
University of Illinois
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, magna cum laude
Urbana-Champaign, IL
EXPERIENCE
2006-2007
Sensamatics Corporation
Walnut Creek, CA
Chief Technology Officer
 Founded company to supply wireless (ZigBee) tire monitoring systems for a $2B+ market.
 Hired executive team (CEO and VP of Marketing) and built core technical and sales teams.
 Led company through an incomplete round of Series-A venture financing before company close.
2001 – 2004
Volant Technologies
San Francisco, CA
Owner
 Clients have included Lockheed, DARPA, Bridgewave Communications, Shalon Ventures,
Neah Power Systems, Merit Sensor Systems, LightConnect, MedScanSonics, and UniPixel.
 Focus on product & technology strategy, product execution, business development, expert
witness deposition & testimony, foundry partnering & prototyping, sensor integration for
miniaturization, cost reduction and performance improvement.
&
2006 Present
2004 – 2006
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
Fremont, CA
Manager of MEMS Development & Foundry Relations
 Expanded business into a new $1M disposable blood pressure sensor customer.
 Oversaw, negotiated, managed, and developed fabrication processes for the transfers of:
o A $6M industrial grade piezoresistive accelerometer line to a new 6” foundry.
o A $1M AFM SiN3 cantilever line in jeopardy of losing process support to a 4” process.
o A $5M decaying 1.5” wafer strain gauge & pressure product lines to a 5” fab.
 Launched, designed, and developed a sub-1PSI piezoresistive pressure sensor line on a 5”
CMOS compatible process compatible with an electrochemical etch stop process.
2000 – 2001
InLight Communications, Inc.
Fremont, CA
Manager of Engineering Design
 Helped raise $12M in Series-A venture financing.
 Invented InLight’s micromirrors and led technology from microfabrication into integration.
 Founded and led design team using LabView, Code V, Zemax, Amperes, ABAQUS & ANSYS.
 Product manager for single-mode fiber-optic arrayed V-grooves for optical connectors.
1997 – 2000
Microcosm Technologies, Inc. / Coventor, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
Technical Lead of West Coast Office
 Led technical marketing of MEMS-based finite-element (FEM) tools in the Western US & Asia.
 Expanded office from 2 to 8, including a group to support BioMEMS development.
 Initiated educational outreach into BSAC, Stanford and UCLA and hired summer interns.
 Initiated intellectual property (IP) strategy, and filed company’s 1 st patent.
1995
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, CA
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
2002-present
Society for Microsystems Advancement (SoMA)
San Francisco & Berkeley, CA
Co-Founder
 A round-table forum dedicated to technology advancement and commercial adoption of MST.
2002-present
National Science Foundation & Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C.
Technical and commercial peer reviewer for Phase I and Phase II SBIR grants.
HONORS
 Peer reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS) & Sensors
and Actuators A, and Kluwer Publishing’s book series on Microsystems.
 Editorial board of the Journal of Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (JMSM) &
NanoTrends International Journal.
 Program committee for SPIE Microelectronics Reliability & Qualification Workshop.
 Invited presentations:
 ASME, September 1998 & SPIE, October 1996.
 MUMPs User Group Meetings, August 1996 and 1998.
 Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Group, University of California-Berkeley, March 1999.
 TEX-MEMS, August 1999.
 Bay Area MEMS Journal Club, November 2002.
 IEEE Outstanding Engineering Sophomore, semi-finalist.
 Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering Freshman, runner-up.
PATENTS
Raj K. Gupta and Stephen D. Senturia, “Electrostatically-Actuated Structures for Fluid Property
Measurements and Related Methods”, 78 claims, Patent # 5,955,659, September 21, 1999.
Raj K. Gupta, “Characterization of Microelectromechanical Structures”, 10 claims, Patent #
6,542,829, April 1, 2003.
BOOKS
Encyclopedia of Sensors, “The Future of CAD for MEMS”, chapter being edited for print in 2005.
