Speaker Bios

Dr. Mark Dubinskiy
Sensors and Electronics Device Directorate,U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Biography
Dr. Mark Dubinskiy is an expert in the field of rare-earth- and transition-metal-doped solid-state lasers, spectroscopy and nonlinear optics. He has over 30 years of experience in solid-state laser development for industry, academia and Government (AFRL, ARL). Dr. Dubinskiy has authored over 180 papers, presentations and book chapters. He served as a Program Committee Member, Session Chair and Conference Co-Chair for quite a number of international conferences held in the USA. He has edited a book on UV lasers and laser spectroscopy. He is with the US Army Research Laboratory since 2002, where he leads the team developing new laser concepts, architectures and advanced critical components geared toward efficient high energy solid-state lasers. Lately his work is focused on modular laser power scaling, efficient solid-state SBS PCM materials, studies of ceramic laser materials, thermally-advanced and composite laser materials for power scaling, cryo-cooled solid state lasers, laser beam combining and other topics of great practical importance for HEL community. Dr. Dubinskiy is a Member of the Optical Society of America, IEEE/LEOS and Directed Energy Professional Society. He is a member of the CLEO Program Committee and also an Associate Editor for the Optics Express journal.

Michael Gerhold
Program Manager for Optoelectronics, U.S. Army Research Office

Biography
Michael D. Gerhold was born in Indianapolis, IN on October 10, 1970. He attended Purdue University and received BSEE ’92 with highest distinction and MSEE ’94 in optics and semiconductors. In 1995 he worked at Intel Corporation where he developed multi-level-cell “strata-flash” technology for flash memory. He later attended the University of Michigan where he received a PhD. ’99 in solid state electronics. Since 1999 he has been a program manager for optoelectronics at the Army Research Office. He has participated in research at North Carolina State University as an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering from 2000 to 2006 and an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University since 2007.

Greg Hyslop, D. Sc.
Vice President and Program Director
Airborne Laser, Missile Defense Systems

Biography
Dr. Greg Hyslop was named vice president and program director of Boeing Missile Defense Systems Airborne Laser (ABL) Program in March 2005. ABL provides speed-of-light capability to destroy ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight and is at the forefront of directed energy weapons. As program director, Hyslop is responsible for leading the ABL contractor team, involving over one thousand people from Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, located in California, Washington, Kansas and New Mexico.

Prior to his current position, Hyslop was program director for special projects in the Space and Intelligence System organization of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

Hyslop began his career in aerospace in 1982 with the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company as a guidance and control engineer where he worked on a number of cruise missile programs including Tomahawk, Harpoon, and the Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM).

Hyslop received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska, a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska, and his Doctor of Science in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. While at Washington University, he served as an adjunct professor of Systems Science and Mathematics where he taught courses in linear systems theory, stochastic processes and Kalman filtering.

Hyslop has published and presented numerous technical papers in various journals and conferences, including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

Hyslop resides in Seattle, Washington and has three daughters.

Devanand Shenoy
Microsystems Technology Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Biography
Dr. Shenoy is the program manager for the SuperMolecular Photonics Engineering (MORPH), RIEDAR and Hemispherical ARray Detector for Imaging (HARDI) programs in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He joined DARPA in March 2007 after being detailed to DARPA as a program manager from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC for a year and a half.

Dr. Shenoy's interests are in demonstrating the potential of high-performance materials for revolutionary components and devices. These include non-linear optical materials for EO modulators and EO sensor protection, new technologies for explosives detection, hemispherical array detectors for imaging, magnetic tunneling junctions and spintronics for magnetic sensors, novel components based on metamaterials, as well as high-performance organic electronics for low-cost processing.

Dr. Shenoy received his BS in physics, chemistry and mathematics at Bangalore University, Bangalore, India; his MS in Physics from the same University specializing in solid state physics and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India on critical point phenomena in condensed matter using photon correlation spectroscopy.

He developed postdoctoral experience in laser light scattering from polymer systems at the Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University and later served as Research Faculty in Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There, his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the polyethylene oxide/water system led to publications in high-impact journals such as Nature. He contributed to several basic and applied research projects at NRL. A central theme in the projects at NRL were to demonstrate the potential of complex materials such as liquid crystals, polymers, nanotubes and supramolecules in devices for applications of interest to the DoD and industry.

Dr. Shenoy has served on the DoD Display Technology Panel. He belongs to multiple societies including; American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and the International Society for Photo-Acoustic and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He has served as referee for journals including; Nano Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Physical Review letters and Physical Review E.

He has more than 50 publications, a book chapter and four patents pending.

Dr. Shenoy's recent NRL awards include four invention awards, an NRL contribution award, the technology transfer award and a special act award for exceptional performance significantly exceeding normal job requirements.

Dr. A. M. "Raj" Rajendran
Senior Scientist, Engineering Directorate, Army Research Office

"Research Opportunities in Engineering Sciences at the Army Research Office"
Dr. A.M. Rajendran, Chief Scientist (Engineering Sciences), Army Research Office, RTP, NC 27709

This talk will include discussions on the various research opportunities at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, especially at the Army Research Office at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. To meet Army’s transformation requirements, the future vehicle and soldier systems have to be ultra lightweight. There are challenging scientific hurdles to overcome in order to meet the technological requirements in several multidisciplinary research areas. The short and long term research focuses are on latest developments in laser research, computational mechanics, nanomechanics, biomechanics, rotor dynamics, smart structures, heterogeneous materials, etc. Research opportunities in programs, such as SBIR, STTR, MURI, and other Army initiatives are also briefly addressed.

Biography
Dr. A. M. "Raj" Rajendran serves as the Chief Scientist and technical advisor for the Engineering Sciences Directorate of U.S. Army Research Office, Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709. He serves in several high-level DoD / DOE / NASA evaluation panels. He is the Technical Area Chief for Army’s SBIR program in Engineering Sciences. He is also the Computational Technology Area Leader and Advisor for Computational Structural Mechanics for DoD’s High Performance Modernization Program Office.

Dr. Rajendran is an Adjunct Professor at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He serves in Ph.D committees and also supports National Research Council (NRC) Associates at NC State University as an NRC Mentor. He has authored approximately 150 publications and over 150 presentations. He has chaired and co-chaired a large number of international workshops, symposiums, and conferences.

Dr. Rajendran has won several research awards: ICCES -2007 Prof. Eric Reissner Medal for the original contributions to the "Impact and Penetration Mechanics" research area, 1998 - Army's R&D achievement award, 1991-University of Dayton Research Institute's top research award (Wohlleben/Hochwalt Award), and 1988-Martin-Marietta's "Manned Space Systems Award."

Dr. Rajendran is a Fellow of the Army Research Laboratory, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He serves as a Governor-at-Large (USA) in the ICM Board of Directors. Editorial Board of international journals: ASME JEMT Editorial Board (2000-2004), Journal of Computer Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, International Journal of Plasticity, and Composites Part B: Engineering. Dr. Rajendran obtained his Ph.D. (1981) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.