Scientists & Engineers

Dale Macy
Vice President of U.S. Operations

Dale is an engineering and production professional with over twenty years of experience in device, development, and machine design in the pharmaceutical and automated pharmacy industries. He is experienced with the complete process of new product creation, from concept, development, and design, through manufacture, installation, and qualification at the production site. He has brought a number of products to the marketplace and holds a patent for a multi-zoned infra-red/electronic tablet counting device used in the pharmaceutical packaging industry. Dale has a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a machine design focus from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Andrei Rakitin, Ph.D.
Director of Research

Andrei received his BS in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from MIPT and Institute of General Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Andrei worked as a senior scientist at the Institute for Semiconductors and headed a research laboratory at the Institute for New Physical and Applied Problems in Kiev, Ukraine. He also received a postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto, Canada and Brown University, Providence, RI. Andrei has extensive experience in biostatistics, stochastic processes, microfluidics, solid electrolytes, nanotechnology, and optoelectronics. He was a recipient of the JSPS Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, Japan and was an Adjunct Professor with the Graduate School of Physics at York University, Toronto, Ontario. Andrei was awarded two SBIR grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and has two patents pending on ultrasensitive DNA detection and pathogen detection.

Lindsay Poland
Scientist

Lindsay received her bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There her work concentrated on cell death in drosophila as part of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department. She then went on to receive her Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Massachusetts School of Biomedical Sciences. Her master's work involved utilizing molecular and cellular approaches to explore the cell cycle in S. pombe. She has worked at ECI for the past five years and has been involved in many projects with the company.