Management and Key Staff


Management

Mr. Richard (Dick) Hitt, President and CEO

Dr. Steven D. Gray, Senior Vice President

Dr. Oleg Mukhanov, Senior Vice President and General Manger

Dr. Deepnarayan Gupta, Vice President, Research and Development

Dr. Masoud Radparvar, Vice President, Engineering

Mr. Edward M. Kulinski, Vice President, Finance and Administration.

Key Staff

Mr. Art Earl, Director of Strategic Business Development

Mr. Glenn Flack, Director of Strategic Programs

Dr. Sergey K. Tolpygo, Director of Fabrication

Dr. Steve Kaplan, Senior Scientist

Mr. Alex Kirichenko, Senior Circuit Designer

Consulting Partner

Dr. Elie K. Track, Chief Technology Advisor & Senior Consulting Partner

Mr. Richard E. Hitt, Jr., President and CEO, joined HYPRES in January of 2003 as Vice President and General Manager of Government Products and Systems. He was appointed as President and CEO of HYPRES in July 2005. Mr. Hitt joined HYPRES from Raytheon where he was Director of Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Programs, responsible for the pursuit of approximately $6 Billion in sales. Prior to that assignment, Mr. Hitt was the Director of Business Development for Raytheon Radios and Terminals, a $400 Million/year business, with a staff of 18 and a discretionary budget of about $18 Million. Mr. Hitt is a retired Air Force officer with over 13 years in defense and government business experience in his second career. He has held senior leadership positions with EG&G of Boston, MA and Mnemonics, Inc. of Melbourne, FL in addition to Raytheon. His Air Force career included extensive time as a senior program manager in the advanced technology Headquarters Air Force TENCAP program, involved in bringing new Space command, control, and communications technologies to tactical combat units. His commercial experience is primarily in bringing new technologies to mainstream production product lines and programs. His education includes an undergraduate degree in Economics from Chapman University, Orange, CA and a graduate degree in Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Mr. Hitt is also a graduate of the DoD Senior Program Manager Course, Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvoir, VA and the senior leadership course at the University of Chicago, School of Business.

Dr. Steven D. Gray Senior Vice President and General Manager for commercial operations is responsible for leveraging the All-Digital RFTM product line in the commercial marketplace. Prior to joining Hypres, Dr. Gray served in strategic executive positions with a variety of high-profile commercial companies such as Intel Corporation and Nokia. He has published numerous journal and conference papers, and several book chapters.  He also has been the invited speaker at numerous communication conferences and executive summits. Dr. Gay holds several U.S. patents related to receiver design and standardization work for cdma2000 and IEEE802.11 with patent applications pending for future wireless communication systems. Dr. Gray earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston.

Dr. Oleg Mukhanov, Senior Vice President and General Manager for government operations, joined HYPRES, Inc. in April 1991 as a Superconductive Integrated Circuit Designer to initiate the development of digital circuits based on Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic family. He is currently VP of Technology at HYPRES responsible for coordination of all technical areas: circuit design, test, fabrication, cryopackaging, and system integration. Dr. Mukhanov has initiated and been involved in multiplicity of HYPRES projects including development of high-performance A/D, D/A, and T/D converters, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) hardware, a sub-nanosecond access time RAM, and ultra-high speed digital filters for a variety of applications including communications, radar, EW, and instrumentation. Prior to joining HYPRES, he was a staff scientist at the Cryoelectronics Laboratory at the Moscow State University, where he worked on the single-flux-quantum digital devices since 1984. Dr. Mukhanov is a co-inventor of the RSFQ logic and was the designer of a number of the world’s fastest digital circuits. Dr. Mukhanov is a Senior Member of the IEEE, authored over seventy scientific papers and several patents. He was president of the US Committee on Superconducting Electronics in 2005-2007, member of many organizing and program committees of national and international superconductor electronics conferences. Dr. Mukhanov is board member of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, member of Advisory Committee of IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and editor of IEEE Transactions of Applied Superconductivity. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Moscow State University in 1987 and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1983.

Dr. Deepnarayan Gupta,Vice President, Research and Development, joined HYPRES in 1997 as a Member of Technical Staff. He has been instrumental in defining HYPRES’ development strategy to focus on small-scale digital-RF systems using superconductor integrated circuits and multi-chip modules, and creating a multi-faceted program with multiple, synergistic research and development (R&D) projects. At HYPRES, Dr. Gupta has initiated and led over 40 R&D projects in superconductor digital electronic circuits and systems. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Gupta was a post-doctoral research affiliate at Stanford University, working on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor electronics. He received a B. Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1990, followed by an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1992 and 1995 respectively. Dr. Gupta, a senior member of the IEEE, is a coauthor of over 40 articles, holds five patents and has five patents pending.

