Roger Kylin Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md, Us

Dr. Kylin is responsible for the development and execution of the technical roadmap for all technical activities. He develops requirements and operating procedures for the technical directorate by blending corporate strategies from the Vice President of Engineering with SEG's customers’ goals that are provided by the Program Management Office. Under the guidance of Dr. Kylin, the technical directorate then execute detailed development activities that meet and exceed customer requirements while furthering SEG's strategic capabilities. The major focus area is the development of the highest-fidelity integrated sensor scenes that are provided as government-furnished information to prime contractors developing sensor, missile, weapon systems, and combat systems as design data and is used in requirements verification and testing. This major activity includes novel software solutions to integrate both internally- and externally-developed physics models that span missile design and engineering, sensor design and engineering, environmental physics and electronic warfare. Dr. Kylin and his team overcome the technical challenges, while balancing the needs of multiple customers with dynamic funding and priorities by following a rigorous systems engineering approach that is designed with explicit flexibility to always provide the most cost-effective solutions possible.

Columbia, Md

Develop strategies for success across all customers while expanding technical expertise within the Threat and Weapon System Engineering Division. Merge company and customer goals to drive the company's technical vision and path to produce the highest quality products for our Missile Defense Agency and US NAVY customers. Lead and support business development activities. Success in key business development activities have led to more than doubling the size of the division.Drive the vision of Internal Research and Development activities to expand the applicability of the core capabilities into a wide variety of users and markets. Responsible for all personnel management within the division. Develop program, project and functional managers to balance programmatic cost and schedule concerns with technical rigor and personal job satisfaction. Develop a division organization that is scalable to meet the growing work base. Careful consideration of bottlenecks (technical, leadership, and authority) are used to optimize division operations. Identify new positions and opportunities that are required for success meeting customer needs and providing professional growth opportunities.

ManagementProvide leadership, vision and technical contributions to SEG and its customers.Responsible for many technical areas including radar modeling (waveforms, signal processing, detection, tracking and discrimination), radar scattering, missile debris characterizations, missile modeling & simulation, and R&D supporting a broad range of applications. Manage three Division branches that are comprised technical staff with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Negotiate tasking of staff and computer resources with several missile defense customersProject Leadership and Program ManagementProject lead for Air and Missile Defense RadarTask Order Lead for Intelligence community effortsUnderstand government customer’s needs and constraintsPropose tasking and provide cost estimatesOversee all tasks and provide regular status reports on task progress and spendingProvide technical briefings to, and on the behalf of the government customer to provide technical background and justification for the broader government teamWeapon/Systems EngineeringActing SME to the missile defense customers for RF signatures and weapon system modeling. Contribute to Aegis BMD Concept White Paper reviews, design reviews, and a sundry of Technical Interchange Meetings and Working Groups to support weapon system design activities, including signal processing and discrimination. Create the vision for future modeling and simulation capabilitiesDesigned a complex ballistic missile defense countermeasure suite to challenge existing and proposed ballistic missile defense systems. Modeling and SimulationRe-architected software products to meet customer requests for input and output structures, memory management, and add support for vector computing on x86 platforms using SSEDeveloped GPU-based algorithms in both OpenCL and CUDA

Management Managed the Advanced Algorithms and Techniques Branch, comprised technical staff with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Worked with government customers to determine product needs, requirements and schedules. Reviewed proposed research and development efforts, worked with staff to obtain necessary resources, reviewed progress, and approved final results. R&D efforts resulted in algorithms, analysis products, and software tools.Scheduled production tasks, monitored schedules, and worked to resolve conflicting priorities and compressed schedules to ensure each customer received their products in a timely manner Contributed to government Request For Proposals for competitive contracts.Modeling and Simulation Developed advanced 3-D scattering center models that support Monte-Carlo simulations, desktop radar simulators, and real-time hardware-in-the-loop applications. Software Development and High Performance Computing Led development of an Application Programming Interface to inject radar signatures into weapon system simulations. Implemented optimizations for embedded PowerPC applications, using Altivec Managed the development of an SQL databaseWeapon System and Systems Engineering Participated in joint government-contractor integrated product teams to develop requirements for Aegis BMD baselines and evaluate system design documents Led efforts to unite Aegis BMD and MDA RF modeling standards and was the Aegis BMD SME for threat models and simulations in an MDA modeling and simulation working group Provided inputs to the design of missile test targets to ensure they represent a real threat Supported real-world events including the shoot-down of a disabled U.S. spy satellite (Feb. 2008) and the monitoring of North Korean ballistic missile tests (July 2006, April 2009)

Modeling and Simulation Developed indigenous capabilities and tools to efficiently create high-fidelity radar cross-section signature (RCS) predictions. Contributed to the development of metrics to determine the fidelity of synthetic RCS data Contributed to the process of developing high fidelity scattering center models from predictions and measurements Developed the tools and process to create flexible scattering center models that reduce development costsSoftware Development and High Performance Computing Converted Matlab-based algorithms to C and optimized using vector processing units (e.g. Altivec for PowerPC and SSE for x86) Developed in-house HPC capability by leading the acquisition, installation, configuration, and deployment of a Linux-based cluster into a heterogeneous compute environment that included Solaris, IRIX, and Mac OSX servers.Weapon System and Systems Engineering Led several modeling activities, including the design of a ballistic missile defense countermeasure that included concept of operations and deployment hardware Worked with Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense contractors to determine fidelity requirements for RCS data Regularly presented modeling and analysis work at community meetings and conferences

Was both a Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant. In addition to performing typical teaching assistant duties such as lecturing classes and tutoring students, became the lead physics laboratory instructor; training other teaching assistants how to teach physics labs to maximize the student’s learning and retention. As a graduate research assistant, worked on complex research projects in nuclear and particle physics by extending previous work and introducing new methods and techniques. Developed and optimized large computer algorithms to solve complex problems and turn ill-defined problems into well-defined algorithms.

Ph.D, Physics

Gained 5 years of experience in research with advanced mathematics (integral and differential equations, linear algebra, probability.

B.S., Physics

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