Most recently, Todd McCollough worked as a software engineer and AI architect for Ellumen, Inc. while supporting the VistA Imaging System used by the Department of Veterans Affairs at their healthcare facilities. In this role Todd performed programming focused on .NET Framework. He troubleshot issues and made improvements to the Image Exchange Service and Image Viewer. He also updated documentation for software releases including technical manuals, installation guides, and user guides. He also served as Co-Host of The AI Innovation Space Podcast.
Prior to this role, Todd worked as a patent examiner (biomedical engineering) for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). During this time he focused on scientific and legal evaluations of patent applications directed to diagnostic imaging systems and methods by applying U.S. statutes of eligible subject matter, novelty, obviousness, and usefulness. Prior to working as patent examiner, Todd worked for over eight years as a research biomedical engineer on a research and product development project for Ellumen, Inc. using electromagnetics to produce healthcare diagnostic images.
Todd is a co-inventor on eight issued U.S. patents, a co-author on five peer reviewed scientific papers, and participated in two presentations at international conferences. He had his first patent granted in August 2015, titled “Dielectric Encoding of Medical Images.” He had his second patent granted in July 2016, titled “Distributed Microwave Image Processing System and Method.” He had his third patent granted in July 2017, also titled “Dielectric Encoding of Medical Images.” He had his fourth patent granted in January 2018, titled “Microwave Imaging Device.” He had his fifth patent granted in October 2019, titled “A Phase Confocal Method for Near-Field Microwave Imaging.” He had his sixth patent granted in April 2021, titled “Accurate Signal Compensations for UWB Radar Imaging in Dispersive Medium.” He had his seventh patent granted in June 2022, titled “Directable Antenna System and Method for Improved Communications Quality Patent.” His eighth issued patent was in April 2025, titled Virtual Microwave Phantom Generation. Below are patent certificates created to celebrate the accomplishment of having the first seven of the patents issue:
Todd was a co-author on a paper titled “A Phase Shift and Sum Method for UWB Radar Imaging in Dispersive Media,” published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in 2019. He was a co-author on a paper titled “A Time-Domain Measurement System for UWB Microwave Imaging,” published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in 2018. Todd was a co-author on a paper titled “A Phase Confocal Method for Near-Field Microwave Imaging” published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in 2017. He was a co-author on a paper titled “A Novel Cavity Backed Monopole Antenna with UWB Unidirectional Radiation” published in Progress In Electromagnetics Research C in 2017. Todd was a co-author on a poster presentation titled “Experimental Microwave Near-field Detection with Moveable Antennas” at the IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting in San Diego, CA, in July 2017. He was a co-author on a poster presentation titled “Microwave Detection of an Osteophyte in a Knee” at the 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms in Annapolis, MD, in August 2017. Todd was also a co-author on a paper titled “Advances in Microwave Near-Field Imaging” published in IEEE Microwave Magazine in 2020.
Todd attended Barrington High School in Barrington, IL, and was awarded a Chick Evans Scholarship by the Western Golf Association / Evans Scholars Foundation to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Todd worked for a year in the Northwestern University Biophotonics Laboratory as a Biomedical Research Technologist. Todd also served as a teaching assistant (TA) for BME 325: Introduction to Medical Imaging (Fall 2009) taught by professor Alan Sahakian at Northwestern University. Todd received his Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biomedical Engineering with a biomedical signals and images concentration from Northwestern University, with a second major in Economics in 2009. He further received a Master of Science (MS) in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2010.