About the Tech Editor
Dr. John Serri has held a variety of positions from basic physics research to application software development. His broad industrial and academic experience enabled him to develop a rigorous yet practical perspective to physics. Serri received his BS degree in Math and Physics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he developed novel techniques for using lasers to probe the dynamics of intermolecular collisions. The techniques he developed have led to numerous applications in basic physics including laser cooling, which led one of his mentors, Dr. William Phillips, to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. After leaving MIT, Dr. Serri joined the staff at Bell Laboratories, where he conducted basic research in surface physics and applied research related to the effects of nuclear weapons on telecommunication systems. Later he joined the staff of Loral Aerospace and was one of the designers of the Globalstar System. At Globalstar, he led the development of the systems to control and manage the Globalstar network. Serri currently serves on the adjunct faculty of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at California State University East Bay and is Vice President of Strategic Inititives at Manhattan Software Inc., a major provider of Advanced Integrated enterprise software.
