Isabel Song Profiled by Columbia EE

October 08, 2025

PhD student Isabel Song was recently featured in an article by the Department of Electrical Engineering highlighting her National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and Wei Family Private Foundation Fellowship. She discussed her interest in silicon photonic integrated circuit design. “With photonic technologies playing an increasingly central role in high-performance computing and communications,” she said in the interview, “I want my research to contribute to building systems that are not only faster, but also more sustainable and energy-efficient.”