Dr. Nathan Shnidman joins Jaxon following several leadership positions focused in the AI/ML and system architecture spaces at multiple research and development firms, non-profits, and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.

Nathan’s doctoral work included building MIT’s Raw processor, the world’s first tiled architecture, as well as designing software radios for tiled processors. He began his post-graduate school career at the MITRE Corporation doing research into the global positioning system. He then contributed to a novel computer architecture startup, Axis Semiconductor. From there he continued on to BAE Systems (originally Alphatech) to perform and lead research in computer vision and machine learning for multiple government research entities including DARPA, AFRL, and ONR. This was followed by a stint at Draper Laboratory, where he led a machine learning, signal processing, and data fusion group. 

His work at Draper on the DARPA Muse project was spun out as its own company and led to Nathan co-founding the AI-based cybersecurity firm, Lexumo, Inc. which used machine learning techniques to learn and identify vulnerabilities compiled into software. Most recently before joining Jaxon, Nathan was at STR (Systems and Technology Research) as Chief Engineer and Deputy Director leading an AI/ML group focused on computer vision doing work for IARPA, DARPA, and AFRL, among others.

Nathan received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.