Ivy Krystal Jones

Ivy Krystal Jones, PhD is currently working as an Instructor in the Division of Optical Engineering in the Department of Engineering within the College of Science, Engineering, Technology at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.  Prior to this, Dr. Jones served as a Research Assistant Professor at Hampton University in the School of Engineering, Architecture, and Aviation under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program.  She also worked as a Medical Physics Postdoctoral Fellow at Froedtert Hospital/Medical College of Wisconsin creating customized high-quality training data for deep learning auto-segmentation of organs at risk (OAR) using contoured CT and MR images.  She completed a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Marquette University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering working in the Shock Physics Laboratory working on dynamic behavior material analysis from 2018-2019 as well as being a 2018 OSA Ambassador. She also has obtained academic positions such as full-time adjunct faculty professor, instructor, and lecturer at Wilbur Wright College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S. Truman College, Blitstein Institute for Women, and Chicago State University teaching general chemistry, physical science, and engineering physics from 2017- 2018. She has recently obtained a Physics Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she will be researching computational code for radiotherapy oncological imaging modeling applications for diagnostic and cancer treatment techniques. In addition, Dr. Jones completed a Postdoctoral Research Staff Member (I & II) position(s) in the Materials Science & Physics Division specifically in the Sensor Materials and Measurement group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2016-2017; where her postdoctoral research involved working on synthetic procedures and processing methods to yield high-performance transparent ceramics for current scintillator application projects directly related to medical imaging where she received a US Patent in Nov. 2020.