Recent Advisory Positions

Advisory Boards

National Academy of Sciences: Board Member, National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Triennial Review Board
National Academy of Engineering: Advisory Council for the Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation; Chaired by: Former MIT President Charles M. Vest
PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology): Advised President Barack Obama’s Strategy for American Innovation to help build the roadmap for harnessing nanotechnology to stimulate the US economy
US Senate: Expert Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee Regarding the $1.5 Billion Reauthorization of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (Invited by Senator John Kerry)
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Board Member of CIFAR’s Research Council
Scientific American Advisory Board; Board Member
Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI); Founding Member of CIH’s Global Advisory Council
X-PRIZE; Advisory Council for Tricorder X-PRIZE; Special committee to design the $10Million Tricorder XPRIZE
Board of Governors, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth: Center for Indic Civilizations
Victoria Institute for Science and Technology; International Advisory Council
Fetzer Research Institute; Advisory Committee Member on New Frontiers of Science
Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) Board Member, National Board, Tampa
Museum of Science, Boston; Board Member, The Board of Overseers
IndUS Entrepreneurs TiE; Charter Member
India Nano; Board of Trustees & Scientific Advisory Board

Advisory Boards

Pepsico, Scientific Advisory Board, Board Member
Lockheed Martin, Board Member, Nanotechnology Advisory Board
Nanobiosym Group, Founder, Chairman, & CEO