Dr. Ronald G. Driggers is a professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. Previously, he was appointed to the Senior Executive Service as the Superintendent of the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory in 2008. Before 2008, he served as the Director of the Modeling and Simulation Division at the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) and for a brief period as the Chief of the Electro-Optics and Photonics Division at the Army Research Laboratory.
He is an experienced presenter, briefing the Chief of Naval Operations, the Vice Chief, Naval Operations, the Army Vice Chief of Staff, Senate and House members, delegates, staff, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) subcommittee members, Chief Scientists of the Air Force, Army, and Naval Research, and has provided multiple seminars to universities and labs around the world.
Dr. Driggers is the author of seven books on Infrared and Electro-Optics Systems and has published over 180 research papers. He was selected as the 2002 Army Materiel Command’s Engineer of the Year, 2001 Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Technical Employee of the Year, and 2001 NVESD Technical Employee of the Year. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Officer and was selected as the 2001 Naval Engineering Duty Officer of the Year (William Kastner Award).
He is also a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering, the Optical Society of America, and the Military Sensing Symposium. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE’s) flagship journal, Optical Engineering from 2010–2015 and the Editor-in-Chief of the Optical Society of America’s journal Applied Optics from 2015–2021.
EDUCATION
University of Memphis, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
University of Memphis, M.S., Electrical Engineering
University of Memphis, B.S., Electrical Engineering