Gerard Coté is a Texas A&M Regents Professor, Director of the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Director of the NSF funded PATHS-UP Engineering Research Center, and holder of the James J. Cain Professor I in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.  He is an expert in biomedical sensing for diagnostic and monitoring applications.  His focus is developing innovative hand-held and wearable point-of-care technologies and systems for a variety of chronic and infectious disease applications using optics, electronics, microfluidics, paper fluidics, nanoparticles, and assays.  He has coauthored hundreds of publications and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, SPIE, BMES, and AIMBE.  He is also an entrepreneur, holds several patents, and has cofounded three medical device companies including BioTex, BasePair Biotechnologies, and Visualase (acquired by Medtronic in 2014).  He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MS and PhD in bioengineering from the University of Connecticut.