David A. Horsley is co-founder and CTO of Chirp Microsystems Inc., a manufacturer of ultrasonic sensors using MEMS technology. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. Prior to Chirp, he held research and development positions at Dicon Fiberoptics and Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and helped to co-found Onix Microsystems, a manufacturer of fiber-optic switching components.
Since 2003, he has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis, and he’s a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), the National Science Foundation’s Industrial/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) focused on MEMS research. Dr. Horsley is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at UC Davis, the 2016 NSF I/UCRC Association’s Schwarzkopf Award for Technological Innovation, and has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific papers in addition to holding over 20 patents.