Greg Blonder is an inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and author. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at BU, as well as the Executive Director at WeAmend.us

In 1995, recognizing the need to focus Bell Labs research activities closer to consumer markets, he started the Customer Expectations Research Lab. This lab (Article in Fast Company) tried to understand human behavior through a variety of statistical and cognitive techniques- and then relate those needs to future products and services. They also pioneered a quantitative approach to scenario planning, which has been adopted by a number of companies. In 1996, after Bell Labs moved to Lucent, Greg help create the Claude Shannon Labs at AT&T.

Greg's personal research at AT&T in the 90's was divided between pioneering compelling new services and inventing new classes of consumer electronics devices (such as the AT&T Wrist Telephone). Much of this research resulted in practical applications and he holds over 100 patents in the areas of green energy technology, optical disk recording, integrated fiber optic devices, displays, toys, computer systems, software services and improved user interfaces. He invented or co-invented the original concepts behind two-factor authentication and visual passwords, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

In January 1998 Greg decided to leave AT&T Labs, and follow some of these ideas through to the marketplace by joining AT&T Ventures. From 2000-2008 he became a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, just as the internet bubble was deflating. Fortunately, Greg comes from a long family tradition of operating small businesses, and was able to help step-in as CEO or lead many post-bubble companies to reasonable landings, including early LED lighting, LIDAR and electronic game advertising startups.

Greg is also a director or advisor at a number of private companies, and occasionally writes about venture capital, green technology and the economy for Business Week. He develops new products for selected clients- in the last five years, tens of millions of these products have shipped with revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Greg is also the science advisor at AmazingRibs.com, the largest barbecue site on the internet, and helps competitive teams and pitmasters up their game.

Over a twenty five year career he has demonstrated a strong passion to strengthen this country's technological and competitive foundation through entrepreneurship and education. He has lectured at Wharton and Columbia Business Schools, taught at Parsons, and was Professor of Design and Product Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston University from 2015-2021.

Dr. Blonder attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where his undergraduate thesis was on phase transitions in liquid crystals. In 1982 he received his MS and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University after explaining the physics behind the normal-superconducting transition and sub-harmonic energy gap in point contact junctions.