former Entropic Communications marketing director Reza Mirkhani, raised the cash to develop chips for use in smart grid applications.
—A collaborative program coordinated by the San Diego mayor’s office will provide a total of $150,000 in grants to help commercialize cleantech technologies being developed by three research teams at UC San Diego and San Diego State University. The grants from the San Diego Clean Tech Innovation and Commercialization Program are going to UCSD’s Rajesh Gupta and Yuvraj Agarwal for a project to reduce energy consumption in computer networks; to Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Alexander Gershunov and others to develop new ways to forecast severe cold weather; and to SDSU’s Douglas Grotjahn to develop low-cost catalysts for generating hydrogen from water.
—Five of the 75 student teams that signed up last fall for the UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge made it to the finals of the 4th annual student-organized competition. The winner was Cognionics, a team led by electrical engineering student Yu “Mike” Chi for technology that uses a quarter-sized wireless sensor to record and display electrocardiogram data from the field. The Cogionics team won $43,000 through the course of the competition.
—Ernst & Young named Kishore Seendripu, the founding CEO of wireless chipmaker MaxLinear in Carlsbad, CA, as San Diego’s technology entrepreneur of 2010.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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