Jelena Vuckovic
Jelena Vuckovic (PhD Caltech 2002) is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab in the Ginzton Laboratory. Vuckovic is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Humboldt Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
She was the Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer at MIT, and the James Gordon Memorial Speaker at Optica. She is a Fellow of APS, Optica and IEEE. She is a co-founder of SPINS Photonics, a company focusing on commercializing photonics inverse design, and a Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied.
