Bahaa Saleh is the Dean of the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. Prior to this he was Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University and Deputy Director of the NSF Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems. He authored Photoelectron Statistics (1978) and co-authored Fundamentals of Photonics (2007, 2nd edition), and he is Fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the 1999 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education, the 2006 Kuwait Prize for his contributions to optical science and the 2008 Distinguished Service Award of OSA.