Professional Experience

2007-Present Systems Engineer/Illumination Engineering Services, Optical Research Associates
2006 Senior Engineer/Illumination Engineering Services, Optical Research Associates
2003-2006 Senior Optical Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company
2002-2003 Research & Optical Design, Tamarack Scientific Company

Education

2002 Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
1999 M.S. Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
1997 Five-year integrated graduate program in Physics, IIT Kanpur, India

Patents

U.S. 6,964,484 Overfill reduction for an Optical modulator

Publications

"A Wavefront Sensor for the Human Eye" Ph.D. dissertation 2002.
Spherical Aberrations in Human eyes: Comparison of Normal, post-LASIK, and post-IOL eyes. Poster presentation at (with J.M. Miller, R. Anwaruddin) ARVO 2002.
"Lightpipe Design", (with J. Lee & R.J. Koshel), Optics and Photonics News, p. 53, December 2001.
"Design of Efficient Lightpipes for Illumincation (with J. Lee & R.J. Koshel) by an Analytical Approach", Applied Optics, 40, 22, pp. 3640-3648, August 2001.
"Hidden Devices that Light our World Lightpipes", (with B. Cassarly, D. Jenkins), Optics and Photonics News, pp. 34-39, August 2001.

"Design and Use of an Infrared Pupilometer for Real-Time Pupil Mapping in Respnose to Incremental Illumination Levels", (with J. Schwiegerling & J. Straub), OSA's Vision Science and its Applications", February 2001.

"Design of Compact Shack-Hartmann Aberrometer for Real-Time Measurement of Aberration in Human eyes", (with J. Straub & J. Schwiegerling) OSA's Vision Science and its Applications, February 2001.
"The Use of Implicitly Defined Aspheric Null Correctors for the Testing of Conformal Optical Elments", (with S.A. Lerner, J.M. Sasian & J.E. Grievenkamp), OSA's Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics and Optical Fabrication and Testing Topical Meeting, pp. 103-105, June 2000.
"Transmitted Wavefront Testing of Conformal Windows" (with J.E. Greivenkamp, D.G. Smith, R.O. Gappinger, G.A. Williby, P.H. Marushin, S.R. Clark, J.Lee & J.M. Sasian), OSA's Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics and Optical Fabrication and Testing Topical Meeting, pp. 109-111, June 2000.
"Dark States of Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensates" (with E.S.Lee, C. Geckler, J. Heurich, K. Cheong, S. Secrest, & P. Meystre), Physical Review A,60, 4006, 1999.
"Static Tester for Characterization of Phase-Change, Dye Polymer, and Magneto-Optical Media for Optical Data Storage" (with M. Mansuripur, J.K. Erwin, W. Bletscher, P. Khulbe, K. Sadeghi, X.Xun, S.B. Mendes), Applied Optics, 38, 7095, 1999.

Professional Societies

Vice-Chairman of Optical design committee for OSA 2005-2006
Reviewer for SPIE and OSA journals
Member: OSA, SPIE, IESNA