Neil G. Rogers, PhD

Highlights

Objective

I aim to contribute to meaningful, high-impact R&D while cultivating a team culture rooted in technical depth, integrity, and trust.

Technical

  • Proven record of technical excellence
  • Multiple publications in applications of Software Defined Radios & electromagnetics.
  • Multi-domain technical expertise

Software Defined Radios

  • Experience in prototyping using all types of SDRS
  • Developed autonomous passive RFDF CUAS system
  • Built low-cost prototype Qi demodulator/decoder
  • Created SDR-based RF reverse-engineering curriculum for undergraduate course
  • Transitioned novel video detector-jammer from COTS hardware to SDR platform

Feedback

  • Dept Head: "Neil is the heart & soul of the ECE dept..."
  • Senior Leader: "Peerless leader with tech depth!"
  • GNURadio President: "Neil is a key driver in the GNU-Radio community..."

GNURadio

  • Recognized throughout community for technical proficiency & instructional expertise.
  • Developed GNURadio implementation of secure communications protocol
  • Generated dozens of GNURadio prototype flowgraphs to illustrate key communications applications

Intangibles

  • Trusted advisor and mentor for tomorrow's brightest
  • Visionary: excels at generating buy-in & momentum
  • Connector: brings people, teams, and processes together to solve problems.
  • Everyday learner: constantly seeks new challenges

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology, OH

DISSERTATION: "NONDESTRUCTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF UNIAXIAL MATERIALS"

  • Developed rigorous theory, model, simulation, and novel measurement technique to extract constitutive parameters from complex media.
  • Characterized various materials to evaluate for stealth applications.

MS in Electrical Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology, OH

THESIS: "ELECTRON MULTIPACTOR: THEORY REVIEW, COMPARISON AND MODELING OF MITIGATION TECHNIQUES IN ICEPIC"

  • Developed simulation to evaluate electron avalanche in HPM sources,
  • Work is the cornerstone for developing mitigation techniques for destructive phenomenon.

BS in Electrical Engineering

UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | Tulsa, OK

Professional Experience

RF FIELD APPLICATIONS ENGINEER

Analog Devices, Inc. | Colorado Springs, CO | 2025-Present
  • Supports RF-focused Aerospace and Defense customers in developing distruptive solutions to RADAR, communications, and EW problems.
  • Develops and proposes new products to Product Teams to fill customers' needs.
  • Trains customers on ADI solutions and prodcuts.

PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST I

Electromagnetic Applications | Lakewood, CO | June 2025-Sept 2025
  • Guides long-term strategy on $4.2M in RF-focused engineering consulting, simulation, and development projects.
  • As senior technical lead for RF, provides guidance and advice to scientists on one-of-a-kind Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) engineering projects, including direct and indirect effects of lightning, EMI/EMC, HIRF, antenna development/characterization, and antenna cosite characterization/mitigation.
  • Develops and maintains new customer relationships by developing proposals and delivering software, consulting, measurement, and analysis tools to support design and certification of aerospace & defense platforms.
  • Plans, executes, and reports on tests to support E3 certification of customer systems, in accordance with MIL-HDBK-516C, ARP-5416, MIL-STD-461G, MIL-STD-464D, etc.
  • Mentors young engineers to build technical proficiency, systems engineering acumen, critical thinking, technical writing, and presentation/public speaking skills.

SENIOR MILITARY FACULTY AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECE

United States Air Force Academy | USAFA, CO | 2021-2025
  • Guides long-term military, academic, and research strategies to keep the department aligned with Air Force operational needs and ABET accreditation requirements.
  • Directs department's research efforts; forges and maintains relationships for dozens of commercial and DoD organizations- prepares cadets for rigorous summer research and beyond.
  • Mentors senior design capstone team in developing autonomous radio frequency direction finding system to provide attribution of enemy drone operators.
  • Develops and maintains innovative research pipeline from cadet entry to graduation to prepare over 100 cadets for conducting graduate-level research and careers beyond.
  • Directs 6 ECE courses from intro to senior level, as Course Director and Senior Course Mentor.
  • Revamping/modemizing Communications Systems curriculum to meet emerging EW needs & provide cadets with critical radio skills.
  • Advises dozens of ECE cadets and undeclared freshmen to ensure maximum academic success and officer development.
  • Supervises 3 technicians responsible for $3M worth of equipment, 8 physical labs, 10 courses, and over 900 cadets per year.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

