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Jim Gimlett

 

Jim Gimlett

Deputy Director

Defense Sciences Office

Dr. Jim Gimlett was named the deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) in January 2025. 

He joined DARPA and was a program manager in DSO from 2013-2019, managing programs in quantum sensing, transductional materials, physics-informed AI, and broad-spectrum countermeasures for viral diseases. His research interests include quantum sensing and metrology, nanoscale engineered materials, collaborative autonomous systems for harsh environments, and novel data-efficient AI for modeling and controlling complex dynamic systems.

Prior to joining DARPA, Gimlett served as Chief Scientist for Systems Technology and Research (STR), where he led several programs on AI-assisted design and modeling and novel undersea systems. He has served as chief technology officer for two startup companies, Alternative Power Generation of Canada, investigating low-energy nuclear reactions, and Network Elements, Inc., a venture-funded ISO 9000 company that pioneered the development of plug-and-play optical network modules for high-speed optical switches. 

Gimlett also served as Director of the Advanced Lightwave Research group at Bellcore/Telcordia, where he initiated a variety of research programs focused on high-speed optoelectronic devices and multiwavelength and coherent optical systems. As manager of the Advanced Systems Research group at Tektronix Labs, he served as a principal investigator for the Department of Defense on several advanced network device development programs.

Gimlett also worked as a researcher at the California Institute of Technology and the Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research, investigating time reversal violations in the gamma decay of nuclei polarized at milli-Kelvin temperatures, strong interaction shifts in pionic hydrogen and deuterium via pionic X-ray spectroscopy, and neutrino oscillations at a nuclear reactor in Switzerland.

He has served as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and on the board of the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics of the American Physical Society. He holds several patents in optical networking and has numerous publications on physics and optical communications.

Gimlett received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics and a doctorate in physics from the California Institute of Technology.

 

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