Michael A. Krainak

Michael Krainak received his BS in electrical engineering from Catholic University and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He started his career as a telephone switch office field engineer for AT&T Western Electric. He worked for nine years at the National Security Agency in the Computer Research Group. His PhD research was on real-time holography in photorefractive crystals. He had a short sabbatical at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Optical Computing Laboratory. For twenty-eight years, he worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Lasers and Electro-Optics Branch on inter-satellite laser communications and lidar systems. In 2001, he worked at the semiconductor laser start-up - Quantum Photonics Inc. He served as the NASA representative to the American Institute of Manufacturing (AIM) Integrated Photonics Consortium. He is presently the Chief Technology Officer at Relative Dynamics Inc. working on satellite optical communications.