Thomas Blank Email & Phone Number

Palmetto, Florida, United States

Multivariate data analysis professional with 25 years experience in scientific analysis of optical spectroscopic and chemotypic profiling data including: Big Oil qualitative and quantitative modeling of processed fuel and crude oil quality properties including troubleshooting, Gas Infrared detection and quantification of toxic vapors, Near infrared, Raman, and fluorescence data mining and modeling for medical device applications, Improvised Explosive Device detection using laser Raman and LIBS standoff measurements, agronomic chemistry profiling for breeding analysis and targeting, Mining and enhancing data quality data of GCMS derived data quality using apriori genetic likelihood filtering.

Palmetto Rlorida(Remote)

Responsibilities include data mining of chemical profile and agronomic data related to genetics of hemp and cannabis cultivar development. Co-developed (patent pending) a method for breeding hemp and cannabis for medicinal therapeutics and insect resistance using phytochemical entities that are identified as contributing to these goals of hemp and cannabis breeding.

Palmetto, Fl

Perform data mining and analytics on cannabis oil profile information using statistical and machine learning modeling methods in matlab programming environment. Developed a database clustering method, patent pending, for using chemovar terpene panel in assessment of phenotypes and various strain genetics. Implemented data mining with genetic chemovar markers to examine terpene method consistency in time for filtering and outlier detection and removal of data with questionable analytical accuracy. Developed novel quality metrics for potency and terpenoid oil profile data. Designed and conducted oil profile degradation experiments for ageing assessment of cannabis flower.

Berkeley, Ca

Responsible for leading the development of process analytical applications including selection of technology, evaluation of instrument performance characteristics, and calibration development. Methods for cannabis flower and oil homogenization prior to sampling were developed to ensure reference accuracy and precision. Developed and validated second generation calibrations and methodology for NIR potency analysis of Cannabis flower. Also collected thousands of ATR FTIR scans of concentrate samples and demonstrated feasibility of rapid -5 mins including sample prep- quantitative analysis of cannabinoid oil concentrates.

Irvine, Ca

Helped lead noninvasive sensor testing, design, and measurement technology assessment. Involved in conducting experiments of probe optical design for targeted penetration depth on human tissue. Also involved in interpretation of test engineering data for assessment of measurement signal.

San Jose Ca

Responsibilities included data mining, tissue spectroscopy interpretation of sensor optical sampling, design of experiments, and chemometrics/multivariate calibration development of proprietary noninvasive glucose measurement device based on NIR Raman spectroscopy.

Largo, Florida

Led algorithm and measurement protocol development in standoff UV Raman and Laser Ionization Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) detection of IED precursors and materials. A novel targeting algorithm was used to establish the capability of the hardware measurement technology in a successful field trial.

Chandler, Arizona

Principal Scientist at Sensys Medical with 10 years on noninvasive glucose project. Near Infrared spectroscopy, applied tissue optics, chemometrics/multivariate modeling, glucose monitoring, clinical experimentation design. Strong understanding of the physiological aspects involved in tissue optical monitoring of diabetic subjects.

East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Applications scientist working on gas infrared/NIR detection and process NMR instrument development. Chemometrics experience including library searching, detection, calibration, measurement protocol development, instrument standardization.

Annandale, Nj

Developed at line chemometric calibration models and studied new property applications using the Exxon near/mid IR instrument platform(KVB analect). Studied the use of near and Mid IR in predict contents of various downstream refinery product potentials in raw crudes from around the world.