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 Education and Academic History

Santa Clara University

B. S. Degree

Physics

1974

Stanford University

M. S. Degree

Physics

1976

NASA-Ames Research Center

Associate

1976-1979

Stanford University

PH.D.

1979

Stanford University

Research Associate

1980-1983

Stanford University

Senior Research Associate

1984

Stanford University

Assistant Professor of Physics

1985-1991

Stanford University

Associate Professor of Physics

1991-1997

Stanford University

Professor of Physics

1997

Professional Activities

Member of Alpha Sigma NU National Honor Society

President, Stanford Chapter of Sigma Si, 1986-87

Selected of National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship, March 1979

National Program Research Scholar, Committee for Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, 1983.

Reviewer for Physical Review, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature, Journal of Physics, Nuovo Cimento, Astrophysical Journal, National Science Foundation; 

International advisor on astrophysics to World Scientific Publishing Co.

Member of NASA Science Coordinating Committee for Experimental Gravitation (1989-91)

Chair of NASA gravity Scientific Research &Technology review committee 1994.

Member of NASA MIDEX review committee 1995, 1998

Member of NASA Gamma-ray Astronomy Program Working Group (1994-99);

Member of NASA Space Science Advisory Subcommittee on Structure and Evolution of the Universe (1996 - )

Member of NRC Committee on Gravitational Physics (1997-98);

Co-chair of GLAST Facility Science Definition Team (1997-1999);

Member NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Committee for Space Science (2000-)

University and Departmental Committees

Co-Chair, Physics-Applied Physics Colloquium Committee (1994-98)

Co-Chair, Physics-Applied Physics Colloquium Committee (1994-98)

Member, Astrophysics Faculty Search Committee (1994-95)

Chair, Astrophysics Search Committee (1995-96)

Member, C-AAA Subcommittee on DR Certification (1994)

Member, HEPL Administrative Committee

Chair, Physics Department Space Committee (1995 - 2000 )

Member, Astrophysics Search Committee (1997-98)

Chair, Hofstadter Lecture Committee (1997-present

Member, TA Oversight Committee (1998

Award and Honors

Member of Alpha Sigma Nu National Honor Society

President, Stanford Chapter of Sigma Xi (1988)

Selected for National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship, March 1979

National Program Research Scholar, Committee for Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, 1983

Co-recipient, Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Department of the Navy, March 1993

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