Matthew A. Cooper

Matthew A. Cooper is a Ph.D. student in Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include traditional and hollow-core fiber lasers, wavefront sensing, nonlinear control, digital holography, and machine learning applied within those areas. Matt received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) through the Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center, his MBA from the University of South Dakota, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). He has worked as a Telecommunications Specialist for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), as an Electrical Systems Integration Engineer for BAE Systems in the M109A6 Paladin Upgrade Program, as a Geospatial Intelligence Project Engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), and as a Program Manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) involving R&D of high power laser sources.