United States Air Force Academy | USAFA, CO | 2018-2021
  • Directed all aspects of the Department's largest course-led 10+ instructors to teach survey course for over 1150 cadets per year. Ensured all course objectives met and breezed through ABET certification.
  • Rewrote over 75% of USAFA core course to better prepare cadets for leadership in the most technologically advanced Air Force in the world.
  • Developed 5 new lessons, edited 35, built over 30 new assessments.
  • Advised and mentored 22 cadets; ensuring graduation requirements met and mentoring future generations of USAF officers.
  • Mentored counter-Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS) senior capstone project, led to successful development of framework to integrate and fuse multi-sensor data for target identification, tracking, and mitigation.
  • Personally introduced new grading software to USAFA; trained several departments and secured yearly funding-cadets and faculty rave about it, reduced grading time by at least 50%.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, JSTARS RECAPITALIZATION

Theater Battle Management, AF Life Cycle Management Center | Hanscom AFB, MA | 2014-2018
  • Led 120-member division's technical efforts and advised Senior Program Manager on $8.2B JSTARS Recap program.
  • Drove assessment of three $25M designs, convinced Air Force leadership of technical maturity and secured milestone B decision.
  • Developed and implemented benchmark Model-Based Systems Engineering plan for $3.2B procurement, ensured traceability of over 900 requirements to design specifications,

DIRECTOR OF INSPECTIONS AND EXERCISES

379 Air Expeditionary Wing | Al Udeid, QT | 2016
  • Led all inspection activities for 5 groups and 22 squadrons in busiest CENTCOM Wing.
  • Shepherded 124-member exercise team; simulated KC-135 mishap and verified effectiveness of multi-national response procedures.
  • Completely revamped IG processes by developing brand new reporting and tracking tools-closed 311 deficiencies and slashed report time by 45%.

PHD STUDENT

Air Force Institute of Technology | WPAFB, OH | 2011-2014
  • Developed benchmark technique for the nondestructive electromagnetic evaluation of complex media, enabling design/verification of next-generation systems.

CHIEF, COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS SECTION

Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory | Kirtland AFB, NM | 2010-2011
  • Supervised 20-person in-house team of military, civilian and contractors in performing cutting edge modeling and simulation on High Power Microwave (HPM) Sources and Systems.
  • Responsible for day-to-day operations and providing strategic guidance.
  • Managed/Directed $2.2M/year DoD-level software institute to develop novel end-to-end modeling and simulation capability for high performance computing assets.
  • Performed advanced modeling and simulation on HPM sources using FDTD and FEFD code.

CHIEF, ACTIVE DENIAL SECTION

Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory | Kirtland AFB, NM | 2009-2010
  • Led 16-person in-house team of military, civilian and contractors to manage all acquisition, research, test and transition activities.
  • Served as Active Denial Technology Engineer-provided technical expertise to the program manager across a diverse spectrum of engineering disciplines; led $250k per year R&D effort to expand system use cases.

MASTERS STUDENT

Air Force Institute of Technology | WPAFB, OH | 2007-2009
  • Graduate research involved development of mitigation techniques for destructive phenomena in HPM Devices.
  • Academic specialties include Electromagnetics, Plasma Physics and Directed Energy Weapons.
  • Graduated with honors.

PROJECT MANAGER, THERMAL INFRARED EXPLOITATION TOOLS

National Air and Space Intelligence Center | WPAFB, OH | 2005-2007
  • Responsible for management and implementation of $15M contract to develop multidisciplinary software tools for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance exploitation systems, including thermal infrared data collection and analysis.

THERMAL INFRARED ANALYST

National Air and Space Intelligence Center | WPAFB, OH | 2004-2005
  • Derived scientific/technical performance parameters of foreign weapon systems for use by the operational, acquisition and national decision-making communities.
  • Performed software testing and evaluation for $10M exploitation package for national level use.

Extracurricular Activities

MY FAMILY

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Honors & Awards

Year Award Location
2025 Winner, Team of the Year (Quantum Engineering Minor), DF USAFA, CO
2021 Winner, Outstanding Educator of the Year, DFEC USAFA, CO
2017 Winner, Division Field Grade Officer of the Year, AFLCMC Hanscom AFB, MA
2017 Winner, Base Field Grade Officer of the Quarter Hanscom AFB, MA
2016 Winner, Wing Field Grade Officer of the Quarter & Team of the Quarter, 379 AEW Al Udeid, QT
2015 Winner, Wing Field Grade Officer of the Year, AFLCMC Hanscom AFB, MA
2010 Winner, Directorate Tech Team of the Quarter, AFRL Kirtland AFB, NM
2010 Honorable Mention, Directorate Tech Team of the Year, AFRL Kirtland AFB, NM
2009 Induction, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, AFIT WPAFB, OH
2008 Induction, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, AFIT WPAFB, OH
2006 Winner, Company Grade Officer of the Quarter, NASIC WPAFB, OH
2003 Winner, John L. Luggenheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in EE Tulsa, OK

