April 5-7, 2022|Santa Clara Convention Center| Santa Clara, CA
Narkis Shatz, Ph.D. is one of the inventors and program lead of the ARON (Augmented Reality Optical Narrowcasting) technology for SureFire, LLC. Dr. Shatz has been a consultant with SureFire for the past 8 years, developing this cutting edge technology. Dr. Shatz’s special interests are in computational physics, methodologies for inverse engineering and nonimaging optics. Prior to his time with SureFire, Dr. Shatz was with SAIC for 26 years as a Chief Scientist and has won the SAIC scientific publication award four times. He has authored dozens of papers on nonimaging optics and holds 30 patents with his fundamental contributions in this area internationally recognized. He was involved in numerous interdisciplinary efforts, leading advanced research and development of large-scale scientific software, modeling, optimization and prototyping. Much of this work was as a program manager on DARPA-funded optics programs.