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James R. Matey, Ph.D (born June 30, 1948), is an American industrial physicist.

Career
J. R. Matey received a BS in physics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973 and MS/Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1974/1978. He joined the David Sarnoff Research Center in 1977 and retired from the Sarnoff Corporation in 2008 after 30 years of service. Dr. Matey is now a research professor in the Biometric Signal Processing Laboratory at the US Naval Academy.

Research
Professor Matey's research interests include instrumentation, measurement science and computer vision. His current work concentrates on application of these techniques to biometrics. He was the technical lead for the Sarnoff team that developed the Iris on the Move™ systems. He has 15 patents and more than 50 papers in instrumentation, measurement science, biometrics and industrial processes.

Scientific Standing
Dr. Matey is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the ACM. He served on the Editorial Board of the Review of Scientific Instruments from 1984 to 1987 and 2002-2004 and is currently a Consulting Editor for that journal. He was chair of the Instrumentation and Measurement Science Group of the APS 1989-92 and editor of the Laboratory Applications Department of Computers in Physics magazine from 1993 through 1998. He was an Adjunct Professor at LaSalle University (1983-1987) and at Rider University (2000-2004 ).