Dr. Aaron P. Nielsen, Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Dr. Aaron Nielsen joined AFIT as Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with his current research focusing on magnetic navigation. Dr. Nielsen received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland, studying magnetic penetration into superconducting materials with SQUID microscopy. Prior to joining AFIT, Dr. Nielsen worked in industry as Chief Scientist of DiDacTex, LLC, working on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and low-frequency magnetics. Previous research support to the Navy included Non-Acoustic Anti-Submarine Warfare developing magnetic platform compensation, detection and tracking algorithms.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D., Physics (Experimental Superconductivity)
Center for Superconductivity Research. Thesis title: Magnetism in Multiply-connected superconductors.

Case Western Reserve Univeristy, BS Physics

Publications

Moradi, M., Zhai, Z.-M., Nielsen, A., & Lai, Y.-C. (2024). Random forests for detecting weak signals and extracting physical information: A case study of magnetic navigation. APL Machine Learning, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189564 

Araújo-Moreira, F. M., Maluf, W., Cecato, G. M., Kawashita, L. F., Barbara, P., Cawthorne, A. B., Nielsen, A., & Lobb, C. J. (2002). Introdução a supercondutores granulares artificiais: Redes de junções josephson. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F??sica, 24(4), 390–398. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1806-11172002000400005 

Araújo-Moreira, F. M., Maluf, W., Cecato, G. M., Kawashita, L. F., Barbara, P., Cawthorne, A. B., Nielsen, A., & Lobb, C. J. (2002). Introdução a supercondutores granulares artificiais: Redes de junções josephson. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F??sica, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-47442002000400005 

Nielsen, A. P., Kerchner, H. R., Lobb, C. J., & Barbara, P. (2002). Magnetic imaging of YBCO on RABiTS using a squid microscope. AIP Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1472658 

Leo, C. D., Rotoli, G., Barbara, P., Nielsen, A., & Lobb, C. (2001). Mutual-inductance route to the paramagnetic meissner effect in two-dimensional josephson-junction arrays. Physical Review B, 64(14), 144518. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.144518 

Araújo-Moreira, F. M., Maluf, W., Cecato, G. M., Kawashita, L. F., Barbara, P., Cawthorne, A. B., Nielsen, A., & Lobb, C. J. (2001). Introduction to artificial superconducting systems: Josephson junction arrays. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Fisica, 24(4), 390–398. 

Nielsen, A. P., Cawthorne, A. B., Barbara, P., Wellstood, F. C., Lobb, C. J., Newrock, R. S., & Forrester, M. G. (2000). Paramagnetic meissner effect in multiply-connected superconductors. Physical Review B, 62(21), 14380–14383. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.14380 

Nielsen, A. P., Holzer, J., Cawthorne, A. B., Lobb, C. J., Newrock, R. S., & Markus, J. (2000). The paramagnetic meissner effect in Nb/AlOx/Nb josephson junction arrays. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 280(1-4), 444–445. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(99)01830-X 

Nielsen, A., Holzer, J. R., Cawthorne, A. B., Lobb, C. J., Newrock, R. S., & Markus, J. (2000). The paramagnetic meissner effect in Nb/AlO/Nb josephson junction arrays. Physica B Condensed Matter, 280, 444–445.