Faculty Title

Faculty


 

Agrawal
Brij N. Agrawal
Distinguished Professor, Director of SRDC
Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1970
Acquisition, tracking, and pointing of Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft; Vibration isolation, optical beam jitter control, and active structural control; Structural, control, and optics interaction for large flexible space mirrors; Adaptive optics and adaptive control. Space system design
Scott
Alan D. Scott (CAPT, USN (ret))
Associate Director of SRDC / Senior Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1999
Military Applications of Space Systems.  Military Space Systems Architectures and Operations.  Space Systems Testing and Mission Assurance.  More Information
DeSandre
Lewis DeSandre
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D
Directed Energy, Beam Control, Electro optics
Kim
Jae Jun Kim
Research Assistant Professor / Associate Director
Ph.D, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2004
Spacecraft Attitude Control, Flexible Spacecraft Control, Optimal Control, Adaptive and Nonlinear Control.
Ty
Ty Martinez
Associate Director of Optical Relay Mirror Laboratory
Ph.D, University of Arizona, 1998
Liquid crystal SLMs and MEMs and nonlinear materials devices for use in adaptive optics systems and wavefront correction systems.
Cristi
Roberto Cristi
Professor
Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, 1983
Digital signal processing, Control systems, Adaptive systems.
Kolar
Ramesh Kolar
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D, University of Arizona, 1984
Solid and Structural Mechanics – Classical and Numerical Methods. Composite mechanics/dynamics. Probabilistic Methods. Multidisciplinary Coupled Analysis. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications.
Ogloza
Albert Ogloza
Visiting Professor
Ph.D, University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, 1993
Development of Directed Energy technologies, including Beam Control architectures, Adaptive Optics systems, Atmospheric Modeling and Compensation, tracking in high clutter and highly turbulent environments.
Nelson
Douglas H. Nelson
Associate Professor
Ph.D, University of New Mexico, 1999
Laser propagation, multi-sensor integration, atmospheric turbulence measurements and modeling, systems engineering
Fernandez
Bautista Fernandez
NRC Research Associate
Ph.D, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011
Adaptive Optics, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Deformable Mirrors for Adaptive Optics.
Bagnasco
John Bagnasco
Research Scientsist
Ph.D, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994
Analysis, design and fabrication of optical components; Synchrotron radiation and X-ray optics; Electrodynamics; Numerical analysis; Mathematical Physics.
Staff Title

Staff


 

Ahn
Edwin S. Ahn
Research Assistant / Ph.D Candidate
Repetitive Control, Adaptive Control, Disturbance Rejection in Fine Pointing Equipment, Spacecraft Attitude Control.
Krol
Mike Krol
Senior Office Administrator
Jordan
Albert Jordan
Research Associate
Facilities Manager
M.S., University of California, Davis, 2010
Spacecraft Attitude Control, Adaptive Optics, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing, Autonomous Systems.