Todd Ulmer was born in Pennsylvania in 1970. He received the B.S. degree in physics magna cum laude from Furman University in 1993, the B.E.E. degree with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1996, and the Ph. D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2000.
Dr. Ulmer was a member of the Ultrafast
Optical Communications Group at Georgia Tech from 1993 until 2000.
His work involved the demultiplexing of ultrafast (>100 Gb/s) time-division
multiplexed optical bit streams using surface-emitted second-harmonic generation
in semiconductor waveguides. His research interests also include
all-optical switching, soliton transmission, polarization issues in devices
and systems, and the generation of ultrafast optical bit streams.
In January of
2001, he joined the Optical Communications
Technology group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA.
Dr. Ulmer is a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, the Optical Society of America, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a recipient of the Schlumberger Foundation Fellowship and an SAIC 2000 Student Paper award.
When not tinkering in the lab, Todd can
often be found tinkering with his collection of keyboards, guitars, and
other assorted musical gadgetry. He is especially fond of vintage
analog synthesizers and music his parents would characterize as "noise."
He also enjoys the theater, reading, sailing, and the delightfully tasty
Tortilla's burrito.
