Curriculum Vitae

Mitchell C. Nelson, Ph.D.

drmcnelson@gmail.com


Education

Post-doctoral Fellowship Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, NSLS

Post-doctoral Fellowship BNL Chemistry, NSLS

Ph.D. Chemical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Delaware

Technical Skill Set

PCB design, circuit capture, low noise analog and mixed analog-digital, instrumentation and control, voltage, charge, time, CCD, temperature, TEC, stepper motors, transducers.

Firmware, C, assembler, C++, Python, micro-controller (ARM, AVR), TI DSP, Linux device driver, graphics, user interface, signal processing, image processing, statistical methods, PCA, SVM, neural networks, self-organizing maps, Bayesian-fuzzy-neural networks.

Physics, Physical Chemistry, Mathematics, Optics, Acoustics, Laser Physics, Spectroscopy, Nanofab, thin films. Instrumentation, sensors, machine vision cameras, temperature control, motion and positioning. (Please inquire if your topic is not listed here).

Experience

Organophotonics, LLC, 2014 - Present

Principal Investigator in continuous stimulated emission (SE) in organic light emitting didoes. Discoverer of low onset solid state organic SE at 20μA/cm2 and thresholdless SE from a charge transfer aggregate in an OLED. Each of these accomplishments stands as the realization of a critical long standing goal in organic electronics and together establish a new paradigm in understanding and designing electrically pumped solid state organic lasers. Developed the theory and approach to the problem; designed and fabricated nano-structured organic electronic photonic devices; developed the full instrumentation stack from PCB and circuits to firmware, controlling sensors, motion, temperature, driving pulses and recording micro currents, voltages, and acquiring synchronized CCD frames to desktop control and display. Developed and conducted experiments in device characterization including time resolved hyperspectral imaging, cation spectroscopy, injection field measurements, and conventional yield and LIV curves. Developed numerical models and simulations of the time evolution of SE at low current, developed device models using TMM, FDTD, FTFD. Developed improvements in vapor deposition and substrate preparation processes. Designed detectors, electronics, software and mechanical components. Authored publications, proposals and patent applications. Developed collaborations with university and industry researchers and presented our results in international conferences.

SpectroSense, Ltd, Weizmann Science Park, Israel 2016-7

Chief Scientist. Research and product development in trace level detection of volatile organic compounds in human breath for detection of breast cancer. Developed a detailed theoretical model of dynamic alveolar gas exchange; translated results to devices and methodology for reproducible sampling thus solving a long standing problem in this field; designed studies; developed algorithms and machine learning software for analysis of study data; developed algorithms to rescue previously collected data sets; supervised senior scientists and engineers; participated in presentations to investors; authored patents.

Material Intelligence, LLC, NJ 2005 – 2014

Director and Principal Investigator for research in holographic and diffractive millimeter wavelength acoustic imaging with AI assisted object recognition. Developed microcavity piezoelectric polymer film acoustic emitters, meso-optic lens systems, optimal MIMO imaging arrays, imaging algorithms, feature extraction and AI methods for object recognition featuring a hybrid Bayesian fuzzy neural network; developed electronics, optics (using CNC and 3-d printer) and software; wrote grant proposals, negotiated contracts, administered funded programs, hired and supervised scientists and engineers.

Datatek Applications, Inc, NJ 1999 - 2004

Director, Special Projects. Launched the corporate engineering research and development organization; won projects in infrastructure engineering in the US, Europe and Far East; developed systems in vibration and machine health monitoring; managed 50 staff members, and incremented the corporate bottom line from $5M to $12M/yr.

Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1995.

Research Faculty, Participating Research Team (PRT) member at the National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Research in opto-magnetic superlattices, thin films, C60, high temperature superconductors; collaborations with international community of researchers. Invented a reciprocal space scan method used in studies of advanced materials. Developed beam line facilities, optics, instrumentation, electronics, software, and control and data acquisition systems.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, NSLS Beamline X-7A (Chemistry Department), 1987 - 1990

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, beamline scientist. Research in in-plane structure in Langmuir-Blodgett films, perovskites, fast electric field switching in piezoelectrics, developed beam line instrumentation, electronics and software systems, software for offline diffraction data analyses.

