Aleksandr Biberman will receive the Marconi Society Young Scholar Award for his work in silicon photonics. The award will be presented at the Marconi Awards Dinner in Menlo Parkon October 15th. Now in its third year, the Marconi Young Scholar Awards Program recognizes outstanding young researchers in the fields of communications and the Internet.
Biberman is one of three students chosen this year from an international slate of candidates. Born in up-state New York, he received his B.S. degree in electrical, computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 2006, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2008. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, his work in the Lightwave Research Laboratory is on silicon photonic interconnects for chip-scale high-performance computing systems and memory access networks.
"Marconi Society Young Scholars have demonstrated extraordinary promise and already have made an impact in their fields of research," said Robert Lucky, chairman of the Marconi Society. "We look for candidates who show the potential to win the Marconi Prize-the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in communications science-at some point in the future. As a point of reference, Marconi Fellows have been at the forefront of every modern advance in telecommunications and the Internet."