Dmitry Turbiner

Director

Dmitry Turbiner is a founder, inventor of multiple foundational technologies and a hardware engineer with a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MS from Stanford University. He dropped out of Stanford in 2016 to found General Radar to revolutionize AI based radar technology for use in autonomous systems and long range perception. An expert in high speed electronics, RF, computing and sensing devices, Dmitry invented and developed the original prototype, secured over $8M in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins, and some of the most reputable angel investors in the field. Over the last couple years, Dmitry assembled a team of over fifteen extremely talented and broad-skilled engineers and executives from MIT and Stanford. Together, the team has developed four generations of radar and one lidar system and is delivering solutions to a variety of problems in both the commercial and defense space, including the United States Air Force.

Prior to Genrad, Dmitry was a Microwave Engineer at NASA/JPL where he served as the Chief Engineer for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Mission’s Radio Occultation Antenna Array. Currently, twelve of Dmitry’s Antennas are orbiting on a constellation of six LEO satellites, launched by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Dmitry also holds two issued patents in the field of Antenna design and three patents pending in Radar, as well as a groundbreaking invention of a Petascale chip in partnership with Professor Danny Bankman at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dmitry is passionate about solving complex, mission critical engineering problems at cost and scale.

Brian Williams Ph.D

Millimeter Wave Engineer

Brian Williams Ph.D. received his doctorate in experimental astrophysics from University of California at Santa Barbara. For his Ph.D. thesis project, he built a microwave telescope that observed the polarization of the remnant energy from the big bang (Cosmic Microwave Background). During this process he developed the skills and talents needed to become an RF and mmWave Engineer.

After graduation, Brian decided to try his hand at teaching with a one-year teaching position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. When the contract was ending he was present with the opportunity to work for a small RF company in Santa Barbara California (Spacek Labs Inc.), where he had interned during graduate school. At Spacek Labs, he developed and honed his skills as a mmWave engineer. During his tenure are Spacek Labs he developed systems and components up to 185 GHz.

After 7 years at Spacek Labs and a quick interlude at Sage Millimeter, Brian decided to start his own company. Williams RF Works is developing custom mmWave components and consulting on the development of specialized mmWave systems and subsystems. In addition to running WRFW, Brian is working with General Radar Corporation pushing the frontiers of automotive radar. Brian is helping with the development of a unique and superior solution for automotive radars to aid in the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles.

He has tried to stay connected to the engineering and physics community by contributing to his local IEEE chapters and Teaching basic physics at the community college level.

Chris Kraeutle

Industrial and Product Design

For more than 25 years, Chris has specialized in the design of consumer electronic products for mass production in markets around the world. After transplanting to Silicon Valley in the early 90’s, he began a career in consulting winning international design awards for large conglomerates in Korea before becoming a founder at SurfaceInk, a product development firm with clients such as Apple, Palm, HP, SanDisk, Belkin, Netgear and GreenToys. He then led product design engineering teams at Amazon Lab126 where he was responsible for the development of the Kindle 4, Paperwhite display and Kindle Oasis resulting in more than 30 million devices sold along with several investigations of innovative technologies for the Advanced Products team.

In 2015, he became an Advisor to startups in their product development processes and led investments such as CastAR, Subpac, Nauto, Artificial and Essential Products for Playground Global, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, CA. Along the way, he quickly built product design teams to drive innovation, proof of concept, functional prototypes to production ready designs for builds at Asian contract manufacturers. He has traveled to China and other parts of Asia extensively throughout his career.

Chris holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati in Industrial Design with honors. Currently, he is pursuing an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to augment his experience and growth as a global business leader.

Sasha Migdal

Algorithms Scientist

More than 50 years of experience in theoretical and computational physics.
More than 100 scientific papers in the theory of phase transitions, high energy physics, mathematical physics and computational fluid dynamics.
Ten US patents for inventions in Laser Scanning and 3D Graphics.
Ten years of experience in large scale scientific and applied computations.
Five years of experience in the graphics software industry.
Twenty years of experience in financial software development and high frequency trading.

