Manish Gupta Los Gatos Research

67 East Evelyn Avenue, Suite 3 Mountain View, CA 94041

(650) 906-0274 manish.gupta@gmail.com

E D U C A T I O N

Stanford University Stanford, CA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000 – 2001 Advisor: Richard Zare Harvard University Cambridge, MA Ph. D. Chemistry, May 2000 Thesis Title: “A Mechanical Means of Producing Cold, Slow Beams of Molecules” Advisor: Dudley Herschbach California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Graduate Studies Chemistry, 1995 – 1997 Advisor: Ahmed Zewail University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM B. S. Chemistry, G.P.A. 4.0/4.0, May 1995 Valedictorian Department of Chemistry, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

R E S E A R C H E X P E R I E N C E

• Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Oregon State University August 2009 - current

Projects: Developing and deploying next-generation optical technologies to address environmental issues including stable isotope studies, in-situ measurements aboard autonomous vehicles, and radiative properties of aerosols.

• Vice-President of Optical Technologies, Los Gatos Research March 2001 – August 2009

Served as PI on over 19 grants totaling $9 M

Projects: 1) Developed Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy, a more robust and sensitive variant of cavity ringdown spectroscopy. 2) Applied cavity-enhanced absorption techniques to gases, liquids, and fiber optics. 3) Invented broad-band cavity-enhanced absorption 4) Fabricated and deployed Off-Axis ICOS instrumentation for greenhouse gas, isotope, and pollutant studies in stratospheric, terrestrial, and deep-sea applications. 5) Used cavity-enhanced techniques for novel spectroscopic studies of weak absorbers. 6) Laser diagnostics in hypersonic engines and combustion research

• Postdoctoral Research, Stanford University July 2000 – March 2001

Project: Cavity ringdown spectroscopy of ions, radicals, and energetic reaction products.

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Advisor: Professor Richard Zare

• Graduate Research, Harvard University May 1997 – May 2000 Project: Developed the first general method to produce cold, slow molecules for studies of molecular Bose-

Einstein condensation, quantum computing, and high-resolution spectroscopy. Advisor: Professor Dudley Herschbach

• Graduate Research, California Institute of Technology June 1995 – May 1997

Project: Direct observation of chemical reactions in liquids and gases of variable density at the femtosecond timescale, including the first observations of coherent caging effects and microscopic friction.

Advisor: Professor Ahmed Zewail

• Undergraduate Research, University of New Mexico August 1993 – May 1995 Project: Developed a novel reactive potential energy surface and performed extensive molecular dynamics

simulations of gas-phase nitric oxide clusters under impact. Advisors: Professor Edward Walters and Dr. Normand Blais (Los Alamos National Labs)

• Undergraduate Research, Lawrence Livermore National Labs June 1992 – August 1992 Project: Identify better candidates for mediated electrochemical oxidation of hazardous wastes using cyclic

voltammetry. Advisor: Dr. Francis Wang

T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E

Invited Lecturer: Introduction to Climate Change Fall, 2007 – Spring, 2009 Notre Dame de Namur University Belmont, CA Presented introductory lectures on climate change to both science and political science students stressing evidence for anthropogenic warming and potential repercussions. Part of an ongoing voluntary effort with The Climate Project founded by Al Gore. Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall, 1997 – Fall, 1998 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Instructed courses in General Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics. Responsibilities included designing and giving weekly lectures for recitation courses, grading homework/tests, and working with individual students. Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall, 1995 – Fall, 1996 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Taught courses in Freshman Chemistry Lab and Spectroscopy. Responsibilities included designing and giving short weekly lectures, grading homework/tests, and working students during laboratory experiments. Teaching Assistant Spring, 1994 – Spring, 1995 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Assisted in undergraduate general chemistry and organic chemistry laboratory classes. Prepared and delivered brief lectures. Worked with students during laboratory experiments and graded homework/tests.

