Neal Crawford Evans, Jr.'s Professional & Home Page
About
As Chief Technology Officer of Help Lightning, Neal provides insight into topics ranging from artificial intelligence to optical design. His contributions to the scientific community include advances in machine learning, physics, and theoretical optics. Neal holds a Ph.D. in computational physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He and his wife, Finley, live on smallholding farm with their 2 dogs and 14 chickens.
Selected Presentations, Articles, Essays, and Books
- Monstrous Pictures of Whales and Realities - 7/15/2019
- Integrating Merged Reality - 3/18/2019
- Blockchain of Fools? - 8/15/2017
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare - 5/16/2017 pdf
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - 2/14/2017
- Security is a State of Mind, Not an End State - 11/10/2016
- Congratulations, You’re Now a Software Company - 10/11/2016
- "Optimization-Based Designs", Alexander Laskin, D. L. Shealy, and N. C. Evans, Chapter 7 of Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Second Edition, edited by Fred M. Dickey (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2014). Google Books Amazon
- Interview with Trade Show Radio at the Atlanta Chamber Health IT Leadership Summit - 11/11/2014 mp3
- A Homily on Data Visualization - 5/8/2014
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Their Application to HealthCare IT - 3/17/2011 slides
- Interview with David Karabinos on ClearCast: Conversations with Technology Innovators and Entrepreneurs - 2007 mp3
- "Optimization-Based Techniques for Laser Shaping Optics", N. C. Evans and D. L. Shealy, Chapter 5 of Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, edited by Fred M. Dickey and Scott C. Holswade (Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2000). Google Books Amazon
- Genetic Algorithm Optimization Methods in Geometrical Optics, N. C. Evans (Univ. of Ala. at Birmingham, Birmingham, 1999). pdf scribd
- Design and optimization of an irradiance profile shaping system with genetic algorithm method, N. C. Evans and D. L. Shealy, Applied Optics 37.22 (1998).
- Design of three-mirror telescopes via a differential equation method, S. H. Chao, N. C. Evans, D. L. Shealy and R. B. Johnson, Proc. SPIE 2863-35 (1996). LaTeX pdf
- SPIE '96 Denver, CO "Design of three-mirror telescopes via a differential equation method"
- SESAPS '95 Tallahassee, FL "Calculation of Irradiance Profiles for Laser Reshaping Systems Using CODE V"
Published Software and Code
Research Topics
- Application of Machine Learning Techniques such as Genetic Algorithms to Theoretical Optics and Computational Physics
- Design of a Parallel Genetic Algorithm
- Laser Beam Profile Reshaping
Education
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Ph.D., Physics, 1999.
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. M.S., Physics, 1996.
- Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama. B.S., Physics and Philosophy, 1994.