Jannick Rolland
CTO, LighTopTech Corp.
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About the Speaker
Jannick P. Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester and the Chief Technology Officer of LighTopTech Corp., a startup she co-founded in 2013 in biotechnology. At the University of Rochester, she is the director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), and the director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering. She earned an optical engineering diploma from the Institut D'Optique Théorique et Appliquée, France, and MS and PhD degrees in Optical Science from the JWC College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Professor Rolland is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, and NAI and an inaugural member of the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy. She is the recipient of the 2014 David Richardson Medal, and the 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer Medal /Robert M. Burley Prize.
