Kevin Peter Hickerson I am a sixth year PhD canidate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory. I study ultracold neutrons with my research adviser Brad Filippone. For my thesis research, I am looking for new scalar and tensor interations by measuring Fierz interference in beta decay using ultracold neutrons at LANSCE, the proton accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My research interest include knots, topological solitons, extensions to the Standard Model, ultracold neutrons and nonimaging optics. I have also worked for Idealab in Old Town Pasadena, California. At Idealab, I have worked on solar concentrators, robotics, rapid prototyping, optics and algorithms.

News

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January 4, 2011

U.S. Patent 7,864,439 was issued.

Hickerson, K. P. Linear electrowetting-based actuator.

March 16, 2010

U.S. Patent 7,677,241 was issued.

Hickerson, K. P. Apparatus for Redirecting Parallel Rays Using Simple Rigid Translation.

September 4, 2007

U.S. Patent 7,266,236 Hickerson et al. was issued.

You can read the patent here:
Accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer

August 28, 2007

U.S. Patent 7,261,542, Hickerson et al. was issued.

You can read the patent here:
Apparatus for three dimensional printing using image layers

May 7, 2007

I was mentioned in the New York Times for my work on the Desktop Factory 3D printer which uses a drum to sinter nylon powder into layers that build up a part.

You can read the article here:
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty

October 4, 2006

My daughter Melanie Kate Hickerson was born at Verdugo Hills Hospital eight pounds, five and a half ounces and twenty-two inches long at three ten in the afternoon.

July 1, 2005

I was mentioned in Wired for my contribution to a product under developed by Energy Innovations. I invented a linkage that connects multiple mirrors on a heliostat array using the conchoid of Nicomedes so that they are driven by only two motors.

You can read the article here:
The Dotcom King & the Rooftop Solar Revolution

September 2005

I began graduate study in the PhD program at the California Institute of Technology under Professor Brad Filippone.

June 2002

I graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Physics.

Contact Information

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Idealab 130 West Union Street Pasadena, CA 91103	California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 106-38 1200 East California Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91125
Work: 626.585.6900 Fax: 626.535.2701 Email: kevinh@idealab.com	Work: 626.395.4202 Fax: 626.564.8708 Email: kevinh@caltech.edu