Devices & Systems Masud Mansuripur, University of Arizona Masud Mansuripur (PhD Stanford University, 1981) is Professor and Chair of Optical Data Storage at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona in Tucson. A Fellow of the Optical Society of America, he is the author of "Introduction to Information Theory" (Prentice Hall, 1987), "The Physical Principles of Magneto-optical Recording" (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and "Classical Optics and Its Applications" (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Professor Mansuripur has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented numerous invited talks at international conferences, universities, and major industrial laboratories. His research interests include magnetic, optical, and molecular data storage, near-field optics, and problems associated with radiation pressure.