SELECT
PAPERS
Raj K. Gupta, “Electronically-probed Measurements of MEMS Geometries”, ASME/IEEE Journal
of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), September 2000.
V. L. Rabinovich, R. K. Gupta, and S. D. Senturia, “The Effect of Release-Etch Holes on the
Electromechanical Behavior of MEMS Structures”, Transducers 1997, Chicago, IL, June 1997.
R. K. Gupta and S. D. Senturia, “Pull-in Time Dynamics as a Measure of Absolute Pressure”, IEEE
International Workshop on MEMS 1997, Nagoya, JAPAN, January 1997, pp. 290-294.
G. K. Ananthasuresh, R. K. Gupta, and S. D. Senturia, “An Approach to Macromodeling of MEMS
for Nonlinear Dynamic Simulation”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress
and Exposition, Symposium on MEMS, Atlanta, GA, November 1996.
R. K. Gupta, E. S. Hung, Y.-J. Yang, G. K. Ananthasuresh, and S. D. Senturia, “Pull-in Dynamics
of Electrostatically-Actuated Beams”, 1996 Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Late
News Session, Hilton Head, SC, June 3-6, 1996.
R. K. Gupta, P. M. Osterberg, and S. D. Senturia, “Material Property Measurements of
Micromechanical Polysilicon Beams”, SPIE Micromachining & Microfabrication Conference,
Invited Paper, Austin, TX, October 14-16, 1996.
R. K. Gupta, C. H. Hsu, M. A. Schmidt, S. D. Senturia, “Monitoring Plasma Over-etching of
Wafer-bonded Microstructures”, Transducers 1995, I, Stockholm, June 1995, pp. 269-72.
R. Gupta, et al., “A Noise Study of a High-Tc Josephson Junction under Near-millimeter-wave
Irradiation”, Applied Physics Letters, 64, February 14, 1994.
R. Gupta, et al., “The Response of YBCO/PBCO/YBCO Ramp Type Junctions to Near Millimeterwave Radiation”, Applied Physics Letters, 62, June 21, 1993
A. Hamed, H. Fritzsche, X. Deng, S. Kohler, R. Gupta, “Metastable Defect States and Equilibrium
Temperatures in a-SiNX:H, a-SiOX:H, and a-SiCX:H”, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 137&138 (1991).
C. M. Kinoshita, A. Gewurz, J. Siegel, S. Ying, T. Hugli, J. Coe, R. Gupta, R. Huckman, H.
Gewurz, “A Protease-sensitive Site in the Proposed Ca2+-Binding Region of Human Serum
Amyloid P component and other Pentraxins”, Protein Science, 1 (1992).
A. Gewurz, C. M. Kinoshita, S. Ying, R. Gupta, J. Eatman, H. Gewurz, “Characteristics of the
Binding of Serum Amyloid P Component to Chromatin”, FASEB 1988.
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CONTACT INFORMATION FOR REFERENCES:
Sean Cahill, Vice President of Engineering
Bridgewave Communications, Inc.
VP TechnologySanta Clara, CA 95054
(408)567-6951
seanc@bridgewave.com
Art Zias, CEO
CapTorr
Los Altos, CA 94024
(650)248-0137
art.zias@comcast.net
Jeffrey L. Hilbert, President & Founding CEO
WiSpry, Inc.
20 Fairbanks, Suite 198
Irvine, CA 92618
(949)458-9477 x200 (Office)
(949)458-9485 (Fax)
(949)874-5930 (Mobile)
jeff.hilbert@wispry.com
Kris Pister, Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Group (BSAC)
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)643-9268
pister@eecs.berkeley.edu
Kris Pister, CTO
Dust, Inc.
(510)225-2117
kpister@dust-inc.com
G. K. Ananthasuresh, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
(215)898-7191
gksuresh@seas.upenn.edu
Stephen Senturia, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)253-6869
sds@mit.edu
Jacob White, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)253-2543
white@rle-vlsi.mit.edu