Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer who,along with Sajeev John,founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987. He and his team were the first to create a 3-dimensional structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap,which has been named Yablonovite. In addition to pioneering photonic crystals,he was the first to recognize that a strained quantum-well laser has a significantly reduced threshold current compared to its unstrained counterpart. This is now employed in the majority of semiconductor lasers fabricated throughout the world. His seminal paper reporting inhibited spontaneous emission in photonic crystals is among the most highly cited papers in physics and engineering.
Gary Stephen May is the chancellor of the University of California,Davis. From May 2005 to June 2011,he was the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical &Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He served as the Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering from July 2011 until June 2017.
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain is chairperson and founder of Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd. and Whinnery Professor Emerita of the University of California,Berkeley. She was President of Optica in 2021.
Jerry M. Woodall is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California,Davis who is widely known for his revolutionary work on LEDs and semiconductors. Over the course of his career,he has published close to 400 scientific articles and his work has directly contributed to the development of major technologies that are used around the world,such as TVs,optical fibers,and mobile phones. Woodall currently holds over 80 U.S. patents for a variety of inventions and has received prestigious awards from IBM,NASA,and the U.S. President for his contributions to science,technology,and humanity.
Andrea Alù is an Italian American scientist and engineer,currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics,photonics,plasmonics,and acoustics,most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces. He has co-authored over 650 journal papers and 35 book chapters,and he holds 11 U.S. patents.
Paul R. Prucnal is an American electrical engineer. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. He is best known for his seminal work in Neuromorphic Photonics,optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) and the invention of the terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexor (TOAD). He is currently a fellow of IEEE for contributions to photonic switching and fiber-optic networks,Optical Society of America and National Academy of Inventors.
Shun Lien Chuang was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer,optical engineer,and physicist. He was a Fellow of the IEEE,OSA,APS and JSPS,and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Michael Dallesasse is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where his research is focused on silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs),nanophotonics,semiconductor lasers / transistor lasers and photonics-electronics integration. He has over 60 publications and presentations,and holds 29 issued patents.
Yurii Vlasov is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).
Aaron Roe Hawkins is an American engineer known for his work in optofluidics. He is a professor and chair in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University.
Manijeh Razeghi is an Iranian-American scientist in the fields of semiconductors and optoelectronic devices. She is a pioneer in modern epitaxial techniques for semiconductors such as low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD),vapor phase epitaxy (VPE),molecular beam epitaxy (MBE),GasMBE,and MOMBE. These techniques have enabled the development of semiconductor devices and quantum structures with higher composition consistency and reliability,leading to major advancement in InP and GaAs based quantum photonics and electronic devices,which were at the core of the late 20th century optical fiber telecommunications and early information technology.
James J. Coleman is an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs,Rockwell International,and the University of Illinois,Urbana. He is best known for his work on semiconductor lasers,materials and devices including strained-layer indium gallium arsenide lasers and selective area epitaxy. Coleman is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Mona Jarrahi is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials,terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics,microwave photonics,imaging and spectroscopy systems.
Alexandra Boltasseva is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University,and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials,manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
John E. Bowers is an American physicist,engineer,researcher and educator. He holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology,the director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a distinguished professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials at University of California,Santa Barbara. He was the deputy director of American Institute of Manufacturing of Integrated Photonics from 2015 to 2022.
Peter J. Delfyett Jr is an American engineer and Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair Professor of Optics,ECE &Physics at the University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics.
Audrey K. Ellerbee Bowden is an American engineer and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University,as well as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. She is a Fellow of Optica,the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Yanne Kouomou Chembo is an electrical engineer and associate professor at the University of Maryland,College Park. His research considers ultra-pure microwaves and Kerr frequency combs. He is a Fellow of The Optical Society and SPIE.
Paul R. Berger is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University and physics,and a distinguished visiting professor (Docent) at Tampere University in Finland,recognized for his work on self-assembled quantum dots under strained-layer epitaxy,quantum tunneling based semiconductor devices and solution processable flexible electronics.
Carmen S. Menoni is an Argentine-American physicist who is the University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Her research considers oxide materials for interference coatings and spectrometry imaging. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,American Physical Society,Optica,and SPIE. Menoni served as the President of the IEEE Photonics Society from 2020 to 2021.
