SemaDyne, LLC is a start-up company based in the Atlanta Metropolitan area, founded based on research developed at Georgia Institute of Technology. The company is focused on developing commercial products related to cantilever based sensors, specifically infrared imagers, terahertz imagers, and electronic nose chemical sensors. 

Michael McConney, CEO

Mike is finishing his Ph.D. in Polymer Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech under Dr. Vladimir Tsukruk. He received his bachelors in Chemical Engineering in 2004 from the University of Iowa. He has also studied at Iowa State University in the Materials Science and Engineering Department.  He is an expert in scanning probe microscopy and surface-force spectroscopy. Much of his background is in bio-related work, such as developing protein functionalized surfaces and bio-inspired functional coatings for cantilever based underwater flow sensors. He has more than a dozen articles in peer reviewed journals and several oral presentations at national conferences.

Vladimir Tsukruk, President and CTO

Vladimir received his M.S. degree in Physics from the National University of Ukraine, Ph.D and DSc in Chemistry from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and completed post-docs at U. Marburg and U. Akron.  Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and School of Polymer, Fiber, and Textile Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored 250+ refereed articles, 20 invited reviews, and four books. His research in the fields of surfaces, interfaces, molecular assembly, nano- and bioinspired materials is honored by the NSF Special Creativity Award (2006), NSF RIA Young Investigator Award (1994), Humboldt Fellowship (1990), among others.  He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Polymer and Curr. Chem. Biology and supervised more than 30 graduate students and post-docs.