Dr. Mark F. Spencer, PHD
DR-III (GS-14)
PhD Dissertations Advised
- Dissertation sponsor & active committee member, 3-year PhD program at the U of Arizona, Aug 2020 – Present
- Working with Derek Burrell to quantify the benefits of using frame-to-frame averaging for speckle mitigation
- Committee Chair: Ronald Driggers
- Dissertation sponsor & active committee member, 3-year PhD program at the Air Force Institute of Technology, $150K, Sep 2019 – Present
- Working with Capt Steven Owens to characterize the efficiency losses in pulsed digital-holography systems
- Committee Chair: Glen Perram
- Dissertation sponsor, 4-year PhD program at Michigan Tech, Jan 2018 – May 2020
- Worked with Jeffrey Beck on quantifying branch-point density as a function of turbulence strength in wave-optics simulations
- Committee Chair: Jeremy Bos
- Dissertation sponsor & active committee member, 5-year MS & PhD program at the U of Rochester, $300K, Sep 2017 – Present
- Working with Matthias Banet to develop volumetric wavefront sensing & 3D imaging using digital holography
- Committee Chair: James Fienup
- Dissertation sponsor & active committee member, 3-year PhD program at the Air Force Institute of Technology, $300K, Sep 2016 – Sep 2019
- Worked with Maj Douglas Thornton to characterize the efficiency losses in cw digital-holography systems
- Committee Chair: Glen Perram
- Dissertation sponsor & active committee member, 2-year PhD program at the Air Force Institute of Technology, $200K, Jun 2016 – Sep 2017
- Worked with Noah Van Zandt to quantify the benefits of using polychromatic illumination for speckle mitigation
- Committee Chair: Steven Fiorino
- Dissertation sponsor, 3-year PhD program at UCLA, $200K, Jan 2015 – Dec 2017
- Worked with Sennan Sulaiman to speed up the convergence of iterative algorithms using digital-holography data
- Committee Chair: Steven Gibson