SEMICON West 2016

Joseph Stetter
Founder & CTO
SPEC Sensors


Joseph R. Stetter is the President and Chief Technology Officer at KWJ Engineering, Inc. and also at his new startup, SPEC-Sensors, LLC. KWJ manufactures instrumentation and related products that provide solutions for real-world gas detection needs for safety and to protect human health and the environment. SPEC Sensors is a sensor component company making disruptive ultra-low power, ultra-low cost, high-performance tiny gas sensors for high volume markets in industrial, medical, and consumer markets for wearable, infrastructure, and wireless and IoT applications. Dr. Stetter is a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, adjunct professor, and has won awards for his work in technology development, sensor research, and product commercialization such as the 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year award by TMAC [Technology Management Association of Chicago] for starting several successful companies and product lines over his career. Sensor and related products created by Dr. Stetter are in use today protecting human health and the environment and most recently crossing over into consumer products. Joseph earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. He has held positions of University Professor at IIT, Research Director of ES Division of Becton Dickenson and Co., VP Engineering at Nanomix, and Lab Director of Microsystems Innovation Center at SRI International. He is the author of over 200 articles, books, and conference proceedings, holds more than 50 patents, has chaired national and international meetings and served on the boards of several startup companies. He has edited journals, been a plenary speaker at conferences, given invited and endowed Lecture Series, and is active in professional societies and is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

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