Nevada is the co-founder and first employee of Butterfly Network, having designed and architected Butterfly’s flagship Ultrasound-on-Chip™. He has led Butterfly’s core technology team through eight successful chip tape outs, and played an instrumental role in the launch of multiple disruptive Butterfly products, as well as the establishment of Octiv™, a chip-licensing and development subsidiary.
Prior to Butterfly, he was a graduate researcher at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. At MIT, Nevada developed hardware, algorithms, and software for a novel radio telescope concept to allow the practical realization of very large radio telescope arrays for imaging the early universe. He has also worked as a software engineer at Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Lockheed Martin.
Nevada appeared on Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015 and has given talks about Butterfly’s mission and technology at the Forbes Healthcare Summit, Web Summit, CBInsights Future of Health, the Global Semiconductor Alliance Entrepreneurship Conference, and many other conferences and events. Nevada holds multiple degrees from MIT, including a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Physics, and a Master of Engineering in EECS. While at MIT, he received numerous honors, including the Hertz Fellowship and the Henry Ford II Scholar Award (top student in the MIT School of Engineering).