{"id":5102,"date":"2023-11-13T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwqa.ucf.edu\/research\/?post_type=person&#038;p=3091"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:04:29","slug":"van-rudd","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/person\/van-rudd\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Rudd"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-4 col-xl-3\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid pb-3 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2024\/03\/Van-Rudd-Ball-Aerospace-Team-Role-Lead-Systems-Engineer.jpg\" alt=\"Van Rudd\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-8 col-xl-9\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"h4\">Role<\/h2>\n<p>Lead Systems Engineer<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h4\">Biography<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">Dr. Van Rudd is a Staff Consultant at Ball Aerospace and has acted as a lead Systems Engineer developing unique imaging and lidar systems while at Ball, Lockheed Martin, and Sandia National Lab.\u00a0 His 22 peer-reviewed papers cover the design and demonstration of 3D imaging lidar, pulsed-terahertz imagers, and numerous amplified laser systems. He has led development programs worth over $70M during his 30-year career, including numerous AFRL (PHAST, LRL) and DARPA efforts (Excalibur, LRT) as well as multiple classified efforts. Dr. Rudd obtained his PhD &amp;amp; MS in Elec. Engineering from the Univ. of Michigan and a B.S. in Physics from UC-Davis.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":189,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"people_group":[24,5,23],"class_list":["post-5102","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-bae-team","people_group-lunar-vise","people_group-science-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/5102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/5102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/5102\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"people_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_group?post=5102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}