Brooke Paul Anderson, Ph.D.
e-mail: brooke@combimatrix.com
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
CombiMatrix is a biotechnology company developing DNA-array technology for diagnostic and R&D markets. It currently trades on Nasdaq under the symbol "CBMX".
Was involved in initial evaluation and formation of the company. Served as company's first president. Was liaison between Acacia Research and CombiMatrix. While at Acacia Research, was involved with CombiMatrix on variety of levels, including technological research, development, IP, and strategy issues.
As COO, responsibilities include coordination of the following departments: software, IT, engineering, production, R&D, business development and sales, government contracts, and legal. Directly involved in corporate strategy, business development, sales, and IP strategy.
Prior to becoming COO, held various positions in the company as noted above. In addition to various duties already noted, also designed and built first versions of custom hardware and software for chip control, chip testing, and DNA-array synthesis. Participated in design of second version of DNA chip (a VLSI semiconductor chip). Wrote software for current generation of DNA-array synthesizers and participated in hardware design and development. Helped architect corporate software and Internet strategy. Directed software-development and information-technology effort, which included projects for bioinformatics, modular and networked deployment of applications, e-commerce, and customer interaction. Recruited and built software-development team from ground up. Participated in development of core intellectual property.
Acacia Research started in money management and as a company that invested in and helped to found and to develop new companies. Currently, it is involved in acquiring and licensing patent portfolios.
Was one of the two founders of the corporation, which began trading on the Nasdaq national market in 1996. Currently it trades under the stock symbol "ACTG". Participated in the search for, evaluation of, and selection of companies for Acacia Research to help develop and found. Developed computer models used in Acacia's previous money-management business, models that helped evaluate stocks and timing of trades, drawing upon experience with neural networks, genetic algorithms, stochastic optimization in general, modeling, Bayesian analysis, and chaos theory. Participated in evaluation of intellectual property.
Constellation Services International, Inc.
CSI is an early stage orbital-services company focused on cargo resupply to low Earth orbit (LEO) and on satellite retrieval and repair.
Helped with business-formation strategy, fund raising, and intellectual-property issues.
MerkWerks Corporation
MerkWerks was a utility-software company owned by Acacia Research. In Jan., 2001, the Company sold its core product to NewTech Infosystems Corp. and ceased operations.
Was involved in initial evaluation and formation of the company.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computation and Neural Systems, September, 1993
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA
Thesis title: Various Algorithms for Optimization and Learning in
Adaptive Systems
Advisor: Professor John J. Hopfield
Developed knowledge of numerical methods, neural networks, genetic algorithms,
optimization, chaos theory, and Bayesian analysis in framework of modeling,
pattern recognition, and time-series prediction.
MS, Applied Physics, June, 1987
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA
GPA 3.93/4.0
BSE, Nuclear Engineering, June, 1985
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
GPA
3.97/4.0
Specialization in fusion-reactor design and plasma physics.
PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Brooke P. Anderson, "Network infrastructure for custom microarray synthesis and analysis," US Patent #6,456,942, September 24th, 2002.
D. B. Kirk, D. A. Kerns, B. P. Anderson, K. Fleischer, and A. H. Barr, "Circuit and Method for Estimating Gradients," US Patent #5,329,478, July 12th, 1994.
B. P. Anderson, Various Algorithms for Optimization and Learning in Adaptive Systems, Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology, Sept., 1993.
B. P. Anderson, "Low-pass filters as expectation operators for multiplicative noise," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 871-874, Dec., 1992.
M. E. Hasselmo, B. P. Anderson, and J. M. Bower, "Cholinergic modulation of cortical associative memory function," Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1230-1246, 1992.
M. E. Hasselmo, B. P. Anderson, and J. M. Bower, "Cholinergic modulation may enhance cortical associative memory function," in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3, R. P. Lippmann, J. E. Moody, and D. S. Touretzky, Eds. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1991, pp. 46-52.
M. E. Hasselmo, M. A. Wilson, B. P. Anderson, and J. M. Bower, "Associative memory function in piriform (olfactory) cortex: computational modeling and neuropharmacology," in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology: The Brain, vol. 55. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1990, pp. 599-610.
B. P. Anderson and D. D. Montgomery, "A method for noise filtering with feed-forward neural networks: analysis and comparison with low-pass and optimal filtering," in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, June, 1990, vol. 1. New York: IEEE, 1990, pp. I-209--I-214.
HONORS AND AWARDS
National Research Service Award Fellowship, 1990, 1991, 1992
Ralph M.
Parsons Foundation Fellowship, 1990, 1991
Hertz Foundation Fellowship
Semifinalist, 1990
Office of Naval Research Fellowship, 1985
Received
Department of Energy Fellowship (declined in favor of ONR fellowship),
1985
Graduated summa cum laude, U of M, 1985
James B. Angell Scholar (for
academic performance), U of M, 1985
Member Alpha Nu Sigma
(nuclear-engineering honor society), 1985
Dean's list, U of M,
1982-1985
Member Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), 1983
William J.
Branstrom Freshman Prize (for academic excellence), U of M,
1982