Co-Founder & COO, Obsidian Sensors
Tallis Chang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1981 and 1986, respectively. He co-founded Obsidian Sensors and is currently the COO of the company. From 2009 to 2017, he was a Senior Director of engineering with Qualcomm, leading an engineering team to develop the next-generation MEMS reflective displays. He has more than 30 years of technical and management experience, developing optical and MEMS devices and systems for commercial, space, and military applications with technology development and management roles with Rockwell Science Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Chromux Technologies, Panavision Federal Systems, and Qualcomm. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal articles and conference publications and holds 29 U.S. patents.
