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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">   Mats Cooper     

 Mats Cooper   Mats Howard Cooper</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="mailto:mhc@mit.edu">mhc@mit.edu</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>+1 (617) 461-1082</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>40 Anderson St. #15</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Boston, MA 02114</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Doctoral Candidate in Engineering </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="P1010213.JPG" NAME="graphics1" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=913 HEIGHT=1220 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT>Photographer: Jess Vey</P>

<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(1/11) Teaching Assistantships Completed:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>2.005 / 2.006 sequence in Thermal Fluids Engineering (2003-2004) </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/S04/c2/s2_006.html">https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/S04/c2/s2_006.html (MIT certificates required)</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>BE.342 / BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials (2005) </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/F05/cBE/sBE_442.html">https://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/evaluations/F05/cBE/sBE_442.html (MIT certificates required)</A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(2/11) Community Outreach:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/seed/"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif">SEED Academy</FONT></FONT></A> <FONT SIZE=3><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif">- Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery Academy. (2006)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><A HREF="http://www.beaconacademy.org/">Beacon Academy</A> – Academics, Character, Opportunity. (2005-2006) </FONT>

</P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(3/11) Research Funding generously provided by:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2002-2003) Department of Mechanical Engineering <A HREF="http://www-me.mit.edu/">http://www-me.mit.edu/</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2004-2005) Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/">http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2005) ROHM of Japan <A HREF="http://www.rohm.com/products/index.html">http://www.rohm.com/products/index.html</A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(4/11) Public Presentations:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2004) MIT <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/seminars/2004/fall/">Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers</A></P>

<P ALIGN=CENTER>(2003) <A HREF="http://www.ntcri.gov.tw/Files/MatchNews/TALENET%202003-2004-1.doc">Talente</A> exhibition Munich Germany. </P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(5/11) Business Plan Contest Submissions:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2002) <A HREF="http://50k.mit.edu/docs/MIT$1KEntrantReport.pdf">Chemicube</A> in the $1K Entrepreneurship Competition.</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2003) <A HREF="http://50k.mit.edu/alumni/2003_50k_summaries.php">Chemicube</A> in the $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.</P>

<P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2003/03/17/story7.html">Mass High Tech </A>News Coverage of the Chemicube (2003)</P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(6/11) Research Contributions for </FONT><A HREF="http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ethies"><FONT SIZE=6><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif">William Thies</FONT></FONT></A><FONT SIZE=6>:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/06/thies-dna06.pdf">Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers</A>. <BR>William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen and Saman Amarasinghe. <BR>Proceedings of the 12th International Meeting on DNA Computing (DNA 2006). <BR>Seoul, Korea, June, 2006. </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/04/thies-asploswild04.pdf">Programmable Microfluidics</A>. <BR>William Thies, J.P. Urbanski, Mats Cooper, David Wentzlaff, Todd Thorsen, and Saman Amarasinghe. <BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/skeckler/wild04/">ASPLOS Wild and Crazy Ideas Session. </A><BR>Boston, MA, October, 2004.</P>

<P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/04/thies-rqe-slides.pdf">Towards Programmable Microfluidics</A>. <BR>William Thies, Research Qualifying Examination, MIT EECS, April, 2004. </P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(7/11) Support for Prof. <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/thorsen/www/">Todd Thorsen</A>:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://www.njnano.org/pasi/event/talks/thorsen2.pdf">Fabricating Microfluidic Devices for High-Density Biological Assays</A>. Panamerican Advanced Studies Institute: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems; San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (2004)</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://cag.csail.mit.edu/commit/papers/06/urbanski-loc06.pdf">Digital Microfluidics Using Soft Lithography</A>. <BR>John Paul Urbanski, William Thies, Christopher Rhodes, Saman Amarasinghe and Todd Thorsen. <BR>Lab on a Chip 2006, 6(1), 96-104. </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>J.P. Urbanski <A HREF="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/32373/1/61516280.pdf">Masters Thesis</A> (2004)</P>

