Moving Laboratory Technologies to Market: Perspectives from LL Spinouts

Moderated by: Dr. Bernadette Johnson, MIT LL Chief Technology Ventures Officer

Join us via Zoom on 17 September at 2:00 pm for a Lincoln Laboratory 70th Anniversary Virtual MIT LL Technical Impact Series - Panel Discussion - Moving Laboratory Technologies to Market, Perspectives from LL Spinouts. The U.S. government’s approach to leveraging technological innovation has changed significantly in recent years. The Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and other agencies are increasingly turning to the private sector, including startups and small businesses, to meet some of their advanced capability needs. The commercial ecosystem is a key source of innovative solutions in consequential areas such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, quantum systems, communications, and space. Many new startup organizations in these domains have emerged from MIT and other universities and laboratories in the region. Every startup has its own origin story to tell. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is excited to welcome a panel of former staff members who have successfully transitioned technologies developed at the Laboratory to share their stories.

Join this moderated panel discussion to explore topics such as:

• Overcoming challenges in transferring Laboratory technologies to market
• Lessons learned about launching a startup
• MIT’s role in the regional and national innovation economy

This is also an opportunity for a broad discussion of success factors, including entrepreneurship, technical leadership, successful product development, go-to-market strategy, talent management, and financing.

Panelists

Dr. Helen Kim

Dr. Helen Kim has been the Vice President of Wireless Technology and IP at MaxLinear since its acquisition of NanoSemi in September 2020. Prior to the acquisition, she was co-founder and CEO of NanoSemi, an undisputed leader in linearization for wireless systems.

Kim is a scientist turned entrepreneur. Beginning in 2014, she and her team brought cutting-edge research technology into mass market products such as base stations, mobile devices, satellites, and test and measurement industries. She and her team expanded to developing augmented neurons for deep neural networks.

She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.

Dr. William Ross

Dr. Bill Ross is the CEO of Copious Imaging, an advanced imaging technology startup and spinoff from MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Copious is developing, producing, and deploying transformative infrared imaging solutions for national defense and security applications.

Before taking on his current role, Ross spent 20 years at Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he worked in a variety of roles developing and prototyping new technologies and national security capabilities. He holds a BSEE from Cornell University and a PhD from Boston University. He enjoys engineering that strives to create a better world: one that can be sustained ecologically, provides national and international security, and is socially beneficial. He believes that technology transfer is an important and urgent part of this challenge.

Lee Rossey

Lee Rossey is the CTO at SimSpace, a company that provides cyber ranges for training, testing, assessments, and mission rehearsals. The SimSpace platform is being used as the solution for USCYBERCOM’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment and for other militaries around the world as well as many commercial customers. Rossey co-founded SimSpace in 2015 with a core team of developers and cyber professionals that had previously worked together alongside the other co-founder in a national defense capacity. Rossey has an extensive track record of creating, growing, and leading specialized technical development teams tackling large, complex modeling and simulation challenges for classified applications.

During his time at Lincoln Laboratory, Rossey led the establishment and growth of the Cyber System Assessments Group to become a nationally recognized center of excellence. The group earned a reputation for technical excellence in cyber range development, cyber test and evaluation, cyber red teaming, and cyber exploitation.