Education

BA (physics with honors) Fisk University, 1968

MS (physics) New York University, 1973

Ph.D. (physics) New York University, 1976

Master Certificate (Project Management) George Washington University, School

of Business and Public Management, 1997

Employment History

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Clinical Professor, 2/00 – present

Assistant Director, CIEEM 2/00 – present

Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies Member of Technical Staff 1978 – 2000

Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1976 –1978

Military Service

U.S. Army, Infantry Sergeant E-5, Honorable Discharge 1969 – 1970

Service Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Air Medal

Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (1968), Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society (1967), Ford Foundation Fellowship (19971-73, 1974-76)

Selected Publications

1. “High power semiconductor laser injection-locking at 1.3 um”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp 903-907, (1992) (with P.A. Andrekson, N.A. Olssen, T. Tanbun-Ek)

2. “Wide-bandwidth and high power InGaAsP distributed feedback lasers”, Journal of Applied Physics, 66, 4640, (1989) (with N.K. Dutta el al)

3. Monolithically integrated InGaAs/InP direct coupled junction field effect transistor amplifier”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, EDL-7, 225, (1986) (with J. Cheng et al)

4. Monolithically integrated 1 x 12 array of planar InGaAsP/InP photodiodes” IEEE Journal of Lilghtwave Technology, vol LT-4, No. 3, (1986) (with M.G. Brown et al)