Mark A. Massie
Nova President
As Chief Scientist at Nova Sensors, Mr. Massie is involved in all aspects of the design and implementation of the programs at Nova.
- Development of miniature sensors and sensor systems of all kinds including acoustic processors, infrared focal plane array devices which make use of massively parallel analog computations, as well as their associated analog and digital support electronics.
- 27 years of experience in scientific and engineering positions, has a very wide range of analytical and engineering capabilities.
- Published over 40 technical papers.
- Received an MS in Physics from California State University Los Angeles, 1982.
Christopher R. Baxter
Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Baxter is an expert in the design, layout, verification and test of scanning and staring array infrared sensor readout integrated circuits. He joined Nova Sensors as a mixed-signal integrated circuit design engineer, with many years of experience in this and related fields.
- He has been involved in designing digital and mixed-signal electronics for a multispectral neuromorphic focal plane readout processing integrated circuit (ROPIC).
- Engaged in the design of infrared sensor readout integrated circuits. He has designed windowing ROIC focal plane arrays, which are capable of operating at very high frame rates. In addition, he has designed on-chip frame buffers for massively parallel signal processing functions.
- Performed the layout and verification of a 1024x1024 large area infrared staring array termed ALADDIN (Astronomy Large Area Detective Development in Indium Antimonide) with first pass success.
- Has experience designing flip-chip configurations which have succeeded in increasing on-chip functionality of silicon based mixed-signal integrated circuits.
- Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992.
