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Dr. Jie Qiao
Dr. Jie Qiao is currently an Associate Professor in the Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. She leads the Advanced Optical Fabrication, Instrumentation & Metrology Laboratory where her team works on ultrafast-lasers for advanced photonics / optics fabrication and additive manufacturing, optical metrology, and instrumentation. Prior to joining RIT, she was a laser system scientist at the DOE-funded Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester from 2005 to 2013. She has conceived an interferometric grating-tiling technique and led the team that demonstrated the world’s first 1.5-meter tiled-grating pulse compressor. Dr. Qiao has worked on various innovative photonics devices, optical imaging and metrology systems, for two photonic startups and one optics company. Dr. Qiao earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and her M.S. in Precision Instruments and Fine Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1997. She has an M.B.A in entrepreneurship, strategy, finance and marketing from the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester. Dr. Qiao founded Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Entrepreneurship (WiSTEE) Connect in 2013, for which she is serving as the Chair.