Kayvan Rafiee is the co-founder of Viva Technics, a robotics start-up based in San Francisco, US. He has 7 years of experience in signal processing with applications in intelligent robotics hand and gearbox failure diagnostics in the Middle East, South Asia, and US. He also has 3 years of experience in nanomaterials fabrication for hydrogen storage tank for fuel cell vehicles.
Kayvan is the co-author of 21 papers in materials, manufacturing, and computer science in journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Small, ACS Nano, Nanoscale, Applied Physics Letters, and Mechanical System and Signal Processing, and the winner of 2010 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize for entrepreneurial idea.

Press Coverage:

• Nature News: Unobtrusive graphene coatings
• Nature Asia-Pacific: Graphene's other transparency
• Energy Quarterly: A perspective from the new generation of materials researchers
• Michigan Auto Times: Graphene leads to Nobel Prize win for England researchers
• Scientific American: Next-gen scientists honored for evolving medicine and renewables.
• Scientific American: Graphene used to make a hydrogen molecule "parking garage".

Invited Lecture, 2010 Eurekafest at MIT (Boston, US)

Last update: 5/8/2012