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Joe Vornehm Jr.




Joe Vornehm Jr.
Graduate Student, University of Rochester
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Institute of Optics, Wilmot Building, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627-0186
 

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JOE VORNEHM JR.

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OBJECTIVE

 
Optics PhD student seeking networking opportunities in advance of 2012 expected graduation. Career sought in research or research management.
  

EDUCATION

09/'05 - present

 University of Rochester, PhD, Optics Rochester, NY, USA
  • 3.6 GPA, Advisor: Robert W. Boyd, Research area: Slow and Fast Light

09/'03 - 06/'05

Northwestern University, MS, Electrical Engineering Evanston, IL, USA
  • 3.6 GPA, Advisor: Selim Shahriar, Thesis subject: Raman gain in rubidium vapor for quantum information

09/'95 - 06/'01

Northeastern University, BS Electrical Engineering Boston, MA, USA
  • 3.7 GPA, Magna cum Laude, Honors Program

EXPERIENCE

04/'05 - 09/'05

Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, USA
  • Atmospheric Mitigation project: Atmospheric effects in free-space optical communications; gained familiarity with telecomm. industry standards (10GbE, SONET); did feasibility analysis, VHDL development for 10G Ethernet, Xilinx FPGA platform

06/'01 - 09/'03

Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, USA
  • Wireless Communications project: Real-time wireless multi-user detection system; worked independently to develop MUD & analyze performance in MATLAB; researched, developed, and tested List Viterbi decoder
  • Secure Mobile Environment project: Secure videoconferencing for government users; adapted Linux videoconferencing tool for secure videoconferencing demonstration; analyzed industry standards in videoconferencing, security, networking software
  • GPS Modernization project: Test modernized GPS satellites before & after launch; created extensive VHDL and MATLAB simulations for validation & verification; developed digital receiver hardware, including satellite acquisition & signal code generators

06/'97 - 06/'01

Co-op Student, The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, USA
  • Periods during 1997–2001
  • Various projects, including GPS Modernization project (development in VHDL, MATLAB, C) and Wireless Communications project (VHDL and MATLAB development)

09/'96 - 05/'97

Co-op Student, IBM Microelectronics Essex Junction, VT, USA
  • Verification of DSP chip design using a combination of Verilog, Perl, C, assembly; chip design work in Verilog; hardware testing using oscilloscopes and HP (Agilent) logic analyzers

AWARDS

OSA Rochester Section officer (2009-2012)
UR SPIE Student Chapter co-founder (2009)
Senior Graduate Student Representative, Institute of Optics (2008-2009)
Sproull Fellowship, Univ. of Rochester
TA of the Year, Northwestern Univ. ECE Dept. (2004)
Tau Beta Pi inductee
Ell Scholarship (full scholarship), Northeastern Univ.
National Merit Scholar
Graduate Student Mentor (2010–2012)

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

Excellent programmer: Fluent in MATLAB, C/C++, Mathematica, Perl, assembly, VHDL

PUBLICATIONS

A slow-light laser radar system with two-dimensional scanning, Aaron Schweinsberg, Zhimin Shi, Joseph E. Vornehm, and Robert W. Boyd, Opt. Lett. 37 (3) 329-331 (2012)
Demonstration of a slow-light laser radar, Aaron Schweinsberg, Zhimin Shi, Joseph E. Vornehm, and Robert W. Boyd, Opt. Express 19 (17) 15760-15769 (2011).
A System for All-Optical Spectrum Recognition using a Spatial Light Modulator, Joseph E. Vornehm, Zhimin Shi, and Robert Boyd, Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science, paper FTuC4 (2011).
Low distortion, continuously tunable, positive and negative time delays by slow and fast light using stimulated Brillouin scattering, Zhimin Shi, Aaron Schweinsberg, Joseph E. Vornehm Jr., M. Alejandrina Martínez Gámez, and Robert W. Boyd, Phys. Lett. A 374, 4071-4074 (2010).
Slow and Fast Light, Joseph Vornehm Jr. and Robert W. Boyd, Chapter 19 in Complex Photonic Media, Mikhail A. Noginov, ed., SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA (2009).
Quantum Memory Using Raman Gain in Rubidium Vapor, Joseph Vornehm, Gour S. Pati, M. Selim Shahriar, Laser Science XXII, paper LWA3 (2006).
Multi-Spectral Raman Gain in Dual-Isotope Rubidium Vapor, Joseph Vornehm Jr., Master's thesis, Northwestern University (2005).

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