I graduated Valedictorian of my class from Sauquoit Valley High School in Sauquoit, NY, in 1985.
From there, I went west to Buffalo where I earned my B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) in 1989. I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a minor in Mathematics.
I stayed at SUNY Buffalo for my Master's Degree, and I earned a M.S. in 1991 also in Electrical Engineering. I wrote a Master's Thesis entitled Optical Pulse Compression.
I decided to stay in school, so I went to Atlanta to work on my Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). I was in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering where I finished in December 1996. My thesis work deals with an analog VLSI implementation of stereopsis. For more information on this see my research page.
I took a position as assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the Electrical Engineering Department. I was there until July 2001. Currently I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
I am married to Ann Bisantz who is an assistant professor also, but she is at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is in the Industrial Engineering Department where she teaches classes related to human factors. We have been married since 1995, although we met the first day of school at SUNY Buffalo in August 1985. We have a daughter, Sara Catherine, who was born in April 2000.