Richard G. Lyon

Richard Lyon is an Optical Scientist the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center's Applied Information Sciences Branch. He has developed and led development of imaging interferometer testbeds, wavefront sensing and optical control methods, phase retrieval and phase diversity, and maximum entropy deconvolution approaches. R. Lyon is also involved with modeling and simulation of various coronagraphic techniques for extrasolar planetary detection and characterization. Previously he was a research scientist at the University of Maryland and associated with the NASA's Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Systems. Prior to that R. Lyon researched algorithmic techniques for the Air Force Research Labs Geophysics Directorate and was previously involved in phase retrieval studies on the Hubble Space Telescope for Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. He has a BS in Physics from the University of Massachusetts and an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics. Mr. Lyon has approximately 85 publications and holds numerous NASA awards. Kenneth Carpenter is currently the Project Scientist for