Management Team

Jiankang Huang

Since founding Ferro Solutions in 2002, Huang has led the magnetic sensor and vibration energy harvester technology development at Ferro Solutions. He is currently the Principal Investigator for SBIR programs to develop sensors and vibration energy harvesters. Huang was in charge of magnetic sensor materials development at Corning Applied Technologies from 1998 to 2001. Prior to Corning, he was a visiting scientist at MIT from 1995 to 1998 where his research led to a new generation of smart materials: Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys (FSMA). Huang received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics from Beijing University, China.

Dr. Robert O'Handley

Dr. O'Handley guides Ferro Solutions' research and development activities as Chief Scientist, while retaining his post at MIT. Before joining MIT in 1981, he performed research for 9 years at government and industrial labs including IBM's Watson Research Center. His research activities have mainly focused on magnetic materials and devices. Dr. O'Handley has published one textbook (Modern Magnetic Materials; Principles and Applications, 2001), over 220 technical articles, and been granted 18 US and foreign patents.

Dr. O'Handley has been a consultant to IBM, DEC, Applied Magnetics, Quantum, Seagate, and Tyco/Sensormatic among others. Beyond his undergraduate and graduate teaching responsibilities at MIT, O'Handley has managed a group numbering up to 13 students and researchers funded by industrial and government research grants, most recently leading a 5-University Navy grant to develop a new class of magneto-elastic materials for Navy and commercial applications. Dr. O'Handley received his B.A. from Marist College and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Polytechnic University.

Kevin O'Handley

Kevin O'Handley joined Ferro Solutions in 2003 after receiving his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Before Wharton, he worked for Sensitech, a venture funded cold chain monitoring company serving the food, pharmaceutical and logistics industries. Here, he performed sales, marketing, and consulting functions, doubling the size of key food and pharmaceutical accounts. Kevin O'Handley received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.