Maximillian A. Perez

Maximillian A. Perez (S'06–M'07) received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and in material science and engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2002 and the M.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of California at Irvine (UCI), in 2004. Currently, he is working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine. He has worked in the past at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, the UC Berkeley Human Robotics Laboratory, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research in UCI's MicroSystems Laboratory focuses on novel methods in optical and atomic inertial sensors. Mr. Perez is a member of the International Society for Optical Engineers (SPIE) and ASME. He received several awards including the IEEE Sensors Council Graduate Student Scholarship Award (2006), the Second Best Student Paper at the IEEE Sensor Conference (2006), the Second Henry Samueli School of Engineering Annual Research Review (2003), the NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention (2002), the Elaine C. Shen Memorial Prize in Material Science and Engineering (2001), and was a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student (1997).