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FoTO GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Joseph W . Goodman Graduate Student Endowed Scholarship in Optical Sciences
Joseph W . Goodman , an accomplished optical scientist , has been a steadfast leader in both the academic and corporate aspects of the global optics community .
From 1963 through his retirement in January 2001 , Goodman held various positions at Stanford University , including William E . Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering , chair of the department of electrical engineering and senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs of the School of Engineering . He has written four major textbooks : Introduction to Fourier Optics , Statistical Optics , Speckle Phenomena in Optics and , with R . M . Gray , Fourier Transforms : An Introduction for Engineers . He has also authored more than 220 technical papers and served as Ph . D . thesis advisor for 49 students . He is the co-founder of Roberts and Company Publishers .
This endowed FoTO scholarship was established by donations from friends , colleagues and former students of Joseph W . Goodman — lives undeniably enriched by this exceptionally talented teacher and mentor . Joe and Honmai Goodman , Masud and Annegret Mansuripur and Jeff and Marta Wilde are the leading donors to this scholarship .
KEVIN CHEW FIGUEROA
Kevin ’ s research interests orbit around the intersection of Artificial Intelligence ( i . e . Deep Learning ), Display Technologies , Photonics ( i . e . Metamaterials ), Optical Physics , Optical Engineering , and Image Science to accelerate the scientific discovery process , and also serve as a potential coupled / parallelizable architecture for whole new crossdisciplinary / hybrid intelligent optical computing / imaging systems .
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