Professor Joel Kubby

Biography

Joel Kubby is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, 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.