Our Story
Our story began as a class project for a course as two PhD students studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. We wrote a short ‘mock’ grant proposal for a ‘handheld’ technology that did not exist in our field as an assignment for a biophotonics course. We quickly realized, “Hey, we could actually build this!”. We won a number of internal grants and were able to quickly get to a benchtop prototype design working. We’ve since presented at academic conferences and have had manuscripts accepted in world class journals. In 2020, NearWave Corp. was born and we began our journey to take our technology from the lab to the market.
Our Team
Our deeply passionate team strives to explore as many avenues as we can in order to create the best product possible for our end user. The NearWave Imager was developed in the electrical engineering labs at the University of Notre Dame by founders Roy Stillwell and Thomas O'Sullivan. Our work has been presented at national and international conferences and has been featured in many peer-reviewed journal publications. We are so excited to have the opportunity to work on such awesome technology and are all looking forward to showing the world what NearWave has in store.
Roy Stillwell, PhD
Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist
Roy has more that 12 years of programming / embedded design/industry experience and spent 10+ years as a lead system architect. He has published in peer reviewed journals and conferences all over the world. Roy has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Thomas O’Sullivan, PhD
Founder, Advisor
Tom is an expert with 15 years experience in tissue optical spectroscopy and imaging. His research in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Notre Dame involves the development of new optical sensing techniques and hardware.
Adam Longoria
Embedded Hardware Engineer
Adam comes to us as a former rocket firmware engineer for United Launch Alliance! He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and has an extensive background in embedded systems.
Eric Sheeder
Software Engineer
Eric has 8+ years of front end software development experience and is an expert software developer. Eric holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Colorado School of Mines.
Brooke Williams
Industrial Designer
Brooke has lead a number of product design projects at multiple design firms and brings her expertise in both engineering and industrial design. She holds a BS & BA in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design from the University of Notre Dame.
Morgan Rudolph
Lead UI Designer
Morgan is a senior industrial design & UI design consultant. She is an expert with 12+ years of experience in medical device strategy and design.
Gerardo Silva Oelker, PhD
Photonics Research Scientist
Gerardo is an expert in modeling electromagnetic, thermal, and semiconductor systems, has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, was a former professor in Chile, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering.
Lyla Senn
Engineer / Analyst
Lyla has experience in iOS development and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Prof. Jim Rudolph
Lead Industrial Designer
Jim is an expert with 12+ years experience in medical device design. His research in the Industrial Design Department at the University of Notre Dame involves user experience and human interactions.
Our Awards
In the last three years with the drive of this team, NearWave has won the University of Notre Dame’s Idea Center McCloskey New Venture Competition, the top prize in the regional pre-seed category of the Elevate Ventures Nexus Competition, and the Innovation of the Year award at the TechPoint Mira Awards
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