Scholarship

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Nondestructive Electromagnetic Characterization of Uniaxial Sheet Media Using a Two-Flanged Rectangular Waveguide Probe
N. ROGERS, M. HAVRILLA, M. HYDE, A. KNISELY
IEEE | 2019 | IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2019.2925408, July 2019
Dyadic Green's Functions for a Parallel Plate Waveguide Filled with Anisotropic Uniaxial Media
N. ROGERS AND M. HAVRILLA
PIER-B | 2015 | Progress in Electromagnetics Research-B (PIERB), Vol. 63, 249-261

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS (ABSTRACT REVIEWED)

A Modern, Two-Course Undergraduate Communications Sequence
N. ROGERS AND G. DUDEVOIR
GNURadio Conference | Knoxville, TN | September 2024
Enhanced Learning by Visualization Applying Embedded Hands-On in Electromagnetics Class
H. KIM, N. ROGERS, G. YORK, P. LEIFFER
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition | Portland, OR | June 2024
Novel Implementation of a Keyless Concurrent Codes Spread-Spectrum (CCSS) Jam-Resistant Method in GNU Radio
N. ROGERS, J. MORRISON, AND W. BAHN
GNURadio Conference | Washington, D.C | September 2022
Applying an Alternative Grading Methodology to an Advanced Engineering Mathematics Course
N. ROGERS AND K. FAIR
American Society of Engineering Educators Conference | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | June 2015
A Nondestructive Technique for Determining Complex Permittivity and Permeability of Uniaxially Anisotropic Sheet Materials Using Two Flanged Rectangular Waveguides
N. ROGERS, M. HAVRILLA, AND M. HYDE
URSI National Radio Science Meeting. | Memphis, TN | July 2014
Transmission Correction Term for Oblique Incidence Free-Space Measurements
N. ROGERS
Material Measurement Working Group | Boulder, CO | March 2014
Dyadic Green's Functions for a Parallel Plate Waveguide Filled with Uniaxial Media
N. ROGERS AND M. HAVRILLA
URSI National Radio Science Meeting | Boulder, CO | January 2014
2.5 MW Active Denial Technology Gyrotron: Background and Updates
P. MARDAHL AND N. ROGERS
13th Annual Directed Energy Symposium | Bethesda, MD | Nov 2010
Two technical posters (titles unreleasable)
N. ROGERS
13th Annual Directed Energy Symposium | Bethesda, MD | Nov 2010
Multipactor Discharge Mitigation in High Powered Microwave (HPM) Systems
N. ROGERS AND W. BAILEY
American Physical Society, 2008 Joint Meeting | Dayton, OH | Oct 2008

SHORT COURSES

Reverse Engineering Signals with GNURadio
GNURADIO CONFERENCE | Everett, WA | Sept 2025
Getting Started with GNURadio in the Classroom
GNURADIO CONFERENCE | Knoxville, TN | Sept 2024
High Powered Microwave High Performance Short Course
14TH ANNUAL DIRECTED ENERGY SYMPOSIUM | Monterrey, CA | Nov 2011
ICEPIC Short Course
AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | WPAFB, OH | Jan 2011

Teaching

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY

ECE 315: PRINCIPLES OF AF ELECTRONIC AND CYBER SYSTEMS
  • Instructor: Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2024
  • Course Director: Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
  • Rewrote 75% of the course materials
ECE 346: ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATH WITH ECE APPLICATIONS
  • Instructor: Fall 2018-Fall 2024
  • Course Director: Fall 2019-Fall 2024
  • Senior Course Mentor
  • Assisted in development of course from scratch
ECE 215: PRINCIPLES OF AF ELECTRONIC AND CYBER SYSTEMS
  • Instructor: Fall 2022
  • Course Director: Spring 2023
ECE 343: ELECTROMAGNETICS
  • Instructor: Spring 2021-Spring 2025
  • Course Director: Spring 2022-Spring 2025
  • Senior Course Mentor
  • Pioneered brand-new hands-on labs
ECE 448: INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS
  • Instructor: Spring 2021-Spring 2025
  • Course Director: Spring 2022-Spring 2025
  • Senior Course Mentor
  • Developed course from scratch
ECE 447: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
  • Instructor: Fall 2023-Fall 2024
  • Senior Course Mentor
  • Introduced practical SDR applications (≈ 15 lessons)