David Ellsworth
Contact Information
Contact me by email or find me on the web:
I am an experimental physicist turned data scientist. I am currently working for the US Army Futures Command, Combat Capabilities Development Command, Aviation and Missile Center as the ATHENA Lab Government Lead. Our lab supports the Missile Defense Agency and other DoD customers with rapid software development and prototyping capability as well as expertise in systems engineering, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
I completed my Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 2017. The research I completed focused on magnetism, magnetization dynamics, and magnetic materials. One exciting result of my research was the discovery of a new phenomenon: the photo-spin-voltaic effect. This effect is a new method of generating pure spin currents, which use the spin property of the electron instead of the charge property which traditional electric currents use. This is appealing because spin currents can circumvent some problems with traditional electronics, like resistive heating, but it is challenging to generate and detect these spin currents. My work discovered a new means for generating pure spin currents using unpolarized light, in analogy to the photoelectric effect for charge currents.
Outside of work I enjoy the Colorado outdoors and all sorts of games, from video games to board games.