Derek Burrell received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out his research project titled “Characterizing and Denoising Hyperspectral Imagery for Super Resolution Object Detection in Scattering Media” in the Photonics and Electro-Optics Unit at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and his MS in optics and photonics from the University of Central Florida. As an undergraduate he participated in a European Project Semester at Oslo Metropolitan University on a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. He received his PhD in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. While working on his PhD, he collaborated with the US Air Force Research Laboratory to study and mitigate effects of coherent noise in tracking and wavefront-sensing systems. Derek also supports field experiments on long-range active imaging with performance comparisons in various spectral bands and gain configurations.

His recent publication is: 
Burrell, Derek J., Mark F. Spencer, Melissa K. Beason, and Ronald G. Driggers. “Active-Tracking Scaling Laws Using the Noise-Equivalent Angle due to Speckle.” Journal of the Optical Society of America A 40, no. 5 (2023): 904–13.