Jesse Adams Ph.D.
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Department / Business Unit |
| Vice President and CTO |
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| Nevada Nanotech Systems, Inc. |
General Engineering |
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| Reno |
Nevada |
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Website |
| US |
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Jesse Adams is a technologist, businessman, educator, and inventor. In 2003 he received the University of Nevada Lemelson Award for innovation and entrepreneurship and in 2004 he won a Scientific American 50 Award. He has published papers, given talks, has patents pending, and holds one patent.
Adams is the co-founder of Nevada Nanotechnology Systems, Inc. which was spun out of research conducted at the University of Nevada to develop compact, low-cost chemical, biological and explosives detection devices. He started his engineering education at the University of Nevada, Reno, receiving a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a business minor. After winning a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, Adams went to Stanford University where he received both a master of science degree and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, working with/for, among others, the co-inventor of the Atomic Force Microscope, Calvin Quate, and Larry Leifer, then director of the Stanford Learning Laboratory.
Education
Ph.D. 2001, Stanford, Mechanical Engineering; M.S. 1997, Stanford, Mechanical Engineering; B.S. 1996, University of Nevada, Mechanical Engineering
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