Experience

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  Stellarray, Inc.

  • Austin, Texas Area

  • Imaging Systems

    • 2012 - 2013
    • Austin, Texas Area

    Medical imaging systems: components, algorithms. R&D.

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  Zebra Imaging, Inc.

  • Austin, Texas Area

  • Director, Display Products

    • Apr 2005 - Jul 2011
    • Austin, Texas Area

    Also in role of Chief Scientist. Dynamic real-time three-dimensional (3D) holographic imaging and interactive networked applications. As Director of Zebra's three-dimensional motion displays, Mark Lucente led this exciting new product line and the R&D that form its foundation – named by Time Magazine one of "50 Best Inventions of the Year" in 2011. Responsible for over $6M each year, 12+ engineers and support staff, external customer/partner relationships. Technologies included modulation (e.g., LED, liquid crystal), custom optics, interactivity, computer graphics and high-end computation hardware/software. Applications include geospatial visualization (e.g., resource planning), medical imaging, scientific visualization (e.g., geoseismic). Corporate strategy.

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  Soliloquy, Inc.

  • CTO

    • Jun 1999 - Jun 2001

    Created start-up to automate online self-service. Built 45-person organization that generated rapid results: designed and created interactive software products; integrated products on clients’ websites (buy.com, CNET, etc.); developed advanced technologies incorporating natural language understanding, artificial intelligence and statistical analytics. Managed team that included 12 Ph.D.’s. Corporate management, including marketing, strategy, fund-raising.

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  IBM

  • Research Staff Member

    • Jul 1995 - Jun 1999

    IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center. Embedding 3D interactivity into buildings and furnishings. Led team to create multimodal systems/devices that interact with user’s speech, gestures and other sensory inputs, employing speech recognition, machine vision, eye tracking, and other sensing/biometric technologies. Transferred technology to IBM product divisions. Applications: medical imaging, scientific visualization, entertainment, education, building management, and mobile information. Co-authored IBM strategies for natural user interface, pervasive computing and 3D imaging. Interacted with customers (Chevron, Halliburton, Cable & Wireless, Nickelodeon, Disney, Edmark, P&G, Boeing), IBM Board of Directors, and global media (CNN, ABC, USA Today, WSJ, Comdex).

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  Columbia University

  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science

    • Jan 1996 - Jun 1996

    Created and taught novel course in 3D imaging and display technology

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  MIT Media Laboratory

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research Assistant

    • Apr 1989 - Jun 1995

    Created first-ever interactive electronic holographic 3D display. Invented essential computation/encoding algorithms to achieve interactive speeds and bandwidth compression. Technologies: spatial light modulation based on acousto-optics, magneto-optics, liquid crystals, nonlinear optics and micro-mirror MEMS; iterative numerical simulation and optimization; digital video. Applications: biological/medical imaging, geoseismic visualization, computer-aided design.

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  MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Research Assistant

    • Jan 1987 - Apr 1989

    In Optical Communication Group: High-bandwidth optical communication systems and semiconductor device physics. Analyzed excited carrier dynamics in semiconductor lasers used as optical transmitters. Applied nonlinear optics.

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  MIT

  • Research Laboratory of Electronics (Cambridge, MA)

  • Research Assistant

    • 1985 - 1987
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics (Cambridge, MA)

    Tomographic imaging of biological tissue using ultrashort pulses of laser light. Applied ion lasers, solid state lasers, and colliding-pulse mode-locked dye lasers; nonlinear optical techniques.

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  Draper Laboratory

  • Research Assistant

    • May 1984 - Aug 1984

    Summer intern. Designed and built equipment for x-ray tests of laser-based gyroscopes for navigation systems.

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  Data Systems of New Canaan, LLC

  • Software specialist

    • 1981 - 1983

    Designed, built, tested and operated software tools for accounting and resource management.

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  CLP Research Institute, Ltd.

  • Technology Strategist

    • Sep 1902 - Jan 1905

    Developed and managed research program focused on customer-side technologies for CLP Holdings, a group of energy services and investment companies based in Hong Kong. Created strategic partnerships with industry and academia to transfer technologies for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and intelligent infrastructure.

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  ClassCo, Inc.

  • Product & Manufacturing Engineer

    • Feb 1902 - Aug 1902

    Drove manufacturing and quality assurance in manufacturing facilities based in Guangdong (southern P. R. of China). [Actual year was 2002, not 1902.]

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  RestaurantTrade, Inc. (Avero, Inc.)

  • Vice President of Technology Operations

    • May 1901 - Jan 1902

    Led 20-person team to create software products that provide internetworked business intelligence and data-mining services for hospitality industry customers; led deployment to customers. [Actual years: 2001-2002.]