Robert Boni co-invented the ROSS (Rochester Optical Streak System), a universal streak camera platform, with Dr. Paul A. Jaanimagi.

Mr. Boni is research engineer at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He has more than 20 years' experience in high-energy laser applications. Prior to LLE, he directed instrumentation engineering for the sub-micron laser stepper at Hampshire Instruments, a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer. Early in his career Mr. Boni was a research engineer at Eastman Kodak Company.

Mr. Boni has been responsible for the conception, design, assembly, testing and deployment of key instrumentation for the 60-beam OMEGA laser system. These included an on-target beam timing system and diagnostics for multi-wavelength energy; amplifier small signal gain measurement; and transport efficiency.

Mr. Boni's most recent achievement has been in the development of next-generation streak cameras. He conceived, designed, assembled and deployed the six multi-channel, self-calibrating streak cameras used for pulse-shape diagnostics for 60-beam power balance measurements on OMEGA. He is the co-inventor of U.S. Patent #6,642,499, "a system for photometric calibration of optoelectronic imaging devices, especially streak cameras." He received his B.S. in physics at the University of Rochester in 1979.