TeleSecuritySciences personnel have a long and distinguished background in image processing in the medical imaging field and in explosive detection research and development. Key members of TSS have started or have been involved in founding some of the most successful Imaging Companies over the past 20 years in both of these markets. Example companies include Invision, Imatron, Hinnovation, Terarecon, TechniScan, BSD Medical, and others.
A brief overview of the management of TeleSecuritySciences is provided below.
Hui Hu, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board, has over twenty years of experience in medical imaging industry, particularly in multinational, midsize, and startup companies. He was a Senior Physicist at GE Healthcare where he designed several GE flagship products, including the LightSpeed (multi-slice) CT scanner, and received numerous awards. He is the founder, President and CEO of HInnovation, which was acquired by Vital Images.
Dr. Hu is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Radiology at several US medical centers and has published extensively in international journals and conferences. Dr. Hu is an inventor of over forty US patents.
Douglas P. Boyd, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, is an internationally recognized CT expert, in both medical and security fields. He has pioneered the development of fan-beam CT technology, Xenon detector arrays and electron beam tomography (EBT) scanners. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Imatron, the producer of EBT scanners, which was acquired by GE Healthcare. He is also a founding member of InVision Technologies, a developer of airport explosive detection systems (EDS). He has served on its board until its acquisition by GE. Dr. Boyd is the Managing Director of Imaging Technology Ventures, Inc., and is also on the boards of Imaging Technology Group, TechniScan, BSD Medical Corporation and HealthAddress.
Dr. Boyd is an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco and has authored over a hundred scientific papers. He is a frequent invited speaker at universities and symposiums. Dr. Boyd holds thirteen U.S. patents and several others pending.
Samuel M. Song, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, received the SB, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, UCLA and USC, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He has over twenty-five years of industrial and academic research and development experience in imaging and image processing systems.
Dr. Song has served on the faculty of the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and on the faulty of School of Electrical Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Most recently, he served on the faculty of the College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, as an Associate and Full Professor. He has published nearly a hundred scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Song holds four US patents and has several others pending.
Steven A. Johnson, PhD, Senior Principal Physicist, has extensive basic and applied research experience in: (1) ground-penetrating radar; (2) sonar; (3) geo-physical applications of low-frequency electromagnetic fields; and (4) breast cancer detection using ultrasound tomography. Dr. Johnson is listed as an inventor on 13 U.S. patents in the fields of ultrasound imaging, electromagnetic imaging, inverse scattering, x-ray imaging, distillation columns, and solar energy. He is a University of Utah faculty member in the Bioengineering, Radiology, and Electrical Engineering departments.
Dr. Johnson received his doctorate in physics from Stanford University with a specialty in optical spectroscopy. His advisor was a Nobel laureate in physics for leadership in spectroscopy. Following University, Dr. Johnson worked in the Biophysics Department at Mayo Clinic on x-ray CT, Doppler flow ultrasound and ultrasound tomography. He then came to the Bioengineering Department at the University of Utah, where he established the Center for Inverse Problems, Imaging, and Tomography (CIPIT).
