BIOGRAPHY
Radislav A. Potyrailo is a Principal Scientist at GE Vernova Advanced Research Center. He received an Optoelectronics degree from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1985) and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1998). At GE, Dr. Potyrailo has been directing programs on designs of physical transducers, materials with multi-response mechanisms to ambient environments, data analytics, and system engineering of microanalytical instrumentation. His passion is to bring innovative sensing systems from laboratory feasibility studies to field validations and commercialization. Dr. Potyrailo has been serving as a technical lead on GE R&D programs transitioned to GE businesses or GE partners for commercialization. Examples include optical multi-parameter chemical sensor for GE Water, wireless gas sensors for GE Oil & Gas, multi-parameter oil sensor for GE Renewable Energy, and GE Ventures start-up company on radio-frequency sensors.
Dr. Potyrailo is the Chair of the Device Working Group of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group and the North America Regional Chair of International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing.
Dr. Potyrailo summarized most of his innovations in 150+ granted US Patents and publications (Google Scholar h-index 50+). He is a recipient of the Prism Award by SPIE/Photonics Media (2011) and the AMA Innovation Award (2021). Dr. Potyrailo is SPIE Fellow (2011) and recent IEEE Fellow (2023), covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum of his sensors. Dr. Potyrailo has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council for the period 2024-2026.