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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Summer; 2019
Adviser(s)
Kim, Daewook
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 2015
Adviser(s)
Kupinski, Matthew A.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
PhD - Task-Based Image Quality Assessment in X-Ray Computed Tomography
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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2020
Adviser(s)
Pau, Stanley
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1995
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1998
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Nonlinear Multilayers as Optical Limiters
Full Name
Employer
Edmund Optics
Job Title
Senior Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1990
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1993
Adviser(s)
Wolfe, William L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
An Infrared Target and Background Projection System
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2004
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2007
Adviser(s)
Chipman, Russell A.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
GDx-MM: An Imaging Mueller Matrix Retinal Polarimeter
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2006
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2008
Adviser(s)
Gmitro, Arthur
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Component Analysis of a Confocal Microendoscope
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Summer; 2004
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2008
Adviser(s)
Anderson, Brian P., Manne, Srinivas
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Hydrodynamic Force Microscopy
Full Name
Employer
Apple Inc.
Job Title
Senior Research Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2001
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Detector Patterns and Crosstalk from Optical Disks
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2015
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2019
Adviser(s)
Liang, Rongguang
Full Name
Job Title
Owner
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1988
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1991
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser, Shack, Roland V.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
MS - In Situ Microviscoelastic Measurements by Polarization Interferometry
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
PhD - Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities in Aluminum Phthalocyanine Organic Thin Films and Picosecond All-optical Organic Etalon Switch
Full Name
Employer
Lockheed Missle & Space Co
Job Title
Optical Scientist, Metrology R&D
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 1989
Adviser(s)
Gibbs, Hyatt M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Nonlinear Optical Experiments in Sodium Vapor and Comparison with Doppler Broadened Two-Level-Atom-Theory
Full Name
Job Title
Senior Process Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2005
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2010
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Liquid Crystal Diffractive Lenses with Variable Focus and Magnification
Full Name
Employer
Cornell University
Job Title
Visiting Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1998
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2003
Adviser(s)
Wyant, James C.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Principles and Measurement of Polarized Light: A Novel Interferometric Approach
Full Name
Employer
Sandia National Laboratories
Job Title
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Optical Engineering
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2012
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer I; 2015
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Evolution and Persistence of Circular and Linear Polarization in Scattering Environments
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Full Name
Employer
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
Job Title
Postdoctoral Researcher
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 2021
Non-Wyant College Adviser
Jared Males, Steward Observatory
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Characterization and modeling of deformable mirrors for extreme adaptive optics
Full Name
Employer
Viavi Solutions
Job Title
Vice President of Research and Development
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Summer; 1985
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
In-Situ Monitoring of Thin Film Growth Using a Wide-band Scanning Monochromator
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2018
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 2015
Adviser(s)
Tyo, Scott J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Bandwidth and Noise in Spatio-Temporally Modulated Mueller Matrix Polarimeters
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Full Name
Employer
Zemax LLC
Job Title
Senior Application Development Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2018
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Adviser(s)
Barton, Jennifer K.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Co-registered Multimodal Endoscope for Early Ovarian Cancer
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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1995
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1998
Adviser(s)
Gaskill, Jack D., Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
A Non-Paraxial Scattering Theory for Specifying and Analyzing Fabrication Errors in Optical Systems
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1992
Adviser(s)
Wolfe, William L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Light Scattering from a Sphere On or Near an Interface
Full Name
Employer
ITF Optical Technologies
Job Title
Vice President for Advanced Research
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1990
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1992
Adviser(s)
Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Nonlinearities and Applications of Semiconductors Near Half the Band Gap
Full Name
Employer
SETS Technology
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1985
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1993
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Construction of a Dual-tip Scanning Tunneling Microscope: a Prototype Nanotechnology Workstation
Full Name
Employer
Quantinuum
Job Title
Principal Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1997
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2000
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Portable Snapshot Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
Full Name
Employer
Corning Incorporated - Retired
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1975
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1976
Adviser(s)
Shannon, Robert R.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Imagery Utilizing Multiple Focal Planes
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1996
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2002
Adviser(s)
Hart, Michael, Mansuripur, Masud
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Application of an Achromatic Shearing Sensor for the Alignment of a Segmented Telescope
Full Name
Employer
Boeing
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1999
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Superresolution applied to Optical Data Storage Systems
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1989
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1998
Adviser(s)
Biggar, Stuart F., Burke, James J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Models and Validation Measurements of Bidirectional Reflectance Factor for Diffuse Reflecting Materials
Full Name
Employer
Microsoft
Job Title
Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2010
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer; 2013
Adviser(s)
Barton, Jennifer K.