Team
We are brought together by a passion to share cutting edge technical knowledge, hands-on skills in innovation and entrepreneurship and a system approach with innovators in large and small organizations. We are all teachers and believe in empowering organizations to better develop the talents that lie within.
Nevan C. Hanumara, PhD
Human-centered Design & Healthcare Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Hanumara is a mechanical engineer with a curiosity for social science. His work focuses on human-centered design, with application to healthcare, emerging markets and anywhere people and systems interact. He is a Research Scientist in MIT's Dept. of Mechanical Engineering where he co-instructs the MIT Medical Device Design course, which fosters clinical-engineering collaborations to prototype new medical device technologies.
Dr. Hanumara works to understand how to increase the effectiveness of entrepreneurship as a mechanism for technology commercialization, has extensive international experience and serves as a formal and informal advisor to multiple health-focused startups and is a senior advisor to the New England Medical Innovation Center.
He holds a Doctorate and Master of Mechanical Engineering from MIT and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering and French from the University of Rhode Island.
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David H. Hagan, PhD
Founder & CEO, Quant AQ Atmospheric Chemistry
Dr. Hagan is an atmospheric chemist with expertise in the design and deployment of analytical instrumentation. His research has primarily focused on the design and deployment of large, distributed networks of high performance, but low-cost air quality sensors for identifying the types and sources of pollution. He has conducted extensive fieldwork and placed real-time monitoring networks in places as varied as Cambridge, MA, Kilauea, Hawaii and Delhi, India.
Dr. Hagan has experience in all aspects of development including hardware, software, IoT and analytics. He is now the co-founder and CEO of QuantAQ, Inc., which is commercializing his work to provide full solution, managed, connected, air quality sensor networks globally.
He received his BA in Chemical Physics from Hendrix College, BS in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Santosh Shanbhogue, PhD
Energy Technology
Dr. Shanbhogue is a combustion scientist in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT, with over ten years of experience in technologies involving energy, propulsion and the environment. He works on projects funded by the government, corporate research and startups, where translation and deployment requires extensive R&D in critical, yet not so well understood areas of combustion science. He has a ‘full-stack’ experience with all aspects of reactor engineering – ideation, design, fabrication, data-acquisition, sensing & control, and advanced instrumentation for diagnosis.
He received his B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and MS and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Coby Unger
Industrial Designer & Fabricator
Coby holds a BS in Industrial Design and currently works as an instructor and shop manager at the MIT Hobby Shop. Along with assisting students with academic, research and personal projects, Coby pursues his own creative work as well as contract design and fabrication.
His experience ranges from wooden eyeglasses and furniture to emergency medical ventilators and adaptable prosthetic devices.
In 2015 and 2016, Coby lived in India where he worked on efficient cooking stoves and developed a mobile workshop classroom in the back of a rickshaw. In his time outside of work, he can usually be found working on his small garlic farm.
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