I joined Clarkson University in January 2016 as the Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Previous to this, from 2002 to 2014, I was a professor at the Andrew Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. And prior to this, I worked at Intel's D1C fabrication facility in Hillsboro Oregon. My education in materials and optics started at Purdue University, where I received a B.S. in physics in 1997, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from Cornell University. My research interests span a wide range of topics, but generally involve the interaction of fields with matter. Thus the traditional fields of photonic crystals, plasmonic crystals, optical devices, and more recently metamaterials are fields that are researched in my laboratory. My research involves strong collaborations with industry, and I have led a few organizations that foster such collaborations, including the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Photonics Applications, the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Metamaterials, and started a company Phoebus Optoelectronics in 2003 that specializes in specialized optics and optoelectronic materials and device design and fabrication.

"Research interest include: Metamaterials: Three dimensional metamaterials and two dimensional metasurfaces, with different metamaterials operating across the spectral range of ultraviolet-visible-infrared-THz-microwave; acoustic metamaterials. Nanotechnology: Metal and semiconductor nanowire and nano-dot fabrication, with application to quantum wire photodetectors. Photonic and Plasmonic Crystals: General photonic crystals, plasmonic structures and crystals, and hybrid optical components with photonic crystals/plasmonic crystals. Applications include biosensing, optical and infrared filters, imaging systems. Special and General Relativity: Research interests in this area involve studying special and general relativity in atomized space-time, what is time and space, and what is the difference between time and temporal duration. Quantum Gravity: Applying solid-state physics to quantum foam and studying anomalous motion of astronomical bodies."