Photonics

Biography

He completed his Ph.D in 1977 from California Institute of Technology. From September 1980 – present he is working as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, in the Applied Physics and Aeronautics and Astronautics Departments of Stanford University. He is a Co-founder, Chairman, Senvid, Inc. from October 1999-present and he was Instructor in Applied Physics and Senior Research fellow at Caltech from October 1977 - October 1980. He was the Founder, Chairman, CEO and CTO of Siros Technologies, Inc. From March 1994 - May 2002 and he was a Principal Investigator of DARPA funded $53M Industry Consortium for the development of Digital Holographic Data Storage from April 1994 - April 2000, He is a Member of Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected Fellow of SPIE, OSA Fulbright scholar Josephine de Karman Fellow Teacher of the year 1983 in Northern CA.

Research Interest

His research interests are encompasses nano-photonics, ultra high density optical data storage, nonlinear optics, optical super-resolution, materials science, three-dimensional image processing and graphics, and internet technologies.