Haner, David A.
Menzies, Robert T.
Shumate, Michael S.
Tratt, David Vivek Babtiwale received his BSEE from the California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona in 1996. His specialty is the design, implementation, testing and debugging of
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)- and microprocessor-based control and communication
circuitry for spacecraft applications. His experience includes design and breadboarding of
power, analog and digital electronic circuits, printed circuit board layout, design of
fuzzy logic control systems, C and assembly language programming. Vox (818) 354-0605 Vox (818) 354-7831 Piotr Szwaykowski received his PhD in Optical Engineering from the Warsaw Institute of
Technology, Poland, in 1988. Since that time he has worked for a number of research
institutes and private companies in Poland, Mexico, and the US on a variety of active and
passive optical remote sensing instrument applications. He is a member of the Optical
Society of America. Vox (818) 393-7052
Vivek Babtiwale
Fax (818) 393-4494
Vivek.Babtiwale@jpl.nasa.gov
Gary D. Spiers (Group Supervisor)
Gary Spiers received his BSc
degree in Physics and his MSc in Lasers and Their Applications in 1984 and 1985
respectively from Essex University, England. Between 1985 and 1990 he carried out research
in TEA carbon dioxide, excimer and free-electron lasers at Heriot-Watt University in
Edinburgh, Scotland and participated in ESA studies for a space based Doppler lidar. In
1990 he joined the Center for Applied Optics of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, to
work with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) on the Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder
(LAWS) program. Following the LAWS program he was involved in the development at MSFC of a
series of space based Doppler lidar concepts collectively known as AEOLUS, and most
recently acted as Coherent Lidar Systems Engineer for the Space Readiness Coherent Lidar
Experiment (SPARCLE). He joined the Laser Remote Sensing Group in October of 2000 and is
currently a UCAR Visiting Scientist and member of the Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds.
He was appointed Group Supervisor in 2002.
Fax (818) 393-6984
Gary.D.Spiers@jpl.nasa.gov
Piotr Szwaykowski
Fax (818) 393-9471
Piotr.Szwaykowski@jpl.nasa.gov