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Gideon Prior Nima Ghods Project Manager Andrew Meares Electrical & Mechanical Team Lead Thomas Denewiler Software & Controls Team Lead Paul Wisecaver Administrative Team Lead Conrad Salinas Embedded Systems Specialist Jenny Wise Finance Coordinator Gideon Prior Computer Vision & Public Relations Greg Mills Mechanical Bryan Urquhart Mechanical & Software Design Kevin Chen Electrical Chris Barngrover Software Computer Vision & Public Relations Major: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering School: University of California, San Diego Degrees: M.S. Electrical Engineering B.S. Electrical Engineering Awards & Honors   Society of American Military Engineers Scholar Outstanding Senior Nominee Distinguished for Academic and Community Service at Thurgood Marshall College. Member of distinguished Academic and Engineering Organizations Including IEEE, AUVSI, AAAI, Tau Beta PI, and Etta Kappa Nu.   Extracurricular Activities   iBotics Computer Vision & Public Relations Developed vision systems for the Stingray. Also responsible for working with sponsors and iBotis affiliates. Teaching Assistant TA for ECE25 Intro to Digital Design, ECE35 Intro to Analog Design, MAE170 Experimental Techniques and ECE102 Intro to Active Circuit Design.   Current Employment   Engineer 1 General Atomics Designing a nonlinear controller for an Axial Flux synchronous motor. GUI design for control of a 60 mega-joule rail gun. Active damping systems for noise suppression. Designed and implemented a Lorentz force velocity sensor for a UUV.   Previous Employment   Engineering Intern SPAWAR Participated in a multidisciplinary team that designed an automatic refueling system for a UAV from a UGV. Designed the electronics package that coordinated fuel flow, the capture and release of the vehicle as well as the control of fire suppression systems. Research Apprentice Jet Propulsion Laboratory At JPL I worked with the mobile robotics group, where I designed a data visualization tool in JAVA for use with a large autonomous blimp. I also collected data from a packbot outfitted with stereo cameras for computer vision research.