Past appointments include Senior Research Fellow at Landau Institute.
Joint Professor of Physics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University.
Presently, Sasha is a Senior Research scientist at New York University.

Nolan Browne

Business Development

Two-time automotive start-up executive and serial entrepreneur, Nol joined General Radar in 2018. Previously, he was the business leader for Capio, a machine learning enabled speech recognition company acquired by Twillio in 2019.

A technical business developer, investor, fundraiser and board member specializing in commercialization of emerging technologies to reinvent established industries, Nol has nearly 20 years of executive experience in both multinational corporations and startup companies. He was the Founding Director of the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems at MIT, an applied R&D lab working with industry to commercialize clean energy technology and is known for his ability to manage leading technical teams addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges. At Fraunhofer, Nol both led the Boston and New Mexico based research centers and helped manage the global organization’s research partnerships in North America.

Previously, Nol was the founding partner of ADL Ventures, a boutique corporate venturing firm helping mid-cap companies develop new enterprises in energy, construction, semiconductor materials and transportation. Prior to that he successfully co-founded and operated CleanTech accelerators including Fraunhofer TechBridge and holds board seats in a number of energy related concerns. He's a three time invited speaker at the National Academy of Science and has more recently spoken at TedX on innovation in change resistant industries .

He holds graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, Browne co-founded the MIT Energy Conference.

Okie Williams

Electrical Engineer

Okie Williams joined Dmitry as Co-founder and Director of Engineering of General Radar in 2016. He leads General Radar's engineering team, from design and manufacturing to software development.

Prior to General Radar, Okie worked at Apple, Analog Devices, and a handful of hardware start-ups around Cambridge, MA as both a co-founder and an engineer. Okie holds patents in multiple areas, from sensor data processing algorithms for mobile devices, augmented reality gaming, technology related to micro pick-and-place robots, and radar innovations regarding work at General Radar.

Okie studied EECS as an undergraduate at MIT after which he started a company building custom machine learning chips for robotics applications.

Cody Daniel

Mechanical Engineer

Cody has spent his career at the intersection of motion and matter, working on a variety of high-bandwidth imaging systems, high-precision actuators, and high-complexity integrated systems. After graduating from MIT he founded 3Scan to bring machine vision and manufacturing scale imaging to 3D pathology.

Engineering skills include building and integrating large CAD assemblies, executing Design For Manufacture and managing Contract Manufacturing, establishing factory-floor automation over instrument deployments, and systems architecture. Product skills include client-facing design sessions, presentation of engineering design reviews, budgeting over large product development cycles, and assessment of business cases around new product initiatives.

In 2018, Cody was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the Science category.

Barnabas Fung

Hardware Engineer

Barnabas’ education is in biomedical & electrical engineering and math from Carleton University. He then pursued graduate studies in applied physics at McMaster University where he researched novel polymers for use as biomolecular electrochemical sensors for resource-limited settings, resulting in a co-authored paper in Nature.

Working collaboratively with both engineers and life scientists, a broad skill-set was developed encompassing materials characterization & microscopy, electrochemical methods, and multiphysics simulation.

As a Hardware Engineer, Barnabas has experience in both digital design and verification, working for companies such as Freescale (NXP) Semiconductors and Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia), and has in-depth knowledge of Xilinx FPGAs and IP. His current budding interest is in the use of FPGAs for machine learning & high frequency trading.

Naasik Akkas

Mechatronics Engineer

Naasik Akkas was born in Bangladesh and migrated to the US to attend a small town community college, eventually making it into UC Berkeley’s Mechanical Engineering undergrad program. During his time at Berkeley, he developed a strong interest in Mechatronics, Controls and Robotics and worked on multiple projects that were funded by DARPA.

