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Research and Teaching Interests: Silicon photonics and fiber optic communication, real-time streaming data acquisition and processing, biophotonics, rare cell detection, blood screening, nondestructive material testing and characterization, rogue wave phenomena | ||
| Awards and Recognitions |
| 2013 | Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineering Council “For seminal contributions in establishing the field of silicon photonics and for time stretch techniques resulting in a new generation of real time high throughput instruments”. |
| 2013 | IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Best Paper Award, M. Asghari and B. Jalali, “Anamorphic Transform and its Application to time-bandwidth compression”. |
| 2013 | Fellow, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| 2012 | IEEE Photonics Society’s Aron Kressel Award “For contributions to the science and technology of silicon photonics”. |
| 2011 | Fellow, American Physical Society |
| 2007 | R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America “For the Invention and Demonstration of Raman Lasing in Silicon” |
| 2006 | Maxwell Prize from the American Physical Society for “outstanding and pioneering contributions in the area plasma-based accelerators and laser-plasma interactions” |
| 2006 | Advanced Solid State Photonics (ASSP) Conference, Best Student Paper Award, Graduate student V. Raghunathan (Professor B. Jalali, advisor) |
| 2004 | Fellow, Optical Society of America |
2003 | IEEE Fellow |