Dan Milkie
Senior Scientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Milkie is a Senior Scientist with over a decade of experience integrating advanced instrumentation and custom software for microscopy and spectroscopy applications. He combines a PhD in Physics with deep LabVIEW and FPGA expertise to build and deploy PXI/CompactRIO-based systems, machine vision pipelines, and control software for Raman and photoluminescence experiments. At Howard Hughes Medical Institute he translates cutting-edge optical and nanotechnology requirements into robust, production-grade instruments, having previously led scientific software at Coleman Technologies. He is comfortable across hardware and software boundaries, from camera integration (Basler, Andor, Dalsa, Princeton) to SCADA and real-time data acquisition. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often bridges academic rigor and industrial reliability to accelerate discovery. Based in Ashburn, VA, he pairs experimental physics insight with hands-on engineering to deliver turnkey measurement platforms.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at William & MaryPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (98)
deconvolution10
optical-flow10
gui-application9
crud9
hugo9
microscopy9
java9
developer-tools8
api8
panels8
javascript8
cms8
react8
cuda8
admin8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dmilkie/starter-academic
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:190 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
cell-observatory/platform
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 66 pushes in 17 days
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