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S E R V I C E A N D L E A D E R S H I P

• Reviewer: Chemical Physics Letters, Applied Physics B, Physics and Society, IET Science Measurement and Technology, Journal of Hydrology, Optics Express, Optics Letters

• Board Member: Pacific Southwest section of the American Society of Engineering Educators • Committee Member: OSA Allen Prize Committee Member • Session Chair: OSA Annual Meeting 2002 • Selected Volunteer Speaker: Selected by the Honorable Al Gore and his staff to be a volunteer speaker for The

Climate Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating information regarding climate change. • President and Co-Founder: Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society, University of New Mexico • Volunteer Activities: Habitat for Humanity, PG&E/Sierra Club CFL Distributions, Appeared on The Discovery

Channel “Mythbusters” series to demonstrate greenhouse gas warming • Member: ACS, APS, OSA, AAAS, AGU

A W A R D S

• Selected Speaker, The Climate Project, 2007 • Gordon Fellowship, Harvard University, 1997 • Finalist for the Hertz Fellowship, 1996 • Caltech Fellowship for Incoming Graduate Students, 1995 • General Honors Award for overall student achievement, University of New Mexico, 1995 • Paul Mozley Award for excellence in chemistry, University of New Mexico, 1995 • John D. Clark Memorial Award for excellence in chemistry, University of New Mexico, 1994 • J. L. Riebsomer Memorial Award for excellence in chemistry, University of New Mexico, 1993 • REU-NSF Fellowship for undergraduate research, University of New Mexico, 1993 • Associated Western Universities Fellowship to perform research at LLNL, 1991

I N V I T E D P R E S E N T A T I O N S

1. “Development and Application of Ultrasensitive Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectrometry.” San Jose State University, February 2009.

2. “Anthropogenic Climate Change.” Notre Dame De Namur University, June 2008. 3. “Laser-Based Measurements of Stable Isotopes Using Off-Axis ICOS.” 14th Continuous-Flow Isotope Ratio Mass

Spectrometry Conference, University of Saskatoon, June 2008. 4. “Climate Change: Causes and Impacts.” Notre Dame De Namur University, January 2008. 5. “Anthropogenic Climate Change.” Notre Dame De Namur University, September 2007. 6. “Cavity-Enhanced Gas Analyzers for Process Control Applications.” ITP 2005 Sensors and Automation Meeting,

June 2005. 7. “Singlet Oxygen Detection in the Gas Phase.” AFOSR Contractor’s Meeting, May 2004. 8. “Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy: New Frontiers.” OSA Annual Meeting, September 2002. 9. “Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy.” Dow Chemical Laser Spectrometry Workshop, May 2001. 10. “Molecular Cooling: A Counter-Revolutionary Paradigm.” Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference, April

2000. 11. “Molecular Cooling: A Counter-Revolutionary Paradigm.” Harvard Student Colloquium, February 2000. 12. “A Mechanical Means to Produce Intense Beams of Slow Molecules.” ITAMP Workshop on Molecular Trapping, July

1999.

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P U B L I S H E D P A P E R S

1. S. Williams, S. Popovic, and M. Gupta, “Microwave Plasma Generation and Filtered Transport of O2(a1∆g),” accepted for publication in Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. (2009).

2. L. D. Le, M. Gupta, J. D. Tate, M. B. Seasholtz, T. Owano, D. Baer, T. Knittel, A. Cowie, and J. Zhu, “Development of a Rapid On-Line Acetylene Sensor for Industrial Hydrogenation Reactor Optimization Using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy,” Appl. Spectrosc. 62 (2008) 59.

3. F. Dong and M. Gupta, “Off-axis Cavity Ringdown Measurements of Trace Iodine,” Sens. and Actuat. B 129 (2008) 158.

4. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, and A. O’Keefe, “Quantitative Determination of the (2,0) Band of Deuterium in the Near Infrared via Off-Axis ICOS,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 441 (2007) 204.

