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| President, Dr. Robert Matthews Dr. Matthews is the leader of QUASAR’s biosensor development program. He leads the development of Bio & Medical applications, and has been responsible for all clinical trials and technology demonstrations of our biosensing devices. Dr. Matthews has extensive, in-depth experience in developing a broad range of practical EM sensing systems for airborne, land, underwater, and man-carried operations. These projects include being the lead designer and engineer on a series of research programs culminating in a total of over $30 million in R&D funds to build a land mine detection system. This program required SOA low noise instrumentation to operate a tuned antenna at its thermal noise limit without shielding and in the presence of AM radio station interference and system noise. Dr. Matthews was also the principal investigator on a magnetic tensor gradiometer system developed for the tracking of magnetic objects in real time. This program required robust instrumentation, as well as extensive noise cancellation techniques to allow the instrument to operate at near the sensor noise limits. While working for Quantum Magnetics (QM), Dr. Matthews was stationed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he worked closely with IBM on the development and commercialization of advanced magnetic technologies. This work formed a key part of the superconducting technology development agreement between IBM and QM. Dr. Matthews led the development of instrumentation using high-temperature superconducting magnetic sensors for biomagnetic measurements. He also played a key role in the development of a multi sensor magnetic gradiometer, and contributed to work using magnetoresistive sensors for buried explosive detection. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Matthews worked on the development of a superconducting gravity gradiometer, a geophysical exploration device to be flown in light aircraft to survey for massive ore bodies. This work was aimed at commercializing the sensor for the geophysical exploration market. The work required extremely complex, sensitive yet robust mechanical devices, including extensive electronic, cryogenic, and computer-controlled systems. An outstanding inventor and expert in ultra low noise electronics,
Dr. Matthews is author or coauthor on many scientific publications
and is the inventor or co-inventor on numerous patents. |