Neil Reginald Beer

N. Reginald Beer received the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, in 1991, the M.M.E. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering for microelectromechanical sensor research from the University of California, Davis, CA, USA, in 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation demonstrated real-time optical detection of nucleic acids in monodisperse emulsions and confirmed the viability of utilizing water-in-oil emulsions to perform DNA concentration measurements as a Poisson process. He has worked as a Loads and Dynamics Engineer for Orbital Systems with McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), as well as a Payload Systems Engineer with Lockheed Martin, performing modal analysis and testing of space-flight hardware. He has also worked as a Systems Engineer and Project Manager for Robotics and Remote Systems with Oceaneering Space Systems, where he led the development of several automation systems for orbital, nondestructive testing, and confined space applications. He has been the Principal Investigator for ground-penetrating radar based detection applications and currently leads the Radio Frequency Applications Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. His current research investigates wave-based multisensor data and sensor fusion technologies for explosive detection applications.