LAM Center
Directors

Professor Mool Gupta

Center Director
University of Virginia
Phone: 757.325.6850
Fax: 757.325.6988
Email: mgupta@virginia.edu

Professor Gupta is currently Langley Distinguished Professor and director of NSF I/UCRC Center for Lasers and Plasmas at the University of Virginia.

Previously, he was director of the Applied Research Center, program director for Materials Science and Engineering and a research professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University.
He has worked at the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company for 17 years as a senior scientist and group leader. Before joining Kodak he was senior scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

His educational experience includes: senior research fellow at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (’78-’79), postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, (’76-’78) and Ph.D. in Physics from Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. (’73).

Other professional activities includes: Materials Research Society short course instructor for Optoelectronic Materials, Processes and devices course for over six years, adjunct professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University for over eight years, conference chair for 1996 SPIE Conference on Nonlinear Frequency Conversion. He is editor-in-chief for the CRC Handbook of Photonics 1st and 2nd edition. He has over 100 research publications and 26 patents and was inducted in Kodak’s Inventors Gallery. He has taught courses at Cornell University, University of Rochester, MRS and SPIE meetings.

 

Professor Jyoti Mazumder

Site Director
University of Michigan

Phone: 734.647.6824
Fax: 734.763.5772
Email: mazumder@umich.edu

Professor Jyoti Mazunder is the Robert H. Lurie Chair Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and director of the NSF Industry University Co-operative Center for Lasers and Plasmas in Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor site.

He has published more than 320 papers, co-authored a book on Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition, and one on Laser Materials Processing which is in the press. He edited/co-edited nine books on topic related to laser materials processing. He is also taking his research to market by commercializing DMD through a start up called POM Group Inc, where he acts as CEO. DMD systems are installed in four continents. Some of His laser welding patents are licensed to Ford Motor Company.

Professor Mazumder has received numerous awards and honors for his research including the Schawlow Award for seminal contribution to laser application research from the Laser Institute of America in 2003, the William Ennor Award for manufacturing from ASME in 2006, Adams Memorial Membership award from American Welding Society in 2007, Thomas Edision Patent award from ASME, Manufacturing Engineer of the Year (1986) from Society of Manufacturing Engineer, University Scholar (1985) and Xerox (1987) award from the University of Illinois.

He is also Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Metals (ASM), and Laser institute of America (LIA).

He served as the president of the Laser Institute of America in the year 2000 and was Editor in Chief of the Journal of Laser Applications during 1988 to December 2009.

 

Professor Radovan Kovacevic

Site Director
Southern Methodist University

Phone: 214.768.4865
Email: kovacevi@lyle.smu.edu

Professor Radovan Kovacevic is a Herman Brown Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing and the SMU’s site of NSF I/UCRC for Lasers and Plasmas.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, the Society of Manufacturing Engineering, and the American Welding Society. He has to his credit seven U.S. patents and he has authored and co-authored five books and over 450 technical papers.

He is a recipient of the 2000 Taylor Research Medal presented by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for “significant published research leading to a better understanding of materials, facilities, principles, and their application to improve manufacturing processes”. He is a recipient of a number of prestigious awards for his research and educational achievements.

 

Professor David N. Ruzic

Site Director
University of Illinois

Phone: 217.333.0332
Email: druzic@illinois.edu

David N. Ruzic is the director of the Center for Plasma Material Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics, having joined the faculty in 1984.

His current research interests center on plasma processing for the microelectronics industry (deposition, etching, EUV lithography and particle removal) and on fusion energy research.

Professor Ruzic is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). He is the author of the AVS monograph, Electric Probes for Low Temperature Plasmas, numerous book chapters, patents, and over 120 refereed journal articles. He obtained his PhD and MS in Physics from Princeton University, and his BS degree in Physics and Applied Math from Purdue University. He really enjoys teaching and tries to blow something up during every lecture.