Founder, Casey Stengel

From age eight to eighteen, Casey explored his fascination with electronics, spending countless, late-into-the-night hours making printed circuit boards, designing audio amplifiers, repairing televisions, and, in his junior and senior years, teaching electronics industrial arts classes. Casey then attended Iowa State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the first ISU graduating class in this new field (1978).

For the next five years, he honed his design and development skills, working as an EE/ECE for Heico, an industrial automation company.

In 1983, Casey moved to Boulder, Colorado to work at Rockwell International as a computer engineer, focusing on real-time, high precision measurement systems. Soon after, he met Dr. Bruce McNaughton and Dr. Carol Barnes, neuroscientists at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Inspired by their hippocampal place field experiment and data recording needs, Casey co-founded BrainWave Systems (1984) where he developed two revolutionary products: software for detecting, extracting and classifying single unit, stereo-trode spike waveforms; and a low noise, 8 channel programmable amplifier, the Lynx-8. These innovations led to collaboration between Casey and Dr. McNaughton on his NASA/NIH Neurolab Space Shuttle E-100 grant for the development of a high-density data acquisition system, and the formation of Neuralynx in 1993.