Career Objectives

To utilize my broad engineering skills and expertise in hardware instrumentation, software development, and statistical image analysis to lead in the design and development of medically oriented imaging and diagnostic devices.

Education

2000 - Present University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ

Doctorate Program of Biomedical Engineering

G.P.A: 4.00

Expected Date of Graduation: Spring 2004

1998 -2000 University of Texas · Austin, TX

Master of Electrical Engineering

Specialty: Biomedical Engineering/Optics

G.P.A: 4.00

Master's Degree Received: August 2000

1994 - 1998 Texas A&M University · College Station, TX

Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Electrical Engineering

Magna Cum Laud

G.P.A.: 3.828

Bachelor's Degree Received: May 1998

Projects and Research

Current:

· Design and construction of an Optical Coherence Microscope (OCM) for high-resolution volumetric imaging.

· Investigating use of texture analysis tools for tissue differentiation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images.

Past:

· Design, construction, and clinical studies with a hand-held OCT device to image glaucoma implants in rabbits.

· Design and implementation of a hand held confocal probe to evaluate the healing response of glaucoma implants in rabbit eyes.

· Design, construction, and testing of a 12-lead EKG for commercial clinical use.

· Development and clinical studies with a FastEEM reflectance/fluorescence spectrometer for cervical, head/neck, and ovarian cancer.

· Software control for a raster-scanning device for cervical cancer detection.

· Development of data processing routines for reflectance spectroscopy.

· Design and construction of a multistage lock-in amplifier for noise reduction in a polarimetric glucose detection system.

· Design and implementation of a peltier based temperature controller to be used in a FTIR spectrometer for glucose level detection.

· Design and development of a fiber optic probe for oral cancer detection using near-infrared spectroscopy.

Programming Languages:

· C#, C++, C, Matlab, Labview

Awards and Scholarships

2001 Awarded Graduate Imaging Fellowship from University of Arizona

2001 Second place at the SPIE OPTO-SW student poster competition

1997 Third place at BME/IEEE Engineering Design competition in Chicago, IL

1994-1998 Blackwood Endowed Scholarship at Texas A&M University

1994-1998 4 year Endowed Scholarship at Texas A&M University

Work Experience

2001-Present Tissue Optics Lab (Dr. Jennifer Barton)· Tucson, AZ

Research Assistant - University of Arizona

1998 - 2000 Spectroscopy Laboratory (Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum)· Austin, TX

Research Assistant - University of Texas at Austin

1996 - 1998 Optical Biosensing Laboratory (Dr. Gerard Cote)· College Station, TX

Research Assistant - Texas A&M University

Publications

· Kirk W. Gossage, Cynthia M. Smith, Elizabeth M. Kanter, Lida P. Hariri, Alice L. Stone, Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, Stuart K. Williams, Jennifer K. Barton, “Texture Analysis of Speckle in Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Tissue Phantoms,” SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 26, San Jose, CA., 2004.

· Jennifer K. Barton, Kirk W. Gossage, Wei Xu, James R. Ranger-Moore, Kathylynn Saboda, Christine A. Brooks, Laura D. Duckett, Stuart J. Salasche, James A. Warneke, David S. Alberts, "Investigating Sun-damaged Skin and Actinic Keratosis with Optical Coherence Tomography: A Pilot Study," Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, Vol. 2 (6), p. 525-536, 2003.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Tomasz S. Tkaczyk, Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, Jennifer K. Barton, “Texture Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Images: Feasibility for Tissue Classification,” J. Biomedical Optics, July 2003.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Tomasz S. Tkaczyk, Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, Jennifer K. Barton, “Texture Analysis for Tissue Classification of Optical Coherence Tomography Images,” SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 27, San Jose, CA., 2003.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Jennifer K. Barton, “Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Evaluate Glaucoma Implant Healing Response in Rabbit Eyes.” SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 25, San Jose, CA., 2002.

· Tomasz S. Tkaczyk, Kirk W. Gossage, Jennifer K. Barton, “Speckle image properties in optical coherence tomography.” SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 25, San Jose, CA., 2002.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Jennifer K. Barton, “Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Evaluate Glaucoma Implant Healing Response in Rabbit Eyes.” BMES Annual Meeting, Oct. 7, Raleigh-Durham, NC, 2001.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Jennifer K. Barton, “Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Evaluate Glaucoma Implant Healing Response in Rabbit Eyes.” SPIE OPTO-SW, Sept. 17, Tucson, AZ, 2001.

· Nirmala Ramanujam, JinXian Chen, Kirk Gossage, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Britton Chance, “Fast and Noninvasize Fluorescence Imaging of Biological Tissues In Vivo Using a Flying-Spot Scanner,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedica Eng., v. 48(9), pp. 1034-1041, 2001.

· Douglas L. Heintzelman, Urs Utzinger, Holger Fuchs, Andres Zuluaga, Kirk Gossage, Ann M. Gillenwater, Rhonda Jacob, Bonnie Kemp, Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, “Optimal Excitation Wavelengths for In Vivo Detection of Oral Neoplasia Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy,” Photochemistry and Photobiology, v. 72(1), pp.103-113, 2000.

· Sokolov K., Drezek R., Gossage K., and Richards-Kortum R. “Reflectance Spectroscopy with Polarized Light: Is it Sensitive to Cellular and Nuclear Morphology.” Optics Express, v. 5, No. 13, pp. 302-317, 1999.

· Cooney,-K.-M.; Gossage,-K.-W.; McShane,-M.-J.; van-der-Breggen,-E.-W.-J.; Motamedi,-M.; Cote,-G.-L., “Development of an optical system for the detection of oral cancer using near-infrared spectroscopy,” IEEE EMBS trans. – Vol. 20 Biomedical Eng. Towards the Year 2000 and Beyond, v. 2, pp. 906-909, 1998.

· Kirk W. Gossage, Gerard Cote, “Design of a Lock-In Amplifier for Optical Glucose Level Detection.” BMES/IEEE Annual Meeting, Nov. 5, Chicago, IL, 1997.