Tom Riis
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Riis is a cofounder and CTO with nine years of interdisciplinary experience applying focused ultrasound for non-invasive deep brain stimulation and leading clinical-stage engineering at Spire Therapeutics. Trained in physics and applied mathematics (UC Berkeley) and pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering (University of Utah), he bridges rigorous quantitative modeling with hands-on neurotechnology development. His background includes building automated surgical robots, electrophysiology and optogenetics experiments, and software for analyzing complex imaging and scattering data, reflecting a rare mix of wet-lab, hardware and software expertise. At Spire he combines operations and technical leadership to advance trials for treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain, and PTSD, demonstrating an emphasis on translating lab innovations into clinical tools.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Utah
Github Skills (14)
ultrasound9
transducer9
paw7
simulation7
holoviews6
holoviz6
matlab3
peripheral2
neuroscience1
electrophysiology1
computational-neuroscience1
neurons1
temporal1
image-processing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tomriis/UltrasoundModels
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Simulation of ultrasound transducer array
Contributions:1 review, 126 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 2 months
transducerarrayultrasoundsimulation
tomriis/TransmitReceive
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 122 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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