James A. Fedchak ()

Jim Fedchak is an Associate Director for Measurement Services in PML. He represents NIST’s calibration services and is responsible for its administrative and managerial aspects. He is pursuing efforts to both modernize and digitally transform NIST’s calibration services. He has been with NIST since 2003, initially with the Low-background Infrared Radiation project for several years before leading the vacuum project at NIST, where he headed an effort to modernize NIST’s calibration services in low gas-flow and vacuum gauges and launched a program to build a cold-atom vacuum standard (CAVS). Presently, he represents NIST on several technical groups, including the BIPM Forum on Metrology and Digitalization Task Group for Harmonizing Digital Calibration Certificates, the IMEKO Technical Committee on Digitalization (TC6) and Traceability in Metrology (TC8), and the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) Technical Committee Working Group Metrology for Digital Transformation – M4DT (MWG14).

James Fedchak received his Ph.D. in Experimental Atomic and Molecular Physics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He held post-doctoral positions at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin and worked for several years in the photonics industry before joining NIST.