Naasik started his professional career as a Mechatronics and Test Engineer at Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation (BWC) in California where he gained extensive experience in designing, modeling and implementing high precision motion control solutions for various defense and semiconductor companies in the Silicon Valley such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Maxim Integrated, JDS Uniphase and National Instruments. At BWC, Naasik also gained extensive experience in developing automated electro-mechanical test systems using LabVIEW and custom built hardware.

In 2014, Naasik left BWC and became the CTO of Data Scale Corporation – a company that pioneered automatic high throughput and accuracy liquid fillers in California, USA. Throughout his employment at both these companies, Naasik was enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree program at San Jose State University from where he graduated in 2015.

In 2015, Naasik was recruited by Apple Inc. to work as a lead Mechatronics Engineer in their Hardware Research and Development group. During his time at Apple, Naasik worked in a team of mechanical and electrical engineers in a highly classified project to design and build various high accuracy semiconductor and MEMS fabrications machines – machines that had to be invented from the ground up to meet Apple’s complex hardware design requirements. Naasik’s expertise in motion control and PLC-based control systems played a pivotal role in the group.

In November 2017, Naasik left Apple and took on the position of Director of Engineering of Sincos Engineers Ltd. and Sincos Automation Technologies Ltd – two companies that are the pioneers in Bangladesh for Industrial automation and robotics, high speed date and bar coding, machine vision and custom automated machine design. At Sincos, Naasik manages several engineering teams and overseas development of new business verticals.

Naasik’s skills include: Designing control systems for high throughput machines, high precision multi-axis motion control, 3D mechanical design for assembly/fabrication, LabVIEW based test and control systems, SCADA system development, PLC programming, project management.

Philip McGillivary

Marine Robotics

Dr. Phil McGillivary is an oceanographer with a PhD from the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, who did his doctoral work at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

His career began working at the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab in Miami as a scientist working on global and regional class oceanographic vessels. His first post-doctoral appointment for the Office of Naval Research was at UC Santa Barbara, and his second post-doc was with the NOAA Wave Propagation Lab in Boulder, Colorado.

His work included specifically the use of acoustics, lasers and radars in the study of the oceans and atmosphere. He worked in the Office of Secretary of Defense on national security technologies, and for more than twenty years was the Science Liaison for the US Coast Guard Pacific Area, where he coordinated science on the USCG icebreakers and on aircraft in the Arctic and Antarctic.

He is a specialist in marine robotic systems (underwater, surface and aircraft), advanced communication methods, and remote sensing technologies.

Jonathan Chang

Computer Infrastructure and Security

Jonathan thrives in tomorrow's fast paced world of systems engineering. Having filled both consultant and in-house roles, Jonathan has helped many organizations create a solid technical foundation to scale up and out their operations. With experience from the smallest pre-seed startups through post-IPO enterprises, he brings a huge wealth of knowledge and experience.

A lifelong learner, Jonathan excels in many fields. He's passionate about helping people, and learning about the latest cloud architecture and security solutions, networking, wireless protocols, SDR/amateur radio, astrophotography and even DevOps. He holds many industry certifications, and even is a classical pianist.

Jonathan attended Cal Poly SLO before leaving to start his own consulting firm.

Matthew Byrt

Web Developer

Matt Byrt is one of the founders of Align Studios, a UK based Web and Graphic Design company.

Prior to setting up Align Studios, Matt worked for a range of different Web Design and Development studios in and around London. Matt has worked internationally, in-house and remotely on projects for leading brands, startups and charities.

Matt's extremely passionate about web development and design in all it’s forms and helping businesses build and improve their online presence.

David Powell

Junior Partner

David Powell joined General Radar in 2016 working on radar integration on sUAS platforms.

Prior to joining General Radar David served as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion 8th Marine Regiment, deploying to Musa Qala, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Air Transportation from The Ohio State University.

Victor Turbiner

Junior Partner

Victor Turbiner is currently pursuing his B.S. at Stanford University. He is interested in computer science, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. He has previously interned at the MIT InfoLab, where he programmed a robot to respond to voice commands.