The Imaging Science Journal: Assistant Editors

Dr Harry Adam ASIS FRPS

After degrees (BSc Hons Chemistry and PhD) at Edinburgh University, Harry joined Kodak Limited Research Division in 1971 as an electrochemist and spent several years using electrochemistry to study the mechanisms involved in silver-based imaging systems. Subsequently he became expert in the chemical kinetics of the two phase reactions between oxidised colour developer and colour forming couplers contained in the oil phase emulsions coated in conventional silver systems, be it film or paper.

He spent two years in the laboratories of Eastman Kodak running a physical chemistry laboratory and leading projects to develop conventional and new chemical incorporation technologies.

Returning to the UK, he rapidly became involved in environmental issues, running the European Region business strategy for the environment as well as the Corporate strategy for the development of new environmentally effective products.

This was followed by running a number of R&D programmes associated with improvements to existing and the development of novel processing technologies. The author of numerous external and internal papers, he also authored several granted US and UK patents.

Taking early retirement at the end of 2003 after over 32 years at Kodak, Harry was immediately involved again in the Imaging Science Group Committee, having last served for several years prior to the assignment to the USA, and began assisting in the editing of papers for The Imaging Science Journal, along with other activities including his own long standing passion for photography.

Dr Kevin Gross

Dr Kevin Gross received a M.S. in Applied Mathematics and later a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, both from the University of Arizona. His dissertation research was on the objective assessment and optimization of tomographic imaging systems for tumor detection tasks. Subsequently Kevin worked at CDM Optics in Boulder, Colorado designing computational and extended depth of field imaging systems.

More recently Kevin served as the VP of Imaging Systems at Imatest LLC., also in Boulder, where he focused on algorithms for assessing the image quality of multi-camera imaging systems.

Currently Kevin is at Apple in Cupertino, California. Kevin is also the founder of You Go Mountain, which creates software for manipulating panoramic images.

Dr Efthimia Bilissi

Efthimia Bilissi studied Photography at the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, Greece and has an MSc in Digital Imaging and a PhD in imaging science both from the University of Westminster. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in imaging and photographic science at the University of Westminster.

For her research work she received the Royal Photographic Society's Selwyn Award. She is an Associate member (ARPS) and Accredited Imaging Scientist (AIS) of the RPS. Efthimia is the editor and co-author of ‘Langford's Advanced Photography’, 8th edition and a contributing author of the ‘Manual of Photography and Digital Imaging’, 10th edition, both published by Focal Press in 2011.

Jeff Mackey

I have a B.A. in chemistry from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA., a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Rice University in Houston, TX.  For my M.S., I got to work with Rick Smalley, who shared the 1996 Nobel prize in Chemistry with Bob Curl and Harry Kroto for their discovery of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene).  I also worked with Peter Nordlander, a leading Solid State Physicist.  For my Ph.D., I did theoretical and experimental work on the photodissociation of nitrosyl chloride under Jim Kinsey.  This work included brief dabbling into the Wavelet transform.

Following grad school, I came to Boise, Idaho, to work in photolithography for Micron.  I used to describe lithography as the most sophisticated black and white photography in the world.  My specialty here was in developing reticle illumination schemes integrated with reticle enhancement techniques.  I was Micron’s assignee to the Albany Nanotechnology Institute where I contributed to the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography project.  I joined the Micron Imaging Group in 2006 and stayed on when Aptina spun off from Micron.  My work at Aptina involves designing and modifying the optical path at the pixel level, and I have projects involving nanophotonics.

I’m proud to have been elected as an Associate member of the Technical Leadership Program at Aptina in 2010.  I write a regular column in Aptina’s Quarterly internal Newsletter that concerns itself with all aspects of imaging technology and I try to make everything accessible to the non-specialist (as I am a non-specialist in most of what I write about!).

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