5. K. B. Hewett, J. E. McCord, M. Gupta, and T. Owano, “Measuring the Yield of Singlet Oxygen in a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser,” Proc. of SPIE - XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers 6346 (2007) 63460E.

6. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, and A. O’Keefe, “Quantitative Determination of the O(3P) Density via Visible Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 (2006) 241503.

7. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, and A. O’Keefe, “Quantitative Determination of the Q(1) Quadrupole Hydrogen Absorption in the Near-Infrared via Off-Axis ICOS,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 418 (2005) 11.

8. R. Provencal, M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, K. Ricci, A. O’Keefe, and J. Podolske, “Cavity-Enhanced Quantum-Cascade Laser-Based Instrument for Carbon Monoxide Measurements,” Appl. Opt. 44 (2005) 6712.

9. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, A. O’Keefe, and S. Williams, “Quantitative Determination of Singlet Oxygen Density and Temperature for Oxygen-Iodine Laser Applications,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 400 (2004) 42.

10. S. Williams, M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, A. O’Keefe, D. R. Yarkony, and S. Matsika, “Quantitative Detection of Singlet O2 by Cavity-Enhanced Absorption,” Opt. Lett. 29 (2004) 1066.

11. L. Biennier, F. Salama, M. Gupta, and A. O’Keefe, “Multiplex Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy of Cold PAH Cations,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 387 (2004) 287.

12. D. Baer, M. Gupta, A. O’Keefe, and J. B. Paul, “Recent Advances in Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy,” invited paper in Diode Lasers and Applications, A. Fried, ed., Proc. SPIE 4817 (2002).

13. M. Gupta, H. Jiao, and A. O’Keefe, “Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy in Optical Fibers,” Opt. Lett. 27 (2002) 1878. 14. D. Baer, J. B. Paul, M. Gupta, and A. O’Keefe, “Sensitive Absorption Measurements in the Near-Infrared Region

Using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy,” invited paper in Appl. Phys. B. 75 (2002) 261. 15. M. Gupta and D. R. Herschbach, “Slowing and Speeding Molecular Beams by Means of a Rapidly Rotating Source,”

J. Phys. Chem. A 105 (2001) 1626. 16. M. Gupta and R. N. Zare, “Spinning Molecules to Bits,” Nature 407 (2000) 33. 17. M. Gupta and D. R. Herschbach, “A Mechanical Means to Produce Intense Beams of Slow Molecules,” J. Phys. Chem.

A 103 (1999) 10670. 18. J. Ortigoso, M. Rodriguez, M. Gupta, and B. Friedrich, “Time Evolution of Pendular States Created by the Interaction

of Molecular Polarizability with a Pulsed Nonresonant Laser Field,” J. Chem. Phys. 110 (1999) 3870. 19. B. Friedrich, M. Gupta, and D. R. Herschbach, “Probing Weakly-Bound Species with Nonresonant Light:

Dissociation of He2 Induced by Rotational Hybridization,” invited paper in Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 63 (1998) 1089.

20. J. S. Baskin, M. Chachisvillis, M. Gupta, and A. H. Zewail, “Femtosecond Dynamics of Solvation: Microscopic Friction and Coherent Motion in Dense Fluids,” J. Phys. Chem. A 102 (1998) 4158.

21. J. S. Baskin, M. Gupta, M. Chachisvillis, and A. H. Zewail, “Femtosecond Dynamics of Microscopic Friction: Nature of Coherent Versus Diffusive Motion from Gas to Liquid Density,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 275 (1997) 437.

22. C. Wan, M. Gupta, J. S. Baskin, Z. H. Kim, and A. H. Zewail, “Caging Phenomena in Reactions: Femtosecond Observation of Coherent Collisional Confinement,” J. Chem. Phys. 106 (1997) 4353.

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23. C. Wan, M. Gupta, and A. H. Zewail, “Femtochemistry of ICN in Liquids: Dynamics, Dissociation, Recombination, and Abstraction,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 256 (1996) 279.

