President, Chief Technology Officer
Burlingame, California, Us
Robert Hart, Ph.D. is President and Chief Technology Officer of Optofluidics, Inc., a two-year-old Cornell spinout. In this capacity, Robert oversees corporate partnerships, business development, product development, and all internal R&D. He has played a central role in bringing in over $2M of funding including federal grants and private investments. Robert and CEO Bernardo Cordovez were selected for Life Science Startup of the year in 2012 by the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies. Robert attained his Biomedical Engineering doctorate from Drexel University, under Dr. Moses Noh and Dr. Ryszard Lec, and completed his post doc at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Haim Bau. Robert was also the Valedictorian for Drexel’s class of 2010. Robert has a broad background in microfabrication, microfluidics, nanomanipulation, and molecular biology and is supported by a cross-disciplinary team at Optofluidics.