Gerry Zeitlin is a graduate of Cornell University (B.E.E.
1960) and the University of Colorado (M.S.E.E. 1969). He pursued further
graduate studies in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics at the University of California,
Berkeley. At Cornell, Mr. Zeitlin performed studies of early feed designs for
use at the Arecibo Observatory, then under development. His Master’s Thesis at
the University of Colorado was devoted to an analysis and modeling of
propagation modes in the curved VLF earth-ionosphere waveguide. Zeitlin also
conducted studies of seasonal patterns of world-wide VLF noise for Westinghouse
Georesearch Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Zeitlin spent many years
studying patterns of brainwave activity as an Assistant Research Computer
Scientist at the University of California’s Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric
Institute, San Francisco, and the highly regarded EEG Systems Laboratory. As a
staff engineer with the University of California Space Sciences Laboratory,
Berkeley, Zeitlin managed an early version of Project SERENDIP, collecting and
analyzing SETI data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, and at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory’s Deep Space Network, Goldstone, California. He was awarded a
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship at the University of Santa Clara,
supporting his contribution to the development of advanced methods of
high-speed SETI analysis at NASA Ames Research Center. Mr. Zeitlin has also
pursued a sideline career in information security with the Department of
Defense, Pacific Bell, Verisign, Wells Fargo, and Science Applications International
Corporation, from which organization he retired in 2002. Zeitlin is a Life Member
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, an Associate Member of
the Society for Scientific Exploration, and a past member of the Society for
Planetary SETI Research (SPSR). He now devotes his energies to the Open SETI
Initiative http://openseti.org. Mr. Zeitlin has held a private pilot certificate since 1981.Gerry Zeitlin's biography is listed in the Marquis publications Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.