Andrey N. Filippov

Andrey N. Filippov has over 25 years of experience in the
embedded systems design. Since graduation from the Moscow Institute for
Physics and Technology in 1978 he worked for the General Physics
Institute (Moscow, Russia) in the area of high-speed high-resolution, mixed signal
design, application of PLDs and FPGAs, and microprocessor-based embedded system
hardware and software design, with a special focus on image acquisition methods
for laser physics studies and computer automation of scientific experiments. Andrey
holds a PhD in Physics from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology.

In 1995 Andrey moved to the United States and after working for Cordin
Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) for 6 years in 2001 started Elphel, Inc.
dedicated to doing business in emerging field of open systems based on
free (GNU/GPL) software and open hardware.