John T. Willits, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

Charleroi, Pa

• Principal Investigator on a Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) project that utilizes unintended radio frequency emissions to detect, classify, locate, and remotely monitor the condition of several types of electronic devices. This project requires the design and development of high-speed and low-noise electronics• Acting Principal Investigator on the development of a circumvent and recover prototype designed to protect electronics from High Power Radio Frequency (HPRF) attacks• Technical Lead on a self-optimizing radio transceiver integrated enhancement for communication through the canopy that proves the feasibility of improving radio communication through intelligent signal management• Hardware Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead on an embedded avionics protection system • Responsible for authoring and reviewing technical documents and proposals• Technical Lead, leading an effort in the miniaturization of an ultrasensitive electromagnetic sensor, bare die IC into a multiple wafer package• Hardware IPT Lead, designing system hardware upgrades to Nokomis’s core Advanced Detection of Electronic Counterfeits (ADEC) product line• Inventor on patent pending technology• Responsible for the design of system hardware, circuit design and PCB layout

Pittsburgh, Pa

• Constructed and optimized ultrafast lasers and optical experiments, work measuring the dynamics of short pulse lasers has led to 8 publications• Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM): Studied excitation of the junction plasmon excited by ultrashort laser pulses• Designed and assembled a Multiphoton Intrapulse Interference Phase Scan (MIIPS) pulse shaper to dynamically compensate for dispersion, capable of generation of pulses as short as 6 femtoseconds through “smart” Fourier pulse shaping.• Research in optics, pulse shaping, and ultrafast dynamics at molecule / surface interfaces• Restored a carrier envelope phase (CEP) locked 1 GHz octave spanning titanium sapphire laser to working order• Taught a variety of subjects: lasers, photonics, calculus, physics, programming, circuits, digital logic• Academic peer reviewer• Laboratory experience using C++, Assembly, Visual Basic, Python, Labview, Mathematica, and Matlab for experimental control and analysis

Boulder, Co

• Dynamic line-by-line pulse shaping: explores the of limits of optical arbitrary waveform generation, the new insights into pulse shaping is elaborated in my dissertation and 6 publications• Created the world’s highest spectral resolution pulse shaper• Programmed, designed, and constructed a robotic bartender• Designed and constructed a cryogenic magnetometer to measure critical temperature of yttrium barium copper oxide superconductors• Titanium sapphire laser dynamics: measured relationships between various laser parameters• Embedded system design(constructed and programmed a 16-bit computer)• Modified commercial laser diodes to provide custom performance in an external cavity laser diode assembly• Analog circuit design and analysis (filters, power supply, amplifiers)• Digital logic (experience with field programmable gate arrays, FPGA)• Photolithography techniques: creating THz antennas in a clean room• Extensive hands-on experience with optics, Labview, and Matlab taking data, processing data, and writing physics simulations

Boulder, Co

Science outreach through Science Discovery:• Devised and instructed several robotics courses for kids• Performed numerous science demonstrations at various schools across Colorado• Designed and taught several levels of engineering / physics classes where kids of varying ages work creatively with Legos to overcome design challenges

Boulder, Co

• Worked as a tutor and hired other tutors to work in a walk-in tutoring lab for engineering students• Experience explaining concepts in a variety of ways

Denver, Co

• Using C++ and HTML I created a CGI that calculates syrup density

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Science Outreach, Racquetball, Tau Beta Pi, Drum Major, Eagle ScoutFocus in Optics

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering Physics

Minor in computer science