Dr. Ronald L. Phillips Professor |
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Florida
Space Institute Mail Stop: FSI Center for Space Education Bldg. M6-306 Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 |
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321-452-3908 |
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321-452-4842 |
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Dr. Ronald Phillips |
Areas of Interest: |
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Laser Space Communication Systems Laser Radar Detection Theory and Math Modeling Optical Wave Propagation Through Random Media Random Field Theory |
Biography: |
| Ronald L. Phillips is the Founding Director of the University of Central Florida's (UCF) Florida Space Institute (FSI) at Kennedy Space Center started in 1996. He led the Florida State University System's consortium of 10 universities and colleges devoted to space related research and graduate education. He also was the Founding Director, in 1984, of UCF's optics center CREOL which went on to become the nation's first university college in the field of optical physics, engineering and photonics. His academic positions include, a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, a Professor of the Department of Mathematics and a Professor of the College of Optics and Photonics. He has held academic positions on the faculties at Arizona State University and the University of California, San Diego. He received a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971 from Arizona State University. Dr. Phillips has been an active researcher in wave propagation through random media for more than 30 years. He is the author of 3 research books in the topic of wave propagation through random media and applications to laser communications and radar. He is also co-author of a text on advanced applied mathematics. In addition to optical wave propagation, his research interests include optical space-communications, laser radar, imaging through atmospheric turbulence, and random processes. His current research group is some 20 researchers from UCF, students and faculty: industry-Harris Corporation, Artic Slope Research Corporation, Computer Science Corporation and government - Kennedy Space Center, NASA. His honors and wards include: Senior NATO Post-doctoral Fellow; ASEE 1983 Medal Outstanding Contributions to Research; Florida Space Business Roundtable Explorer Award for education, Fellow of OSA, Fellow of SPIE, and Senior Member AIAA |
Courses: |
| Wave Optics Statistical Optics Optical Communications Random Processes Communication Theory |
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