David George Voelz

David George Voelz is a professor of electrical engineering at New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM) and holds a Paul W. and Valerie Klipsch Professorship. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University in 1981 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1986 to 2001, he was with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. He joined the faculty at the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University in 2001. He was named a Fellow of SPIE in 1999 and has received an OSA Engineering Excellence Award, the Bromilow Award at NMSU for research excellence, and the Giller Award at AFRL for technical achievement. His research interests include spectral and polarimetric imaging, laser imaging and beam propagation, laser communications, adaptive optics, and astonomical instrumentation development.