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Chemical Physics, 1981 - 1987

Graduate student researcher. X-ray spectroscopy and photochemistry in small molecules and polymer films; photoluminescence, energy transfer and exciton mobility in fractal aggregates in organic films; transient phenomena in pyroelectric luminescence. Developed instrumentation for transient UV-Vis spectroscopy, coincident electron energy – mass spectroscopy, maintained laser, cryogenic and ultra high vacuum systems. Managed shared computing facilities for Chemistry and Astrophysics departments.



Teaching Experience

Physical chemistry laboratory – SUNY, Stony Brook

General Chemistry recitation – SUNY, Stony Brook

Organic Chemistry laboratory and substitute lecturer – Indiana University

Intro to Physics – Beis Chaya Mushka Girls High School, NJ



Publications


  1. Nelson, MC; Rothberg, L; Wieczorek, M. Low Onset Stimulated Emission in OLEDS, ACS Photonics, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01300

  2. Nelson, MC, Rates and singlet/triplet ratios from TADF transients, arXiv:1603:08998 [physics.chem-ph] (2016)

  3. Aburano, RD; Hong, Hawoong; Chung, K-S; Nelson, MC; Zschack, P; Chen, H; Chiang, T-C. C 60/G e (100)-(2× 1) Interfacial Structure. Physical Review B 57(11), 6636 (1998)

  4. Holma, M; Hong, H; Nelson, M; Chen, Haydn. Pre-Transitional Behavior in Cubic Potassium Niobate. MRS Proceedings 307, 293 (1993)

  5. Wochner, P; Chow, PC; Reiter, G; Moss, SC; Axe, JD; Hanson, JC; McMullan, RK; Zschack, P; Nelson, MC. Synchrotron X-Ray Study Of Orientational Order In Single Crystal C60 At Room Temperature. Acta Crystallographica Section A 49, c298 (1993)

  6. Budai, JD; Ice, GE; Sparks, CJ; Zschack, P; Chen, H; Chiang, TC; Nelson, MC; Salamon, MB; Simmons, RO; Robota, H. Conceptual Design Report For The Uni-Cat Beam Line Proposal, 1992, Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL

  7. Kansikas, J., Mutikainen, I., Long, Y., Nelson, M. and Kvick Å., Synchrotron X-Ray Structure of A ZSM-39 Analogue. Bull. Soc. Cat. Cien. 13, 119-126 (1992)

  8. Zhao, W; Zhao, X; Rafailovich, MH; Sokolov, J; Mansfield, T; Stein, RS; Composto, RC; Kramer, EJ; Jones, RAL; Sansone, M.; Nelson M., Neutron And X-Ray Reflectivity Measurements Of Polystyrene/Polybromostyrene (ps/pbrs) Interfaces. Physica B: Condensed Matter 173(1), 43-46 (1991)

  9. Chen, JM; Yang, XQ; Chapman, D; Nelson, M; Skotheim, TA; Ehrlich, SN; Rosner, RB; Rubner, MF. Temperature Dependent Structure Of Conducting Langmuir Blodgett Films Studied By X-Ray Scattering. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 190(1), 145-153 (1990)

  10. Berman, A; Addadi, L; Kvick, A; Leiserowitz, L; Nelson, M; S, Weiner. Intercalation Of Sea Urchin Proteins In Calcite: Study Of A Crystalline Composite Material. Science 250(4981), 664-667 (1990)

  11. Hanson, DM; Lin, Y; Nelson, MC. Energy Transfer in Doped Polymer Films. Unconventional Photoactive Solids,153-163 (Springer, 1988)

  12. Nelson, M. C.; Hanson, D. M.; L, Patel. The Phenomenon Of Pyroelectric Luminescence. Science 116(3) 311-318 (1987)

  13. Lin, Y; Nelson, MC; Hanson, DM. Fractal‐Like Triplet State Energy Transfer Kinetics In Doped Polymer Films. The Journal Of Chemical Physics, 86(3), 1586-1592 (1987)

  14. Nelson, MC; Murakami, J; Anderson, SL; Hanson, DM. Fragmentation Of Acetone Following Excitation In The Region Of The Oxygen K Edge. The Journal Of Chemical Physics, 86(8), 4442-4445 (1987)

