{"id":1673,"date":"2016-03-23T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1673"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:23:41","slug":"greg-blonder","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/greg-blonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Blonder, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting scholar\u00a0Greg Blonder is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He was a Professor of the Practice in the Mechanical Engineering department from 2015-2021.<br \/>\nGreg began his professional career as a bench scientist at AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories, and over a 20-year period rose to the position of Chief Technical Advisor for the corporation. As a Research VP, his laboratory developed new\u00a0manufacturing\u00a0technologies and the quantitative strategic analysis of future opportunities. After leaving AT&amp;T in 1998, Greg worked as a venture capitalist and was CEO of a number of portfolio companies, most notably early LED lighting, LIDAR and electronic game advertising startups.<br \/>\nHe holds more than 100 patents in a wide range of fields, including green energy, medical devices and consumer products and services. These include plastic films that\u00a0instinctively\u00a0ventilate hot wall\u00a0cavities,\u00a0fiber optic blood pressure sensors,\u00a0pioneering\u00a0patents on two-factor authentication and headphones that convert into personal speakers. He has taught at Parsons School of\u00a0Design and lectured widely on product development and entrepreneurial topics. Greg attended MIT as an undergraduate and earned his PhD in physics from Harvard University. His PhD work was cited as one of Physical Rev B\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary \u201cMilestone\u201d papers.<br \/>\nWhen not teaching or working with young companies, Greg is an avid cook and barbecuer, and enjoys busting food-related myths at <a href=\"http:\/\/genuineideas.com\">genuineideas.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14935,"template":"","affiliation":[],"department":[131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1673\/revisions\/168169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliation?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}