NOAA-CREST Scholar Accepted a Position at USPTO in Denver.

Posted on December 4, 2014

Dr. Soe Hlaing came from Myanmar in 2003 to pursue his college education in the United States of America. Dr. Hlaing completed his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering in the year 2006. After his graduation he decided to pursue doctoral degree in the fields of Remote Sensing and its application to coastal and ocean waters. As a doctoral candidate he worked with the Optical Remote Sensing research group, of NOAA-CREST, under the supervision of two prominent Electrical Engineering faculty and CREST scientists Drs. Alex Gilerson and Samir Ahmed, who remember him as a hardworking and an enthusiastic researcher.

Soe's doctoral thesis focused on the validation of ocean color data retrieved from satellite and in situ measurements. The views of the marine biosphere captured by satellite-based ocean color instruments provide valuable data which is difficult to obtain with shipboard or moored instrumentation. The accuracy of this data is extremely important and Soe was interested in understanding how to minimize the uncertainties.

Soe also developed a bidirectional reflectance correction model for coastal water and investigated its application to minimize uncertainties in satellite and in-situ water leaving radiances. His thesis resulted in great discoveries and he decided to become a Post-Doctoral researcher in the same laboratory under the supervision of Alex Gilerson. During his Post-Doc he was a Visiting Scholar at NOAA-NESDIS lab in the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) and worked with other federal agencies as well. Recently he began working for the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Denver, Colorado.

Congratulations to Soe from all of us at NOAA-CREST on the next step in his career!