Secretary

National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST)
325 Broadway, MS 672.03
Boulder, CO 80305, USA

Term expires: Jan. 2026

Jeffrey A. Jargon received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1990, 1996, and 2003, respectively. He has been a Staff Member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, since 1990 and has conducted research in the areas of vector network analysis, optical performance monitoring, and waveform metrology. He was the recipient of an URSI Young Scientist Award and a Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award, and is also a Senior Member of IEEE, a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado, and an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.
Jeffrey has been a longtime contributor to ARFTG, having authored or co-authored 34 conference papers since 1994, five of which have received best paper awards. He served as ARFTG’s first Student Fellowship Coordinator from 1999 to 2003, and is currently serving on the ARFTG Executive Committee, where he works on e-Publicity. Jeffrey has served as the TPC Chair for the 96th ARFTG Conference, the TPC Co-Chair of the 97th Conference, the Chair of the 99th Conference, and the Co-Chair of the 101st Conference.