Biography

Cheryl Reid was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the United States in 1984. In 2001 she graduated magna cum laude, from New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ) with a B.S.E.E.

As an undergraduate she completed four years of summer internship at Lucent Technologies (Bell Laboratories). Her projects ranged from the characterization of quantum well lasers to investigating the absorption and emission spectrum of polymer lasers.

In the fall of 2001 she began her studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. In the Spring of 2003 Cheryl completed her M.S.E.E. and plans on entering the Phd program in the Fall of 2003. Cheryl’s current research project involves the fabrication and characterization of photonic crystal nanostructures.

Research Interests