Thanks to the vision, commitment, and support of JPL management and especially the JPL Office of the Chief Scientist and Chief Technologist, the MDL remains healthy and active. MDL’s vitality is documented by various metrics. Over the last few years the average numbers per year are: just under 50 refereed journal papers, 40-50 published conference papers, 10s of NASA New Technology Reports, 5-8 awarded patents and many awards or other signs of prestigious external recognition.
Meeting every two years to review the ongoing work at MDL and make valuable suggestions for future directions, they have acknowledged that MDL is a key national asset with unique state-of-the-art capabilities and staff well-focused on space applications of micro- and nano-technologies.
The Visiting Committee, consisting of a broad spectrum of highly talented and accomplished individuals, has recognized the leadership, vision, and innovation of MDL. The committee’s inputs have been of tremendous value in the pursuit of the highest quality research and development programs targeted toward the key scientific and technical goals of interest to NASA and our other sponsors.
Committee Chair, Dean of College of Optical Sciences and Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Committee Co-Chair, Retired Chief Technologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vice President for Research, George Mason University
FORMER CHAIR (2008–2015) Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
Associate Provost in the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (OETT), Director of the PhD Innovation Program at the Thayer School of Engineering, and the John H. Krehbiel Senior Professor for Emerging Technologies at Dartmouth College
Department Chair and Professor of Chemistry, University of Alberta
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Retired Program Director, NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)
Chief Technology Officer at SRI International and Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering and courtesy appointment to the Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Ralph N. Adams Distinguished, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director, Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry University of Kansas
Program Director, NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)
Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Harvard University
John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, California Institute of Technology
Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Walter J. Zable Chair in Engineering, Professor of mechanical, aerospace, electrical and computer engineering, University of California, San Diego
Director of the Center for Microsystems Science, Technology & Components, Sandia National Laboratories
Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, California Institute of Technology and Director of the Caltech Global Health Initiative
Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics, Harvard University
Professor of Physics, Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, California Institute of Technology
Former JPL Chief Technologist, former Director of JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory, and Merle Kingsley, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Former Chairman (2008–2015) Professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and IEEE, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Director of Microelectronics Research Center and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin
Director of the Laboratory for Physical Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine
Director of Communications, Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)
Chief Scientist for Focal Plane Arrays at the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)
National Science Foundation Director, Electrical, Communications, and Cyber-Systems Division Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University Fellow, IEEE2 and AAAS3
Adams Capital Management General Partner Board Member, Rafter, Inc., Fotomoto, Inc., Luminescent Technologies, Inc., Next IO, Inc., and Twelvefold Media, Inc.
Beginning in 2007, MDL issues a review of its accomplishments detailing the contributions to JPL and NASA that MDL has made and is continuing to make. As the reports become available in an electronic format, they are posted here.
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