Roger Dube

Dr. Dube received his Bachelor’s degree in experimental physics from Cornell and his PhD in physics from Princeton. Currently Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Research and a research professor in the Center for Imaging Science at RIT, he has held positions at Kitt Peak and Caltech’s JPL, the University of Michigan, the University of Arizona and Yale. He rose to the executive level at IBM’s Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY and was responsible for commercializing the Atomic Force Microscope, for which two of the IBM employees won the Nobel Prize in physics. He has served the National Academy of Sciences in its grant selection process for its Ford Foundation Graduate Program for Minorities. He has also been an entrepreneur and has started two companies within the last 18 years. He has obtained National Science Foundation research grants and is PI of a grant called Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

Dr. Dube is a Sequoyah Fellow of AISES. He holds 21 issued patents and has published a textbook on physics-based computer security.