About Our Team

Nalu Scientific was founded by a team of engineers and experimental physicists with expertise in precision measurement and gravitational wave detector instrumentation. We create technologies that helps scientists, engineers, and professionals seamlessly acquire data, run measurements and control their experiments that further our understanding of physics.

We’re obsessed with designing technologies that will further our understanding how the world works

Dean has made a career in custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) ranging from functional, logic, circuit and device design to process technology development. His experience emphasizes design, verification (functional, timing, parametric, fault), design automation, physical chip floor planning, circuit layout, device characterization, and fabrication analysis. ASIC designs comply with industry standards and customers’ requirements for commercial, industrial, automotive, communication, computers, and government applications. Dean is one of Nalu Scientific's founding team members.

Luca graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Poltecnico di Torino (Italy). Luca was a post-doctoral researcher in Torino and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and taught integrated circuits and digital design as an assistant professor at the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Luca joined the Nalu Scientific team after collaborating with the Instrumentation Development Lab Physics at UH-Manoa to help develop the digital design and the architecture of the company's Systems-on-a-Chip. Luca is a founding member of the Nalu Scientific team.

Ben received his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics in 2016. His research involved designing and implementing experiments to observe high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos over Antarctica. He is currently in charge of application development for Nalu Scientific’s portfolio of high speed digitizers. He has previously designed data acquisition electronics that have successfully flown or operated in harsh environments.

Marcus has worn many professional hats from Director of IT, project manager, to Chief Logistics Officer at a manufacturing company. Over the last two years at Nalu Scientific, he has led the software team and built the software suite leveraging his over 20 years of coding experience to create a user friendly tool for Nalu’s cutting edge tools.

Ryan specializes in the development of advanced electronic hardware and packaging with an emphasis on RF and high-speed digital circuits. Ryan has 10+ years working on aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronic systems and has a wide array of design and test experience ranging from antennas and microwave circuits to ADCs and power regulators.

John is an electronics design engineer with 30 years of design and applications engineering experience in electronics design for test automation, avionics, and high energy physics. John is a lead engineer at Nalu and project manager for Nalu’s Independent design contracts.

Chris is an electronics engineer who has been a part of development teams with applications ranging from FDA cleared and CE marked medical devices, sanitation systems for the developing world and laboratory test equipment.

Ruth received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Her research focus is in Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and RF-based biomedical devices where she helped develop a patented wearable RF-based cardio-pulmonary system. For over 10 years, she has worked on EM-based sensors and published studies on their designs.

Kenneth received an engineering degree from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and first joined Nalu’s team as an intern. Kenneth assists with software development, test engineering, board design/layout, and data analysis. Additional responsibilities include minor reflow work and documentation.

JOINING OUR TEAM?

As a growing start-up in Honolulu Hawai'i we are always looking for interns, engineers, and physicists excited about exploring new frontiers in technology.