David Hecht

Current

• Principal at DLH Consulting

Past

• Principal Scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• Staff Engineer/Project Manager at ITEK /Applied Technology div. [now Northrop Grumman]

Education

• Stanford University
• Stanford University
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - School of Engineering

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Industry

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David Hecht’s Summary

Goals:SeniorScientist-Staff or Consulting- [full or part-time or contract]-including technology R&D, advanced development and intellectual property.

Experience:Strong applications background including laser recording and printing, scanning and imaging, electrooptics, ultrasonics and optical signal processing and computing for communications, radar and measurement systems. Invented image encoding for document security, smart document systems, and physical-virtual graphical user interfaces. Accomplishments include: significant product implementations, extensive intellectual property creation and development, technology marketing and transfer to internal and external customers and partners; worldwide majorproduct implementation. Leadership roles in professional societies and extensive publications. Expert consulting on patents.

US Patents Issued: 53
US Patents Pending and Published: 5
Publications and Conference Papers: 69
Lists available.

David Hecht’s Specialties:

document and imaging technology relating to image processing, printing, scanning, fidelity, security, watermarking, color, registration
novel graphical user interfaces.
electrooptic and acoustooptic devices and subsystems
Expert consulting on intellectual property
Drafting of patent documents and analysis of prior art.
R&D project leadership/management.

David Hecht’s Experience

• Principal

  DLH Consulting

  (Research industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Consulting
  digital imaging, scanning, printing, digital watermarking, document security, document systems, graphical user interfaces, acoustooptics, electrooptics, lasers, ultrasonics, RF - devices, subsystems and instruments, Intellectual Property
  
  
  Intellectual Property technical consulting
  Patent development and expert witness consulting.

• Principal Scientist

  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; xrx; Research industry)

  October 1980 — December 2003 (23 years 3 months)

  R&D - 51 US patents
  
  Founded program for embedding digital information in images enabling many interactions of hardcopy and electronic documents. Xerox President’s Award
  
  Generalized graphical user interfaces with embedded data, extending the point and click GUI paradigm to interactions with images throughout the physical environment
  
  Real-time optical beam sensing and control with application to optical switching.
  
  Measurement of image distortions using DataGlyph patterns.
  
  Invented XY precision position sensing using chevron patterns. Now used widelythe world for color image registration [multi-billion dollar products]
  
  Co-inventor of hyperacuity printing enabling fractional beam edge addressability.
  
  Wideband acoustooptic modulator technology for first high volume digital reprographic systems.
  
  “no-moving-parts” electrooptic image bar printer. Developed device models, and resolution-enhancing technology.
  
  Intellectual property evaluation & development

• Staff Engineer/Project Manager

  ITEK /Applied Technology div. [now Northrop Grumman]

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; noc; Research industry)

  February 1972 — October 1980 (8 years 9 months)

  OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES
  Acoustooptics. Program manager and principal investigator on corporate and contract R&D. Developed devices extending the state of the art in bandwidth, dynamic range and multibeam operation. Developed and implemented operational optical computing components and systems - used primarily in wideband electromagnetic radar and communication signal analysis and in radio astronomy. Developed fundamental theory of intermodulation and dynamic range in AO devices. R&D on acoustooptic filters for optical spectrum analysis, laser wavelength selection and multispectral imaging. Received Itek Corp. Scientist of the Year Award.

David Hecht’s Education

• Stanford University

  PhDEE , Electrical Engineering , 1967 — 1971

  specialization– Quantum Electronics
  PhD Thesis-Solid State Organic Lasers. Additional research on electron beam lasers and nonlinear optics.

• Stanford University

  MSEE , Electrical Engineering , June 1966 — September 1966

  specialization -Quantum Electronics- Lasers

• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - School of Engineering

  BEE , Electrical Engineering

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
  Eta Kappa Nu - Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
  IEEE Student member
  Sigma Kappa Tau Fraternity

Additional Information

David Hecht’s Interests:

investing, photography, economics, history,games

David Hecht’s Groups:

IEEE Groups: Ultrasonics, Laser & Electrooptics, Signal Processing, Information Theory
Optical Society of America
SPIE Groups: Electronic Imaging, OptoMechatronics, and Fiber Optics
Co-founder & Steering Committee Rep. of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Technical Program Committee
Chairman of IEEE Standards Committee on Acoustooptics
IEEE Ultrasonics Group - Elected ADCOM
Optical Society of Northern California - President-

Publications reviewer: Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Optics Letters, IEEE Trans. On Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, IEEE Trans. On Sensors, Applied Physics Letters

•    IEEE-USA
•    PARC: Palo Alto Research Center (was "Xerox PARC")
•    IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley

David Hecht’s Honors:

XEROX Corporation President’s Award,
XEROX Excellence in Science and Technology Award
ITEK Corporation Scientist of the Year,
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow

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