Brent Ware

Pasadena CA

www.bware.org

Education:

Ph.D Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

MSEE, The University of Texas at Arlington

BSEE, Texas Tech University

Experience:

Senior Engineer, Interferometry and Large Optical Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Pasadena, CA, August 2002 - present

• System Architect, Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer (TPF-I). Responsible for determining instrument requirements based on scientific inputs.
• Lead, TPF-I Modeling Team and Observatory Simulation (15 scientists/engineers).
• Lead, TPF-I Planetary Signal Extraction Science Working Group (interdisciplinary group of ~20 scientists from NASA, ESA, universities, industry, and observatories; one thesis, several papers).
• Lead, Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA) Frequency Noise Simulation interdisciplinary group of >20 scientists from NASA, ESA, JPL, Caltech, Astrium.
• Principal Investigator, Digital interferometry research and technology development program.
• Principal Investigator, Range-gated metrology research and technology development program.
• Principal Investigator, laser ranging control system research and technology development program.
  
• LISA interferometry and metrology; testbed design, build, and operation; gravitational wave science instrument development, simulation, design and test; real-time system development and implementation; co-inventor of the phasemeter science instrument.
• GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer System Engineer.  Responsible for setting science and engineering requirements, calibration plan, interface with international collaboration.

Scientist/Consultant/Author, BWare Consulting, Los Angeles, CA, 1999-present

• Co-author of LAMP: Open Source Web Development, Addison-Wesley, 2002. Fiber remote sensing, web design.

Scientist, Mission Research Corporation - Los Angeles

• Laser remote sensing, data analysis, coherent optical and electronic system design and development.

Scientist, Terabeam Networks, Seattle, WA

• Gigabit optical and electronic free-space and fiber telecommunications systems research, development, and design (employee number 9).

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Caltech, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO)

• Design, modeling, simulation, and implementation of the LIGO non-linear MIMO lock acquisition control system.
• Operation of the Caltech 40m prototype interferometer.
• Implementation of the data acquisition system for the 40m.
• Analysis of 40m data, development of analysis tools.

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, UT-Austin

• Experiment E871 at Brookhaven National Laboratory - A search for rare kaon decays, the most sensitive HEP experiment to date. Designed and supervised production of 300 dual-output amplified photomultiplier tube bases for the electromagnetic calorimeter. Analyzed radiation damage in the calorimeter. Measured and analyzed neutral particle flux from an integral beam stop. Tested and analyzed muon interactions in the calorimeter for use as calibration. Assisted in many aspects of the experimental upgrade from E791 to E871.
• BNL E888 - A search for the H dibaryon (thesis topic). Analyzed data for evidence of the H. Rebuilt damaged multiwire drift chambers. Modified experimental setup and electronics for H search.
• Both experiments involved fast analog and digital electronics, pattern recognition and statistical analysis, detector physics, data taking, and data analysis. I was the on-site expert for the calorimeter and drift chambers and their associated electronics during data-taking.

Research Scientist Assistant, Applied Research Laboratories, UT-Austin

• Design and development of two analog/digital and digital/analog (DAC, ADC) converter circuits for high resolution sonars (12 bit, 1 MHz), including printed circuit board (PCB) layout and FPGA and PLD programming.
• Design, test, and purchase of real-time mass storage system for a high resolution dual sonar system.
• Selection and purchase of computers and software for CAD/CAE and code development.
• Design and development of low-power interface cards for portable data gathering systems.

Electrical Engineer, Corporate Research, Recognition Equipment, Inc., Dallas

• Design and development of two high-speed (30 MHz), high-resolution CCD cameras for imaging and optical character recognition (OCR). These projects included optical design, mixed-signal circuit design, analog/digital conversion, and digital signal processing (DSP).
• Design and development of a state-of-the-art OCR system for high-speed automatic postal letter sorting. This included digital and analog design; programmable logic (PLD), specification and testing of custom digital/analog integrated circuits; design, simulation, and testing of analog semi-custom integrated circuits (ASIC).
• Design of pattern recognition algorithms using DSPs for Federal Reserve currency verification.
• Design and development of a software neural network simulator.
• Evaluation and purchase of computer aided design and engineering (CAD/CAE) systems for analog simulation, schematic capture, digital signal processing, and image processing.
• Wrote SCSI driver for one of the first writeable optical drives.
• Research in neural computing, adaptive signal processing, pattern recognition, and image processing.

Software Experience:

Operating systems: OS X, Linux, Unix, Solaris, VMS, VM/CMS, others.

Languages: C, Perl, FORTRAN, Pascal, assembly, REXX, LaTeX, web development (Embperl, mod_perl, CGI, etc.), others.

