I am a researcher at Adobe Systems, Incorporated. I received my Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of Julian Schwinger, and have been working for over ten years at Adobe to bring a bit of science and technology to bear upon improving the software tools used by photographers, artists and other Adobe product users.

My first job in science was working for RDA, an offshoot of the Rand Corporation. The most memorable part of the work was the weekly windsurfing lessons in Marina del Rey, California taught by Jim Drake, co-inventor of the windsurfer. While not in the water, I have also worked at RDA, IBM and Logicon on various projects in semiconductor physics, image processing and enhancement, image understanding, data analysis and artificial intelligence.

Product Features

Photoshop Extract	After Effects Inner/Outer Key
Photoshop Art History Brush	Photoshop Elements Crop and Straighten
Photoshop Elements Color Cast Correction	Photoshop Elements Visual Search
Photoshop Elements Redeye Removal	Photoshop Shadow/HIghlight
Photoshop Elements Auto and Adjust Smart Fix	Photoshop Elements Skin Tone Color Adjustment
Photoshop Quick Selection Tool	Photoshop Refine Edge
Photoshop Elements Smart Bruch	Kuler Image Extract

Note: A number of these projects were done in collaboration with Scott Cohen, Jeff Chien, Sara Kong, Michael Kaplan, Mike Schuster and others.