Patrick C. Mock

525 Brian Dr.
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

pcmock@alum.mit.edu

voice: 856-261-9400
fax: 360-234-5160

Summary
An accomplished physicist with experience developing electro-optical instruments and extensive computational skills.

An experienced team leader and project manager with a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT.
A hands-on experimentalist experience with extensive experience in electro-optics.
- Optics: imaging, spectroscopy, interferometry, non-linear optics, fiber optics
- Detectors: photodiodes, photomultiplier tubes, CCD sensors
- Lasers: solid state, gas, excimer, dye
- Sources: Low and high pressure arc lamps, deuterium lamps, spectral lines sources
- Electronics: data acquisition and high voltage systems
- Mechanics: optical, cryogenic, and vacuum systems
A skilled analyst proficient with a broad range of computational tools and techniques.
- Computation: data analysis, statistics, numerical simulations, functional and combinatorial optimization, real-time instrument control, digital signal processing
- Software: MatLab, Maple, VPItransmissionMaker, ZEMAX, ILOG OPL Studio

Experience
Staff Scientist, Optical Networks Research, 2000 - Present
JDS Uniphase Corporation, Eatontown, NJ
Recruited to join a new research group focused on long haul and metro optical networks.

Set up the simulation facility with VPItransmissionMaker, MatLab, and OPL Studio, and assumed responsibility for all simulation activity.
Developed Monte Carlo simulations of wavelength routing in DWDM networks with MatLab.
Developed routing algorithms to optimize add/drop utilization in optical networks with ILOG OPL Studio.
Simulated a variety of network configurations to compare relative cost and performance.
Managed a feasibility study of an optically amplified receiver, and simulated the receiver with VPItransmissionMaker.
Managing a program to develop techniques to monitor dispersion in fiber optic networks.
Measured the linear dynamic range of lithium niobate modulators.

Senior Physicist, Advanced Technology Group, 1998 to 2000
Cytometrics Inc. (ceased operations in 2001) Philadelphia, PA
Developed medical instruments to image the microcirculation and measure medically relevant properties of the blood and surrounding tissue.

Managed a program to develop an instrument to measure the white blood cell concentration.
Led an analysis team that modeled photon propagation in tissue.
Designed imaging optics with ZEMAX.
Developed optical calibration and test systems for microscopic imaging systems.
Set up a NIST traceable spectroscopic calibration laboratory
Developed image analysis algorithms to estimate the optical properties of the observed tissue with MatLab, Maple, and C.

Assistant Research Physicist, Department of Physics, 1993 to 1998
University of California, Irvine, CA
Assumed increasing responsibility for a broad range of projects for the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), an international collaboration building a high-energy neutrino detector at the South Pole.

Field team leader for AMANDA at the South Pole.
- Supervised the construction of the first two prototype detectors.
- Coordinated the activities of 15 research scientists.
- Supervised the deployment and use of the timing calibration system.
Developed tools and techniques to deploy the sensor array in the ice cap at the South Pole.
Designed the AMANDA timing calibration system with a 1 ns precision using optical fibers and solid-state and dye lasers.
Coordinated collaboration planning and activities with NSF support contractors.
Designed and built a visible-light optical time domain reflectometer to measure the speed of light in fiber at visible wavelengths.

Systems Engineer, Digital Signal Processing Group, 1983 to 1986
Texas Instruments, Inc. Waltham, MA
Recruited to support the launch of the first digital signal processing (DSP) microprocessor. Assumed increasing responsibility for the field support of the DSP product line. Managed the DSP field applications engineering team.

Biomedical Engineer, Wellman Research Laboratory, 1981 to 1983
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
Responsible for all optical engineering support for the photo-medicine research group.

Awards
Faculty Career Development Grant, University of California, 1996
The Antarctica Service Medal, National Science Foundation, 1994

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1993 Ph.D. in Physics, Department of Physics
1981 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Assistant, Center for Space Research, 1986 to 1993
Supported research programs to develop x-ray, ultraviolet, and visible-light CCD imaging systems for satellite missions and ground-based telescopes.

Designed and built a spectroscopic instrument to characterize ultraviolet CCD sensors.
Developed a statistical technique to measure the quantum efficiency and the electron/photon conversion ratio in CCD sensors.
Designed and built optical, electronic, cryogenic, and vacuum subsystems.
Developed instrument control, data acquisition, and data analysis software in C.
Developed a numerical simulation of the evolution of accreting neutron stars in C and FORTRAN.