Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
- Nonlinear optics
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Photonic bandgap structures
- Biological sensors
- Photovoltaics
- Fiber optics
- Optical communications
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, March 1997,
Thesis: Theoretical Investigation of Fiber Bragg Grating Filters for Dispersion Compensation in Optical Communication Systems
- M.S., Physics, Moscow State University, 1993
- B.S., Physics, Moscow State University, 1991
Employment History
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, August 2011-
- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, January 2008-August 2011
- Assistant Research Scientist, Principal Investigator, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2004-2007
- Member of Technical Staff, Principal Investigator, OFS/Bell Laboratories, 2001-2005
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tyco Submarine Systems, 2000-2001
- Aileen S. Andrew Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, 1997-2000
Awards and Honors
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America
"The OSA Fellow designation is awarded to select OSA Members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of optics. Candidates for Fellow Membership are nominated by peers who are themselves OSA Fellows. The OSA Fellow Members Committee reviews each nomination and recommends candidates to the Board of Directors annually. The number of Fellows is limited by the Society's bylaws to be no more than 10% of the total OSA membership" (from http://www.osa.org/Membership/Member_Categories/Fellow/)
- 100 R&D Award for Tunable Dispersion Compensating Devices, 2002
- Aileen S. Andrew Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999
- New Focus Student Grant, 1996
- Aileen S. Andrew Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1997
Professional Memberships and Activities
Memberships:
- Optical Society of America (OSA), 1994-present time
- American Mathematical Society, 2010-present time
- American Society for Engineering Education, 2010-present time
- OSA New Focus/Bookham Student Award Committee, 2007-2008
- OSA Membership and Education Services Council, 2005-2007
Conference organizer:
- Special Session on Nonlinear Metamaterials, SPIE Optics + Photonics 2011, San Diego, CA, 2011
- Nonlinear Metamaterials - Exploring Applications from Military Imaging to Stealth Technology
- Workshop at the 9th Annual Next Generation Materials for Defense, Washington, DC, 2009
- Special Session on Nonlinear Metamaterials, 3rd International Congress on Advanced
- Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, London, UK, 2009
Technical Committee Member:
- The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optical Communications Technical Program Subcommittee, 2008-2010
- International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2010
- Bragg Gratings, Poling & Photosensitivity and Nonlinear Photonics OSA Topical Meetings, 2007
Conference Session Chair:
- The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/QELS), 2008-2010
- The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) NanoScience + Engineering conference, 2008, 2010
Guest Editorship and Board Membership:
- Guest Editor, Optics Communication Special Issue on Nonlinear Optics in Metamaterials, 2008-2010
- Guest Editor, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Special Issue on Metamaterials, 2008-2010
- Advisory Board Member, Optics Communications, 2008-present
Scientific Service
Panelist/Proposal Reviewer:
- Division of Materials Research,National Science Foundation (NSF), Materials Research Centers and Teams competition, 2010
- Ad-hoc reviewer for NSF CREST/HBCU-RISE program, 2010
- Panelist for National Science Foundation Panel for the Electronics, Photonics and Device
- Technologies Program, Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems Program, 2007, 2009
- Proposal Reviewer for the United States Army Research Office (Physical Sciences Division), 2008-2010
Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Physical Review Letters
- Physical Review A
- Physical Review E
- Applied Physics B
- Physica D
- Metamaterials
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Optics Letters
- Optics Express
- Applied Optics
- Optics Communications
- Journal of the European Optical Society