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Jelena Vučković is a Serbian-born American professor and a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University.[1][2] She served as Fortinet Founders Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from August 2021 through June 2023.[3] Vučković leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) Lab, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE Institute, SIMES Institute, and Bio-X at Stanford. She was the inaugural director of the Q-FARM initiative (Quantum Fundamentals, ARchitecture and Machines).[4] She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of The Optical Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Jelena Vučković | |
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| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Known for | Contributions to experimental nano and quantum photonics |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Photonic crystal structures for efficient localization or extraction of light (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Axel Scherer |
| Doctoral students | Hatice Altug, Dirk Englund |
| Website | https://web.stanford.edu/~jela/ |
Vučković's research interests include nanophotonics, quantum information technologies, quantum optics, photonics inverse design, nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, cavity QED.[5][6]
Vučković is also an associate editor for ACS Photonics Journal.[7]
Jelena Vučković was born in Niš, Serbia. She studied at the University of Niš.[8] She received her M.S. (1997) and PhD (2002) in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2002, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Applied Physics Department at Stanford. She became Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2003.[9]
Vučković is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She is the lead/principal investigator the NQP Lab at Stanford, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE, SPRC, SystemX, and Bio-X.[10][9]
As of 2018, she was part of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), a Scientific Advisory Board Member, part of the Ferdinand-Braun Institute, and a SystemX Board Member.[9]
Her PhD advisees include Ilya Fushman (PhD 2008),[11] and she and Fushman were among lead authors on a quantum computing paper published in Nature in 2007[12] and Science in 2008.[13]
Other PhD advisees include Andrei Faraon (PhD 2009),[14][11] MIT professor Dirk Englund (PhD 2008),[15] and Hatice Altug (PhD 2006), professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.[16]
As of 2018[update], Vuckovic's research areas include:[5][6] nanophotonics, quantum information, quantum technology, quantum optics, Integrated quantum photonics, photonics inverse design, nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, and cavity QED.
Vučković's lab invented a software suite called Spins.[17] It automates the design of arbitrary nanophotonic devices by leveraging gradient-based optimization techniques that can explore a large space of possible designs. The resulting devices have higher efficiencies, smaller footprints, and novel functionalities.,[17] Vučković holds 15 patents.[18]
Vučković was the "Fortinet Founders" chair of the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering from August 2021 – June 2023,[3] and lead researcher of the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) lab.[19]
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), (2006)
- Humboldt Prize (2010)[20]
- Marko V. Jaric award for outstanding achievements in physics (2012)[21]
- Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University Munich, Germany (2013)[22]
- Fellow, American Physical Society (2015)[23]
- Fellow, The Optical Society (2015)[24]
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (2018)[25]
- Distinguished Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, (2019)[26]
- Recipient, IET A F Harvey Prize, (2019)[27]
- Recipient, James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership, Optica (2020)[28]
- Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021)[29]
- Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, United States Department of Defense (2022)[30]
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (2023)[31]
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