Researcher
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Timothy J. Drabik, Ph.D.

Timothy J. Drabik has over 25 years of R&D experience in optics, microelectronics, display technology, integrated circuit design, and telecommunications. Since his first academic appointment 17 years ago, he has undertaken teaching and research program development at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Lorraine (Metz, France) and Stanford University. His current academic appointment is as Professor (Consulting), Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Dr. Drabik has authored over two dozen publications in archival journals, written patents in the areas of display technology, optoelectronic hybrid integration, and microfluidics, and delivered numerous invited presentations at top-tier technical meetings in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. He has made seminal contributions to the areas of liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) microdisplay technology, neural analog VLSI systems, and optical interconnection for high-performance computing.

Dr. Drabik has been employed with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, and Displaytech, Inc. The list of his consulting clients includes NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Siemens Corporate Research, Onetta, Inc., Spectralane, Inc., Jenoptik GmbH, eLCOS Microdisplay Technology, Ltd., and venture capital firms. Technical areas of endeavor include integrated circuit design, LCD technology, optical interconnection, optical switching for telecom, optical fiber loop, processor-memory architecture, high-performance laser packaging, smart focal plane arrays, long-haul optical networking, and intellectual property counseling.

Dr. Drabik has consulted in litigation support matters for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Fish & Richardson, Keker van Nest, Reed Smith, Gray Cary Ware & Friedenreich, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Jenner & Block, and other prominent law firms. He has authored many expert reports, is experienced at deposition, has presented technology tutorials to the Court, and has testified on the stand before the International Trade Commission. He has authored expert reports in the areas of optical disk (DVD) technology, optical communication transceivers, display controllers, flash memory technology, integrated circuit fabrication processes, and display technology.