Our Team

Dr. Moon received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, followed by Masters and Doctorate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in Biomedical Engineering. In 2002 he become a US Registered Patent Agent. His experience includes 15 years of academic research and 20 years in industry developing and commercializing medical technologies.

He is the President and founder of MEI Research, Ltd., a company that has built and supports most of the human respiration calorimeters in the USA and develops mobile and server software solutions for health and behavioral researchers. His research work spans mobile sensing, exercise physiology, metabolic energy expenditure, artificial life support, ophthalmology and a range of physiologic measurement systems. Dr Moon has guided more than 30 mHealth projects with premier universities and government laboratories around the world on dietary intake, energy balance and food environments; tobacco and alcohol consumption; drug addiction; improving physical activity, commuting choices and the built environment; sexually transmitted disease and HIV testing; and medication adherence.

At the University of Texas, Dr. Moon measured of the effect of blood flow and hematocrit changes on cardiac impedance plethysmography during high-level exercise. His doctoral studies combined constructing and conducting research with the human respiration calorimeter facility at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine. He later designed instruments used in neonatal cardiac and energy balance studies, and a delivery device for inhaled nitric oxide therapy. His funded investigations included ambulatory energy expenditure measurement and heart rate variability.

From 1996 to 1998 Dr. Moon conducted post-doctoral research under combined a National Science Foundation and Japanese Education Ministry Special Researcher Fellowship at the Kumamoto University School of Medicine in Japan. His projects focused on gas exchange during extracorporeal life support. He also contributed engineering and study support to ongoing projects in hypothermia for cerebral protection, oxygenator performance and biophysical effects of artificial circulation.

Dr. Moon was engineering manager for Nemoto Medical USA from 1998 to 2001, and was responsible for the CT contrast injector products. This included 510(k)regulatory approval, manufacturing validation of the product’s disposable kits, and providing design localization for the US market. From 2001 to 2004, Jon was Principal Scientist for Acist Medical Systems where he directed the Advanced Technology group and managed intellectual property.

In 2004 Dr. Moon and three other engineers founded the medical device design engineering services company Devicix, LLC. By 2009 Devicix employed 26 degreed engineers and 4 support personnel. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Jon provided guidance on physiology and clinical environment to engineering projects. He also advised clients on intellectual property strategy and drafted patents on internal and client technologies. Devicix pursued an external grant program from 2007 in research and development for energy balance measurements technologies that led to MEI Research in 2008.

Dr Moon devotes a substantial portion of his time to volunteer activities. These include editing and reviewing journal submissions and grant applications, contributing workshops and organizing activities to scientific societies, and community contributions.