Bruce E. Kimmel, PhD

CEO

Bruce received his PhD in biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley. He has managed science and software projects in the commercial, academic, and non-profit sectors. For example, Bruce has led projects on large-scale genome sequencing at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, drug development at Amgen and several technology efforts at HHMI/Janelia Research Campus. Bruce brings a track record of success in science, management, and biotechnology to Vidrio.

Georg Jaindl, MS

Systems Engineer

Georg received his MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Leoben, where he worked in machine vision and image processing. He joined Vidrio after three years as an Applications Engineer at National Instruments. Georg has particular expertise with programmable hardware using LabView FPGA.

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Jacob Franklin, B.S.

Software and Support Engineer

Jacob received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University where he studied control systems, signal processing and robotics.  He joined Vidrio after working as a software engineer for an automotive cyber security startup.

Nathan Clack, PhD

Principal Engineer

Nathan received his PhD in biophysics from U.C. Berkeley. Nathan is a computer scientist and biophysicist specializing in high-throughput imaging and analysis. His graduate and postdoctoral projects included DNA microarray technology, high-speed behavioral video analysis of mice, and high-speed two-photon microscopy for whole brain imaging.

James Jun, PhD

Principal Scientist

James received his PhD in Physics from the University of Ottawa and joined Vidrio after working at Janelia Research Campus in the Instrumentation Group as a postdoctoral associate.  At Janelia he developed a large-scale extracellular neural recording device in collaboration with Allen Institute, UCL and IMEC and was the author of the spike sorting software JRCLUST. James’ ultimate mission is to integrate a reliable and high-throughput chronic neural recording device with rapid and automated analysis software.  

Jonathan King, MS

Systems Engineer

Jonathan received his MS in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he served as controls lead and Co-Team Leader of the award winning Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team. He joined Vidrio after working at National Instruments Corporation and Veraxx Engineering Corporation where he applied his versatile systems and software engineering skills.

Lawrence Niu, B.S.

Web Application and Hardware Engineer

Lawrence received his B.S. from the University of Maryland where he studied HCI, Web Development, and system-level languages.  He joined Vidrio in 2016 shortly after graduation.