Research and Teaching Interests: Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics |
Awards and Recognitions |
2014 | Distinguished Engineering Educator Award “for his mentorship of a generation of undergraduates and outstanding graduate students at UCLA and postdoctoral researchers and other professionals in the U.S. and the world”. |
2014 | National Academy of Engineering |
2006 | James Clerk Maxwell Prize, American Physical Society |
1993 | IEEE Fellow |
1990 | Fellow, American Physical Society |