Dr. Mark Foster

Biography

Mark Foster is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on the development of practical optical systems for ultrahigh-speed signal processing, lying at the intersection of photonics and electronics. Foster’s lab merges state-of-the-art photonic devices with modern information theory to produce cutting-edge technologies that advance the performance of imaging and sensing systems. His work includes applications in future optical communications systems, ultrawide-bandwidth microwave photonics, and high-throughput optical imaging. He has pioneered some of the fastest imaging systems in the world, capable of line rates in the tens of MHz, by using encoded laser pulses to reconstruct objects. Foster's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, IARPA, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, among others, and he has published over 200 papers, leading to the creation of eight unique patents. He has received numerous awards, including the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award and the NSF CAREER Award. In addition to his primary appointment, he serves as a fellow at the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and has reviewed manuscripts for several prominent academic journals.

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