Dr. Steve Polly is a Research Scientist in the NanoPower Research Laboratories at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work focuses on the development, growth, characterization, and integration of III-V materials by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE). He has over 11 years of experience in the modeling, growth, fabrication, and characterization of III-V photovoltaic and related devices. He received a B.S. degree in Microelectronic Engineering (2009) and a Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering (2015), both from RIT. His graduate work was supported by a Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship award, where his research focused on the integration and advanced optoelectronic characterization of quantum dot enhanced solar cells for improved power conversion efficiency. He then received an Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Fellowship where he research doped carbon nanotube (CNT) thermoelectric devices which included developing software for numerical physics-based models, lab development of thermoelectric characterization techniques, and CNT manufacturing methods. He is an author or coauthor to more than 60 journal articles and conference proceedings.