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Dr. Mittleman received his B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. He then went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he joined the research group of Dr. Charles Shank. His primary research involved the spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals using laser pulses with durations of less than 20 femtoseconds, at wavelengths from 480 nm to 670 nm. These experiments were performed in collaboration with the Alivisatos group in the Chemistry Department at Berkeley, and were carried out at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Mittleman received his M.S. in 1990, and his Ph.D. in 1994, both in physics.

Dr. Mittleman then joined the research group of Dr. Richard Freeman, as a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. While there, he pursued research into high harmonic generation in noble gases using a 100 femtosecond, 1 terawatt laser system. When Dr. Freeman left Bell Labs in early 1995, Dr. Mittleman began working with Dr. Martin Nuss, who, with his previous post-doc Dr. Binbin Hu, had recently pioneered the use of THz time-domain spectroscopy for imaging. Dr. Mittleman's work in this laboratory included the non-contact characterization of doped semiconductor wafers using the THz Hall effect, the construction of a THz imaging system in a reflection geometry for use in "T-Ray Tomography" measurements, and the THz spectroscopy of inverse micelles of water in heptane. During this time, AT&T split into three companies, and most of Bell Labs became part of one of the three pieces, Lucent Technologies. Dr. Mittleman joined the ECE Department at Rice University in September 1996. He is affiliated with the Rice Quantum Institute.

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