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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.