Scientific Committee

Natan Kopeika

N.S.Kopeika was born in Baltimore in 1944. He received B.Sc.,M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. He joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1973. He chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [1989-1993], and in1994 was named Reuven and Francis Feinberg Professor of Electrooptics. He was the first chair of the Department of Electrooptics and Photonics Engineering 1999-2005, which grants graduate degrees only. He and Shlomi Arnon were awarded the JJ Thomson Award for their outstanding paper by the IEE in 1999. In 2001 he was awarded the Glant Prize for excellence in teaching. He is a Fellow of SPIE (2000). He has published over 200 papers in international reviewed journals and over 160 papers at various conferences. Recent research involves development of a novel inexpensive focal plane array camera for terahertz imaging.. Other areas of research include: interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas, the optogalvanic effect, environmental effects on optoelectronic devices, imaging system theory, propagation of light, imagesand wireless communication through the atmosphere, image processing and restoration from atmospheric, motion, and vibration blur, lidar, and target acquisition.. He is the author of the textbook A SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPROACH TO IMAGING published by SPIE Press [first printing 1998, second printing 2000], He also co-authored with Nathan Blaunstein, Shlomi Arnon, and Arkadi Zilberman APPLIED ASPECTS OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND LIDAR (CRC Press 2010), and co-edited with Nathan Blaunstein OPTICAL WAVES AND LASER BEAMS IN THE IRREGULAR ATMOSPHERE (CRC Press 2018).