Education & Employment History
Education
- Stanford University PhD, Electrical Engineering 1981
- Stanford University MS, Mathematics 1980
- Stanford University MS, Electrical Engineering 1978
- Arya Mehr University (Iran) BS, Electrical Engineering 1977
Doctoral Dissertation
Statistics of Noise in Photodetection: Applications in Magnetooptical Recording
Thesis Advisor: Professor Joseph W. Goodman, Stanford University
Employment History
- University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Chair of Optical Data Storage, 2002 – present; Professor 1991-present, Associate Professor 1988-91
- National Taiwan Univ. Visiting Chair Professor (Department of Physics) (Sabbatical, February 1-July 31, 2010)
- Boston University, Associate Professor, 1986-88 (Electrical Engineering)
Assistant Professor, 1982-86 - Stanford University Post Doctoral Fellow 1981-82 (Electrical Engineering)
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Consultant 1981-82
- Xerox Research Center of Canada Member of Research Staff 1980-81
Other Professional Activities
- Founder and President, MM Research, Inc. (www.mmresearch.com), Tucson, Arizona,1995-present; developing and marketing simulation software for the optics industry
- Chief Optical Scientist, Capella Corp., 2001-02 (on 50% leave from University of Arizona).
- Consultant to optics industry (Atonarp, Calimetrics, Data General, DataPlay, Digital Equipment Corp., DiscoVision, Energy Conversion Devices, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi-Maxell, IBM, Imation, Intel, Kodak, Komag, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, LG Electronics, Matsushita, MaxOptix, NanoChip, Oculus, Quinta, Read/Rite, Ricoh, Samsung, Seagate, Sony, TeraStore)