Parallax Advanced Research News

On August 15, 2022, Parallax Advanced Research and The Ohio State University hosted a Hydrogen Fuel Cell event at the Ohio State Center for Automotive Research (CAR). The event was geared toward government, academic, and industry innovators and researchers focused on this rapidly evolving area of research and development.

The event featured

• Networking
• An overview of the CAR facility by Girogio Rizzoni, CAR director, Ford Motor Company chair in Electromechanical Systems, and Ohio State professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Presentations from government and industry

Beavercreek, Ohio – Parallax Advanced Research, through its Launch Dayton team, has won Dayton Business Journal’s Fire Award, formally known as “Inno on Fire.” The Fire Awards were introduced in July 2022 to recognize organizations that are supporting startups in the Dayton community. The award is a testament to Parallax’s and Launch Dayton’s efforts over the last seven years to build the local startup community.  

“In the last 12 months, our key programs, like Parallax’s Early Risers Academy Program, have grown immensely and made a great impact on the Dayton business community,” said

Levi Razics, at the start of his career as a U.S. Air Force imagery analyst. 

Levi Razics is an intelligence researcher and director of intelligence surveillance reconnaissance (ISR) at Parallax Advanced Research.  He works on projects that aim to provide government agencies with automation with more in-depth, convenient, and time-efficient analysis. 

At the start of his career, Razics was a U.S. Air Force imagery analyst. Next, Razics worked for various Dayton-based companies in the field of automated target recognition (ATR) and helped prioritize different types of

Beavercreek, Ohio – John Owen, program manager at Parallax Advanced Research, has been named as one of the Dayton Business Journal’s 2022 Class of Forty Under 40, which recognizes the most extraordinary business and community leaders under the age of 40 in Dayton. Owen manages four federal and state grant programs at Parallax Advanced Research that support the Launch Dayton community and provides resources and opportunities for entrepreneurs in the Dayton Region. The recognition was presented at a banquet held on July 14 at Carillon Park in Dayton. 

John Owen on being Launch Dayton

Made possible by Parallax Advanced Research  

Beavercreek, Ohio – Since 2011, Parallax Advanced Research, a 501(c)(3) research nonprofit, has supported nationwide industry and academia with a “team matchmaking process” that creates partnerships between federal agencies laboratories, academia, and small businesses nationwide. These partnerships produce research and development and science and technology as well as go on to earn non-dilutive federal funding to help offset the costs of expanding their product lines. 

Parallax’s methodology for developing these strategic innovation

CLEARED AS AMENDED on 04 Apr 2022, Case Number Air Force Research Laboratory -2022-1584 

Beavercreek, Ohio – Scientists at Parallax Advanced Research are working on several aspects of human-machine teaming (HMT) sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory. HMT studies where humans meet technology, how they interact with it, what kind of errors occur, and how humans perceive what technology is doing. Parallax’s research is focused on intelligence surveillance reconnaissance (ISR), which is critical to military operations. Broadly, the Parallax HMT team works with developers and customers to analyze decision-making

Dayton, OH- Since its inception in 2018, the Launch Dayton team has focused on building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) community of resources and mentors to propel the growth of Dayton’s entrepreneurs.

Launch Dayton is a collaborative of entrepreneurial resource providers that support the Dayton region’s startup and small business community. Launch Dayton partners aim to create an intentionally inclusive startup community that serves Dayton’s entrepreneurs by providing resources and events that are easy to access, high-caliber programming, and a network of champions, mentors, and

By: Amanda Christensen, Senior Research Scientist, Parallax Advanced Research

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the post are those of the author and not Parallax and/or the U.S. Government.

Did you ever wonder as a kid why things look differently when perceived through one eye as compared to two? Looking at something from multiple perspectives gives you additional data. This is known as the phenomenology of parallax. The Merriam-Webster definition of parallax is “the apparent displacement or the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points, not on

By Frank C. DiGiovanni, Agile Operational Technology Director at Parallax Advanced Research

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the post are those of the author and not Parallax and/or the U.S. Government. The article was originally published here prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The internet has transformed our way of life, but it has also made us vulnerable to a whole new set of national security threats. Three administrations have warned that the nature of cyber-attacks is ever-evolving, and we need to maintain our ability to take decisive action against this increasingly

Earlier in November, the innovation team spoke with Dustin Dannenhauer about his work on modeling computer games for AI, and how we can apply what we’ve learned from complex games to the real world. Dustin is a research scientist in the autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) unit at Parallax Advanced Research.

Dustin, who has been at Parallax since 2020, began developing an AI-friendly interface to the video game “Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup,” in 2017. The niche game is one of a class of games called “roguelikes,” after the original Rogue. In them, a player uses a character to traverse a

Springfield, Ohio- On November 10, 2021, multiple members of the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) participated in the first Ohio Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) showcase event held at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. The AAM Showcase is a first-of-its-kind event aimed at showcasing the public-flight and cargo carrying capabilities of electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL). The AAM showcase event was a result of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign, which included an award to the Ohio Department of

We recently celebrated our first year as Parallax Advanced Research in October and we want to showcase our accomplishments during the 2020-2021 timeframe.  

Thank you to our Parallax employees for all the work you put into making this first year as Parallax Advanced Research an incredible one! 

Check out our cool infographic highlighting all our 2020-2021 accomplishments. We will continue to reach for the stars and look forward to seeing what is in store for our future.