24. M. Gupta, E. A. Walters, and N. C. Blais, “Simulation of Chemical Reaction Initiation through High Velocity Collisions of NO Clusters with a Surface,” J. Chem. Phys. 104 (1996) 100.

25. E. A. Walters, M. Gupta, J. T. Clay, D. D. Baldyga, J. R. Smith, and K. Glidden, “Temperature Dependence of the Ultraviolet Absorption Cross Section of CF3I,” Abs. Pap. Amer. Chem. Soc. 208 (1994) 243.

N O N - R E F E R E E D P U B L I C A T I O N S & P O S T E R S

1. M. Gupta, review of “The Essential Exponential: For the Future of Our Planet,” Physics and Society 37 (2008). 2. M. Gupta, “Climate Calling,” India Currents, May 2008. 3. P. K. Aggarwal, T. Ahmad, M. Groening, M. Gupta, T. Owano, and D. Baer, “Laser Spectroscopic Analysis of Stable

Isotopes in Natural Waters: A Low-Cost, Robust Technique for the Use of Environmental Isotopes in Hydrological and Climate Studies,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2006) #H51D-0504.

4. M. E. Mickelson, M. Gupta, and A. O’Keefe, “New Measurements of H2, D2, and HD,” 38th Annual DPS Meeting (October, 2006) #62.14.

5. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, R. Provencal, K. Ricci, and A. O’Keefe, “Development and Validation of a Field-Deployable Optical Spectrometer for Real-Time, Natural Abundance Meausurements of O and H Isotopes of Water,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2005) #H41C-0423.

6. R. Provencal, M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, K. Ricci, and A. O’Keefe, “Cavity-Enhanced Quantum-Cascade Laser-Based Instrument for Trace Gas Measurements,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2005) #A13C-0937.

7. D. Baer, M. Gupta, T. Owano, R. Provencal, K. Ricci, and A. O’Keefe, “Fast Methane Measurements Using a Novel Laser-Based Gas Analyzer,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2005) #A13C-0934.

8. D. Baer, M. Gupta, T. Owano, K. Ricci, and A. O’Keefe, “Novel Instrumentation for Atmospheric Measusrements of Carbon Dioxide and Stable Isotopes of Carbon Dioxide,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2004) #B23A-0924

9. M. Gupta, T. Owano, D. Baer, R. Provencal, K. Ricci, A. O’Keefe, M. Flynn, and P. Holland, “In-Situ Isotope Ratiometer for Hydrothermal Effluent Analysis,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2004) #OS13B-0531.

10. T. Owano, D. Baer, M. Gupta, K. Ricci, and A. O’Keefe, “Novel Instrumentation for Methane Flux Measurements,” American Geophysical Union Meeting (December, 2004) #B43B-0166.

11. M. Gupta, review of “Common Sense on Climate Change: Practical Solutions to Global Warming,” Physics and Society 32 (2003).

12. M. Gupta and F. Wang, “Finding Alternative Mediators for MEO,” Lawrence Livermore Interlab Publication UCAR-10012-92 (1992).

P A T E N T S

1. A. O’Keefe, M. Gupta, T. Owano, and D. Baer, “Absorption Spectroscopy Instrument with Increased Optical Cavity Power without Resonance Frequency Build-Up,” US Patent 7,468,797 (December, 2008).

2. A. O’Keefe, M. Gupta, T. Owano, and D. Baer, “Hydrogen Sensor Based Upon Quadrupole Absorption Spectroscopy,” US Patent 7,298,490 (November, 2007).

3. A. O’Keefe and M. Gupta, “Cavity-Enhanced Liquid Absorption Spectroscopy,” US Patent 6,839,140 (January, 2005).

4. D. R. Herschbach and M. Gupta, “Method and Apparatus for Altering the Velocity of Molecules,” US Patent 6,420,699 (July, 2002).