People
Dr Rolf Miles Olsen
Dr Rolf Miles Olsen is the president, founder and chief inventor of irithm. Dr Olsen earned a BA (Physics) from UC Berkeley and a PhD (Physics (Biophysics)) from UC San Diego.
Keith Wright
Keith Wright is an acting business strategy advisor for irithm to which he brings both depth and breadth of experience. Keith had responsibility for the design and operation of $200 million of wireless networking assets in 6 states of the desert southwest during 9 years as an engineering manager in the telecom industry. He is a film producer who manages the taxation and legal affairs of a small LLC engaged in film production with a global distributor in Toronto. As an adventurer, Keith navigated Yukon and Alaska, where he met and became friends with Dr Rolf Miles Olsen, irithm's founder. Recently, Keith has been focusing on entrepreneurial organizational effectiveness and finance. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Professor Vassiliy Lubchenko
Professor Vassiliy Lubchenko is an irithm LLC member and advises Dr Olsen on scientific funding issues. Prof. Lubchenko, "Vas", and Dr Olsen have known each other since their days together as graduate students. Professor Lubchenko grew up in the Ukraine. After obtaining a degree at the Moscow Institute of Technology he moved to the US in the middle 1990s. His brilliance in theoretical chemistry has been fueling his rising academic star ever since: He obtained a MS at the Carnegie Mellon University, a PhD at UI Urbana-Champaign, a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT, an Assistant, now tenured Associate, Professor position at the University of Houston, not forgetting a Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2008, an NSF Career Award in 2010 and now a very prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2011.
Professor William Loomis
Professor William Loomis acts as a special scientific advisor to irithm. This role continues his long scientific relationship with irithm's founder, Dr Rolf Miles Olsen, as Professor Loomis was Dr Olsen's PhD. advisor. Professor Loomis' laboratory at UC San Diego studies pathways and dynamic phenomena, such as chemotaxis, in Dictyostelium. Many of his recent studies have been carried out in collaboration with physicists at UCSD. Professor Loomis received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard and his PhD from MIT.
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