Plenary Speaker

Walter Everett Voit is a tenured associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas where he explores the thermomechanics of shape memory polymers, flexible bioelectronics, next generation neural interfaces, 3-D printing, degradable polymers, and the effects of ionizing radiation on polymers. Prof. Voit is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Adaptive 3D Technologies, a startup company focusing on next-generation acoustics and additive manufacturing based on specialty polymers and thiol chemistries. He has also co-founded Syzygy Memory Plastics, Ares Materials, Pascalor, Qualia, and Polycraft. Prof. Voit is the past President and Science and Technology Chair of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an International Atomic Energy Agency consultant in the field of radiation crosslinked shape memory polymers. He is a DARPA Young Faculty Awardee and DARPA Director’s Fellow. Prof. Voit received a BS in Computer Science in 2005 and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from UT Dallas in 2006. Prof. Voit received a PhD in Material Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2009. While at Georgia Tech he was a Presidential Scholar and was selected to the prestigious TI:GER program.