Dr. George Zentai is a senior scientist and R&D manager at Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, CA with over 30 years of experience encompassing project and product management, research, design, development, testing and manufacturing for a variety of products. His experience includes digital X-ray detectors, amorphous semiconductors, photo-electronic elements for high speed data transmission, industrial and medical lasers and laser projection systems for entertainment. He also has expertise in developing product proposals, managing feasibility studies, and overseeing sales/marketing and distribution products. Dr. Zentai holds a PhD in electronic engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.
Prior to his position at Varian, Dr. Zentai has held senior technical and management positions at OIS Imaging Systems, Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. He was president and partner at Eurolaser Ltd., and technical manager at Group-4 Securitas, Ltd., in Hungary. He has held several positions at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences where he researched various technologies related to amorphous silicon.
Dr. Zentai was the invited keynote speaker at the IEEE IST 2007, IST 2008 and IST 2009 and IWSSIP 2009 conferences; won first prize at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for laser material interaction in 1982. He has published over 50 papers and been awarded over 10 patents.
