Team
Board of Directors
 

Spectral Image Team

Michael Barnes, CEO
Mr. Barnes has over twenty years of experience developing and leading advanced remote sensing programs for detection of low-observable high-value phenomenon. As a proven entrepreneur, Mr. Barnes has successfully founded and managed new ventures which leverage high concept detection technologies in providing unique information based services across the government and commercial sectors. Operating across a variety of risk levels his experience encompasses the full range of remote sensing applications involving airborne, groundborne and human imaging scenarios. Mr. Barnes graduated with an M.S. in Physics from the University of South Florida.
Zhihong Pan, Ph.D., Director of Research
Dr. Pan has over eight years of experience in research and development of applied imaging technologies. Over the last four years, Dr. Pan has initiated and successfully led numerous studies to apply state-of-the-art imaging techniques in a variety of unique applications, including: Biomedical imaging; environmental monitoring; target mapping/detection from remote platform; multi-sensor fusion and biometrics. Prior to joining the company, he was a research assistant at the Computer Vision Laboratory at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Pan graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He obtained both MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Tsinghua University, China.
Sizhong Zhang, Biomedical Engineer
Mr. Zhang is an experienced biomedical engineer and software developer who is currently developing the next generation of detection capabilities and processing technologies while concurrently participating in human imaging tests. Previously he worked as a research assistant at Luminetx Corporation and the x-ray imaging laboratory at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). At Luminetx, he worked on system optimization and imaging processing algorithms. At UTHSC, he was responsible for the characterization and modeling of a Flat Panel Detector in a Variable Resolution X-ray (VRX) CT system. The R&D experience at a medical device start-up, rigorous education in medical imaging and ample real-world clinical exposure makes him a uniquely qualified biomedical engineer. Sizhong obtained his MS in biomedical engineering from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
 
 

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