Invited professors

Dr. Michael Gehm.

Dr. Gehm is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the College of Optical Sciences, at The University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ, USA.  Dr. Gehm directs the Laboratory for Engineering Non-traditional Sensors (LENS) and his research activities are in computational sensing, compressive sensing, optical sensors, spectroscopy, imaging, spectral imaging, Terahertz technology, volumetric optical components, and optical physics.

Dr. Joseph Haus.

Dr. Haus is the Director and Professor with The Electro-Optics Graduate Program, at The University of Dayton, in Dayton, OH, USA. His research activities are in nonlinear optics (heterogeneous materials, photonic crystals, metamaterials and crystals), parametric down-conversion and THz generation, harmonic generation, and modulation instabilities, fiber lasers (mode-locked, cylindrically polarized and tunable), and metallodielectrics for super-resolution and nonlinear applications.

Dr. James Wyant.

Dr. Wyant is the Dean of the College of Optical Sciences, a Professor of the Optical Sciences and a Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ, USA. His research and development interests involve using old technology, interferometry, and new technology, computers and modern electronics, to produce “state of the art” instruments for solving metrology problems in many industries including: Data Storage, Semiconductor, Machine Tool, Optical Fabrication, Fiber Optics, Biomedical, and Printing, among others.

Dr. Payman Zarkesh-Ha.

Dr. Zarkesh-Ha is an assistant Professor of The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. His research interests are Statistical modeling of VLSI systems, design for manufacturability and reliability, low-power and high-performance VLSI design.