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Walter Voit
TI:GER - Syzygy Memory Plastics
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About Me
Walter Everett Voit was born in Cologne, Germany on August 26, 1982. He grew up in Ann Arbor, MI and Mt. Pleasant, SC. He also spent a year in Hobart, Tasmania. Dr. Voit attended Wando High School where he lettered in soccer and captained the Quiz Bowl team. He graduated valedictorian and attended the University of Texas at Dallas as a Eugene McDermott Scholar. Professor Voit has traveled extensively, having visited more than 35 countries, and spent his junior year of college studying abroad in Munich and in Cologne. Dr. Voit spent two summers as an intern at Los Alamos National Labs as a computer scientist performing research in global grid computing for ocean modeling applications and bandwidth monitoring of the Linux kernel. He also worked for two and half years with Dallas nanotechnology startup company Zyvex, where he helped build custom scripts in python, C++, OpenGL, html and other languages and toolkits to manipulate precision instruments and visualize 3D MEMS constructions. Professor Voit received a B.S. in Computer Science in May 2005 and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from UT Dallas in August 2006. Dr. Voit’s Master’s thesis work was conducted under the mentorship of I. Hal Sudborough where their team helped improve the upper bound of the pancake problem which has not been beaten since William (Bill) Gates and Christos Papadimitriou published on the subject in 1979. Dr. Voit was named a Presidential Scholar at Georgia Tech and was selected to the prestigious TI:GER program, which is a partnership with the College of Management and Emory Law School. Dr. Voit performed his doctoral work under the guidance of Ken Gall. He cofounded Syzygy Memory Plastics in December 2007, has authored papers in top materials journals, is lead inventor on several patents and has helped secure over $400,000 of funding as a graduate student for his lab at Georgia Tech and for his company. Professor Voit began his faculty career June 1, 2010 as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas where he explores the thermomechanics of shape memory polymers.
