Founders

Dr. Alex C. Y. Wong is an expert in RFID-based supply chain inventory control and has been involved in evaluating the impact of RFID on supply chains since he joined the former Auto-ID Center in 2001. He was an Associate Director of Cambridge Auto-ID Lab and has provided RFID training and consulting services to numerous global organisations. In the past year, Alex was responsible for leading University of Cambridge in a new €14.3 million European Union (EU) integrated project called BRIDGE in collaboration with over thirty organisations.

Prof. Duncan McFarlane is Professor of Service and Support Engineering at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, and head of the Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory within the Institute for Manufacturing. He is also Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab and Research Director of two industrially supported activities: the Service and Support Engineering Programme and the Aero ID Programme. He has been involved in the design and operation of automation and information system for the manufacturing supply chain for twenty years. He played a key role in the adoption of RFID in retail, manufacturing and aerospace industries.

Dr. Da Xing is a Cambridge physicist and was a research associate at Hershel Smith Laboratory working on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He has extensive theoretical and practical experience in electromagnetic physics - the key essence of RFID.

Alan Thorne has extensive experience deploying RFID system for the automation industry. He has been involved in British Aerospace/IBM research projects as a systems engineer investigating flexible manufacturing systems on civil and military aircraft production. He is currently the Manager of the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory in the Institute for Manufacturing and is responsible for the overall operations and development of the laboratory as well as being directly involved with a number of projects as a systems engineer.

Dr. Meng-Han Kuok works on developing lab-on-a-chip technology for biomedical diagnostics and analysis, combining microfluidics, biosensing and microfabrication to enable future sensing applications. He is the co-founder of Camtech Innovations, an early stage technology commercialisation company focusing on nano and biotechnology. He carried out a phd research at the Institute of Biotechnology in Cambridge University and prior to that worked in technology transfer, commercialisation and financing of early stage companies.