Dr. Jennifer Ricklin

Program Manager

Dr. Ricklin joined DARPA in 2005 as a Program Manager in the former Advanced Technology Office. From 1983 to 2005 Dr. Ricklin held various positions as both a manager and bench scientist in what is now the Army Research Laboratory. Her current interests are in the development of optical and other technologies for tactical military applications.

Dr. Ricklin received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, MS in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University, and BS in Physics from Sam Houston State University. She has two US patents and is author/co-author of over sixty papers and one book on the topics of laser beam propagation and imaging in random media, optical diffraction and coherence theory, optical communications, and simulation and adaptive correction of random phase distortions. Dr. Ricklin has chaired or co-chaired a number of international conferences, and has served as Associate Editor for Optical Engineering since 1998. She is a Fellow of SPIE- the International Society for Optical Engineering and serves on the SPIE Board of Directors.