Team
Randall C. O’Reilly, Ph.D., Chief Scientist
Dr. O’Reilly is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has authored over 50 journal articles and an influential textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on biologically-based computational models of learning mechanisms in different brain areas, including hippocampus, prefrontal cortex & basal ganglia, and posterior visual cortex. He has received significant funding from NIH, NSF, ONR, and DARPA. He is a primary author of the Emergent neural network simulation environment. O’Reilly completed a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and was awarded an A.B. degree with highest honors in Psychology from Harvard University.
David J. Jilk, CEO
Mr. Jilk has an extensive business and technical background in both the software industry and the Internet. Until January 2006 he was CEO of Xaffire, Inc., a developer of web application management software. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Wideforce Systems, Inc.; Associate Partner at SOFTBANK Venture Capital (now Mobius); CTO at planet U, Inc. and Bigbow.com, Inc.; President and CEO of GO Software, Inc.; and Vice President and co-founder of Feld Technologies, Inc. He independently advises startup firms and has provided technology due-diligence services for a variety of investors and acquirers. Mr. Jilk holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michol I. Bauer, Answerline Support Specialist
Ms Bauer has 9 years of experience in technical support, documentation, training, and product applications engineering. She previously worked in the FPGA semiconductor field at Xilinx Inc. Ms Bauer holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Dan Furlani, Senior Software Developer
Dan Furlani has 10 years experience developing real-time, multi-threaded, embedded C and C++ applications. His prior work was in the field of satellite communications at Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS). Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut.
