Malcolm is a Senior Engineer at Cytonome/ST in Boston, working on bio-medical instrument development. Before that he worked with Minotech Engineering in Charlton and Bodkin Design and Engineering in Newton. Before that he spent most of his career as a physicist at Adcole Corp. in Marlborough, MA, responsible for laser and optical system development and troubleshooting in the Gaging Division. He also worked with the Aerospace Division, supporting development of sun angle sensors and solar simulators required for testing. Prior to that he was Senior Optical Physicist at Galileo Electro-Optics in Sturbridge, Senior Scientist at PhotoMetrics, Woburn, and did a post-doc stint at Boston College on auroral physics. Malcolm holds a BSc and PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a member of OSA and SPIE, and has served on the Council and as President of NES/OSA in 2003 - 2004. He also served two years as secretary of the New England chapter of SPIE.

 

Groot Gregory is the LightTools Product Manager at Synopsys (formerly Optical Research Associates). Previously, he has worked at Lambda Research Corporation, Optikos Corporation and the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Groot’s interests in optics include optical design and analysis software, and design and deployment of optical instrumentation. Groot is a member of the OSA, SID and a Fellow of SPIE. Groot is a past chair of OSA’s OPN advisory committee. He currently serves OSA as a column editor for OPN, is a member of the Membership and Education Services Council and is a member of the External Relations Committee. He is the Interferometry associate editor for the journal Optical Engineering, a member of the SPIE Awards committee and conference chair for the SPIE Novel Optical Systems and Optimization conference and the Optics Education and Outreach conference. He has served the local section as program chair, publications chair, president and treasurer, and has co-chaired past Conversaziones. Groot received degrees in Physics, Mathematics and Optics from the University of Rochester and is a licensed aircraft mechanic.

Bruce received his doctorate in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1976 and spent over twenty-five years in R&D and new product development activities, functioning at various times as an individual contributor, program manager, department manager at Itek Optical Systems and as Vice President of Research and Development for MicroE Systems. After leaving MicroE, Bruce was Director of Optical Technology for AXSUN Technologies before founding TechRoadmap Incorporated in 2000, a company providing Director of Intellectual Property services on an outsource basis to small and mid-sized companies. Bruce has been a member of the NES/OSA since moving to Massachusetts in 1976 and has served the section at various times as councilor, secretary, and president. He is currently a councilor.

Katherine recently joined Synopsys as a R&D engineer after completing her PhD this past year in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Her thesis work centered around improved mathematical and computational models for use in Reflectance Spectroscopy in turbid media. This background has been leveraged in her work at Synopsys where she is a developer for the illumination simulation software package LightTools. She received her BS and MS in Engineering Science at Pennsylvania State University, doing theoretical electromagnetic research applied to lithography and diffraction gratings. Katherine is a member of OSA and SPIE, a previous president for the BU OSA/SPIE student chapter, and a council member for NES/OSA for the past three years.