Ahmet Hamdi Cavusoglu Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

A combined partnership between Merck, Microsoft, McKesson, and Northpond Ventures, the Merck Digital Sciences Studio - MDSS - is a new early-stage investor and accelerator focused on AI for Drug Discovery, E-Clinical, Real-World Evidence, and Biomanufacturing. Opening two locations in Newark, NJ and Cambridge, MA the MDSS provides founders the support, mentorship, and resources they need to thrive.I work collaboratively with entrepreneurs, investors, resource providers, and the broader business community to further the startup development mission of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio. I am responsible for ensuring that each company is positioned to maximize their success through content and programming experience, fit and integration with opportunities with MDSS partners, as well as focusing on driving investor readiness to improve fundraising outcomes.

Nyc / Sf, New York / Ca, Us

AVX is a joint effort by the tech transfer offices of Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, MIT, U Chicago, Washington University, and Princeton, designed to connect high-quality fundable entrepreneurs to our most exciting startups emerging from the university research labs. In particular, we are doing so by combining each of our entrepreneur and Executive-in-Residence (EIR) networks, so that our highest-potential startups can get seen by all of our collective EIRs, thereby maximizing the chances of finding a match.

Nyc / Sf, New York / Ca, Us

Nyc / Sf, New York / Ca, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

The Innovation Accelerator Foundation’s mission is to promote our nation’s economic competitiveness in the global economy. In support of this mission, IAF provides commercialization services to small businesses empowered by exceptional American innovations – sourced from federal funding, federal laboratories, or universities. Our work commercializing recipients of small business innovation research grants was cited in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report to the White House.

New York, Ny, Us

Mentoring translational biomedical teams to develop innovative solutions and create viable path-to-market plans. I have advised >60 teams on developing commercialization plans for their prospective translational biomedical start-ups, coordinated invited talks with partners from law firms, venture capital, and established biomedical companies. I have also judged business proposals on providing a direct impact on human health in a commercially viable manner, helping select 12 teams for over $1.2m in total funding.

New York, Ny, Us

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ozgur Sahin LaboratoryThe Sahin Research Group investigate biological systems that function under physical extremes like short timescales, confinement to nanoscale regions of space, and high mechanical forces. Quite often we encounter interesting phenomena in these biological systems that we enjoy applying to medical, environmental, and energy-related problems. My research focused on understanding the potential for renewable energy from the natural evaporation of water.

New York, Ny, Us

Graduate Fellow, Ozgur Sahin LaboratoryThe Sahin Research Group investigate biological systems that function under physical extremes like short timescales, confinement to nanoscale regions of space, and high mechanical forces. Quite often we encounter interesting phenomena in these biological systems that we enjoy applying to medical, environmental, and energy-related problems. My research focused on understanding the potential for renewable energy from the natural evaporation of water.

New York, Ny, Us

Graduate Fellow, Ben O'Shaughnessy LaboratoryThe O'Shaughnessy Research Group focuses on developing quantitative models of cell biology using analytical and computational methods to explore cytokinesis in cell division, cell force production and mechanosensing, cell motility, membrane fusion in cell trafficking and secretion, and viral membrane fusion.

New York, Ny, Us

Graduate Fellow, Sanat Kumar & Chris Durning LaboratoriesThe Kumar Research Group focuses on using theoretical and computational methods to explore polymer and nanocomposite systems. My work focused on understanding various on-lattice and off-lattice free energy models and their implications for system stability of polymer nanocomposite systems. I collaborated with post-docs to decipher simulation results and devise improved theoretical free energy models and simulations.The Durning Research Group focuses on the theoretical and experimental exploration of soft matter systems and their properties. My work worked on understanding the free energy and phase diagrams of polymer blends and polymer nanocomposites. I designed an improved instrument manifold that accelerated experimental sample production and analysis by 400%. I also drafted proposals and requests for experimental time at national laboratories to investigate model.

