Robert G.W. Brown, former chief sensor scientist at the Advanced Technology Center of Rockwell Collins, Inc. and adjunct full professor in the Beckman Laser Institute&Medical Clinic of the University of California, Irvine, and in UC Irvine's Department of Computer Science, has been named the new CEO of the American Institute of Physics.

Brown will assume the office of AIP CEO on June 1, 2015, replacing H. Frederick Dylla, who will become CEO emeritus.