His research is in the area of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) with applications in Optics, Fluidics and Bio-MEMS. His current work involves the development of new MEMS deformable mirrors for future large telescopes and the application of adaptive optics for biological imaging (http://cfaom.soe.ucsc.edu/). Prior to joining the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005, he was an Area Manager with the Wilson Center for Research and Technology and a Member of Technical Staff in the Webster Research Center in Rochester New York (1987-2005). Prior to Xerox he was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill New Jersey working in the area of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (1985-1987). He received his PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1985 and his BA in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1980.