Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering
1156 High St
Mail Stop SOE2
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone Number: 831-459-1073

Department: Electrical Engineering

Office Location: Baskin Engineering, Room 249
Office Hours: Tu/W 4-5 PM

E-Mail Address:

Web Pages

• MEMS Group Webpage
• Center for Adaptive Optics
• W.M. Keck Center for Adaptive Optical Microscopy
• Renewable Energy Testbed
• EEWeb Interview

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Applied Physics, 1985, Cornell University
• B.A. Physics, 1980, UC Berkeley

Biography

Joel Kubby is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research is in the area of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) with applications in Optics, Fluidics and Bio-MEMS. Prior to joining the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005, he was an Area Manager with the Wilson Center for Research and Technology and a Member of Technical Staff in the Webster Research Center in Rochester New York (1987-2005). While with Xerox he received a Xerox Excellence in Science and Technology Award. Prior to Xerox he was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill New Jersey working in the area of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). While at Bell Labs he received an Exceptional Contribution Award. He has led a six company industrial research consortium under the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop a new process for optical MEMS and has over 80 patents and over 40 journal publications. He is the co-chair of the SPIE Silicon Photonics conference and the MEMS Adaptive Optics conference.

Research Areas

Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy, AO astronomy

Selected Publications

• Adaptive optics confocal microscopy using direct wavefront sensing
• Adaptive optics wide-field microscopy using direct wavefront sensing
• Wavefront aberration measurements and corrections through thick tissue using fluorescent microsphere reference beacons
• High-aspect-ratio microelectromechanical systems deformable mirrors for adaptive optics
• Adaptive optics microscopy with direct wavefront sensing using fluorescent protein guide stars

Current and Future Classes

Spring 2012

• EE 215: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Design
• EE 280M: Seminar on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Fall 2012

• EE 115: Introduction to Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems Design
• EE 280M: Seminar on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Winter 2013

• EE 101: Introduction to Electronic Circuits
• EE 101L: Introduction to Electronic Circuits Laboratory
• EE 280M: Seminar on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Spring 2013

• EE 215: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Design
• EE 280M: Seminar on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Students & Researchers

• Ziah Dean (Undergraduate)
• Bautista Fernandez (Graduate)
• Zachary W. Graham (Graduate)
• Daniel Hernandez (Undergraduate)
• Dmitry Kozak (Graduate)
• Kyle A. Langan (Undergraduate)
• Andrew Norton (Graduate)
• Daniel O'Leary (Graduate)
• Marc Reinig (Graduate)

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