New York, Ny, Us

Principles of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics with Professor Marco J. Castaldi. I provided class support in developing lecture questions and grading exams and homework in thermodynamics. I held recitation lectures to provide students with a greater understanding of thermodynamic theory and applications. I also organized a co-generation plant tour to provide students with a greater appreciation of the course material.Transport Phenomena II with Professor Chris J. Durning. I provided class support in developing lecture questions and grading exams and homework in transport phenomena. I held recitation lectures to provide students with a greater understanding of transport theory and applications. I also held transport demonstrations on the macro-scale balances used in heaters and wind turbines.

New York, Ny, Us

Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) is the technology transfer office of Columbia University. Our core objective is to facilitate and expedite the movement of inventions from academic research to outside organizations for the benefit of society. Each year, CTV manages nearly 400 invention disclosures from faculty, 100 license deals and 15 new start-ups. CTV currently has over 1200 patent assets available for licensing across research fields such as biology, information technology, clean technology, medical devices, nanotechnology, and materials science.Responsible for managing and guiding the CTV Fellows programs are the Senior Fellows. This team of 4 (Quality Control, Marketing, Special Projects, and Managing) are responsible for serving as project managers for the range of requests submitted by the Technology Licensing Officers at CTV and working with the team of 30+ Fellows to break down each request into a set of tasks that are completed reliably and on-time.

New York, Ny, Us

Critical to the success of technology transfer at Columbia University is the CTV Fellows program. In the early stages of technology transfer, Fellows complete initial assessments of the potential commercial applications of technologies invented by Columbia University faculty and review patent literature that may anticipate these technologies. In assessing these technologies, Fellows are attuned to prior art and currently marketed products that may infringe upon Columbia Patents. At later stages, Fellows draft non-confidential summaries of technologies, their applications, and their advantages for use in various CTV marketing channels, including innovation.columbia.edu. As a part of this marketing effort, Fellows identify companies that may be interested in Columbia technologies and prepare the language used to attract these companies as potential licensees.

New York, Ny, Us

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Research Assistant, Elena V. Rybak-Akimova Research Group (Chemistry)The Rybak-Akimova Research Group focuses on understanding the small molecule binding and catalytic action of transition metal complexes. I synthesized various BPMEN ligands and BPMEN-Fe complexes & increased the synthetic yield through distillation. I researched BPMEN-Fe's catalytic oxidation mechanism via chemical analysis to discover products and intermediates. I also executed data analysis to evaluate the molecular model of BPMEN-Fe spin structure and oxidative catalytic kinetics.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Teaching Assistant, General ChemistryGeneral Chemistry Principles with Professor Mahnaz El-Kouedi. I taught laboratory protocol, administered exams, supervised and graded students in Chemical Principles. I also held office hours to help answer questions and provide a greater understanding of general chemical theory.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Research Assistant, Keith Maddox Research Group (Psychology)The Maddox Social Cognition Lab focuses on the understanding of several social cognition phenomena, such as stereotype threat. I conducted experiments on participants, collected and processed data, performed data analysis and regression. I developed an optimized data model that significantly decreased data processing time. I also provided statistical support in designing experimental protocols and data regression methods.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

NSF-REU Grant Supported; The Ramani Research Group at the Illinois Institute of Technology focuses on the development of nano-composite polymers to optimize fuel cell membranes. I created novel functional silica-loaded membranes and evaluated their thermal, chemical & electrical characteristics. I created transport models to evaluate membrane permeability to methanol and ethanol. I developed a mathematical model and optimized protocol for predicting and testing light alcohol fuel permeability

Hy9 designs, manufactures and sells low-cost, high-performance hydrogen purification devices. I researched methods of improving the reliability of purification devices through optimized diffusion bonding. I designed enhanced novel metal diffusion bonds that were significantly stronger than the original design. I also aided in the effort to reduce purification device weight while increasing durability and lifetime.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Chemical Engineering

Bs, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Chemistry

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