{"id":6,"date":"2016-04-29T01:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/masud\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-04-12T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:31:58","slug":"education-employment-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/education-employment-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Education &amp; Employment History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanford University PhD, Electrical Engineering 1981<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University MS, Mathematics 1980<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University MS, Electrical Engineering 1978<\/li>\n<li>Arya Mehr University (Iran) BS, Electrical Engineering 1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Doctoral Dissertation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Statistics of Noise in Photodetection: Applications in Magneto\u00adoptical Recording<br \/>\nThesis Advisor: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/ee-www.stanford.edu\/~goodman\/\">Professor Joseph W. Goodman<\/a><\/b><span lang=\"en-us\">, Stanford University<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Employment History<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Chair of Optical Data Storage, 2002 &#8211; present; Professor 1991-present, Associate Professor 1988-91<\/li>\n<li>National Taiwan Univ. Visiting Chair Professor (Department of Physics) (Sabbatical, February 1-July 31, 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Boston University, Associate Professor, 1986-88 (Electrical Engineering)<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, 1982-86<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University Post Doctoral Fellow 1981-82 (Electrical Engineering)<\/li>\n<li>Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Consultant 1981-82<\/li>\n<li>Xerox Research Center of Canada Member of Research Staff 1980-81<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Professional Activities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"body\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Founder and President, <i>MM Research, Inc.<\/i> (www.mmresearch.com), Tucson, Arizona,1995-present; developing and marketing simulation software for the optics industry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Chief Optical Scientist, Capella Corp., 2001-02 (on 50% leave from University of Arizona).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"body\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Consultant to optics industry (Atonarp, Calimetrics, Data General, DataPlay, Digital Equipment Corp., DiscoVision, Energy Conversion Devices, General Electric,\u00a0 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)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"head1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Magneto\u00adoptical Recording Thesis Advisor: Professor Joseph W. Goodman, Stanford University Employment History University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Chair of Optical Data Storage, 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/masud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}