Company Overview

Nu-Trek was founded in 2002. The “Nu” comes from the Greek letter “ν”, from the equation E=hν, and Trek comes from “Star Trek”. True to our name, our focus has been on extracting information out of the electromagnetic spectrum, from gammas through RFs. This has taken the form of specialized sensors, readouts, and front ends.

Nu-Trek is passionate about having an exceptional team that is the best fit for the job at hand - technical or business. This includes employees, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and other collaborators. I get “goosebumps” when I think about all the amazing people that I have had the opportunity to work with and how their unique knowledge, skills, and passion have shaped programs, products, and business outcomes.

Nu-Trek has had a strong R&D focus, taking on challenging developments that provide a “leap” in performance. The company has been fortunate to secure substantial funding from the SBIR program to pursue this work. To increase our impact and better support the war fighter, Nu-Trek is expanding its business model to emphasize design services and more substantial collaboration with other companies.

One fun fact about Nu-Trek is that we name all of our programs and products based on a “theme”, and lately our theme has been trees. For example, our two readouts for thermal sensors are called Chestnut and Chinkapin (a type of Chestnut tree).

Please contact us to find out more about Nu-Trek, discuss your needs, or express your interest in joining our team.

Miriam Rauch, Nu-Trek CEO

Nu-Trek was honored to be recognized by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as an outstanding small business in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Meet the Team

  • Miriam Rauch

    CEO/President

    As the CEO of a small business, Ms. Rauch wears many hats, including COO, CFO, Business Development Manager, and more. There is always so much going on… she takes pride in putting together strong teams that have the skills and drive to address the challenges presented by our customers and she is very effective at writing winning proposals, clearly articulating how our team’s approach will meet requirements. she has a BS in Physics from the Tel Aviv University in Israel and a Project Management Profession (PMP) certificate, as well as decades of experience managing technical programs. She looks forward to expanding Nu-Trek’s business model into design services and broader collaboration with other companies.

  • Neil Malone

    Technical Director and Electrical Engineer

    Mr. Malone is a Systems Engineer specializing in IR sensors. While at Raytheon Vision Systems, Mr. Malone developed and productized many of the IR sensors presently in use. Mr. Malone also served as the Corporate Multifunction EO/IR Technology Area Director. In this capacity he evaluated all Raytheon EO/IR technologies for strengths, competition, and gaps. Mr. Malone joined Nu-Trek in 2025 and among other contributions, led the development of the next generation of IR Sensors for Stratospheric Operation. Mr. Malone received an MBA in electrical engineering from Seattle University, and holds multiple patents, of which 3 are related to his undersea work included engagement with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

  • Kyle Lyson

    Engineering Manager and IC Designer

    Mr. Lyson has twenty years of radio-frequency and mixed-signal design experience, and is currently focusing on readout integrated circuit (ROIC) designs and managing senior engineering staff. He has unit cell, ADC, digital counter, serializer, IO, and chip timing design experience. Mr. Lyson’s main contributions include progressing Nu-Trek's engineering validation methodology to greater chip coverage, reducing design risk and design cycle time. He has experience in analog, mixed-signal design/simulation, RF, verilog, synthesis, P&R, and has had project management professional training.

  • Jim Asbrock

    Senior Design Engineer

    While at Hughes Aircraft Company, Mr. Asbrock specialized in readout integrated circuit design. After Hughes was purchased by Raytheon Vision Systems, he was a ROIC Design Engineering Fellow for Lidar Applications, including lead designer for Lidar ROICs, including multiple sampling and multiple target range estimation, with the latter used on the International Space Station for docking. Mr. Asbrock has been with Nu-Trek since 2011, serving as PI, ROIC architect, and/or lead designer, on multiple ROIC developments, including four ROICs for Lidar, Artemis, Sycamore, Aspen, and Pecan. Mr. Asbrock has an MSEE and 12 patents.

Some of the many awards Nu-Trek received for supporting the Sweet Water school district’s VEX robotics program, including “Business Partner of the Year”.

Volunteering

It all started for Ms. Rauch with responding to an e-mail that was looking for volunteers to judge a robotics competition and ended up being a passion that span close to 20 years. Nu-Trek’s role was to recruit the judging team and to facilitate the judging process, culminating with handing out the judged awards. With the ever increasing number of tournaments, getting them all “staffed” and judged was quite an accomplishment.

It was a joy to see the VEX program expand and the students getting better and better at building and programming winning robots.