Dr. Gary A. Miller is a Research Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He received a merged B.S. degree in physics and astronomy from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ in 1998. In 2001, he was awarded a M.S. degree in optics from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. In 2001, he left Rochester to finish his doctoral research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. In 2005, he completed his Ph.D. with The Institute of Optics, studying the fabrication, modeling, and photosensitivity mechanisms of post-exposed fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). At NRL, he develops fiber optic sensors for a variety of applications. His active research areas include:  FBG development and characterization, multicore fiber sensing, interferometric sensing, fiber laser fabrication and characterization, fiber laser sensors, structural health monitoring, and fiber optic sensor arrays.