UT Dallas Campus – Visitor’s Center (left) and Jindal School of Management (right)

Dr. Voit and the Center for Engineering Innovation

Walter E. Voit, Ph.D. tenured associate professor at UT Dallas built and manages both the Center for Engineering Innovation and the Advanced Polymer Research Lab which together boast a comprehensive grant portfolio (NSF, NIH, DARPA, FDA, corporate sponsorship), mentor graduate students and post docs and explore the thermomechanics of shape memory polymers, flexible bioelectronics, next-generation neural interfaces, 3-D printing, degradable polymers and the effects of ionizing radiation on polymers.

McDermott Faculty Member, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Bioengineering at the UT Dallas

Director – Center for Engineering Innovation | Director – Center for Applied AI at the Richardson Innovation Quarter with UT Dallas Expertise (CAIQUE)

Member – Texas Biomedical Device Center | Member – Alan G. MacDiarmid Nanotech Institute

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Prof. Walter Everett Voit is an associate professor and entrepreneur from the University of Texas at Dallas where he explores the thermomechanics of shape memory polymers, flexible bioelectronics, next generation neural interfaces, 3-D printing, degradable polymers, photo polymerization-induced phase separation, thiol-click chemistries and the effects of ionizing radiation on polymers. Prof. Voit is co-founder. President and Chief Executive Officer of Pedegree Studios, Inc. which has licensed IP from his lab at UT Dallas and seeks to Deliver Personalized Learning, mapping to one of the 14 major National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges. Prior, Voit founded Adaptive3D, which licensed intellectual property from both Georgia Tech and UT Dallas in pursuit of next-generation acoustics and additive manufacturing based on specialty polymers and thiol chemistries. Voit advised the co-founders of Ares Materials in 2014 and co-founded Pascalor, Qualia, Inc. and Polycraft World in 2015, Skin Aware and BackStop Neural in 2016 and Qualia Labs, Qualia Oto, Capavax and Adaptive Holdings in 2017. In 2020 Prof. Voit co-founded Regulife Medical and Inspire Bioelectronics. Voit-led Adaptive3D closed its Series B Venture Funding round and its capitalization table included strategic partners representing Applied Materials, DSM/Covestro, Arkema, West Pharma, Chemence and the founding family of Texas Instruments, the McDermott family upon the time of its acquisition by public company Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) in May 2021. Dr. Voit is on the Executive Committee and the Science and Technology Chair of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an International Atomic Energy Agency consultant in the field of radiation crosslinked shape memory polymers. Voit is a DARPA Young Faculty Awardee and DARPA Director’s Fellow and works closely with industry including Texas Instruments, GlaxoSmithKline, Halliburton, Qorvo, Plexon and Zyvex. Voit graduated high school valedictorian and was recruited to UT Dallas through the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program. As a McDermott Scholar, Voit worked at Los Alamos National Labs and at Dallas nanotechnology startup company Zyvex. Voit received a B.S. in Computer Science in May 2005 and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from UT Dallas in August 2006. Voit’s Master’s thesis work was conducted under the mentorship of Prof. I. Hal Sudborough where their team helped improve the upper bound of the pancake problem which has not been beaten since (Bill) Gates and Papadimitriou published on the subject in 1979. Dr. Voit was named a Presidential Scholar at Georgia Tech and was selected to the prestigious TI:GER program, a partnership with the College of Management and Emory Law School. Voit performed doctoral work under the guidance of Ken Gall. Voit has authored more than 150 manuscripts and book chapters, is inventor on multiple patents and enjoys basketball, soccer, snowboarding, rafting, hiking and travelling. Prof. Voit has mentored a large team which at its pre-COVID peak included 3 research scientists, 5 technicians, 2 administrative staff, 8 post docs, 14 graduate students, more than 50 undergraduate students and several high school students. Voit has graduated >10 doctoral students and 4 post docs who have all launched their own successful careers: faculty positions at Texas A&M, Oregon, the University of North Texas and Inha University; employment with large industries, Apple, Align Technologies, Rockwell Collins, Alcoa and EOS; consulting with McKinsey and Co; and self-employment with Qualia, Qualia Oto, Ares Materials and Adaptive 3D.