Dr. Mark F. Spencer, PHD
DR-III (GS-14)
Undergraduate Research Students
- Sponsor, AFRL Summer Fellowship Program, Kirtland AFB NM, Summer 2020
- Sponsored Prof Justin Crepp at the U of Notre Dame & 1 graduate student, 12-week research project on the Fresnel wavefront sensor
- Mentor, Premier College Internship Program (PCIP), Kirtland AFB NM, Summer 2020
- Mentored 1 undergraduate student at the U of New Mexico, 10-week internship on tracking in the presence of speckle
- Mentor, SMART Scholarship Program, Kirtland AFB NM, 2016 – Present
- Efforts include hosting students for 10–12-week summer internships & serving on their MS thesis & PhD dissertation committees
- Currently mentoring 1 PhD student at the U of Rochester, 2017 – Present
- Mentored 1 MS student at the Air Force Institute of Technology, 2016 – 2017, & 1 MS student at the U of Central Florida, 2018 – 2020
- Mentor, AFRL Scholars Program, Kirtland AFB NM, 2015 – 2021
- Efforts include hosting students for 10–12-week internships on topics of mutual interest (e.g., unconventional imaging & adaptive optics)
- Mentored 13 undergraduate & 6 graduate students
- Mentor, University of New Mexico STEM Mentoring Program, Albuquerque NM, 2015 – 2020
- Semester-long commitments for each student with bi-weekly meetings to help them obtain STEM-based BS degrees
- Mentored 7 undergraduate students at the U of New Mexico