Dr. Suning Tang received his Ph.D. degree of Electrical Engineering in
optoelectronic interconnects from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas
(1994), a M.Sc. degree of Applied Physics in fiber optics from the Weizmann
institute of Science, Israel (1989), and a B.Sc. degree of Electrical Engineering
in laser devices from Nanjing Institute of Technology, China (1984). Dr. Tang
worked as the vice president of switching technology of the Lightwaves 2020,
Inc., Santa Clara, California, and the Photonic Engineering director at Digilens
in Sunnyvale, California from 2000 to 2001. He was the co-founder and chief
scientist of Radiant Research, Inc., Austin, Texas from 1995 to 2000. MORE
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Dr. Thomas S. Hartwick received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Southern California (1969), a M.S. Physics from UCLA (1958),
and a B.S. Physics from the University of Illinois (1956). Dr. Hartwick worked
as the manager of the satellite payload program and system design at TRW
($450M program) and is an expert in the manufacture and deployment of
complex defense and surveillance systems. Dr. Hartwick has several years of
experience as manager of various organizations ($1B sales) in the aerospace
industry at Hughes Aircraft Company and Aerospace Corporation. His areas of
research include sensors and imaging, especially optical communications,
far-infrared lasers and their applications, and laser heterodyne radiometry.
Since leaving the aerospace industry in 1995, Dr. Hartwick has served on a
number of academic, government, and industrial boards as a technical
manager. He served on the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on
Optical Science and Engineering and is a National Associate of the National
Academies.
