ECE Faculty Companies

ECE has a long and successful history of start-up company activity through the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful businesses. VentureLab, a one-stop center for technology commercialization, assists faculty in evaluating the commercial value of invention disclosures and in determining whether to license the technology to industry or to begin a start-up company.

Asankya Networks: Asankya Networks provides intelligent networking solutions that optimize the performance and security of real-time traffic on multi-site wide area networks.
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer: Raghupathy Sivakumar
Axion Biosystems: Axion Biosystems has developed the next generation multi-electrode array (MEA) technology to provide unprecedented access to cellular information at a reasonable cost.
Board of Directors: Mark G. Allen
GTronix: GTronix is developing analog integrated circuits for ultra-low power, small size and cost-effective implementations in portable consumer electronics.
Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer, and Board Member: Jennifer O. Hasler
Qualtré: Qualtré is a fabless semiconductor company developing integrated all-axis motion sensors for consumer electronics.
Co-Founder and CTO: Farrokh Ayazi
VQLink: VQLink is a provider of solutions for the measurement and enhancement of video quality in cable, telco, Internet, and mobile distribution networks.
Nikil Jayant, Co-Founder and Interim CEO
Whisper Communications: The technologies developed at Whisper Communications prevents eavesdroppers from collecting any information in the wireless/mobile payment point-of transaction.
Co-Founder: Steve W. McLaughlin

ATDC Graduate Companies

An ATDC company is designated as a "graduate" when it has reached over $1 million of growing revenue, has become a value acquisition, has raised significant venture funding, or has received clearance to begin trials with the Food and Drug Administration. Seven companies started by ECE faculty members have reached graduate status.

ASPI Digital (acquired by Polycom, 2001): ASPI Digital was established in 1981 and produced hardware and software tools for DSP algorithm development and multimedia on high-speed microprocessors.
Co-Founders: Thomas P. Barnwell, Russell M. Mersereau, and Ronald W. Schafer
CardioMEMS: CardioMEMS uses microelectromechanical (MEMS) and wireless (RF) technology to create breakthrough devices for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic diseases.
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer: Mark G. Allen
EGT: EGT manufactures digital video signal processing equipment for television distribution over cable, satellite, and IP networks.
Chief Science Officer: Nikil Jayant
Innovolt: Innovolt products provide complete, dependable, and reliable electrical protection against current and voltage surges.
Chair, CTO, and Co-Founder: Deepak Divan
Lancope: Lancope Inc. provides next-generation network integrity solutions that deliver behavior-based threat defense, policy enforcement, and insightful network intelligence.
Founder: John A. Copeland
Nexidia: Nexidia produces scalable enterprise speech intelligence software for audio mining and speech analytics.
Co-Founder and Board Member: Mark A. Clements
Suniva: Suniva is focused on the development, manufacturing, and delivery of low-cost, high-efficiency silicon solar cells for clean power generation.
Founder and CTO: Ajeet Rohatgi

Last revised on March 8, 2013.