A Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) holds joint appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. and Physics and Astronomy Dept., with a research focus on Optics and Photonics, Laser Science, Semiconductor Lasers, Integrated Photonics, and Nanofabrication. They earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, following master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology (Iran).
With an extensive academic background, they have held positions at the University of Central Florida and University of California San Diego. Their achievements include being named a 2021 Fellow of Optica, receiving the 2020 DARPA Director’s Fellowship, and securing awards like the NSF CAREER Award. They have published over 84 journal papers (citations >10,780) in top outlets such as Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters, with work featured in BBC and IEEE Spectrum. Additionally, they lead key roles in conferences (e.g., General Chair of CLEO/QELS 2022) and serve as a topical editor for journals like Optica, contributing significantly to academic leadership in photonics.