Professor Mark Humayun

Board Member, Medical Project Leader, Scientific Advisor.

• Director of the Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, USC.
• Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, USC.
• Cornelius J. Pings Chair in Biomedical Sciences, USC.
• Co-Director of the USC Roski Eye Institute.
• M.D from Duke University, Doctoral degree in University of North Carolina.
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.
• Director of NSF BMES Center;One of the main inventors of the first intelligent retina implant product approved by the US FDA and European CE certification.
• Nearly 200 academic papers published, authored more than 20 book chapters, the inventor of more than 80 patents.

Professor Yu-Chong Tai 

Caltech Department Head & Professor

Medical Engineering

Scientific Advisor

• Micro-implant Device Board member, technical project leader and scientific consultant.
• Founder, department head and professor of medical engineering of Caltech.
• Professor of electrical engineering and mechanical engineering of Caltech.
• Member of the American institute of medical and biological engineering (AIMBE), American institute of inventors, British institute of physics (IOP), academia sinica, Taiwan; Member of the institute of electrical and electronic engineers (IEEE ).
• More than 30 years of experience in MEMS and implantable device.
• Over 100 authorized and pending patents.
• Digital Sight, 2010 Breakthrough of the Year Awards.
• Member of the consultation committee of the institute of RCAS, Academia Sinica.

Changlin Pang

CTO

• Bachelor and master degrees in the department of precision instruments and machinery, Tsinghua university, China.
• Doctoral degree of Professor Yu-Chong Tai's lab of electronic engineering, Caltech. The doctoral dissertation is the research of micro-implantable electrode array.
• 17 academic papers published, over 20 authorized and pending patents in America and China.
• More than 10 years of experience in design, development and industrialization of micro eye implants.
• Founded "Replenish, Inc." as a patent inventor. Joined ALCON as principal engineer in R&D center.

Yuntao Hu

Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Ophthalmology

Medical Advisor

• Doctoral degree of Peking university; Postdoctoral fellow at the university of southern California.
• Director of ophthalmology of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital affiliated to Tsinghua university, deputy leader of ophthalmology group of Chinese medical association, vice chairman of ophthalmology committee of Chinese medical doctor association.
• Member of American Society of Retina Specialists, ASRS. Member of ARVO, Member of AAO.
• Specialist of California Project to Cure Blindness (CPCB) retinal stem cell transplantation, visiting professor at USC Biomedical Therapy Institute.

  

Philips Weiss

Director

• Bachelor degree from Occidental College.
• Intelligent medical device embedded software expert.
• More than 32 years of experience on Medical Device embedded software.
• 25 patents for an invention.
• Worked for many well-known medical device US company and responsible for software D&D management. Complete many medical device's software D&D which got FDA approval.