Kurtis Nishimura
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
Ph. D.: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Dr. Kurtis Nishimura
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Research Interest: 
Experimental Particle Physics
Specialty: 
Electronics for Instrumentation
Digital Design
B Physics
Fission Energy Neutron Imaging
Research Associate(s): 
Aline Galindo Tellez
Shahab Kohani
Vasily Shebalin
Graduate Student(s): 
Kevin Keefe

Career History:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of
    Hawai’i at Mānoa
    (2017 – Present)
  • Senior Engineer, Paradromics, Inc.
    2020
  • Chief Scientist, Ultralytics LLC
    2015-2017
  • Electronics Engineer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    2013-2015
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
    2010-2012
  • Ph.D., High Energy Physics, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
    2010
  • M.S., Physics, San Francisco State University
    2005
  • Scientist/Engineer, The Boeing Company
    2002-2003
  • B.S., Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    2002

Dr. Nishimura joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawai’i as an Assistant Professor in 2017. His research includes a focus on electronics and digital design for research instrumentation over a broad range of applications. Among his research activities, he is an institutional PI on a fission energy neutron imagining effort known as the Single Volume Scatter Camera, a collaboration led by Sandia National Laboratories. He also is deeply involved in the Belle II experiment, where he coordinates various digital logic development efforts over multiple subdetectors. He also participates in the DUNE experiment as both a member of the Cold
Electronics Consortium and as part of the QPix effort to build a pixelated readout for Liquid Argon time projection chambers.

His group and activities heavily overlap with the Instrumentation Development Lab.

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