https://engineering.ucsb.edu/undergraduate/voices/bernie BERNIE CELIS, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, BS 2017 I live in Goleta and work at Praevium Research. The company makes VCSELs [vertical- cavity surface-emitting lasers], which are very useful in medical applications and autonomous driving, and are used for facial recognition in modern phones. VCSELs are also leading-edge technology for optical coherence tomography [OCT], which is used to make very high-resolution scans of the