He has a B.S. in physics from Penn State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from West Virginia University. He was a senior systems engineer with United Technologies Optical Systems from 1978 to 1987 and a senior scientist with Schafer Corporation until 1999. He is the author of Principles of Adaptive Optics [Academic Press (1991), Second Edition (1998), Third Edition, CRC Press (2011)], Lighter Side of Adaptive Optics, SPIE Press (2009), and Introduction to Adaptive Optics, SPIE Press (2000) and the editor of ten volumes on adaptive optics. He is also a Fellow of SPIE. Professor Tyson’s current research interests include atmospheric turbulence studies, classical diffraction, novel wavefront sensing, and amplitude and phase manipulation techniques to enhance propagation, laser communications, and imaging.