Actuality Medical: Executive Team
Gregg Favalora - Founder
favalora (at) actuality-medical.com
Mr. Favalora began researching 3-D displays and visualization in 1988. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering, graduating with Distinction in the Major from Yale University in 1996. He received an Master's in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 1998, having left Harvard in 1997 to found Actuality Systems. In 1998, Mr. Favalora was a winner of the BFGoodrich / National Inventors Hall of Fame's Collegiate Inventor's Competition, is a $10k winner of the MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition, and is a member of the Technology Review magazine's "TR100," a group of the top technologists under the age of 35.
Mr. Favalora is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and engineering, having presented for the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, the MIT $50k, garage.com's Bootcamp for Startups, the MIT Entrepreneurship Forum, SPIE, SID, IEEE, and others.
Gregg's research interests include volumetric and holographic 3-D displays, medical technologies, and biologically-inspired engineering. His external responsibilities include being a committee member of the SPIE/IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference, a councilor of the New England Section of the OSA, and a peer reviewer for various optics publications of the IEEE, SPIE, and OSA. He holds nine US patents and others pending.
