Dr. Bijan Nemati

Bijan Nemati is a senior engineer at JPL's advanced optics section. He received his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Washington. His post-doctoral research was in the area of characterizing the decay properties of particles with the charm quark. Since 1997 he has been working on advanced optical instruments, first at Lockheed Martin and later at JPL. He developed technology for picometer-class optical truss metrology to be used for astrometric space instruments. He also co-developed the technique Synthetic Tracking for detecting very small, fast asteroids from the ground. He is currently the integrated modeling lead for the WFIRST AFTA coronagraph, scheduled to be launched in 2024.