Graduate student research assistant, University of Michigan, March 2006 - August 2014
Supervisor: Professor Fred Terry, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Working on critical-dimension monitoring and topography extraction of photoresist gratings by liquid-immersion specular spectroscopic scatterometry
Graduate student research assistant, University of Michigan, August 2002 - December 2005
Supervisor: Professor Emmett Leith, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Projects included optical sectioning by structured illumination, optical sectioning by fringe localization, and synthetic-aperture chirp confocal imaging
Honors thesis, University of Arizona, September 2001 - May 2002
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michael Descour, Optical Sciences Center
Title: "Effect of spherical aberration on optical sectioning by structured illumination"
Undergraduate Science Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August 2000
Independent study, University of Arizona, September 1999 - June 2000
Supervisor: Research Professor Tom Milster, Optical Sciences Center
Worked on a scanning laser microscope for analyzing DNA microarrays
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, June 1999 - August 1999
Supervisor: Professor Richard Robb, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
George Dantzig - The real-life student in the "urban legend" who arrived late to class and solved two previously-unsolved problems in mathematics, thinking they were a homework assignment.
Stanislav Petrov - Soviet colonel who singlehandedly prevented a potential nuclear disaster in 1983.