Stephen M. Kohen is a technology specialist in the Patent Law and Intellectual Property Practice Groups of Proskauer Rose LLP.

Mr. Kohen received his B.S. in electrical engineering, with Highest Honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in May 2002, his M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2004, and is a candidate for Juris Doctor at Suffolk University (2009).

Mr. Kohen assists clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights both in the U.S. and abroad. He has experience in the technology fields of optics and quantum electronics, microelectronics, and numerical methods. While at MIT, Mr. Kohen designed and analyzed optical confinement structures for use in semiconductor THz quantum cascade lasers using finite element numerical methods.

Publications and Academic Honors/Awards

• "Electromagnetic Modeling of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Waveguides and Resonnators" by S. Kohen, B.S. Williams and Q. Hu, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 2005
• "Continuous-wave operation of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers above liquid-nitrogen temperature" by S. Kumar, B.S. Williams, S. Kohen, Q. Hu and J.L. Reno in Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 2494-2496
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow (2002-2005)
• MIT Presidential Fellow (2002-2003)