Dr. Masoud Radparvar, Vice President, Engineering, joined HYPRES in 1984. He has worked on all aspects (design, simulation, layout, fabrication and evaluation) of superconducting-based circuits. His expertise, in addition to superconductivity, includes circuit design, thin film growth by various techniques, patterning by photolithography and reactive ion etching, low temperature (cryogenic) techniques and low noise measurements. He developed and demonstrated the first analog to digital converter in the NbN technology operating at 9.5 K and engaged in the design and development of a niobium process for superconducting circuits integrated in the fastest Time Domain Reflectometer/Sampling oscilloscope. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Radparvar was at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Solid State Electronics).

Mr. Edward M. Kulinski, Vice President, Finance and Administration. joined HYPRES in 2000. Before joining the Company, Mr. Kulinski served in a variety of financial positions at various companies over a 22-year period. During his 16 years at Howmet Corporation, he held a variety of positions including Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Controller, Restructuring Program Manager, Group Controller and Budget Director. Mr. Kulinski played a major role in the sale of Howmet Corporation to a partnership formed by Thiokol Corporation and the Carlyle Group in 1995, and was instrumental in bringing Howmet's 1997 IPO to a successful completion. Howmet is a manufacturer of precision investment castings used in the Aerospace and Gas Turbine Industries. Mr. Kulinski has a BBA in accounting from Baruch College in New York City and an MBA in Finance from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.

Mr. Art Earl, Director of Strategic Business Development for HYPRES, is responsible for developing strategic partnerships in commercial market segments that leverage the All Digital RF^TM product line.  Prior to joining Hypres, Earl retired as a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army where he served in a variety of leadership roles related to military intelligence and acquisition programs and technologies. Most recently, Earl served as the product manager for Defense Satellite Communication System – Terminals and Vehicle Intercom Systems for the Army. Earl graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and earned a master of science degree in strategic and tactical science from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and an MBA in technology management from the University of Illinois. 

Mr. Glenn Flack, Director of Strategic Programs at Hypres. He is responsible for developing business opportunities in both the commercial and government sectors. Flack brings to HYPRES more than 20 years of experience in relevant industries, including expertise in conception, design, program management and product line management for a broad range of electronic products and systems. He has held a number of management positions with a variety of leading companies, including DRS Technologies and General Atronics Corporation. Flack earned an MBA in marketing and management from Rutgers University. He is a graduate of the United States Navy Electronics Technician Class A-C School, where he finished first in his class. 

Dr. Sergey K. Tolpygo, Director of Fabrication, joined HYPRES in 2002 and is an expert in materials research, fabrication, characterization, and process development for superconductor electronics. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Tolpygo was a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY-Stony Brook (1991-2002). Earlier, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Metal Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Radio Physics at the National University of Ukraine, Kiev. Dr. Tolpygo received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute for Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1984 and M.S. in Metallurgy from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, which he graduated from in 1979 with the Highest Honors. He has authored over 70 papers on various properties of low- and high-T_c superconductors, superconducting devices and fabrication techniques.

Dr. Steve Kaplan, Senior Scientist, joined HYPRES in 1991. He led the effort that successfully designed, fabricated and demonstrated a single-chip transient digitizer based on a superconductive flash ADC and on-chip memory. He also led the team that demonstrated both a 20 Gbps 1:8 demultiplexer, and high-speed crossbar chips with 2 Gbps data channels. Prior to joining HYPRES, he was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on Josephson technology and the physics of mesoscopic (ultra-small) conductors. His work in mesoscopic physics resulted in experimental verification of theories involving "universal conductance fluctuations" and the breakdown of Ohm's law in small (semiconductor) structures. Dr. Kaplan holds an A.B. degree in physics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, where his doctoral work focused on nonequilibrium superconductivity. His papers on this subject are well-known in this field

Mr. Alex Kirichenko, Senior Circuit Designer, joined HYPRES in 1996. He is a leading specialist in Rapid Single-Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital electronics. Dr. Kirichenko is responsible for a number of innovative and successful designs of advanced circuits based on the RSFQ logic family. At HYPRES, Dr. Kirichenko has initiated and led a number of research and development projects, including the development of superconductor random-access memory, 6-ps time-to-digital converter, quantum-precision digital-to-analog converter, and many others. Prior to joining HYPRES, Alex Kirichenko was a Research Scientist at the Nuclear Physics Institute of Moscow State University. Alex Kirichenko received an M.S. in Physics from Moscow State University, has more than 50 scientific publications, and holds six U.S. patents.

Dr. Elie K. Track, is currently HYPRES Chief Technology Advisor and Senior Partner, and was formerly (1994-2000) its President and CEO, during which time he focused the R&D effort on applications-relevant developments leading to Hypres' current opportunity focus.  From 1994 to 2000, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Applied Superconductivity Conference. He served as the 1998 ASC Electronics Program Chair, 1999 Chair of the Workshop on Superconductive Electronics, and is the 2006 ASC Electronics Program Chair.  From 2003 to 2005 he was Visiting Professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT.  Since 1999, Dr. Track serves on the Board of the Yale Science and Engineering Association for which he is the Executive Vice President since 2003.  Dr. Track holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in the field of superconductivity and is author and co-author of over 41 publications in the field

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