FIAP Executive Committee for 2015

by John Rumble

Chair: David Seiler (03/15 - 02/16) NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chair-Elect: Barbara Jones (03/15 - 02/16) IBM Almaden Research Center
Vice Chair: Jeffrey Hunt (03/15 – 02/16) The Boeing Company
Past Chair: John Rumble (03/15 - 02/16) R&R Data Services
Councilor: Gregory Meisner (01/12 - 12/15) General Motors Research and Development Center
Secretary/Treasurer: Ichiro Takeuchi (03/14 - 02/17) University of Maryland-College Park
Member-at-Large: Carl Meinhart (03/13 - 02/16) University of California - Santa Barbara
Member-at-Large: Michael Gordon (03/14 - 02/17) IBM T J Watson Research Center
Member-at-Large: Matt Kim (03/14 - 02/17) QuanTera
Member-at-Large: Derrick Mancini (03/14 - 02/17) Illinois Institute of Technology
Member-at-Large: John Rodriguez (03/15 - 02/18) Texas Instruments
Member-at-Large: Cha-Mei Tang (03/15 - 02/18) CreatvMicroTech, Inc.
Newsletter Editor: Joe Mantese (03/15 – 02/18) United Technologies Research Center

As a result of the recent FIAP elections, we have two new and one returning members of the FIAP Executive Committee. We congratulate them on their election and look forward to their active participation in the governance of FIAP.

Jeffrey Hunt of the Boeing Company was elected Vice Chair. In this position he is primarily responsible for the development of the FIAP sessions at the 2016 APS March meeting. A brief bio for Jeff is given below.

Cha-Mei Tang of CreatvMicroTech, Inc. was re-elected and John Rodriguez of Texas Instruments was newly elected as members-at-large to the Executive Committee. Brief bios for them are below.

Dr. Jeffrey. H. Hunt is a principal scientist and Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company. He received a B.S in physics from MIT and M.A and Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. At MIT, Dr. Hunt developed technology for spectroscopic measurement of atomic isomer shift. At UC Berkeley, he pioneered the use of Surface Sum-Frequency Generation, creating a means to do direct surface sensitive IR spectroscopy. Dr. Hunt was at Rockwell Corp. from 1988 until 1996, working on advanced optical projects, including high power laser systems, optical surface diagnostics, and photon-counting spatial light modulators.

Hunt joined Boeing in 1996, continuing work on next generation optical system, such as autonomous manufacturing, quantum key distribution, and nonlinear optical spectral and imaging diagnostics. He is actively performing basic research on electronic behavior of thermo-electric nanowires. His career has included physics-based projects in condensed matter physics, quantum information sciences, surface science, and nonlinear optics and work on diverse applications, including both in defense sciences and commercial air and space technologies. He has published over 30 papers, 3 books and 2 encyclopedia articles on condensed matter sciences. He holds 61 US patents on sources, sensors, diagnostics, quantum information, and network centric operations. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the SPIE, and the American Physical Society (Fellow 2008). He was elected to the Boeing Technical Fellowship in 2000.

Dr. Hunt has a strong record of volunteering within the public school system and is an educational counselor for MIT admissions. He received the Boeing exceptional volunteer service award (2010) for work within the Los Angeles Unified School District. He has been honored by the LA City Council for his educational work. In 2011, he received the Jaime Escalante Legacy award for his long term involvement with students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Dr. Cha-Mei Tang is president and CEO of Creatv MicroTech (Creatv). Dr. Tang received her B.S., M.S. and E.E. and Sc.D. from MIT. She worked at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At the NRL Plasma Physics Lab from 1978-1993, she served as Head of the Radiation and Accelerator Physics Section for 7 years. She did research on free-electron lasers, charged particle beams, accelerator physics, and field emission cathodes. She was a visiting scientist at the NIST Physics Lab from 1993-1996 doing research on x-ray physics and applications.

She founded Creatv in 1996 initially focusing on novel x-ray anti-scatter grids and nuclear collimators to improve image quality. She led Creatv in the development of advanced high-aspect-ratio microfabrication, providing microfabrication services for all copper THz waveguides for video radar, x-ray masks for x-ray phase contrast imaging, and nuclear collimators for gamma ray imaging. In 2000, she led the company into medical diagnostics developing instruments, assays and diagnostic kits, making products requiring combined expertise of microfabrication, instrumentation and assay methods.

Recently, Dr. Tang developed a lithographically fabricated microfilter applied to the collection of cancer-associated cells from the blood of cancer patients with solid tumors. She has received numerous awards, including Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990), the most outstanding woman scientist in the Federal Government by Women in Science and Engineering (1992), senior member of IEEE (1995), and R&D 100 Award for Anti-scatter Grids for X-ray Imaging and Collimators for Nuclear Imaging made by LIGA (2006). She is active in APS and is a current FIAP Member-at-Large. She helped setup a new APS Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics (2007) and was on the APS Society Membership Committee (2004-2006).

John A. Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, TX. He received the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in Houston, TX. Dr. Rodriguez is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in Analog Technology Development at Texas Instruments in Dallas, where he researches the reliability physics of ferroelectric memory devices in advanced process technology. He is a member of the American Physics Society, American Ceramic Society and the IEEE.

Dr. Rodriguez has published or presented more than 40 papers in conferences and journals and has been awarded 21 US patents. Dr. Rodriguez is a recipient of the 2002 IEEE Reliability Physics Symposium Outstanding Paper Award, the 2005 Electrical Over-Stress/Electrostatic Discharge Symposium Best Presentation Award and the 2012 Semiconductor Research Corporation Mahboob Khan Outstanding Industry Liaison Award for his mentorship of a research program at the University of Florida. He received the prestigious Texas Instruments “Innovators in Action” Award in 2013 for his contributions to novel ultra-low-power integrated circuits.

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