Joel Kubby is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to this, he was an Area Manager with the Xerox Wilson Center for Research and Technology and a Member of Technical Staff at the Webster Research Center in Rochester, New York. He has led a six-company industrial research consortium under the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop a new process for optical MEMS, and he has over 80 patents.