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RSI consists of scientists and engineers that have
researched and developed a broad
spectrum of technologies, including:
Chris Rollins, Ph.D., Vice President
System Science, Radiometric
Calibration, Space Instrumentation,
Hyperspectral Imagery, Sparse aperture arrays, Optical Design.
Charles Manka, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist
Plasma Physics, Pulsed Lasers.
Mark Boies, Principal Research Scientist
Space instrumentation, System
Engineering, IR Optical Design, Lidar
systems, Contamination Science, System Calibration.
James N. Caron, Ph.D., Principal Scientist
Sparse Aperture Imaging, acousitcs,
advanced image processing, imaging field tests,
Nondestructive Evaluation, Laser-based Ultrasound.
Paul Delgado, B.S.E.E, Engineer
Electrical
Engineer, analog circuitry, electrical design, electronic
fabrication & testing.
David Huber, Ph.D., Principal Scientist
Cosmic Rays, High Altitude Balloon
Experiments, Metrology &
Control,
Optical Modeling.
John Kline, M.S., Principal Research Scientist
Micro-optical systems, Space propulsion,
Plasma physics, High energy laser physics, Satellite optical
communications, and Pulsed power.
Dan Sullivan Ph.D., Principal
Scientist
Aerospace engineer, mechanical engineer, space propulsion, microwave
plasmas, and microwave thrusters.
Maria Salamon, B.S. Senior
Scientist
Microspeakers fabrication, plasma
polishing of inorganic materials, photoelectrochemical
devices, shape memory alloys, metal hydrides, thin film oxide formation
and processing techniques.
Laurie Seide, M.S. Principal
Scientist
Optical Engineer
performing flight design, performance analysis, and systems
requirements.
Bill Will, B.S.E.E, Engineer
Electrical
Engineer performing space flight electrical design, electronic
fabrication & testing; and sensor packaging.
Tmitri Zukowski, M.S. Principal
Scientist
Laboratory and spaceflight optical systems development, integration,
test and calibration.
Biographies
Dr. Chris Rollins, Senior Scientist,
Vice President
Education Ph.D., Physics, Northeastern University, 1984 M.S.,
Physics, Northeastern University, 1980 B. A., English Literature,
University of Rochester, 1976
Dr. Christopher J. Rollins received his M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1984) in
Physics from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Dr. Rollins joined
RSI in 1992 to collaborate with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) on
the Clementine lunar spacecraft project. As part of the Clementine
Sensors Group, Dr. Rollins has been responsible for optical
integration, testing, and operation of the Clementine sensors, from
initial design through launch and operations. From 1991 to 1992, Dr.
Rollins lectured at Northeastern University and researched detector
design for experimental high energy physics. Concurrently, he
researched avalanche diode development for supercollider applications
and acoustical scattering from turbulence. From 1984 to 1990, he worked
at Physical Sciences Inc. serving as group leader of Pulsed Laser
Applications. He has authored or co-authored over forty journal
articles and technical reports.
Mark Boies, Research Scientist,
M.S. degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1988.
B.S. degrees (with honors) in both Physics and Computer Science from
Colorado State University in 1984.
Experience: Mark is responsible for the business development of remote
sensors and products with emphasis on the aerospace market. He
has developed laser radar systems and passive spectral imagers.
Many of these instruments have been flown on space-based
platforms.
Mark is currently the deputy program manager for the HICO/RAIDS mission
at the Naval Research Laboratory. This mission represents the
first launch of a NASA payload on a Japanese launch vehicle. It
will be deployed on JAXA’s JEM-EF module on the International Space
Station and meets both NASA and JAXA manned mission safety
requirements. Mark is also the program liaison for a sounding
rocket program that provides target intercept assessment through
spectral evaluation of the impact event. He is a technology
liaison for NASA on the focal plane module development for the GOES-R
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) program
He led the RSI team that developed a non-imaging spectrometer to
measure spectral signatures at ultra-high speeds (125 kHz). He
was the program manager for an international program with the Japanese
government to design and build a vehicle-based DIAL (differential
absorption laser radar) system for detection of methane gas
leaks. Mark was a principal investigator on the MSX (Midcourse
Space Experiment) environmental monitoring science team. Mark has
been program manager for a frequency agile Lidar receiver developed for
the Air Force and has been involved in the development of a spectral
imaging system (visible to LWIR) used to help fight forest fires.
These various projects have required that he design several infrared
optical elements including several for use in a cryogenic dewar.
He provides spaceborn environmental (contamination) instrument
development and scientific analysis for sensors in the Hubble Service
Missions (shuttle based). He has authored many papers and presentations
covering optical instrumentation, space flight hardware, satellite
contamination, and space born environmental findings.
Dr. David Huber, Principal Scientist,
Education: Ph.D., Physics, 1998 University of Delaware, Newark, DE
B.S., Cum Laude, Physics and Mathematics, 1988 Dickinson
College, Carlisle, PA
Experience: Dr. Huber has extensive computational and laboratory
experience developed from studies of cosmic ray astrophysics and
adaptive optical control systems. He has designed and constructed
flight instrumentation for high altitude scientific balloon payloads,
and has also developed mathematical models of these instruments for
Monte Carlo analysis and simulation. His current work includes using
the ZEMAX optical design package as well as Matlab and Simulink to
design and implement, on a real time operating system, a high-speed
active metrology and control system for wavefront control in an optical
telescope system. Dr. Huber has programmed in a variety of computer
languages (C, FORTRAN, BASIC, VisualBasic, and Python) on a variety of
operating systems (Linux/Solaris, vxWorks, Microsoft Windows, DEC VMS,
and Data General AOS/VSII). He has experience writing interrupt-driven
control software to interoperate computers and specialized laboratory
equipment via various interfaces that include serial ports, USB ports,
ISA/PCI buses, and the VME backplane. Dr. Huber has written hardware
drivers and analysis software for various imaging and non-imaging
detectors.
