Max E. Klein, Ph.D.

Dr. Klein has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and he specializes in electromagnetic remote sensing and autonomous platforms. Since joining Exponent, Dr. Klein has developed technologies that address the emerging threats encountered in the modern battlefield. This includes IED detection and defeat systems and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) asset development. He has developed a military C-Band radio used to transmit and receive video in the next generation of Exponent's MARCbot system that balances tactical spectrum constraints while addressing technical concerns for small platform remote ISR systems, resulting in a system that doubled the range of the previous MARCbot IV. Dr. Klein is currently the manager for hardware development of Exponent's next-generation ground penetrating radar program, aimed at delivering an order of magnitude increase in advance rate while enhancing detection probability and data quality.

Dr. Klein has a wide background in digital, embedded, and RF/microwave systems design, development, test, and production. He has experience in Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) collection systems design, development, and test for emerging intelligence requirements, as well as reverse engineering and exploitation investigation of, and countermeasure development for, enemy threats. He is particularly interested in novel electromagnetic sensing systems development. In the commercial segment, he has managed data center development, point-to-point microwave link deployment and troubleshooting, and fault-tolerant IP-based network design.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Klein worked as a Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Advisor to the federal government while employed at Booz Allen Hamilton, immediately following employment with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

While at Stanford, Dr. Klein was the instructor for Embedded Systems Engineering, and a member of the Very Low Frequency research group. His research focused on ultra-low power autonomous electromagnetic measurement systems for remote locations and extreme environments. His systems have been successfully deployed and operated in deep sea locations in the South Pacific Ocean as well as adjacent to the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica.

• Research and Development Program Management, Senior Consultant, Defense Business Segment, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., 2003–2009
• Embedded Systems Engineering, Researcher & Teaching Fellow, Space, Telecommunications, and Radio Science Laboratory, Stanford University, 2004–2009
• Radiation Hardened Electronics Program Management, Intern, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2003
• Wireless Networking Analysis and Routing Protocol Design, Researcher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002–2003
• Application Service Provider, Managing Partner, Crank Technologies, Inc., 2000–2003
• Telecommunications Technician, Broadcast Towers, Inc., 1999–2000

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (member)