Saul Griffith

Saul Griffith
Born 1974 (age 41–42)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Fields Material science
Alma mater University of New South Wales (B.MET.E)
University of Sydney (M.E.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Known for Low-cost eyeglasses,
Energy conservation,
Howtoons

Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian American inventor. He is the founder or co-founder of seven companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables.

Education

In 2000, Griffith graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Engineering degree.[1]

He won a scholarship to MIT Media Lab to study towards a PhD that he completed in 2004.

The subject of his PhD Thesis was "self-replicating machines". They were one of the first instances of artificial replication being demonstrated using real physics.[2]

Projects

Saul is the co-founder and CEO of OtherLab, a research and development company working on computational manufacturing and design tools[3] and applying those tools to projects such as inflatable pneumatic robots and prostheses,[4] novel approaches to heliostat design,[5] and applications of computational origami to the design of pressure vessels (e.g. for compressed natural gas) in arbitrary shapes.[6]

Previously, he was a co-founder of Squid Labs, and its spinout companies and projects Makani Power, Instructables, Wattzon, HowToons, OptiOpia, Potenco and Monkeylectric.[7]

Saul Griffith giving a talk at Poptech 2008

Griffith now lives in San Francisco.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Saul Griffith". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~saul/PhD/index.html
  3. ↑ "Projects". otherlab.com.
  4. ↑ "Solve for X: Saul Griffith on inflatable robots". youtube.com.
  5. ↑ "Novel, Disruptive Approaches to Heliostat Design". sunfolding.com.
  6. ↑ "Conformable Tank". otherlab.com.
  7. ↑ Holthouse, David (December 6, 2007). "How $500,000 can save the world". Fortune Small Business. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
  8. ↑ "September 15, 2010". The Colbert Report. September 15, 2010. Comedy Central.
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