LighTopTech Corp. is a women-owned business based in Rochester, NY. LighTopTech, an optical technology company, was founded in 2013. LighTopTech’s vision is to build innovative optical instruments to bring to market disruptive technologies for non-destructive imaging in industrial fields, and noninvasive imaging and guided surgery in medical fields.
HISTORY
MISSION
LighTopTech’s mission is to create new possibilities in medical imaging and materials manufacturing towards a better collective future with our biomimetic noninvasive imaging technology.
Cristina Canavesi holds a Ph.D. in Optics from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, a Master in Technical Entrepreneurship and Management from Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, and an MBA from Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. Dr. Canavesi was a Fulbright scholar (2007/2008). She was awarded the SPIE Optical Design and Engineering Scholarship (2012) and received the 2013 Institute of Optics Student Award for Excellence at the University of Rochester. Dr. Canavesi was the first place winner in the Mark Ain Business Model competition at the University of Rochester (2012), and first place winner of the Simon Games at the University of Rochester (2013). She was the 2015 recipient of the Hugh H. Whitney Award at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. Dr. Canavesi was a 2019 Millennials in Manufacturing Awardee and was selected for Inspiring Fifty Italy 2021.
Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), and the Director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Engineering. Prof. Rolland earned a Diploma from the Institut D’Optique in France in 1984, and MS (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. Prof. Rolland served on the editorial board of the Journal Presence (MIT Press) (1996-2006), as Associate Editor of Optical Engineering (1999-2004), and as Topical Editor of Optics Letters since 2013. She is a Fellow of the OSA and SPIE. She is the recipient of the OSA 2014 David Richardson Medal for visionary contributions and leadership in optical design and engineering, enabling noninvasive, optical biopsy, the 2019 Alumna of the Year from the J.C Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, and the OSA 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer / Robert M. Burley Prize.