Dr. James N. Caron, Principal
Scientist,
Dr. Caron received his M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1997) in Physics
from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE. During graduate study and
post-doctorate work, Dr. Caron was the main researcher in the UD Laser
Acoustics Lab giving him seven years experience in acoustics, optics,
and electronics. He researched, designed, constructed, and operated the
laser-based ultrasonic systems at UD. This includes designing and
building photodetectors, servo circuits, filters, and amplifiers
suitable for laser ultrasonics, operating and maintaining the Nd:YAG
lasers,
maintaining the laser ultrasonic system, and determining the course of
the research. In this time, he invented Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic
Detection. He has programming experience in Fortran, Turbo Pascal,
Visual Basic and V++.
John
Kline, Principal Research Scientist
John Kline is the Founder/Manager of RSI Princeton Operations. He was Principal Investigator for the CAMERA retroreflector project
for NIST, the MASS microspeaker Phase II SBIR project for AFRL,
Electron Beam-Controlled, Microwave-Driven Plasmas SBIR Phase II
project for AFRL, the Nonequilibrium Ionization MHD project for AFRL,
the Mars MHD Aerobraking project for NASA, the Microwave Electrothermal
Ignition Source project for NASA, the Compact Micro-Torus eXperiment
(CMTX) for NASA and the International Space Sciences Organization
(ISSO). He was Co-PI for development of new commercial high speed
fiber optic pressure probes for use at the Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL). He has experience with micro-optical systems,
space propulsion, plasma physics, high energy laser physics, satellite
optical communications, and pulsed power. Projects in-house at
RSI and on-site at NRL have included development of a family of
electrothermal thrusters, a plasma diagnostic system, micromachined
optics, electron beam windows, micromachined ion optics, an X-ray
multichannel detector for the NOVA laser fusion facility, an
atmospheric pressure plasma generator, and a quantum well modulator
optical link. He has provided support for the measurement of
high-energy, laser-produced shocks and infrared thermal imaging for CW
laser survivability tests for NRL, and high-speed photography of
advanced munitions tests for the Raytheon Company.
Dr.
Daniel Sullivan, Principal
Scientist,
Dr. Sullivan's primary research has been concerned with the practical
application of microwave plasmas. Projects of current interest are the
development of a microwave plasma electrothermal thruster, an
experimental feasibility study on the use of microwave plasmas for
active flow control of hypersonic vehicles, and an experimental study
of flame speed enhancement through the application of microwave energy.
These research programs have made use of various diagnostic techniques
including LIF velocimetry, PIV techniques for flow field resolution,
and Filtered Raleigh Scattering for 2-D resolution of flame
temperature. Responsibilities include the writing of Phase I proposals,
the management of contract funds and oversight of research staff,
coordination with the Applied Physics Group of Princeton University who
have been partners on some of the programs, filing of project progress
reports and Phase II proposals, and marketing efforts to both
government and commercial contacts. Engineering tools used commonly
during the course of the research programs are LABView, Solid Works,
Pro-E, AutoCad, FEMLAB, MathCad, and assorted image manipulation
programs.
Tmitri
J. Zukowski, Principal Scientist,
Education: M.S. Physics, California Institute of Technology 1986
B.S. Physics and B.S. Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, 1984.
Mr. Zukowski joined RSI in February, 2007. He has extensive
experience as an optical systems engineer performing hardware
development, system tests, calibration, and laboratory experiments. He
currently supports the James Webb Space Telescope project, conducting
experiments on optical metrology and materials performance at
cryo-vacuum conditions. He has contributed to numerous NASA projects in
the past including SWIFT, EO-1, Aura, Terra, GOES, and HST. In
addition, he has contributed to the development of the NRL high speed
Non-Imaging Spectrograph, as well as several critical optical source
GSE projects; he is joint patent holder for the GOES Wide Field
Collimator light source.
Maria
Salamon, Materials Science and Engineering,
Maria graduated in
2004 from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH
with a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree in Materials Science
and Engineering. She minored in Macromolecular Science and
Engineering
and Psychology. Since joining RSI, Maria has played an active
part in
the fabrication of microspeakers, namely through troubleshooting device
processing problems. Additionally, she investigated the plasma
polishing of inorganic materials for improved mechanical performance,
and modifying and applying carbon nanotubes to use as a filter
medium.
Her other interests include photoelectrochemical devices, shape memory
alloys, metal hydrides, thin film oxide formation and processing
techniques to prevent corrosion.
Laurie
Seide, Optical Specialist,
Laurie graduated
from the University of Arizona with a MS in Optical Sciences and a BS
in Optical Engineering. As a senior optical engineer for Ball
Aerospace, she was responsible for the optical design and performance
analysis of reflective and refractive telescope systems, covering
bandwidths from the UV to infrared. She managed the procurement
of optics for the World View I commercial space telescope for Digital
Globe, launched September 18, 2007. She has also lent her
expertise to the Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope,
the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the initial Deep Impact
Proposal.
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