Dr. Haider Raad currently serves as the director of the Engineering Physics program and the Wearable Electronics Research Center (XWERC) at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was previously affiliated with California State University & the University of Arkansas, Little Rock between 2008 and 2015.
Haider received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Systems Engineering, specializing in RF Telecommunication and Wireless Systems from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New York Institute of Technology.
In addition to research and teaching, Haider is involved in several entrepreneurial activities and has over 10 years of industry experience as an engineering consultant in the realm of high-tech.
Haider has published 7 books in the fields of Wearable Technology, IoT, Telemedicine, and Wireless Systems. He has also published over a hundred peer reviewed journal and conference papers on research fields of his interest which include: Flexible and Wearable Wireless Systems, Telemedicine and Wireless Body Area Networks, IoT, Metamaterials, and Biomedical Electronics.
Mr. Scott Tattersall has over 15 years experience working with the latest technologies in both his own start-up companies, SMEs and large publicly traded companies. His previous software company for which he was both co-founder and CTO was acquired in 2015 and since then he has been working with the latest technologies such as advanced Machine Learning (e.g. Google’s Tensorflow), Computer vision (e.g. OpenCV), IoT (e.g. Arduino, RPi) and Crypto-currencies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum).
He mixes knowledge of the latest technologies (Blockchain, Docker, etc.) with deep experience on traditional and modern databases (Relational, Non-relational, document store, column databases, etc) and cloud deployment, architecture and infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc).
Over the last 5 years he has been focused on hardware development, PCB design and manufacturing and has built many custom hardware projects, including the Siguino project, which is an open source PCB design mixing Arduino and Sigfox and it’s currently deployed in numerous projects across 11 different countries worldwide.