Employees

Administration

Chief Executive Officer/ Chief Scientist - Don M. Tucker, Ph.D.

Dr. Tucker is a leading international authority on the use of dense-array methods to study brain electrical activity and is the inventor of the Geodesic Sensor Net. His scientific work on the neural mechanisms of motivation and emotion has been published in leading scientific journals. As EGI's CEO and Chief Scientist, Dr. Tucker provides leadership to the management team and leads the R&D effort.

President/ Sales Manager - Ann Bunnenberg, Ph.D., JD

Dr. Bunnenberg combines her interests in electrophysiological research with her background as a business lawyer with more than 20 years' experience in the representation of emerging companies in the fields of medicine, managed care, and software. Her current primary assignments are the development of a sales and distribution network, creation of strategic alliances, and investor recruitment.

General Manager - Paul Holman

Mr. Holman has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and nearly 20 years' experience in high-tech industries. He has held executive positions in engineering, operations, and sales management as well as general management for industry-leading technology companies. The companies he has helped to manage have been primarily associated with the semiconductor, flat-panel, and hard-disk drive markets, both domestic and international. At EGI, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations including operations, engineering, and quality and customer support.

Chief Technology Officer/ Scientist - Phan Luu, Ph.D.

Dr. Luu received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1997. He completed his neuropsychology internship at the Palo Alto VA in 1998. His research interests include personality, affect, and frontal lobe mechanisms of self-regulation. At EGI, he is responsible for evaluation of new technologies and bringing internal technology research projects to market.

 

Science

Dr. Stacey (Pederson) Crane

Dr. Crane received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology with an emphasis in Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology from the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the temporal organization of emotion responses to stress, and the effect of emotion on memory, motivation, and attention. Her model of emotion incorporates a Dynamic Systems perspective (variously referred to as Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory, and Nonlinear Dynamics). At EGI, she is responsible for conducting basic and applied research, providing scientific support to sales and marketing, and developing products for industrial human-performance markets.

Dr. Pieter Poolman

Dr. Poolman received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has completed a postdoc program at the University of Iowa. His research interests include forward and inverse modeling, functional brain imaging, and signal processing. In addition, he is also interested in real-time human performance measurements.

Dr. Catherine Poulsen

Dr. Poulsen received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Oregon and the Montreal Neurological Institute, she joined EGI in January 2007. Her primary line of research examines the neural dynamics underlying the adaptive control of learning and performance. She is particularly interested in the coordination of executive control mechanisms with ongoing context and outcome monitoring processes, the balance between stability and flexibility of attentional set for optimal performance, and the modulation of learning and performance by goals, incentives, and feedback.

Dr. Jason Quiring

Dr. Quiring received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon. His program of research emphasizes a neuropsychological approach for the study of basic brain-behavioral mechanisms. One focus is designed to create better integration between neuropsychological assessment psychometrics, and functional-neuroimaging assays. He also conducts studies in psychophysics that are designed to create a better understanding of the perception of the fourth dimension: time. He considers temporal orientation—a mammalian, neuropsychological construct—to be the fabric that ties together most psychological processes including cognition, emotion, memory, and behavior.

Dr. Gerald Russell

Dr. Russell has degrees in physics and electrical engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from the University of Oregon. His current interests include pattern recognition and understanding, neuromorphic systems, and unsupervised learning. At EGI, he is exploring the application of machine vision technology to our sensor photogrammetry project, and the application of Bayesian source localization and independent component networks to EEG and ERP analysis.

 

Consultant

Dr. Allen Malony

Dr. Malony is a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon.

 

Hardware Engineering

The hardware engineering team at EGI draws upon a wealth of experience in electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering. Its members are well-versed in microvolt systems, digital logic, rapid prototyping, and assembly, with strong backgrounds in mathematics, physics, neurobiology, psychology, programming, robotics, medical equipment, EMC, and CAD/CAM.

 

Software Engineering

EGI's software engineering team brings experience in architectural and human interface design, scientific computing, 3D visualization and graphics, real-time systems, hardware interfaces, mathematics, physics, neurobiology, psychology, databases, statistics, structured testing, proof of correctness, technical writing, and rapid development techniques to a number of projects.

The team includes members from Cornell, Caltech, the University of Oregon, among others, and has experience with C, C++, Pascal, Java, MATLAB, IDL, AppleScript, and a wealth of other languages.

 

Production

The Net production team, with a diverse background as laboratory technicians and engineering assistants, contributes precision and elegance to the in-house construction of our Geodesic Sensor Nets.

 

Support

EGI provides access to specific, Ph.D.-level site coordinators for each customer. Familiar with experimental procedure and lab functionality, site coordinators provide an unparalleled sophistication of understanding in answering potential questions of a scientific nature, and are responsible for ensuring the continued happiness of each customer location.

EGI Support Engineers, with backgrounds in laboratory setup, system componentry, and experiment implementation, are able to answer a variety of questions immediately, as well as assist in system setup on-site.

 

Sales

EGI's sales team includes marketing and direct sales, as well as scientist oversight and technical consultation.