Supporting Startups

Neltner Labs helps companies turn new ideas into a product. Our focus is companies that need multi-disciplinary experience with developing their first few prototypes for novel equipment or crafting a R&D plan for complex scientific equipment.

What sets Neltner Labs apart is that as a part of our consulting we will help you to hire, train, and mentor your team so that by the end of our engagement your team fully understands the designs, firmware, or systems approach and has the confidence to move on to full scale production with a strong team.

Brian Neltner has a Ph.D. from MIT in Materials Science and did a PostDoc in Chemical Engineering at CU Boulder. He has extensive experience with designing custom electronics and controls/sensors, and has been working as a consultant for over 15 years in many different disciplines.

He has also been a part-time instructor at MIT since 2018 with published papers from helping research groups translate scientific goals to a low-cost prototype, building it, and training graduate students to use the new tools for experiments no one has done before.

I do not myself use LLMs or generative AI for my work, but am happy to help you to build equipment that is complementary to your project. I do have some experience with machine learning, including writing algorithms in python, but am better suited to building equipment to enable teams to automate the generation of datasets for training domain-specific models for goals like drug discovery and materials optimization.

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