Tino Alavie

2013 Engineering

Bio

Dr. Tino Alavie '86, '88 M.S., '92 Ph.D. received degrees from Florida Tech in electrical engineering. He then became a post-doc at the University of Toronto continuing the work on fiber-optic sensors that he started at Florida Tech.

Dr. Alavie has founded several companies related to fiber optic sensing and the medical field and is now the Executive Chairman of NOVX Systems Inc. and CEO of Qvella Corp. Tino Alavie is a repeat entrepreneur who has been directly or indirectly responsible for creating, managing, and growing seven technology startups in North America and Europe from start to financial exit. Dr. Alavie recently co-founded TimeWyse Corporation. TimeWyse is a new consumer-facing App development company. The company’s first product kidQ helps parents with answers to their parenting questions from social to educational to health and time management. kidQ has already been launched on Apple’s App Store and has a 10,000-strong following after only a short period. TimeWyse will be adding more features to kidQ and will leverage its intellectual property.

Education

Florida Tech - B.S. in Electrical Engineering '86

Florida Tech - M.S. in Electrical Engineering '88

Florida Tech - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering '92