WILLIAM C. MEAD, Senior Consultant

William C. Mead earned his PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1974.
He worked as a physicist in the Inertial Confinement Fusion program at two national laboratories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1973 to 1983, and Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1990. His work in computational fluid dynamics and analysis of experiments led to several exciting discoveries and milestones, in collaboration with a number of ICF researchers. In 1990, he began working in the field of Artificial Neural Networks, while on an internal sabbatical at the Los Alamos Center for Non-Linear Studies (CNLS). He continued developing neural networks and applications at Los Alamos through 1994, including a now well-known application to the nonlinear control of a negative ion source. In 1995, he founded Adaptive Network Solutions Research, Inc., a company devoted to research in applied physics and applications of neural networks. While president of ANSR, Inc., Dr. Mead has performed research in 3-D computational hydrodynamics, in applications of neural networks to education, and has collaborated in development of multimedia tutorials in two fields of physics and mathematics. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1987.