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AJ Cooper is CEO and Co-founder of Itera, a hard tech company. His work focuses on hardware development that combines high-volume manufacturing with materials science to enable more iterative design processes. He has approximately two decades of experience building multidisciplinary engineering teams and technologies.
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Co-founders at Itera
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Mattis FjällströmFounder
Experience
- IteraCEO and Co-foundercurrent2024 — presentCalifornia, United States
- LyftDirector Of Hardware Engineering2020 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- UberHead of Electrical Engineering, Jump2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- FlexDirector Of Engineering2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Olio DevicesDirector of Hardware Engineering / Co-Founder2013 — 2017San Francisco, CA
- Eikoh Labs LLCCEO and Co-founder2012 — 2013
- 4Wave IncResearch Scientist2010 — 2012
- University of VirginiaGraduate Research Assistant2006 — 2010
- Nanosonic IncResearch Intern2005 — 2006
Skills & more
Team Leadership7Embedded Systems10Consumer ElectronicsSystem Architecture4Design for Manufacturing4Hardware Architecture2ManufacturingSystems Engineering2Characterization14R&D11Semiconductors7Optics4
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is AJ Cooper?
- AJ Cooper is CEO and Co-founder of Itera, a hard tech company. His work focuses on hardware development that combines high-volume manufacturing with materials science to enable more iterative design processes. He has approximately two decades of experience building multidisciplinary engineering teams and technologies.
- Where does AJ Cooper work?
- AJ Cooper is Founder of Itera.
- What companies did AJ Cooper found?
- AJ Cooper founded Itera.
- Where did AJ Cooper go to school?
- AJ Cooper studied at University of Virginia (PhD, Electrical Engineering); University of Virginia (M.S., Electrical Engineering); Virginia Tech (B.S., Electrical Engineering).
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