Daniel Mittleman received his BS in 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS in 1990 and PhD in 1994 from the University of California, Berkeley, in physics. He researched the spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals using laser pulses with durations of less than 20 femtoseconds, at wavelengths from 480 to 670 nm, at UC Berkeley. Mittleman joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University in September 1996, where he is a member of the Rice Quantum Institute. Before Rice University, he worked with Dr. Richard Freeman as a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His work in the laboratory included the noncontact characterization of doped semiconductor wafers using the THz Hall effect, the constructions of a THz imaging system in a reflection geometry for the use in T-Ray Tomography measurements, and the THz spectroscopy of inverse micelles of water in heptane.