CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Mool C. Gupta
Educational Background
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif. Senior Research Fellow (78-79)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Postdoctoral Fellow (76-78)
Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. Ph.D. (Physics, 1973)
Gujarat University, India, M.Sc. (Physics, 1968)
Gujarat University, India, B. Sc. (Physics, 1966)
Professional Experience
2005-Present Langley Professor and Director of I/UCRC for Laser and Plasma Applications,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904
1998-2005
Old Dominion University Director for Applied Research Center, Director for NSF
Industry University Cooperative Research Center for Lasers and Plasmas for
Advanced Manufacturing
1982-1998
Group Leader, Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester,
N.Y.
1979-1982
Senior Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California
1993-2001
Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University
Research Interest and facilities
Laser processing of materials, diagnostics and applications; nanomaterials and structures
fabrication, characterization and sensors.
Extensive facility for laser processing of materials using femtosecond laser, nanosecond and long
pulsed lasers, pump probe and spectroscopic measurement capability. Various analytical
instruments for surface and bulk analysis.
Five most relevant publications
Professor Gupta has over 90 scientific publications in various technical journals and 25 U.S. and
International patents.
1. Editor-in-Chief for Handbook of Photonics, CRC Press (1997) and 2nd edition in 2005.
2. C. Y. Chien and M. C. Gupta, "Pulse width effect in ultrafast laser processing of
materials", Applied Physics A : Materials Science & Processing, Applied Physics A, Vol. 81, .
1257, (2005).
3. B. Nayak, B. Eaton, J. A. Anna Selvan, J. McLeskey, R. Romero, G. Ganguly and M. Gupta,
“Semiconductor laser crystallization of a-Si:H on conducting tin oxide coated glass for solar
cell and display applications”, Appl. Phys. A: Materials Science and Processing A80, 1077
(2005).
4. Mool C. Gupta, “Laser Processing and Devices”, Invited speaker at the Intl. Semiconductor
Device Research Symposium, Dec. 5-7, 2001, Washington D.C.
5. A.A. Bugayev and M.C. Gupta, " Femtosecond holographic interferometry for studies of
semiconductor ablation using vanadium dioxide film", Opt. Lett. 28,1463(2003).
Five related publications
1. Yonglai Yang, Mool C. Gupta, Kenneth L. Dudley and Roland W. Lawrence. “A
comparative study of EMI shielding properties of carbon nanofiber- and multi-walled
carbon nanotube-filled polymer composites”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
2005, 5, 927.
2. M. El-Bandrawy, K. Nagarathnam, M. C. Gupta, C. Hamann and J. Horsting, “Copper
vapor laser galvo-micromachining of stainless steel 304”, Journal of Laser Applications,
15, 101 (2003).
3. H. Shen and M. C. Gupta, "Nd:yttritium-aluminum-garnet laser welding of copper to
stainless steel", J. Laser Applications, 16, 2 (2004).
4. M. C. Gupta, “ A Study of Laser Marking of Thin Films”, J. Mat. Res. 3, 1187 (1988).
5. T.H. Wong, M.C. Gupta, B. Robbins and T. Levendusky, "Color generation in butterfly
wings and fabrication of such structures", Optics Letters, Vol. 28, 2342-2344 (2003).
6.
A. A. Bugayev, M. C. Gupta and R. Payne, “ Laser processing of Inconel 600 and surface
structure” journal of Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Volume 44, Issue 2, February 2006,
Pages 102-111
Number of publications 90
Number of Patents 25
(iv) Synergistic Activities
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Formation of National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research
Center in the area of lasers and plasmas for advanced manufacturing.
Editor-In-Chief for Handbook of Photonics, CRC Press 1997.
Materials Research Society Short Course Instructor for Optoelectronic Materials,
Processes and Devices course for over six years.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
for over eight years.
Conference Chair for 1996 SPIE Conference on Nonlinear Frequency Conversion
Inducted to Kodak’s Distinguished Inventor’s Gallery, 1998.
Principal Investigator for DARPA, ARO, NASA, NSF, DOE, Navy etc.