2006 Alumni Achievement Award Recipient - Sanjay Chandran
Sanjay Chandran, '97 M.S. Materials, was nominated by the Graduate School
and is among eleven young alumni who received the Penn State Alumni Association's
Alumni Achievement Award in 2006. Chandran is the chief executive officer
of InnoMed Technologies, Inc., a fast growing, privately held medical devices
company in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also an administrator of Mergenet
Medical, a technology incubator that seeks to develop cutting edge health
care technologies.
The inventor or co-inventor of six issued and ten pending patents, including patents for unique fabrication methods and designs for ultrasonic transducers used in medical imaging, Chandran has developed commercially successful, real-time 3D ultrasound and multi-layer piezoelectric transducers. Both of these technologies have a worldwide market currently exceeding $500 million.
Prior to his working at InnoMed, Chandran was a senior executive with GE Healthcare, where he grew the company's global ultrasound probes business from $11 million in annual revenues to more than $40 million in annual revenues in just three years. In 2003, GE Healthcare recognized Chandran with the fastest growing business award.
Chandran began his career as an acoustic engineer for Parallel Design, Inc. (which was acquired by GE Healthcare in 2000) in Tempe, Arizona. In 1999, he was promoted to manage the firm's R&D division comprised of twelve engineers. He has authored or co-authored more than fifteen publications on novel sensors and actuator technologies, piezoelectric materials, etc., in leading scientific journals, such as Applied Physics Letters, and presented at symposia organized by IEEE and SPIE.
At Penn State, Chandran was actively involved in the International Student Council and Indian Student Association. He plays the violin and regularly performs in concerts and with his contemporary world music band "Global Rhythms." He and his wife, Sapna, live in Boca Raton with their 3-year-old daughter, Sanjana.