Name: Mark Cooper

Biography: Has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an Electrical Engineer's Degree from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley. He was S/V Program Manager at Aerospace Corporation, and Nuclear Survivability and Vulnerability engineer at GTE Sylvania on the AN/TTC-39 Program. In that assignment he performed radiation testing on numerous integrated circuits and some transistors and diodes. He worked for 25 years at Litton initially performing a Component Radiation Test program for the various Cruise Missile projects, then performed Reliability analysis for advanced programs. Later he was the Components Engineering Manager working on numerous projects including Ring Laser Gyro, Zero Locked Gyro and Fiber Optic Gyro projects for a multitude of platforms including Missile, Avionics and Space applications. He worked on early utilization of Plastic Encapsulated Microelectronics in military avionics and missile applications including selection guidelines and reliability assessments. Currently, he supports several space projects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has published several articles in Physical Review and Journal of Applied Physics on research in Many Particle Physics, and directed development of solid state surge arrestors. He has also published research on radiation effects in IEEE journals.