Reid Harrison

Reid Harrison has a long history of work experience in the scientific and engineering fields. Reid began their career in 1994 as a Research Assistant at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Reid then moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1995, where they worked as a Research Assistant. In 2000, they became an Associate Professor and then an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. In 2010, they founded and became the CEO of Intan Technologies, a company that miniaturizes the functions of traditional large, expensive electrophysiology equipment and enables small, low-cost scientific instruments and medical devices. Reid also develops specialized integrated circuits to interface with electrical signals in living tissue and creates innovative microchips to sense and stimulate neurons and muscles.

Reid Harrison received their Bachelor of Science with honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1994. Reid then went on to pursue a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, which they completed in 2000.