UM SPIE/OSA Student Chapter
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The Student Chapter is looking for highly motivated individuals who want to help organize events and manage the chapter. Benefits include opportunities to participate in student leadership conferences, travel to collaborate with other student chapters and a chance to build your professional skills and resume. If you are interested in organizing community outreach events, managing the chapter or even publishing a journal, contact an officer today.
CHAPTER OFFICERS
SPIE Student Chapter
President:
Vice -President:
Katayoon Saadin, saadink@umd.edu
Secretary:
Wang Yi Hsieh
Treasurer:
Zulya Tomova, email me
Technical Coordinator:
David Winogradoff
OSA Student Chapter
President:
Vice -President:
Katayoon Saadin, saadink@umd.edu
Secretary:
Wang Yi Hsieh
Treasurer:
Zulya Tomova, email me
Technical Coordinator:
David Winogradoff
FACULTY ADVISOR
Edo Waks, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Edo Waks received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University while working with Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto in the area of quantum optics and quantum information. After graduating, he became a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, working with Professor Jelena Vuckovic in the Ginzton Laboratory on nanophotonic implementations of quantum information processing, before joining the ECE Department as assistant professor for the Fall 2006 semester. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Waks is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, at Stanford. He won the Department of Central Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship Award sponsored by the Army Research and Development Activity, which funded his postdoctoral research. He received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1996-1999), and the William Huggins Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer and Electrical Engineering, from Johns Hopkins University (1995). Dr. Waks' research interests include studying the application of photonic crystals to quantum information processing, as well as the use of photonic crystals for practical tools in optical telecommunication and sensing.