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Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company, Supporting my investments
Schools:
California Institute of Technology, Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Pomona College, Stanford University
Enabling a world where everyone can benefit from reliable, clean power.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Ghyrn Loveness is a technology entrepreneur based in Palo Alto, California. He studied energy systems, mechanical engineering and physics at Stanford, Caltech and Pomona. Ghyrn has worked at AeroVironment and NASA and served as the President of Caltech's Entrepreneurs Club. He helped start Duron Energy to provide affordable access to energy for people in rural communities living without reliable access to electricity. Ghyrn’s interests include energy technology, sustainable development, biomedical devices, and aerospace systems. He enjoys skiing, tennis, racquetball, and classical piano. He is also an avid pilot with multiple ratings and endorsements.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Amprius
Position:
Research Scientist
Time period:
January 2009 - Present
Employer:
Duron Energy
Position:
Advisor
Time period:
January 2008 - Present
Employer:
Commercial Pilot
Position:
Pilot
Time period:
December 1983 - Present
Description:
Have numerous ratings and endorsements, design and
engineering of aircraft systems, maintenance, model aviation.
Employer:
Stanford University
Position:
Graduate Student and Lab TA
Time period:
September 2007 - June 2009
Employer:
Caltech DARPA Urban Grand Challenge
Position:
Software and test engineer
Time period:
January 2006 - December 2007
Description:
Developed and tested Reactive Obstacle Avoidance module for autonomous vehicles.
Employer:
Caltech Entrepreneurs Club
Position:
President
Time period:
January 2006 - December 2007
Description:
Faculty outreach, worked with Caltech Admin to set curricula priorities, mentored
student startups, created OTT student internship program, expanded the club as a hub
for student entrepreneurship across Los Angeles with 20 other schools.
Demetriades - Tsafka Prize.
Employer:
Entrepreneur Mentor Society
Position:
Founding President
Time period:
January 2006 - December 2007
Description:
Created a new organization to bring together student entrepreneurs for mentorship, internships, networking, and startup incubation. There are now more than 20 EMS member schools, 300 alumni, and 20 student startups. (http://www.emsociety.org)
Employer:
AeroVironment Inc
Position:
Student Researcher
Time period:
January 2006 - December 2006
Description:
Designed and built small-scale wind and water turbines for power generation.
Employer:
NASA Langley Research Center
Position:
Student Investigator
Time period:
December 2003 - November 2005
Description:
Developed ADS-B modeling and managed large-scale simulations of air traffic for
autonomous flight management research and the sidewalk scenario.
Employer:
Harvey Mudd College
Position:
Student Engineering Team member
Time period:
January 2003 - December 2003
Description:
Designed inexpensive and quick to use viscometer
Employer:
Biolab
Position:
Founder, student researcher, executive board member
Time period:
December 2000 - November 2003
Description:
Student run biotech think tank based at Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center and created by Edward Jung. Performed genetic analysis and company development.
EDUCATION
University:
Stanford University
Time period:
2009
Degree:
Mechanical Engineering, Energy Systems, MSc
University:
Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Pomona College
Time period:
2007
Degree:
Physics, BA
University:
California Institute of Technology
Time period:
2007
Degree:
Mechanical Engineering, BSc
PUBLICATIONS
Papers:
ADS-B Within a Multi-Aircraft Simulation for Distributed Air-Ground Traffic Management, 23rd Digital Avionics Systems
Conference (DASC), Salt Lake City, Utah, October 24-28, 2004.
NASA Technical Reports concerning Autonomous Flight Management (AFM) Simulation and Feasibility.
Duron Energy