  15. Nelson, Mitchell Craig. Fragmentation of Small Molecules Induced by Soft X-Rays, Thesis, SUNY Stony Brook 1987

  16. Murakami, J; Nelson, MC; Anderson, SL; Hanson, DM. Fragmentation Of Nitrous Oxide By Monochromatic Soft X Rays. The Journal Of Chemical Physics 85(10), 5755-5762 (1986)

  17. Hanson, DM; Anderson, SL; Nelson, MC; Williams, GP; Lucas, N. Excitation Energy Dependent Photochemistry Near The Carbon K Edge In Polymer Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry 89(11), 2235-2237 (1985)

  18. Hanson, DM; Anderson, SL; Nelson, MC; Williams, GP; Lucas, N. Photon Stimulated Desoprtion Of Ions From Polymer Surfaces. Activity Of The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) 1, 173-174 (1984)

  19. Hanson, DM; Patel, JS; Nelson MC; A Survey of Pyroelectric Luminescence, Mat. Sci 10(4), 459-469 (1984).

  20. Stallings, W; Nelson, M; Schweizer, EE. 2-Methyl-5,6-diphenylanthra[2,1-b]pyrazole,Acta. Cryst. B 37, 2175-2179 (1981)

  21. Schweizer, E. E.; Nelson, M.; Stallings, W. Dehydrative Ring Closure Of Some .alpha.-pyrazolyl ketones. Anomalous closure of 1-phenyl-1-[3-methyl-5-(2-naphthyl) pyrazolyl] acetophenone to 2-methyl-4,5-diphenylbenzo[g]pyrazolo[5,1-a]isoquinoline, J. Org. Chem 45(23), 4795-4797 (1980)

  22. Kansikas, J., Mutikainen, I., Long, Y., Nelson, M. and Kvick Å, The Structure of A Zeolite ZSM-39 Analogue. 40th Anniversary Meeting of The American Crystallographic Association, April 8-13, 1990, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, Abstracts, p. 95.

  23. Mutikainen, I., Kansikas, J., Long, Y., Nelson, M. and Kvick, Å., The Structure of A Zeolite ZSM-39 Analogue Determined by Synchrotron X-Rays. Fifteenth Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Bordeaux, France, July 19-28, 1990, Abstracts, p. 345

  24. Kansikas, J., Mutikainen, I., Cox, S., Stucky, G., Nelson, M. and Kvick, Å., Tetrapropyl-ammoniumhydroxide - ALPO4 no. 5 Synchrotron X-Ray Structure. XIII European Crystallographic Meeting, August 36 - 30.1991, Trieste, Italy, Abstracts, p. 44.

  25. Mutikainen, I., Kansikas, J., Cox, S., Stucky, G., Nelson, M. and Kvick, Å. Synchrotron X-Ray Structure of Tetrapropylammoniumhydroxide-Aluminiumphosphate Number 5. National Synchrotron Light Source Annual Report 1990. Eds. Hubert, S.L., Lazarz, N. and Williams G.P. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities Inc., Upton, New York (1991) 330.

Reports

  1. Final Test Report For Phase II of the Ultrasound Diffraction Radar Project, for Navy Engineering Logistics Office, US Government Contract Number: 08-C-3007, MILLC No. 530019 Revision A, January 15, 2010.

  2. Final Test Report for UDR Project, for Navy Engineering Logistics Office, US Government Contract Number: 08-C-3007, MILLC No. 530012 Revision A, November 12, 2008.

  3. Management Plan for UDR Project, for Navy Engineering Logistics Office, US Government Contract Number: 08-C-3007, MILLC No. 53003 Revision A, November 12, 2008.

Selected Patents

  1. Low Onset Gain Saturation OLED, Inventor: Mitchell C Nelson, US20200106052A1

  2. System, Device, And Method For Detecting And Characterizing Explosive Devices And Weapons At Safe Distances. Inventor: Mitchell C Nelson, US 7319233 B2

  3. Detection, Location, and Characterization of Buried Explosive Devices and Weapon Caches. US 20070152866 A1




References


References to be provided upon request.


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