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Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Professor of Optics, ECE & Computer Science
Optical Diagnostics and Applications Lab
Email
Workrolland@creol.ucf.edu
Phone
Office585-273-4040
Locations
OfficeUniv. of Rochester
Biography
Jannick Rolland received a Diploma from the Institut D’Optique, Graduate School in France in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Optical Science from the University of Arizona in 1990. She is a Professor of Optics at the University of Central Florida with joint appointments in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Modeling and Simulation. She joined the Research Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1992 and headed the Vision Research Group 1992-1996. She holds 14 patents, wrote 6 book chapters, and has 68 peer reviewed publications related to optical design, augmented reality, vision, and image quality assessment. Professor Rolland served on the editorial board of the Journal Presence (MIT Press) 1996-2006, and as Associate Editor of Optical Engineering 1999-2004. She is a Guest Editor for a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Display Technology on medical displays. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of SPIE, IEEE, and SID.
Links
ODALab website
Curriculum Vitae
Awards & Honors
2005 Women's Research Event Contributions to the Advancement of Science      more»
2003 Board of Directors, ADASTRA LABs LLC     
2003 Fellow of the Optical Society of America     
2001 Distinguished Researcher Award for the UCF Centers and Institutes     
2000 PMA won DIMA's Most Innovative Product Line     
2000 Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2000/01     
1999 Associate Editor of Journal Optical Eng 1999-2003     
1992 Editorial Board of Journal Presence 1992-2003     
Research
Biochips Imaging
Curvature sensing
Design of Head-worn Displays
Distributed Collaborative Augmented Reality Environments
Illumination Optics
Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
Optical Coherence Imaging