University of Kentucky Companies

College of Engineering

Adaptive Intelligent Systems
www.adaptiveintelligentsystems.com
Adaptive Intelligent Systems was established in Sept. 2005 to develop and commercialize cutting edge welding technology. Its unique technologies include a modified GMAW process which reduces heat input and improves throughput, and a state-of-the-art pipe welding system which allows welders with minimum skills to produce quality welds. R&D is funded through federal and state SBIR programs.  

APST
Daniel Tao 859/257-2953, Mining Engineering

Bluegrass Beat Professional DJ Service
Evan Morris 888/721-2328
www.bluegrassbeat.com
Bluegrass Beat is Central Kentucky's premium DJ service and is the only mobile DJ company in Kentucky that has DJs who actually mix, scratch and remix live. Each of Bluegrass Beat Professional's DJs have been trained by Evan Morris. Services include lighting and sound equipment for large events and have music that spans all genres and decades.

Coldstream Digital LLC
www.coldstreamdigital.com
Coldstream Digital LLC is a technology firm specializing in intelligent transportation systems, hazmat supply chain security, and electronic manifest and shipment tracking systems. They create cross-cutting solutions to national transportation, homeland security, and transportation problems. Coldstream Digital is partnered with the Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky in the North American Transportation Security Center initiative.

Lumenware
www.lumenware.com
Develops software to enable agile computing in a wireless environment. Based on work by Brent Seales, Jim Griffioen and Ken Calvert in UK computer science.

Mersive Technologies
www.mersive.com
Mersive Technologies is redefining the ease with which high-resolution, multi-projector displays can be designed, configured and maintained. Founded in 2004, Mersive’s software-based technology provides a true auto-calibration solution capable of merging any number of projectors, at any resolution, into a seamless, beautiful display. Customers with applications ranging from simulation and training to museum displays and digital signage can now cost effectively build and maintain displays once considered impractical or even impossible. Using the Mersive SolTM Server customers can create unprecedented displays in non-traditional configurations and resolutions. Screen surfaces can be flat, cylindrical or spherical and front or rear projected. Mersive’s Continuous Quality™ technology maintains the highest quality seamless image available while eliminating the need for skilled technicians to manually maintain the display.

Metal Separation Technologies
Eric Grulke 859/257-6097
Metal Separations is working on technology to separate radioactive isotopes from high-value nickel. The nickel can then be recycled for use by the nuclear industry.

Michael Troy
Larry Hassebrook 859/257-1257, Center For Visualization & Virtual Environments

Mimetic Solutions LLC
www.mimeticsolutions.com
Mimetic Solutions is pioneering new frontiers in drug and bioactive agent delivery, developing true smart release systems that sense the surrounding environment and deliver the right chemical or drug, at the right time and at the right dose. Using their proprietary Affinimer™ chemistry, they create biomimetic polymer networks that are engineered to release a payload chemical, bioactive agent or drug under pre-defined conditions, such as upon binding of a specific biomarker or analyte. Founded by Nicholas Peppas, University of Texas, Austin, and Zach Hilt, UK Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

NanoTech Solutions
Vijay Singh 859/257-3243, engineering
Suresh Rajaputra 859/979-1735
NanoTech Solutions (NTS) produces high quality nanoporus metal oxide templates that offer a cost effective approach to creating nanoscale products for electronic and biological nanotech devices. These devices include nanowire photovoltaics, sensors, memory devices, filtration and flow membranes, substrates for aligned nanotube array growth, biological assay, cell growth and controlled biochemical reactions. NTS has received a Kentucky seed grant to use in commercializing its nanoporous alumnia technology.

Synergetic Technologies Inc.
M. Pinar Menguc 859/257-6336 x80658
Develops scientific instrumentation and software for the accurate characterization (particle shape or agglomerate structure) of nano or sub-micron sized particles. Licensed its particle characterization technology to Horiba Inc., Japan, a major manufacturer of analytical instruments in 2007.

TC Motions
Tom Cunningham 517/902-1545

Vortecone
859/257-6336 ext. 80639