Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Inverse Problems

Optical Information Processing

Phase Retrieval

Slow Light

Professional Affiliations

Fellow of the Optical Society of America (member since 1979)

Fellow of the Institute of Physics (member since 1977)

Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Engineers since 1988

Senior Member IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society since 1988

Member of the Electromagnetics Academy since January 1990

Member of the American Society for Engineering Education ASEE since 1994

Member of Sigma Xi since 1994

Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1974-1988)

Recent Projects and Results

H. M. Shieh and M. A. Fiddy, "Accuracy of extrapolated data as a function of prior knowledge and regularization", Applied Optics, vol 45, pp3283-3288, (2006).

H. M. Shieh, C. L. Byrne and M. A. Fiddy, "Image reconstruction: a unifying model for resolution enhancement and data extrapolation", J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol 23, pp258-266, (2006).

M. A. Fiddy and M. Testorf, "Inverse scattering method applied to the synthesis of strongly scattering structures". Optics Express, vol 14, pp2037-2046. March 2006.

H. M. Shieh, M. Testorf, C. L. Byrne and M. A. Fiddy, "Iterative image reconstruction using prior knowledge", J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, 23, p1292-1300, June 2006

Recent Publications

Abbiss, J.B., M. A. Fiddy and R. Steriti, "Image Restoration on the Hopfield Neural Network", ch 1 in Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Ed. P.W. Hawkes, Academic Press, pp1-48, 1994.

Fiddy, M.A. and M. Nieto-Vesperinas, Editors, "Optical Signal Processing", monograph published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.

Fiddy, M. A., "Linearized and approximate methods for inversion of scattered field data", in Inverse Problems in Scattering and Imaging, Ed. M. Bertero and E.R. Pike, Adam Hilger Press, pp23-46, 1992.

What he/she brings to the industry

Dr. Michael Fiddy, is well known for his work in the fields of inverse optics, inverse problems and optical engineering. He is widely respected for his solutions to difficult and important problems in mathematical optics.

Educational Background

Ph. D. University of London, January 1977

B. Sc. Physics, First Class Honors, University of London, 1973