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Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University since 1988.

Director of the Boston University Photonics Center (BUPC). Annual report here.

Chair of the Boston University Manufacturing Engineering Department from 1999-2006.

Professor Bifano's research focuses on modeling, design, production, and use of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) in optical applications. He is a founder and CTO of Boston Micromachines Corporation in Cambridge, MA, a leading producer of deformable mirrors for applications in astronomy, bio-imaging, and defense.

BOSTONIA Article: Seeing into Space

Focusing through dynamic scattering media, Optics Express, 2012.

Adaptive imaging: MEMS deformable mirrors, Nature Photonics, 2010.