Dr. Barry Petersen has been working in the field of cognitive neuroscience for over 20 years. His Ph.D. doctoral work at UC Berkeley was in experimental physics, where he measured and modeled electron scattering measurements with computational holography. It was during his Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin that he started modeling brain function with holograms. In 2002 he founded a neural network company in Taiwan, WaveTronex, Inc., where he served as the General Manager and CTO. Dr. Petersen then joined Foxconn in Taiwan as the Director of the Software Technology Research Center and later also as the Director of Artificial Intelligence. His specialty in Foxconn was in creating human-like computer vision applications to relieve factory employees from grueling and monotonous vision-related tasks that fell beyond the scope of traditional AOI. Dr. Petersen developed almost all neural network and general AOI algorithms based on his extensive experience in the field of machine learning and sensor analytics.
Prior to 2002, Dr. Petersen also spent several years working with Misawa Environmental Technology, Inc., a green energy geothermal HVAC design and installation company in Miyoshi, Japan, where he also studied neural network models. At Misawa, he wrote a multi-lingual commercial engineering design software application, Ground Loop Design, which is now used in over 60 countries, and is the North American standard for commercial geothermal design. The software also includes an innovative piping system design module that greatly reduces design time and is a critical tool for building energy saving systems. The solution platform has been licensed to the US Army, Navy Air Force, Trane, Siemens, LG, Mitsubishi, Kolon, among others.
Dr. Petersen has also authored and released multiple other desktop and mobile phone and tablet apps for both iPhone and Android, mostly combining video streams or device sensors with program functions.