Primary Job Title Founder & Chief Scientist Primary Organization SoundThinking
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dr. Showen is SST, Inc.’s founder and patent holder on the technology. With over three decades of acoustic and geophysics research experience, it was Dr. Showen’s initial vision of helping police curb gunfire and urban crime that caused him first to conceive of ShotSpotter.
Engineer, scientist, and teacher, Dr. Robert L. Showen attended San Jose
State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University. He obtained degrees in electrical engineering and space physics and won a fellowship to the Max Planck Institute. He has taught astronomy and physics at the University of Puerto Rico, performed experiments to heat the ionosphere at the world’s largest RADAR, participated in the development of over-the-horizon RADAR at SRI International, and studied the effects of lightning on the ionosphere.
