CDR Niels Olson is a board-certified pathologist and the Chief Medical Officer of the Defense Innovation Unit in Mountain View, California. His previous duty stations include Laboratory Medical Director at Naval Hospital Guam, staff pathologist at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, and General Medical Officer for Surface Forces Pacific. He completed AP/CP residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego. His undergraduate degree is in Physics and prior to medical school he served 7 years as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy. He oversees research programs in machine learning for a broad spectrum of anatomic pathology applications, augmented reality microscopy, artificial intelligence applications in radiology, and distributed sensors in austere environments.