Dmitri Kuksenkov, PhD

Principal Scientist

Corning Incorporated

Corning, New York, United States

Dr. Dmitri V. Kuksenkov is currently a Principal Scientist at Corning Research and Development Corporation in Corning, NY.
He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering (Optical Electronics) from State Electronic Technology Institute and PhD degree in Physics (Semiconductor Technology) from A.F. Ioffe Institute, both in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Prior to Corning, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Colorado State and Texas Tech Universities, where he was involved with research on vertical cavity lasers and GaN photodetectors, and as a Research Scientist at Polaroid Corporation, where he developed multi-diode pumping heads for high power fiber lasers. While at Corning, he served as a technical leader for a variety of R&D projects on display technology, optical metrology, process development, fiber optics, semiconductor and fiber lasers, and optical communications. His current research interests include applications of micro and nano-structured optics.
Dr. Kuksenkov authored more than 50 journal articles, a book chapter, and several invited and post-deadline presentations at scientific conferences. He holds 40 granted U.S. patents. He is a member of the IEEE Photonics Society and Optica Society.