Jamie Hamilton is a high-impact technology leader with over 20 years of executive experience bridging the gap between deep-tech R&D and commercial productization. At LifeWave, he leads the hardware and sensor engineering teams, leveraging his expertise in medical ultrasound, radar, and phased-array processing to advance the company’s radar-based lung fluid measurement product.

A specialist in both advanced hardware and AI-driven signal processing, Jamie has a career-long focus on transformative sensing technologies. For the past nine years, he served as Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering at Emerge, where he led the development of a proprietary MEMS-based ultrasound sensor platform.

Prior to Emerge, Jamie spent a decade as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Epsilon Imaging. In this role, he developed and brought to market multiple software products for cardiac functional measurement, including the first diagnostic application for simultaneous, multi-chamber cardiac mechanical assessment.  He designed the software system architecture, user interfaces, and backend data management.  He secured FDA clearance for multiple generations of software and hardware systems.  He established clinical sales at over 75 medical centers in U.S., Europe and Asia

His foundational research career includes serving as a Lead Scientist for General Dynamics, where he directed high-level research for electro-optic imaging and advanced restoration algorithms, including work on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Jamie holds a PhD and MS in Physics from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Physics from the University of Rochester, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, holds 12 USPTO patents, and has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications.