He completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2010 at the University of Southern California, where he also received USC’s Cardinal and Gold Award for leadership.  He earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles in 2006, where he was a Presidential Scholar, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2008, and a certificate in Technology Commercialization, which involved taking MBA classes, from USC in 2009.  In the past 10 years, he co-founded a company selling skateboards whose designs have been replicated and standardized in the industry, worked at a startup technology company in Silicon Valley, and has published more than 15 papers and delivered presentations at conferences on topics related to TPS.  In addition to his entrepreneurial background and his work in the scientific community, Dr. Singleton is a commercial pilot with instrument, helicopter, and single- and multi-engine land, and single-engine sea ratings. 

In addition to receiving the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society award for best student paper in 2011, Jason has published eight papers, and delivered over seven presentations on his work in topics related to TPS. He holds two patents with one more pending. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Boston University in 2005, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2011. He specializes in pulsed power technologies and he is actively involved in the design and implementation of pulsed power systems for applications that span multiple industries, including the automotive, agricultural, and biomedical industries.

He received a Ph.D. degree in physics from The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1981.  He was a research physicist in the UCLA Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1983 to 1991, in the field of experimental magnetic fusion research. Since 1991 he has been working in industry, concentrating on pulsed power, plasma centrifuge for material and medical isotope separation, high energy electron beam generation, pulsed laser concepts for plasma diagnostics, electron-beam based methods for treatment of VOCs and NOx, SOx emissions, and neutron sources for geophysical exploration.  He holds 33 patents and has published 36 scientific papers in refereed journals.

He received a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California.  He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at USC and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School.  From 1998 to 2003, he was Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics at USC.  Dr. Gundersen received the Germeshausen Award of the IEEE Power Modulator Symposium, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the IEEE.

Dr. Mann has served as an advisor to government agencies and leading aerospace corporations around the globe. He is the founder of a number of technology companies and was the CEO of a diversified high technology company with manufacturing operations in the defense, information systems, and energy sectors. Dr. Mann has served as an outside director of high technology and health services companies and on advisory boards for emerging companies. He was a member of the Board of Examiners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the Army Science Board, where he chaired the Directed Energy and Ballistic Missile Defense panels. He was a participant in the Scientist Exchange Program between the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., and was an advisor to the Russian government on issues of privatization and economic transition. In addition to serving as an Adjunct Professor at USC, he also has served on the faculty of the National Technological University, the Asia Pacific Institute, and Moscow State University, and as a guest lecturer at other major universities. Mike is also the recipient of the Patriotic Civilian Service Commendation from the Secretary of the Army.