Sanjay Patel

Vice President of Research and CTO, founder, earned his B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1993 and 1997, respectively. His doctoral research involved studies of chemical interactions of combustible gases with thin metal/semiconducting films and MEMS hot-plates for use as gas sensors for automotive exhaust emissions.

Dr. Patel joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM in 1997 where he researched microfabricated hydrogen sensors and polymers-based chemiresistors for the detection of volatile organic compounds.

In July of 2000 he joined Graviton, Inc. to develop microcantilever-based gas sensors, and helped to invent a chemicapacitive gas sensor technology.

Dr. Patel has published numerous patents and journal articles on microsystems, thin films, and gas sensor technology.

In February of 2003 Dr. Patel co-founded Seacoast Science, Inc.