Christine Chen has been awarded a Ph.D fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Intel Corporation. GFP Fellowships provide full tuition and fees and a competitive stipend for doctoral study. Fellowships also include an unrestricted annual gift of $2,000 for use by the student's faculty advisor in support of the student.
The Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) mainly focuses on improving educational opportunities at the doctoral level and ensuring an educated workforce for the semiconductor industry. The objectives of the program are: 1) to encourage academically gifted…
SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics , has selected current SPIE Student Chapter President, Cathy Chen to be a Facilitator in their annual Student Leadership Conference at Optics and Photonics 2014. SPIE Student Chapter Vice President Atiyah Ahsan was awarded a travel grant to attend as a rising student leader.
Laser Focus World, has featured the work of the Lightwave Research lab collaboration with Prof. Lipson at Cornell in an article entitled "Multimode Fiber-Optic Components: Multimode silicon photonics gains WDM-compatible multiplexer"
HPCWire, featured Sebastien Rumley in an interview titled: "Podcast: Through the Lens: An Optical Network Future."
The Wei Family Private Foundation, has awarded Cathy Chen, Christine Chen, and Lee Zhu the 2013 Special Scholarships. The Wei Family Private Foundation a non-profit organization was established to honor the memory of Dr. (Mrs.) Chung Kwai Lui Wei and Mr. Hsin Hsu Wei. Its purpose is to award scholarship grants to students of Chinese heritage with high academic credentials who are pursuing a degree in Science or Engineering or Mathematics at Oregon State University or an Electrical Engineering graduate degree at Columbia University
Graduate student Kishore Padmaraju was awarded a "Best in Session" award at the Semiconductor Research Corporation's (SRC) 2013 TECHCON conference for his presentation and poster titled "Initialization and Stabilization of Microring Resonators for Next-Generation Silicon Photonic Interconnects." TECHCON is a two-day event held in Austin, Texas, where SRC members and students presented papers on various areas of research on semiconductor technology.
Ph.D. student Lee Zhu has been featured in a promotional video for NSF's IGERT center, highlighting his research in silicon nanophotonics for next generation optical interconnects.
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has awarded Kishore Padmaraju the 2013 John Kiel Scholarship. The John Kiel Scholarship is SPIE's 2nd largest scholarship, and was established to honor SPIE founding member John Kiel, in recognition of his long-standing and significant contributions to the society. The scholarship is awarded annually to an outstanding student that demonstrates exceptional promise in making substantial contributions to the field of optics and engineering.
From 2011-2013, Kishore was the founding member and president of Columbia University's OSA/SPIE…
Cathy Chen and Lee Zhu presented papers at the 2013 OIDA (Optoelectronics Industry Development Association) Workshop for Stakeholders "Future Needs of "Scale-Out" Data Centers Student Poster Contest on March 17, 2013 in Anaheim, CA.
Cathy Chen won second place in the contest for her poster entitled "A Photonic Interconnection Network for Hardware Accelerator Enabled Utility Computing."
Kishore Padmaraju and Lee Zhu have been selected as a semi-finalists in the 2013 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition for their submissions to the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference entitled, respectively, "Integrated Thermal Stabilization of a Microring Modulator," and "Pattern-Dependent Performance of Microring Modulators."
Christine Chen, a 1st-year M.S./Ph.D. student in the Lightwave Research Laboratory, has been awarded a 2012 Master's Scholarship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).
Christine Chen received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences along with a minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2011. She is currently studying towards her M.S. and Ph.D. at Columbia University, with her research focus being in the area of silicon photonics for optical interconnection networks and high-performance computing systems.
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Kishore Padmaraju has been awarded a graduate fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and IBM. Included in the award are expenses for tuition and fees, a cash stipend, and a $2000 annual award given to the department. This five-year commitment of support by GRC is made to help meet the continuing needs of GRC members for qualified personnel at the doctoral level and the increasing needs of North American colleges and universities for qualified professors.
Kishore received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a B.S. in Physics from the University…