Gregory Kovacs

Greg is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Medicine. He holds a BASc (EE) from from the University of British Columbia, an MS (BioE) from U.C. Berkeley, a PhD (EE) and an MD from Stanford. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and AIMBE. Greg has been active in cardiovascular device design, physiology in extreme environments, mixed-signal circuit design, and sensor development, as well as co-founding the Bioengineering Department at Stanford. His government work includes serving as Investigation Scientist for the Columbia space shuttle accident investigation and Director of the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA for which he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. He has co-founded several companies, including molecular diagnostics innovator Cepheid. Greg is a pilot, mountaineer and maker, who enjoys fixing things – especially if they are broken.