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At the MIT Auto-ID Labs, Tom Scharfeld is leading research on RFID technology, applications, and their standardization. His current work focuses on seamless integration of RFID tags into packaging and broad application of RFID to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. He has previously developed strategies for ensuring interoperability of RFID across the supply chain and has played key roles in early RFID standardization activities. While based in Japan, he has also coordinated the Auto-ID Center's early activities there. He has been with the MIT Auto-ID Center since it's inception in the fall of 1999.

 

Tom has previously worked at NTT's Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory in Japan, Northwestern University's Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems, and Panasonic Factory Automation. Tom has a B.S. from Northwestern University and a M.S. from MIT.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), www.mit.edu, Cambridge, MA is the globally number 1 ranked institution of research and higher education (based on Quacquarelli Symonds ranking in 2012-2013), with over 25,000 existing spawn out companies that collectively employ 3.3 million people and generate over $2 trillion annually (equivalent of 11th largest economy in the world), according to a 2009 study by Kaufman Foundation