Corporate Investor Chamberlain Discusses Intellectual Property

As part of Auburn University's ongoing initiative to promote intellectual property commercialization, Savvas Chamberlain, an electrical engineering professor turned corporate investor addressed a packed house of AU faculty and graduate students on "A Brief History of the Evolution of the DALSA Corporation: A Spin-off Company of the University of Waterloo."

Later that day, Chamberlain spoke to students in Auburn's Business-Engineering-Technology program, an academic curriculum for outstanding students in business and engineering.

Chamberlain is the chief executive officer and chairman of DALSA, a high- performance semiconductor and electronics company involved in the design, development, and manufacture of digital imaging products and solutions. Founded in 1980 by Chamberlain, DALSA now has more than 1,000 employees with sales revenues in excess of $160 million.

He received his master's and doctoral degrees from Southampton University, U.K. and is  the author of more than 150 papers, holds 20 patents and has contributed original research to textbooks on fundamental theory. Chamberlin has chaired Canada's NSERC Operating Research Grants Committee and helped establish the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) custom integrated circuits conference, and was recently elected fellow of the IEEE for his pioneering work in MOSFETs and CCD image sensor technology.

The Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering hosted Chamberlain's visit.

View video clips of Chamberlain's presentation.