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Spotlight on R&D...
In keeping with our commitment to innovative product development, TDT has built a Research and Development Department with a full-time staff of scientists and engineers focused exclusively on prototyping new devices and methods for neuroscience research. Their mission is to identify target products, design and fabricate prototypes, evaluate these in real-world situations, and use the results to inform final product design. Our imaginative team of R&D engineers is currently focused on creating novel electrode solutions for chronic multichannel recording and developing new digital signal processing techniques for spike detection, sorting, and noise reduction.
To help us fully appreciate the research needs of our customers, we maintain a complete on-site neurophysiology research facility approved for vertebrate research. The laboratory affords us a unique perspective, allowing us to develop and test in vivo novel solutions for neuroscience research.
Meet the R&D staff ...
Director of R&D, Willard Wilson earned his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Rochester, where he studied the influence of sound motion on the spatial receptive fields of auditory neurons. After postdoctoral research focused on dynamic auditory processing, Dr. Wilson accepted a position at Tucker-Davis Technologies in 1999. As Director of Research and Development, he is responsible for identifying target markets and devices, securing funding for research and development, and directing software and hardware engineers in product development. He maintains an active basic research program and continues to collaborate with academic scientists.
Chris joined TDT last year as a Mechanical engineer in our Research and Development Department. With an MS in Physics and ten years of experience working with lasers and optics, Chris has been instrumental in developing new techniques for manufacturing reliable, quality microwire arrays. He’s currently involved in implementing new laser cutting techniques for our chisel tipped arrays and expanding our line to include higher channel count arrays and new array configurations.
Shonan graduated with an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder following her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, India with a specialization in digital signal processing. Her graduate work at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR, CU Boulder), involved the design and implementation of algorithms to characterize and quantify speech pathology. She has also worked on the implementation of a Vowel-Swapping system, used as a hearing test for normal and hearing-impaired listeners at the Hearing Research Lab at CU, Boulder.
While in India, she interned at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Bombay), working on speaker identification and verification algorithms. She also worked on Video Grabber Circuitry for Medical Imaging as part of the design and development team at IIT Bombay. Shonan is now a member of the R&D team at Tucker-Davis where she works on the development, implementation and analysis of semi-automatic and automatic spike sorting algorithms.
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