Scientist/Entrepreneur/Communicator/Owner, ScientificArts.com
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- President at Scientific Arts, LLC
- Past
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- Senior Scientist at Centra Technology Inc
- Scientific Communications Director at Wolfram Research
- Director of Development at Weema Technologies Inc.
- Raytheon Systems Company at Principal Systems Engineer, Project Management Office: Radar and Technology Programs
- Senior Scientist at MicroUnity
- Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin
- Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota
- Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Minnesota
- Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wasnington
- Posdoctoral Fellow at University of California at Santa Cruz
- Education
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- California Institute of Technology
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David Reiss’s Summary
Communicator, Entrepreneur, Scientist, and Creative R&D researcher. A professional with experience across a broad swath of corporate, government, and intellectual cultures and the innate skills to act as a catalyst and liaison between them.
My experience is extensive in both industry and academia and I have held positions at a premier government laboratory, a Silicon Valley start-up, an Internet infrastructure start-up, a top-tier defense contractor, as the Scientific Communications Director for Stephen Wolfram for the completion and launch of A New Kind of Science, as well as the usual litany of academic fellowship positions. My Biography is on-line at http://scientificarts.com/biography/profexp.html.
A thread running through all of my work—whether it has been basic research, R&D, or Communication and Catalysis in Science and Technology—has been to clarify roughly defined ideas at an early stage of their evolution and to create communication links between different scientific and intellectual cultures.
It is the latter sort of work that I am now concentrating on, though I certainly continue to accept R&D consulting assignments.
David Reiss’s Experience
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President
Scientific Arts, LLC
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Research industry)
May 1999 — Present (9 years 3 months)
Consulting in Science and Technology. Communications and interfacing between and amongst diverse scientific and technology cultures. Development of custom analytical and technical solutions in both applied and basic R&D. Development of intellectual property from vague ideas to detailed exposition and application. Subspecialty in the creation of solutions using Mathematica (http://wolfram.com).
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Senior Scientist
Centra Technology Inc
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)
August 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 9 months)
R&D in others areas of mathematical modeling, simulation, and visualization for various government institutions. Numerous studies on emerging technologies and their relevance to the work of the DHS and other government institutions.
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Scientific Communications Director
Wolfram Research
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Direct advisor to Stephen Wolfram on a wide range of matters pertaining to the completion, promotion, and communication of his book “A New Kind of Science” (http://www.wolframscience.com). Also advisor and consultant on many internal Wolfram Research Inc. company matters.
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Director of Development
Weema Technologies Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)
Employee number six in early stage start-up venture that aimed to provide the infrastructure for streaming rich media over the Internet. Responsible for management of the general research efforts of the R&D group. Spearheaded the creation of the product development group, advised on technology and business strategy, and interfaced with venture capitalists and other actual and potential investors.
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Raytheon Systems Company
Principal Systems Engineer, Project Management Office: Radar and Technology Programs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
July 1997 — May 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Conduct analysis, architectural trade studies, evaluation and R&D, and other system engineering analysis for radar systems and advanced antenna systems for communications and radar applications. Direct, coordinate, and oversee engineering laboratory design activities on behalf of the Project Management Office.
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Senior Scientist
MicroUnity
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Analytical and numerical work in areas of interest to the organization, especially electromagnetic phenomena, wireless propagation, and video compression. Solution of difficult mathematical or physical problems in all disciplines. Marketing, technical, competitive analysis, and other support for business planning initiatives. Development of university liaison relationships.
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Member of Technical Staff
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(Defense & Space industry)
October 1989 — March 1995 (5 years 6 months)
Investigations of signal processing techniques applicable to infrared target detection. Neural networks applied to infrared target detection. Studies of infrared system performance and infrared atmospheric propagation. Electromagnetic propagation problems with and without obstacles, in and out of line-of-sight, with spherical earth diffraction, and applications to radar systems. Mathematical physics issues arising in the study of these and other subjects. Phenomenological analyses and mathematical modeling of infrared data. Other phenomenological analyses and mathematical modeling as needed. Management of assistant staff members in support of these tasks.
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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Wisconsin
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1988 — October 1989 (1 year 10 months)
My research in theoretical physics focused on various aspects of what are known as Grand Unified Models (the more recent subheading of this being superstring theories) as well as their relationship to issues in cosmology and astrophysics. Techniques used in these studies come from a wide range of theoretical physics and applied mathematics topics. Associated with my academic work are 24 published papers (mostly in top tier refereed journals) and numerous invited presentations at academic institutions.
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Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1986 — August 1987 (1 year)
See above under University of Wisconsin for details of my academic work.
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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Minnesota
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1983 — August 1986 (3 years)
See above under University of Wisconsin for details of my academic work.
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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Wasnington
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1981 — August 1983 (2 years)
See above under University of Wisconsin for details of my academic work.
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Posdoctoral Fellow
University of California at Santa Cruz
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
March 1981 — July 1981 (5 months)
Teaching of graduate courses on Theoretical Physics (also see above under University of Wisconsin for details of my academic work).
David Reiss’s Education
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California Institute of Technology
PhD, Theoretical Physics, 1975 — 1981
