Patrick Deegan, Phd Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

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• Founded DAC to create advanced robotic systems, blending high performance and flexibility with intelligent feedback control.DAC provides development, production, engineering, technical design, and rapid prototyping.
• Built CORO, a Collaborative Robot that can be used as an avatar in order to deliver an embodied interface for a remote operator that is controlling CORO via motion capture in VR.
• Deployed CORO as an experimental platform for social visits and personal care services such as indoor UV disinfection and quick diagnostic visits that deploy sensors used in routine exams, such as digital thermometers.
• Demonstrated that an avatar will allow doctors, nurses and care providers to make more frequent visits to home and assisted living settings and facilitate greater connection with community services.
• Prototyped use cases such as remote health care and indoor disinfection - which can bypass the barriers of quarantine during this global crisis and provide greater means of well-being to people in need.

Tel Aviv, IL

• Led the technical and product teams in creating advanced decentralized search tools designed for web3.
• Expanded capabilities to seamlessly integrate with web3 dApps, empowering developers with powerful, multi-chain search capabilities such as discovery across blockchains, making NFTs, DAOs, and decentralized social.
• Guided the strategic pivot from a Web3 infrastructure company to a more user-centric product, focusing on natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) to enhance user experience across customer.

New York, NY, US

• Led the development of Flash Labs’ technology roadmap to provide trusted, secure, and flexible blockchain based solutions for companies transitioning into Web 3.0. Engaged with C-Level decision makers across the.
• Built and executed the vision for the Flash Labs’ platform and products from the ground up, including sales, marketing, intellectual property, budget, and product architecture and system design. Incorporated advanced.
• Launched a white-labeled NFT Marketplace product for several small business customers to increase the utility of their loyalty programs with IoT enabled perks.
• Developed a revolutionary Web 3.0 protocol to enable businesses to execute a secure digital asset exchange, enforcing the rights and obligations of a permitted use and access control license to increase the utility of.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Excels at architecting low-latency high-throughput decentralized and distributed frameworks and while at Akamai, gained extensive experience in applying the state of art in scalable deployments, cryptographically.
• Was instrumental in architecting a highly efficient data organization that relies on the segmentation of the Blockchain transaction space. This work has resulted in at least 1 awarded patent.
• Worked with C-suite executives to identify new areas of opportunity for the technology, created technical documentation for potential customers to evaluate the opportunity and defined the statement of work and.
• Maintained the overall System Specifications and product-centric APIs in alignment with security tenets and the speed and performance requirements of the business and in support of the strategic needs of the customer.
• Directed the exploration and delivery of new technology assets to meet future business strategies, objectives and requirements.
• Developed and managed resources to ensure adherence to standards (SOC 2, PCI-DSS), for the deployment of secure, reusable, and trustworthy components and to simplify integration with cloud-based services.

• Led an interdisciplinary team of over 100 artists and engineers in the development of a massive, interactive, hyper-realistic 40’ tall tree with 140,000 independently computer controlled RGB LEDs within 20,000 leaves..
• Explored the transformational synergies between human cognition and robotics through a large-scale, real-time interactive biofeedback installation.
• Designed and implemented a raspberry pi based wireless network so that participants could control the leaf LED patterns through brain waves captured by Muse EEG headbands, heartbeat monitors, and accelerometer data.
• Developed interactive experiences incorporating embodied group flow states. Participants experienced a biofeedback loop between their biorhythms and the visual patterns they observed in the tree, allowing groups to.
• Open-sourced the control software, enabling artists and technologists from around the world to create light art and interactive experiences for the tree.
• Prototyped a Blockchain based historical record to serve as the basis for the digital rights of participants and content creators, establishing the provenance of the data generated during their experiences (e.g..

SBS is an early stage start-up that leverages the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI), trustworthy computing, and blockchain technologies to run a suite of applications that execute secure and valuable transactions between exclusive, invite-only membership networks. SBS was created to address the growing asymmetry between the vast.

• Actively presenting on topics around Self Sovereign Identity, Robotics and Scalable Information Systems Architecture (including Blockchain)
• Ethereal Summit - Brooklyn 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEERLVyRzP8)
• Distributed Markets 2017
• Identity & KYC Summit US 2016
• Treasury Identity Forum 2016
• Cash and Liquidity USA 2016

• Led the development and architecture of the next generation Platform as a Service, providing app developers with the infrastructure to give users transparency and control of their personal data.
• Designed with GDPR at its core, developed the platform to manage the permission, protection, usage, and monetization of valuable data, enabling an ecosystem of applications and data marketplaces.
• Developed a user-centric data platform that enables individuals to claim their personal digital assets, establish trusted relationships in a digital economy with the products and services that they use, and share in.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Served as CTO of ID3, a research and educational nonprofit that created the Open Mustard Seed (OMS) Platform in collaboration with Prof. Sandy Pentland and Human Dynamics Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Led a global team to.
• Designed OMS to empower its users with Self-Sovereign Identity, harnessing the latest advances in Trusted Computing, Internet of Things, and Blockchain technologies.
• Enabled persons and autonomous devices to collect and share their personal information in a secure, transparent, and accountable way, enabling authentic, trusted social and economic relationships to flourish.
• Produced numerous proof of concept use case applications that enabled the governed exchange of digital assets, financial instruments, and personal information.
• Presented at numerous thought leadership forums to introduce OMS as the basis for the next generation of transparent and responsive digital ecosystems
• Contributed to the published book, From Bitcoin to Burning Man: A Quest for Identity in the Digital Age, that charted the impact of OMS and Self-Sovereign Identity in today’s society and the need for self-regulating.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Served as the principle robotics engineer during company formation and kickstarted the mechanical, embedded systems, and software teams.
• Led several interdisciplinary teams to develop and refine robotic prototypes and products, including Baxter, the first commercial collaborative robot in the world and the first programming interface that enabled.
• Implemented the motion control for Baxter’s teachable interface, allowing any person to teach the robot to perform a human-like skill— through physical demonstration, instead of code— greatly improving robotic.
• Developed and managed mechanical, electrical, and software components and their integration from design to production. Testing of functional prototypes was performed to validate and characterize system performance and.
• Participated in a multi-team effort working to prepare the robot for its first customer trial. This work resulted in at least two issued patents.

• Incorporated digitROBOTICS as a spin-off of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at UMASS Amherst to commercialize uBot-5 hardware and control software developed for autonomous and teleoperated mobile manipulation.
• Created the uBot series, a dynamically stable humanoid robot that redefined the nature of physical embodiment, demonstrating that identity was a portable and fluid concept, able to transcend the limitations of human.
• Delivered four prototypes to the Personal Robotics Group led by Prof Cynthia Breazeal at the MIT Media Lab, providing the basis for the next generation of the Nexi Mobile Dexterous Social research platform.
• Managed the NASA Phase I STTR “Control Suite and Teleoperator Interface for Whole Body Mobile Manipulation” in partnership with the NASA Johnson Space Center Robonaut program.
• Presented the uBot-5 on stage with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at Microsoft’s TechEd developers conference in 2008 as one of the most important future technologies supported by Microsoft’s Robotics Studio.

New York, NY, US

• Awarded a patent with the design and implementation of a 3-axis HD camera system concealed within a concert piano for recording from the perspective of its finger board (pan, tilt, linear slide along length of.
• Worked with artists and architects to extend robotics technology to unique and challenging applications.
• Developed project plans, budgets, and testing methodology.
• Managed project resources, including acquisition, sub-contractors, quality assurance, and assembly processes.

Ph.D., Computer Science - Robotics

M.S., Computer Science - Robotics

B.S., Engineering

Education record