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Sasan Fathpour. Dr. Sasan Fathpour received his B.S. and M.A.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Iran in 1995 and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2000, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. From 1995 to 1997, he was with Isfahan Optics Industry and was engaged in research and development of microelectronic circuits and digital signal processing systems in Pardisan Inc. in 1998. Since July 2005, he has been with the Optoelectronic Circuits and Systems Laboratory of UCLA. Dr. Fathpour is a co-author of about 50 journal and conference publications and one pending U.S. patent. Dr. Fathpour's current research interests lie in the field of silicon photonics. He is pursuing research on active silicon devices based on nonlinear optical effects at UCLA. His latest accomplishment is the first demonstration of two-photon photovoltaic effect in silicon. This demonstration of energy harvesting in Raman amplifiers has been acknowledged as a breakthrough in the path towards integration of electronics and photonics on a common silicon chip. His work has received worldwide press coverage and won him the 2007 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research.

Ning Li. Dr. Ning Li received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. In his doctoral research, he developed a new photodetector structure for ultrasensitive photon detection. He continued to work on this invention with Lightspin Technologies after graduation. From Jan. 2006 to Sep. 2007, he was a Research Affiliate with Yale University, where he worked on MOSFETs with high mobility channel materials. Since Oct. 2007, he is with the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He has authored or co-authored over 40 journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include photodetectors for optical sensing and microwave photonic links, MOSFETs with new channel materials, Spin based semiconductor devices, and Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Eran Socher. Dr. Eran Socher earned a B.A. in Physics and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1996. He continued his education at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he served as Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant. He received his M.Sc. in 1999 and his Ph.D. in 2005, both in Microelectronics. From 2003 to 2006 he worked as a research engineer at the IDF. He has also worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Technion and the School of Engineering Bar Ilan University. Dr. Eran Socher has won several teaching awards and has contributed over 30 journal articles and conference papers. Since October 2006 he has served as a Visiting Assistant Research Engineer as well as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA.