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Daniel Smalley

Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: smalley@byu.edu

450d EB
Provo, UT 84062

801-422-4343

Biography

Late on a stormy night (Friday the 13th it was!) a shrill cry pierced the darkness and Daniel Smalley was born. Young Daniel was a farmhand by day and an intrepid experimenter by night. He once used an old metal bucket, some sand and a computer fan to construct an aluminum furnace for melting pop-cans and old screen doors into machine tool parts. He also built a number of circuits, a methane digester, a wind-powered electrolysis machine, a laser and a number of fine origami creations of various shapes and sizes. He experimented a great deal with holography, and for this reason was led to attend MIT where he earned a B.S., M.Eng, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees while working to create the world's first low-cost holographic video monitor. Now as a newly minted BYU professor, he is continuing his work in electroholography by fabricating new waveguide-based modulators. Professor Smalley aspires to create large, high resolution, interactive holographic and volumetric displays. He is also part of collaborations pursuing novel brain probes and tractor beam technologies.

Research Interests

Volumetric Display
Integrated Optics
Spatial Light Modulation
Electroholography

Teaching Interests

I'm currently teaching:
ECEN 240 (Introductory Circuit Analysis)
ECEN 462 (Intermediate Electromagnetics)
ECEn 466 (Optical Engineering)
ECEn 663(Holography)

Education

  • Doctorate of Philosophy, 3-D Holography , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
  • Master of Science, 3-D Holography , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008)
  • Master of Engineering, 3-D Holography , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006)
  • Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)

Honors and Awards

  • Inspiring Learning Award, College (2022 - 2022)
  • Edward Cozzens Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship, University (2021 - 2022)
  • University Technology Transfer Award, Technology Transfer Office (2018 - 2018)
  • EE Teaching Award, BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (2015 - 2015)
  • Intel Fellowship, Intel Corporation (2011 - 2013)
  • Harold Horowitz Graduate Research Award, Horowitz Foundation (2012 - 2012)

Courses Taught