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Dr. Michael Sossong
Director of Nuclear Technology Research
Decision Sciences International Corporation
Poway, CA
Dr. Sossong has revolutionized the state of the art for passive nuclear
threat detection using cosmic ray muon tomography (MT). He joined Decision
Sciences International Corporation as Director of Nuclear Technology Research
in April 2008, leading the development of the company’s Multi-Mode
Passive Detection System (MMPDS), a commercial multi-mode passive detector
system, as well as other proprietary scanners and methods.
Under Dr. Sossong, the MMPDS has evolved from its laboratory origins into a robust,
deployable commercial system that passively and effectively identifies nuclear
and radiological threats in cargo within seconds, without impeding commerce flow
or compromising the safety of cargo, passengers or inspection personnel.
Previously Principal Investigator for muon tomography at Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL),
Dr. Sossong was instrumental in the creation of full-physics
simulation models for MT development, the application of tomographic algorithms
to MT data, and the design and construction of Decision Sciences' prototype.
Also while with LANL, Dr. Sossong contributed to several homeland security
and nuclear stockpile projects. Earlier in his career he participated in
the muon g-2 experiment performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory where
he was responsible for the construction, operation and analysis of data
from a set of drift tube particle tracking chambers used to track positrons
from the decay of stored muons. The results of the analysis of data from
these chambers were used to determine several systematic corrections to
the g-2 measurement and also to set a new limit on the muon electric dipole
moment.
Dr. Sossong is published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals
and has presented at domestic and international symposia and conferences.
He holds several patents and copyrights. Dr. Sossong earned his Ph.D.,
M.S. and B.S. degrees in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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