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Michael's Biography

Michael Sung is finishing his Ph.D with the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently the lead researcher from the Wearable Computing Group under Prof. Sandy Pentland at the MIT Media Lab, and is one of the principal developers of the group's next-generation distributed wearable computing platform which recently won the Most Visionary Technology Award at the MIT Enterprise Forum's Technology Conference. Michael's doctoral research focuses on developing practical wearable monitoring systems using non-invasive physiologic sensing capable of context classification and behavior trending for a variety of real-time proactive healthcare applications. His current research has spawned collaborations with various research and corporate institutions, including the U.S. Army Natick Labs, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Rochester Center for Future Health, Fraunhofer Institute, British Telecom, and National Taiwan University. Please see www.media.mit.edu/~msung and www.voxys.com for more details.

Michael also has extensive experience in the areas of computer architecture, microprocessor design, and semiconductor manufacturing. He is a principal founder of Advanced Diamond Solutions (www.advanceddiamond.com), a holding company which develops diamond-based material technologies for a variety of industries, including diamond synthesis, field emission displays, and thermoelectric generation. The current flagship products of ADS are diamond composite materials for thermal management applications in the semiconductor, optoelectronics, military, and electronics packaging industries.

Michael currently holds a B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

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