Gregg Favalora
Founder, Former CEO and CTO

Gregg Favalora began researching 3-D displays in 1988 and graduated from Yale in 1996 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. In order to build Actuality Systems, he exited Harvard's Ph.D. program and received an S.M. in Engineering Sciences in 1998. Gregg is 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 Technology Review magazine's "TR100," a group of 100 of the top technologists under the age of 35.

Gregg is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, having given invited presentations for the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, the MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition, garage.com's Bootcamp for Startups, Future Forward, the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club, and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Gregg's research interests include volumetric 3-D displays, holographic video, and computational photography. He is on the committee of the SPIE/IS&T Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Applications Conference and is a peer reviewer for several optics publications. He holds 9 U.S. patents and has several pending.

Feel free to contact Gregg at gregg at opticsforhire.com.