Dr. Jason Ernst
Chief Networking Scientist
Jason Ernst heads up Left Labs, the R&D division for Left and YO!. Jason holds a PhD in the field of Mesh Networking and Heterogeneous Wireless Networks as well as a M.Sc. on Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Mesh Networks, both from the Applied Computing faculty at the University of Guelph. Jason has more than 20 published papers on wireless networks, cognitive agents, FPGAs, and soft-computing topics and has presented his research at international conferences around the world. Prior to joining Left, Jason was the CTO of Redtree Robotics, which designed robots that made use of multiple radio technologies to ensure pervasive connectivity to each other and their operators. With Left, Jason works closely with the Engineering, YO! mobile application, and mesh platform teams to ensure off-grid, high-speed, reliable connectivity is an option in variable environments. When not designing next generation networks, you would find Jason outdoors on his mountain bike or winning hackathons and coding contests.
