Meet Our Team

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Steve Nichols
CEO/President
Mr. Nichols holds an MBA in Marketing and Operations from the Ohio State University to compliment his bachelor's degree in Physics. His career in marketing and business development, including with companies like CACI and thriving startup Razorleaf Government Solutions, have given him ample experience in leading business concepts to market.

Dale Mugler
CTO
Dr. Mugler is an expert in signal and image processing. He has taught at Santa Clara University, and was both a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Akron while serving as Dean of the Honors College. Besides research related to Fourier transform applications, he has a passion for guiding technology innovations from lab research to commercial opportunities.

Elyse Ball
Vice President
Ms. Ball holds a JD of Law from Boston University and works as Executive Director at the University of Akron Research Foundation. ​Her expertise in intellectual property and experience with growing startups strengthens the Ocius team's ability to execute licenses and business opportunities.

Jasmine Butcher
Marketing Manager
Jasmine Butcher has a B.S. in Management, concentrating in innovation & entrepreneurship, with a minor in marketing from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She has previous experience in marketing research and product design & development.

Senior Researchers​

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Arjuna Madanayake

Dr. Madanayake is a faculty member at Florida International University and is a subaward researcher for the DARPA-funded analog project.

Soumyajit Mandal

Dr. Mandal is a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University and is a subaward researcher for the DARPA-funded analog project.

SI Harharan

​Dr. Hariharan is a faculty member at the University of Akron and is a subaward researcher for the DARPA-funded analog project

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Ocius Technologies, FIU and Case Western collaborated on the first "Analog-Digital Hybrid Computing Workshop" to continue to develop technology for the DARPA "Analog Co-Processors for Complex System Simulation and Design". The workshop was held in downtown Miami, FL, and attended by about 20 PhD students, faculty and industry personnel. They spent three days doing a deep dive on analog-RF CMOS computing chip design, hacking FPGA designs for RF DSP on ROACH-2 and Altera SoC, and demonstrating working systems based on the state-of-art Xilinx Zynq RF SoC ZCU1275 (photos below by Najath Akram)