<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(8/11) Patent Filings:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=thorsen.IN.&amp;s2=cooper.IN.&amp;OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&amp;RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">20060088449</A> <A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=thorsen.IN.&amp;s2=cooper.IN.&amp;OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&amp;RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">Systems and methods for transferring a fluid sample </A> </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=2&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=thorsen.IN.&amp;s2=cooper.IN.&amp;OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&amp;RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">20050277125</A> <A HREF="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=2&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=thorsen.IN.&amp;s2=cooper.IN.&amp;OS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper&amp;RS=IN/thorsen+AND+IN/cooper">High-density reaction chambers and methods of use</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>My inventors page at <A HREF="http://www.freshpatents.com/Mats-Cooper-Chicago-invdirc.php">FreshPatents.com</A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(9/11) Student Government:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><FONT SIZE=3>(2004-2006)

<A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/committees/president/Rosters/intellprop.pdf">Roster</A> for Graduate Student Council </FONT><A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/about/reps/"><FONT SIZE=3>Institute Committee on Intellectual Property.</FONT></A></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Graduate Student Council General Council Meeting <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/about/reps/gscreps/GCM-attendance.pdf">Attendance.</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Secretary: Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers (2005-2006) as reported in the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/resources/game_final_report_2004_2005.pdf">Annual Report</A> and <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/newsletter/2005.fall.newsletter.pdf">Newsletter.</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Social Chair: Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers (2004-2005) as reported in the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/game/www/newsletter/2004.spring.newsletter.pdf">Newsletter</A>.</P>

<P ALIGN=CENTER>Social Chair: Sidney Pacific (2003-2004) as reported in the <A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/docs/newsletter_2003_09.pdf">Sidney Pacific Newsletter </A>and house meeting <A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/government/house_docs/docs/housemtg_minutes_20031007.doc">minutes</A>.</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><FONT SIZE=3>Sidney Pacific </FONT><A HREF="http://s-p.mit.edu/committees.php?comm_name=sp-brunch-chair"><FONT SIZE=3>Brunch helper</FONT></A></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2005) <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/scuba-club/www/Membership.html">MIT Scuba Club.</A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(10/11) Research pics:</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/MatsCooperClock.ppt">2.744 Clock</A> and <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/matsCooperSolidModel/">Solidworks parts</A> for a <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/mhc/Public/2.744/MatsCooperUserNeeds/">mobile PDA stethoscope</A></P>

<P ALIGN=CENTER>(2005) Jess Vey's writeup on page 10 of the <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/news-events/gsn/2005_12_december/GSN2005-12-web.pdf">Graduate Student News</A></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>(2003) Photographer and Web Publisher: <A HREF="http://www.media.mit.edu/~jpbonsen/Rndm-Pix.htm">Joost Bonsen</A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=6>(11/11) 20<SUP>th</SUP> century projects: </FONT> </P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman, serif">(2000) Jitter compensation control, beam calibration, beam setup and alignment for the Artificial Star 3 Gravity Probe B project at Stanford as detailed in the <A HREF="http://stuff.mit.edu/people/eba2/dissertation.PDF">doctoral thesis</A> of <A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/people/eba2/index.html">Ted Acworth</A>. </FONT>

</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman, serif">(2000) Graduate study with the <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/group/AIM/index.html">Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford</A></FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://patrifriedman.com/">Patri Friedman </A>is in this category because we haven't done any 21<SUP>st</SUP> century projects yet.</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><TT><TT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000">(1999) First-place award of t</FONT></FONT></TT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000">he <A HREF="http://www.hmc.edu/admin/colrel/greensheet/gs3_31_99.html">Pacific Southwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education</A> (ASEE/PSW) in the section's Undergraduate Engineering Design Competition goes to my Harvey Mudd team.</FONT></FONT></TT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><TT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000">(1994) Diploma - Geneva Community High School via the <A HREF="http://static.namesdatabase.com/schools/IL/Geneva/GenevaCommunityHighSchool.html">Names Database.</A></FONT></FONT></TT></P>

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