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Work History

Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York
    Lecturer of Physics (12..2008 – Present)

Teach and develop computational curricular materials; conduct research in imaging and computational neuroscience.

McCausland Center for Brain Imaging; Columbia, South Carolina
     Managing Director (12.2006 – 10.2008)

Managed all aspects of daily operation of Siemens Trio MRI system to include booking, billing and coordination of routine and emergency maintenance scheduling with hospital staff.

University of South Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina
     Assistant Research Professor of Psychology (1.2004 – 12.2006)

Design and test software for the analysis of neuro-physiological data; instrumental in the design of experiments using Scalp Voltage and fMRI measures for the Detection of Deception; research policy implications for technology deployment.

Francis Marion University; Florence, South Carolina
     Assistant Professor of Physics (8.1998 – 12.2003)

Led a departmental initiative to establish Computational Physics curriculum and to administrate the facility, including planning, budgeting and securing of funding for hardware; served as a Faculty Senator and as Chairman for IT Subcommittee where I helped develop internal grant guidelines and oversaw dispersal of funds; served as research advisor for nine students.

Grants

• 01.2007 – 01.2009: Co-Principal Investigator; $1,250,000

  U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, (USAMRAA); Continuation Brain Imaging Research: The Detection of Deception Utilizing HD-ERP, fMRI, and Pupillometry.
• 12.2005 – 12.2008; Co-Principal Investigator; $3,660,000
  U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA); Brain Imaging Research: The Detection of Deception Utilizing HD-ERP, fMRI, and Pupillometry.($2.1M from this grant was allocated to the purchase of a 3T Siemens’ Magnetom Trio Magnetic Resonance Imaging system, which serves as the centerpiece for the McCausland Center for Brain at the University of South Carolina.)
• 01.2004 – 09.2009; Research Associate; $487,000 National Science Foundation (NSF); Modeling the Neurocognitive Processes of Deception;
• 10.2003 – 10.2004; Principal Investigator; $11,000
  Francis Marion University (competitive) internal and State Lottery matching funds awarded to establish a Computational Physics Laboratory.

Project Participation

• Social Values Orientation (Brent Simpson, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina) Development of paradigm to study interaction of personality and cognitive correlates of altruistic/egotistic behavior using BOLD fMRI during competitive gambling.
• Information-Theoretic Analyses (Svetlana Shinkareva, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina) Implementation of original Matlab and C++ code to use an information-theoretic approach to classify BOLD fMRI levels for different (tool/dwelling) categories.
• Detection of Deception (Jennifer Vendemia, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina) Design/testing/analysis of EEG and MRI experiments; program review/assessment; software development and technology transfer; review of interrogation techniques.
• Image Analysis and Reconstruction Review of computerized tomography (CT) and signal analysis (reduction of SNR); image reconstruction/subtraction algorithms; region of interest (ROI) based analysis.
• Nonlinear Optics and Laser Systems (Surendra Singh, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas) Operation (tuning/alignment) of Ti-Sapphire system; design and testing of YAG ring laser for parametric down conversion and modeling of near threshold statistics.

Publications

• Schillaci, M. J. "Total Tomography," Computing in Science and Engineering, (in press).
• Schillaci, M. J. "Computationally Complete," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 9,  no. 3,  pp. 3-6,  May/Jun,  2007.
• Vendemia, J. M. C., Buzan, R. F., Schillaci, M. J., & Green, E. P. HD-ERP and behavioral predictors of involvement in a mock crime scenario. Department of Defense Polygraph Institute. (In Press).
• Vendemia, J. M. C., Schillaci, M. J., Buzan, R. F., Green, E. P., & Meek, S. W.. Chapter 15: The Application of Biomedical and Alternative Technologies to the Measurement of Deceptive Behavior. in L. Madsen, D. Gruben, & D. Wilcox (eds.), Polygraph Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing. (In Press)
• Vendemia, J.M.C., Schillaci, M.J., & Buzan, R.F. Credibility Assessment: Psychophysiology and Policy in the Detection of Deception. Journal of Forensic Psychology, Vol. 24, issue 4, 2006.
• Vendemia, J.M.C., Buzan, R.F., Green, E.P., & Schillaci, M.J.  Neural Mechanisms of Deception and Response Congruity in a Visual Two-Stimulus Paradigm with Motor Response, Journal of Neurotherapy, Vol. 9 Num. 3, 2005.
• A Two-State Analysis of ERP Activity Measures and fMRI Activations Relevant to the Detection of Deception. APS 2007 (K1.00032).
• Top-Down Physics: SESAPS 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 11, 2006.
• Practice Effects on ERP-Components Related to Deceptive Responses: SESAPS 2006, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 11, 2006. (Poster G004)
• Schillaci, M. J. A Quantum Analysis of Scalp Potential Data for Repeated Mock Interrogation Trials, CNS 2006 (A10).
• Simulated Thin-Film Growth and Imaging, APS 2002 (H3.003).
• Computational Physics in a Nutshell, SESAPS 2001 (JC.007).

Education

University of Arkansas; Fayetteville AR
     Ph.D. Physics (5.1999)

Developed a mathematical model for the description of low-energy atomic collisions and scattering cross-sections; where necessary, native code was developed to simulate relevant processes.

University of Arkansas; Fayetteville, AR    
     M.A. Physics (5.1995)

Contributed to the design and testing of a ring-laser system for the study of near-threshold photon statistics; participated in grant writing and hardware acquisition.

State University of New York; Brockport, NY  
     B.S. Physics and Mathematics (5.1992)

Conducted advanced research in Photo-Chemistry and in Nuclear Physics; served as a teaching assistant in Physics and as a tutor for Mathematics and Economics.