New England Section of OSA: Ballot 2011-12
President Elect
Malcolm Chamberlain
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, to develop a solar simulator to test sun-angle sensors. 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.
Phillip Malyak
Phil is Sr. Director of Optical Engineering at Prysm, Inc. He is co-inventor the Laser Phosphor Display technology which has been developed and commercialized by Prysm. He has previously worked at Dragon Fire, Zygo TeraOptix, Firefly Technologies, Adaptive Optics Associates and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Phil's professional interests include optical system design, displays, optical instruments, optical metrology and optical system integration. He is a member of SPIE and OSA. He is currently a councilor of NES/OSA. He has also served as President from 2009-2010, as Secretary from 2004-2007 and as editor of The Mirror in 2003. Phil received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo and a PhD in Optics from the University of Rochester.
Treasurer
Groot Gregory
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.
Secretary
Bruce Horwitz
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. 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 currently is an incumbent councilor.
Councilor
David Biss
David is a Principal Optical Engineer at Optikos Corporation in Wakefield, MA. He has experience in polarization microscopy, optical polarization vorticies, adaptive optics, retinal imaging in small animals, infrared polarimetry, and other areas of optics. He has previously worked at Physical Sciences Inc, Bodkin Design and Engineering, and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Wellman Center for Photomedicine. He received his B.S. in Physics from Clarkson University and his Ph.D. in Optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. David has served as president and councilor for the NES/OSA.
Katherine Calabro
Katherine is currently a PhD graduate candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She works in the Biophotonics laboratory researching improved mathematical and computational models for use in Reflectance Spectroscopy in turbid media. These models are used to estimate physiological properties of tissue in vivo using small fiber optic probes, with specific focus on diagnosing pre-cancerous polyps during colonoscopy. 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, and is an officer for the BU OSA/SPIE student chapter. She is looking forward to bringing a young perspective to the group, and brainstorming ways to encourage more student participation.
Barbara Darnell
Barbara’s extensive optical Sales & Marketing and Project Management experience includes Director of Sales and Marketing for Jenoptik, Jena, Germany and Hilger Crystal, Kent, England. She is currently Chair of the SPIE Education Outreach Grants Sub-Committee. She is a Past President of NESOSA, has chaired NESOSA’s Conversazione on Defense Optics in 2005 and organized the Optics Demonstrations for the Cambridge Science Festival in April 2009. She has a BA in Chemistry from NYU, a Diploma in Chocolate from the Callebaut School in Belgium, and serves on the Board of the Newton (MA) Civic Pride Committee.
Peter Goldstein
Peter is an optical engineer at Philips Color Kinetics in Burlington, MA. He has an extensive background in LEDs and illumination, working with traffic signals, airfield lighting, and architectural lighting. He received his B.S. in Optical Sciences and Engineering from the Optical Sciences Center at The University of Arizona. He enjoys working on illumination design techniques, software algorithms, and numerical optimization and has published several papers in these areas.
Sam Petuchowski
Sam is a physicist practicing law: as a partner with the Boston law firm of Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers. He specializes in patent portfolio prosecution and development, with a focus on quantitative areas such as medical devices, analytical instruments, optical and high-energy technologies, etc. Sam received a Ph.D. in atomic and molecular physics from the University of Illinois, and, for over a dozen years, developed instrumentation and conducted astrophysical research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His particular expertise lies in structuring patent portfolios for technology-intensive clients and other creative people.
