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Office: Wilmot 109A
Lab: Gavett 128
Phone: 585-275-4867
E-mail: wicks@optics.rochester.edu

Gary W. Wicks is presently a Professor in The Institute of Optics. Additionally, since 2001, he has been Associate Director of The Institute.

He received four degrees, B.S. (1977), M.Eng. (1978), M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981), from the Applied and Engineering Physics Department of Cornell University. After receiving his doctorate, he remained at Cornell until 1987 as a research associate, and later as a senior research associate, in the Electrical Engineering Department. In 1987 he joined The Institute of Optics faculty as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor in 1993.