Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2017
  • B.A., Physics, University of Chicago, 2011
Licenses & Certifications
  • ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
Languages
  • Russian

Dr. Spokoyny's expertise lies in the areas of optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, materials, lighting, and their applications in the consumer electronic, medical device and general industry markets. At Exponent, Dr. Spokoyny assists clients with issues pertaining to optical safety, functional safety of optomechanical systems, optical characterization of materials and understanding of their failure modes, as well as custom optical metrology solutions.  

Dr. Spokoyny's expertise lies in the areas of optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, materials, lighting and their applications in the consumer electronic, medical device and general industry markets. At Exponent, Dr. Spokoyny assists clients with issues pertaining to optical safety, functional safety of optomechanical systems, optical characterization of materials and understanding of their failure modes, as well as custom optical metrology solutions.  

Dr. Spokoyny has worked on safety and design-related aspects of:

  •         Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality headsets (AR/VR/MR)
  •         Depth sensing technologies including Time-of-Flight (TOF) and Indirect Time-of-Flight (iTOF)
  •         Eye-tracking technologies
  •         Automotive and process-related light detection and ranging (LiDAR)
  •         Wearable consumer electronics
  •         Laser and LED-based devices in the medical field

Dr. Spokoyny has an extensive background in design and development of optical systems for ultrafast spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, as well as cryogenic characterization of nanomaterial optical properties. At Exponent, Dr. Spokoyny utilizes his experimental background to help clients come up with cutting edge optical metrology solutions for materials analysis, in-line process monitoring, and consumer electronics characterization. These include measurements of spectrally-resolved transmission, reflectance, color, bi-directional reflectance distributions (BRDFs), and photoelasticity, among others.   

Dr. Spokoyny utilizes optical simulations using the industry-standard raytracing technologies to assist clients with fast prototyping of their product designs. Dr. Spokoyny has also utilized these computational methods in cases involving simulation of outdoor lighting, camera footage reconstruction, as well as brightness and contrast perception cases.