The IEEE Photonic Society presented the 2016 Engineering Achievement Award to Keren Bergman, Chalres Batchelor Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering. The award was presented at the IEEE Photonics Conference and is given in recognition of an exceptional engineering contribution that has had a substantial impact on the development of laser or electro-optic technology or the commercial application of technology within the past 10 years. Professor Bergman was selected for her extraordinary work in "optical interconnect networks and photonic-abled architectures that advance communication and…
Christine Chen was awarded a <93>Best Talk award<94> at the International OSA Network of Students (IONS) conference. Her presentation entitled <93>Spatially-Multiplexed Data in Silicon Photonics<94> was presented in the Telecommunications session. IONS was a three-day event held in Quebec, Canada, where OSA students presented selected papers in research areas of optical communications.
Michael Wang has recently been named a Forbes 30 under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry. A recent doctoral graduate of Professor Keren Bergman's Lightwave Research Lab, his work is at the intersection of engineering, design, technology, and health & well-being. As Co-Founder and Chief Engineer at FutureAir, Michael is re-imagining the world of indoor air. He is leading the development and integration of an IoT sensing platform and app that will improve indoor airflow, comfort, and energy efficiency.
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/young-alumni-profile-michael-wang-recently-named-forbes-30-under-30…
Silicon photonics has emerged as one of those areas of such far-reaching potential that its challenges and benefits tend to be clouded in generalities. Light as the main medium does indeed promise to alter fields including biological and chemical sensing, navigation, radio frequency sensing, communications, but for our purposes here, the potential within large-scale computing is of greater interest...We shouldn't be holding our breath for photonic devices to make it to market and hit large systems within the next year or even for the next few years, says David Calhoun, a PhD fellow who focuses…
Dessislava Nikolova is one of the five award winners of the 2015 Columbia University and NYC ASCENT Postdoc Research and Career Symposium. There were over 115 abstracts submitted from which the winning ones were selected. She will give one of the featured talks at the symposium to be held on September 17th 2015. The symposium is organized by Columbia University and the NYC ASCENT program and gives opportunity to postdocs to present their research to the wider research community.
Christine Chen was awarded a "Best in Session" award at the Semiconductor Research Corporation's (SRC) 2015 TECHCON conference. Her presentation and poster entitled "Spatial Multiplexing through Silicon Photonic Devices for High-Bandwidth Data Transmission" was presented in the session for Process & Design for Extreme Energy Efficient Computing. TECHCON is a two-day event held in Austin, Texas, each year where SRC members and students meet to present selected papers spanning multiple hot research areas in the semiconductor industry.
Dessislava Nikolova has been selected among the top 60 female graduate students and postdoctoral scholars invited to participate in the 2015 MIT Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering Computer Science, the annual workshop unites the top women in EECS for two day of research presentations and informal panels and is aimed at those navigating the initial stages of their academic career.
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/2015-mit-rising-stars-workshop-features-three-columbia-engineers
Columbia Engineering's photonics experts, including Professors Keren Bergman, Michal Lipson, and Alex Gaeta, are an integral part of an exciting new Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Rochester, NY, announced by Vice President Joseph Biden at a press conference on July 27. In winning the bid, the NY-led consortium captured the largest federal investment over $610 million, with $110 million in federal funds, and more than $500 million in non-federal contributions to date under the Obama administration's National Network for Manufacturing Innovation.
The Office of Graduate Student Affairs proudly announce the Lightwave Research Laboratory researcher Cathy Chen as our 2015 Graduate Student Life Award winner. The award is given for her dedication and commitment of improving the SEAS community and overall student life experience.
Cathy Chen has been named a member of the SPIE Information Technology committee for 2015, as a student member. The SPIE Information Technology Committee provides oversight of the information technology capability and products of the Society and makes recommendations to staff and leadership.
Lightwave Research Lab members Atiyah Ahsan and Cathy Chen have been selected to participate in UC Berkeley's Rising Stars in EECS Workshop in Berkeley, CA in November 2014.
This workshop brings together women who are interested in careers in academia, for two days of scientific interactions and career-oriented discussions. It will include research talks/posters as well as presentations on aspects of life in academia from finding a faculty position to parameters of success as a junior faculty member. Participants will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research, to…
Spotlight on Optics has featured our recent Optics Express paper titled "Experimental demonstration of broadband Lorentz non-reciprocity in an integrable photonic architecture based on Mach-Zehnder modulators", coauthored by Ph.D. student Qi Li and Prof. Keren Bergman of Lightwave Research Lab. In this paper we present a practical solution to the problem of optical isolation, one of the most critical problems in modern photonics. An optical isolator allows light to pass through in one direction but blocks it in the other, thereby acting as the optical analogue of the electronic diode. Because…