Dr. Pierce combines academic and practical business experience to guide the process of developing the science behind SignalDemand's software solutions. His responsibilities extend to managing the creation, implementation, and protection of the company's key scientific Intellectual Property. In consultation with SignalDemand's deep bench of academic advisers and staff scientists, he combines mathematical expertise with software development best practices to create SignalDemand's revolutionary modeling and optimization engines. Prior to SignalDemand, Dr. Pierce held senior level research and development roles at Khimetrics and ConceptLabs, as well as academic posts with the National Academy of Sciences as an NRC Fellow, Penn State University, and U.C. Berkeley. His professional contributions have spanned a wide variety of fields including Econometrics, Oceanography, Hydrodynamics, Partial Differential Equations, and Nonlinear Dynamics. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed papers and has a number of patents pending. Dr. Pierce holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.