Atakan
Peker graduated from Boğaziçi University Mechanical Engineering and
Physics departments and received his doctorate from California
Technology Institute (CALTECH) on materials science. In his
dissertation studies, he made and developed the invention of
liquidmetal alloys (bulky metallic glass) together with his thesis
teacher. Subsequently, he joined a start-up company so that the
present invention could be transformed into a commercial product and
developed by technology transfer. After his doctorate, he conducted
scientific-technical researches in the private sector and university
in USA for 21 years and also worked as an R&D manager. He has
extensive experience in start-up, intellectual property, technology
transfer and patent development. He has more than 40 patents and
patent applications, and their commercial product sales and licensing
revenues exceed $ 100 million. Most of these patents were licensed by
the Apple company in 2011. He has more than 20 scientific
publications with a total number of citations exceeding 5,000. In
2015, he joined IP and IBM Research and began working as Business
Development Manager in Turkey related with these issues. Finally, he
worked as the General Manager at YİTAL Mikroelektronik A.Ş.
