Anna McCowan is a Software Solutions Manager at Keysight Technologies. Prior to that she worked as a failure analysis technician in Keysight’s wafer lab. Anna holds a B.Sc. degree in physics from Sonoma State University.
Mark Hartmann has been polymer and thermal management composite developer for the last 20 years when he joined Outlast Technologies. These materials include the incorporation of the phase change materials and thermally conductive components into textiles, industrial and electronics applications. He is currently CTO of Latent Heat Solutions LLC (LHS). LHS is the renamed industrial focused company after the divesture of the Outlast Technologies textile business.
Dr. John F. Maddox is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, Paducah Campus. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Auburn University in 2015. His primary research areas are thermal management of high-power electronics through jet impingement and thermal characterization of advanced materials used in aerospace and electronics cooling applications. He may be contacted at john.maddox@uky.edu.
Submer Technologies was founded In 2015 by Daniel Pope and Pol Valls. The creation of the company with offices, an R&D lab and a manufacturing plant located in Barcelona, Spain answered a precise intuition and need: cooling is the single biggest challenge for datacenters, Supercomputer applications, and Hyperscale deployments. Pol and Daniel had the dream to make operating and constructing datacenters more eco-friendly and so they assembled a multi-disciplined team bringing together skills and experience in datacenter operations, thermal engineering, HW & SW development, service delivery, innovation management, design, marketing and communications. In 2018, Submer came out of R&D and brought the SmartPod Immersion Cooling system to market. In 2019, Submer has further expanded its market scope with deployments all over the world.
Matt graduated with his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech spring 2017 and is currently co-founder and CEO of TCPoly. Matt has over 15 combined publications and pending patents and is a Fellow in the Innovation Crossroads Program at Oak Ridge National Labs. He earned degrees at Wake Forest (B.A. Economics) and Oregon Tech (B.Sci. Renewable Energy Engineering) while also playing basketball.
Raffaele Luca Amalfi is a Lead Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs New Jersey, where he performs cutting-edge research in the field of thermal management of high-performance communications and computing systems across multiple scales. He is the Principal Investigator on behalf of Nokia of America Corporation and Bell Labs for the Eurostars Project PCOOLDATA focused on the development of innovative cooling solutions for data centers. Since 2016 he worked as Scientific Collaborator and Lab Manager at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), at the Heat and Mass Transfer Lab, in Switzerland. In 2015 he joined Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey, where he performed disruptive research on hybrid cooling technologies for telecom equipment. In 2012 he joined IBM Research Lab in Switzerland where he developed a novel cooling system for high-power electronics. He has received a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from EPFL and he has authored more than 30 scientific publications.