Applications: Matlab, LabVIEW, Zemax, OrCAD, PADS, VxWorks, EPICS, Cadence, PAW, various CAD/CAE programs.

Systems: Mac, x86, Sun, IBM RS6000 and 3090, DEC VAXen and PDP-11, Apollo, Alliant, Intel, CDC 1604 and 6600, Cray.

Selected Publications:

Laser Ranging and Communications for LISA, Andrew Sutton, Kirk McKenzie, Brent Ware, and Daniel A. Shaddock, Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 20, pp. 20759-20773 (2010)

Experimental Demonstration of Time-Delay Interferometry for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, G. de Vine, B. Ware, K. McKenzie, R. E. Spero, W. M. Klipstein, and D. A. Shaddock, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211103 (2010)

Digital Interferometry, B. Ware, 7th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Sydney, Australia, July 2007.

Coherent range-gated laser displacement metrology with compact optical head, O. P. Lay, S. Dubovitsky, D. A. Shaddock, and B. Ware, Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 20, pp. 2933-2935, 2007.

Overview of the LISA Phasemeter, D. Shaddock, B. Ware, P. G. Halverson, R.E. Spero and B. Klipstein, 6th International LISA Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland, June 19-23, 2006.

Point Process Algorithm: A New Bayesian Approach for Planet Signal Extraction with the Terrestrial Planet Finder K. A. Marsh, T. Velusamy, B. Ware, The Astronomical Journal 132 1789-1795, 2006.

Planet Signal Extraction for the Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer, David W. Draper, Nicholas M. Elias II, M. Charles Noecker, Philip J. Dumont, Oliver P. Lay, and Brent Ware, The Astronomical Journal 131 1822-1836, 2006.

Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA, D. Shaddock, B. Ware, R. E. Spero, M. Vallisneri, Physical Review D 70 (8): October 2004, gr-qc/0406106.

Modeling the TPF Interferometer, B. Ware and C. Henry, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Glasgow, June 2004.

Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Physical Review D 69 (12), June 2004.

Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Physical Review D 69 (12) June 2004.

Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939 + 2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 69, no. 8, 30 April 2004. gr-qc/0308050

First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 69, no. 10, 15 May 2004. gr-qc/0312056

Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134, B. Allen, et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Classical And Quantum Gravity 21 (5): S671-S676, March 7 2004

Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO, B. Abbott, et al., (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics A, 517 (1-3): 154-179 Jan 21 2004

A straw drift chamber spectrometer for studies of rare kaon decays, K. Lang, et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A522 (2004) 274-293 physics/0308047

LAMP: Open Source Web Development with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/Python/PHP, James Lee and Brent Ware, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Hacking Linux Exposed by Hatch, Lee, and Kurtz, ISBN: 0072127732, Osborne 2001, contributor.

A Compact Beam Stop for a Rare Kaon Decay Experiment, BNL E871 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A428 (1999) 239-262 hep-ex/9808037

First Observation of the Rare Decay Mode K_L⁰ --> e⁺e^-, BNL E871 Collaboration, D. Ambrose, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81:4309-4312, 1998, hep-ex/9810007. "...by far the smallest non-zero branching fraction yet measured in particle physics."

Search for the Weak Decay of an H Dibaryon, B. Ware for the BNL E888 Collaboration, DPF 96, Minneapolis, MN, August 10-15, 1996. HTML Postscript

Search for Diffractive Dissociation of a Long-lived H Dibaryon, BNL E888 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al., Phys. Rev. D53:3487-3491, 1996

Search for Weak Decays of a Long-Lived H Dibaryon, BNL E888 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76:3277-3280, 1996. hep-ex/9603002

Search for the Presence of H Particles in a Neutral Beam, BNL E888 Collaboration, M. May, et al., Nucl. Phys. A585 (1995) 97c-102c.

All Strange and Terrible Events: A Search for the H Dibaryon, UT-Austin Ph.D Thesis, December 1995. Gzipped Postscript PDF

An Analysis of a Nonlinear Neural Network, UT-Arlington Masters Thesis, August 1988.

Patents

Phase measurement device using inphase and quadrature components for phase estimation, United States Patent 7511469, P.G. Halverson, B. Ware, D. A. Shaddock, R.E. Spero, 2007

Range-gated metrology with compact optical head, Serge Dubovitsky; Daniel A. Shaddock; Brent Ware; Oliver P. Lay (applied for)

Digitally enhanced heterodyne interferometry, Brent Ware; Daniel A. Shaddock; Oliver P. Lay; Serge Dubovitsky (applied for)