Dr. Payman Zarkesh-Ha is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Director of the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) at UNM. He received his MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2001. Prior to joining UNM in 2006, he was a Senior Research Engineer with LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA, where he worked on interconnect architecture design for the next ASIC generations. His research interests include statistical modeling of nanoelectronic devices and systems, design for manufacturability, and low-power, high-performance VLSI design. He has published more than 125 refereed papers and holds 22 patents in this field.
Dr. Wolfgang Rudolph received his Diploma in physics in 1982 and his Ph.D. in physics from Friedrich Schiller University in 1985. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he is currently a professor of physics and electrical engineering. He co-authored two books: Ultrashort Light Pulse Compression and Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena. His research interests include ultrashort laser pulses and spectroscopy, microscopic imaging, and IR lasers. He is a member of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America).
