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CONNIE
CHANG-HASNAIN BIOGRAPHY
Connie Chang-Hasnain is the John R. Whinnery Chair Professor in the
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
She received her Ph.D. degree from the same
department in 1987. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty,
Dr.
Chang-Hasnain was a member of the technical staff at Bellcore
(1987–1992) and
an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
(1992–1996). She currently serves as Chair of the Nanoscale
Science and
Engineering (NSE) Graduate Group. She is also an Honorary Member of
A.F. Ioffe Institute
(Russia), Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Chair at Tsinghua University
(China),
Visiting Professor of Peking University (China) and National Jiao Tung
University (Taiwan).
Prof. Chang-Hasnain’s research
interests span from
devices to materials and physics, particularly focusing on new optical
structures and materials for integrated optoelectronics. Most
recently, she and her
students achieved
ground-breaking results of nano-lasers on MOS-silicon based on their
discovery
of a brand new nano-material growth mode. This is promising for
large-scale
integration of optoelectronic devices with CMOS circuits. Another
research
thrust involves a new type of subwavelength grating, a simple thin-film
chip-scale structure that can potentially completely replace all bulk
optics,
with 1 million times size reduction and 1,000 times speed
increase. These results will have
profound impact to
silicon and optical communication industries.
Both work received much attention including
coverage in Physics Today,
Laser Focus and ABC Evening News.
Prof.
Chang-Hasnain is recognized by international scientific community with
awards
such as IEEE David Sarnoff Award
2011 for pioneering
contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays
and
tunable VCSELs; Optical
Society of America (OSA) Nick
Holonyak
Jr. Award 2007 from for
significant contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting
laser arrays, injection locking and slow light; and Japan Society of Applied Physics
Microoptics Award 2009 for distinguished works and
contributions to
develop and to promote microoptics technologies.
She received the Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation
Fellowship 2009, Humboldt Research Award from
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Foundation 2009, and Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Chair
Award from the Peoples Republic of China
2009. She
was also awarded with
one of the most prestigious faculty fellowship in 2008, the National
Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
by the Department
of Defense. This
award provides $4.5M
funding over 5 years for long-range research.
In addition, many of
her students received best paper awards in
international
conferences, including the Photonics Society Annual
Meeting 2010, International Symposium on
Compound Semiconductors
2010, Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2009, 65th Annual Device
Research
Conference, etc.
Prof. Chang-Hasnain contributed
significantly to the founding and building up
of Designated
Emphasis in Nanoscale Science and Engineering, for which she serves as
Chair
since 2006. She
developed a new
graduate course on Nanoscale Fabrication, which is co-listed by EECS
and
NSE. It has been
well received with
excellent enrollment from many departments.
Part of the DE-NSE program focuses on
development of leadership skills
by reaching out to high-school students and students from disadvantaged
communities. To
this extent, she
initiated a Summer High-School
Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP), in which high school
students
gained opportunity to do hands-on scientific investigations in research
labs at
UC Berkeley and the DE students designed research projects and served
as
mentors to supervise students. Since 2007, this program hosted 44 SHARP
students working with 50 mentors from 20+ laboratories in 10
departments. Among
the 44 SHARP interns, about 45% have
been female and 15% underrepresented. This program has been extremely
well
received.
International
collaboration
is a critical segment for the training of NSE students due to the
global
synergy and rapid advances of nanotechnology in Europe and
Asia. Under Prof.
Chang-Hasnain’s leadership, the
NSE established several programs.
First
of all, NSE has an exchange program which hosts visiting graduate
students from
abroad. Thus far,
it hosted 34 students
from University of Wurzburg, Technical Univ. Munich, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Secondly, NSE funds UCB graduate students
international
internships to spend time in foreign laboratories.
Thus far, more than 20 UCB students spent
time in Germany, Japan, China, Spain and Sweden.
In addition, Prof.
Chang-Hasnain
launched a 2-week
international summer school: the international Nano-Optoelectronics
Workshop
(iNOW). This series
was held in Wurzburg
(05), Berkeley (06), China (07), Japan (08), Germany (09) and China
(10). iNOW
highlighted state-of-the-art nanoscale
semiconductor processing and synthesis, new physics on the tailorable
optical
and electrical properties, advanced characterization techniques, and
novel
devices with new functionalities. Each year, Prof. Chang-Hasnain funded
more 15
graduate students from UCB NSE and EECS to attend this
workshop. In total, more than 200
doctoral students
each year from institutions worldwide presented posters in four student
poster
sessions. Students
had an unique
opportunity to network, learn each other’s research, and broaden their
understanding
of research and experiences to collaborate with people from different
cultural
backgrounds.
Professor
Chang-Hasnain is the
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Lightwave Technology since
2007. She was a member of the
USAF Scientific
Advisory Board and a member of the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs
and
Chair of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EEL)
Panel,
National Research Council. She has been
active in technical conferences, including serving as General Technical
Co-Chair and General Co-Chair for Asia Pacific Optical Communications
(APOC)
Conference in 2004 and 2005, respectively; Program and General Co-Chair
for
OSA Slow and Fast
Light Topical Meeting in 2006 and 2007,
respectively;
and the OSA Frontiers in Optics Conference in 2007.
Prof. Chang-Hasnain served as an IEEE LEOS
Board of Governor and an OSA Director-at-Large.
- PhD Electrical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Thesis Advisors: Professors John R. Whinnery and Andrew Dienes Thesis
Title: "High power performance and modulation of semiconductor lasers"
- MS
Electrical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
- BS
Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1982
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- IEEE David
Sarnoff Award, IEEE, 2011
Citation: For pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface
emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays and tunable VCSELs
- Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Chair
Award, the Peoples Republic of China, Ministry of
Education, 2009
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander
von Humboldt Stiftung Foundation, 2009
- Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 2009
- Microoptics Award, Microoptics
Conference (MOC), The Japan Society of Applied Physics, 2009
Citation: for distinguished works and contributions to develop and to
promote microoptics technologies
- National Security Science and
Engineering Faculty Fellowship, U.S. Department of Defense,
2008
- Nick Holonyak
Jr. Award, Optical Society of America, 2007.
Citation: for significant contributions to vertical cavity surface
emitting laser arrays, injection locking and slow light
- Gilbreth Lecturer,
National Academy of Engineering, 2005
Citation: in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of
optical communications
- Honorary Member, A. F.
Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005
- William Streifer Scientific
Achievement Award, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society,
2003.
Citation: for pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface
emitting lasers and VCSEL arrays for wavelength-division-multiplexing
applications
- Miller Professor, Miller
Institute for Basic Research in Science, 2003-2004
- Curtis W. McGraw Research Award,
the American Society of Engineering Education, 2000.
- Fellow of Institution of
Electrical Engineers (IEE), 2003.
- Fellow of IEEE,
1998.
Citation: For contributions to electro-optics in the area of monolithic
semiconductor laser arrays.
- Fellow of Optical Society
of America, 1997.
Citation: For the design and analysis of vertical cavity surface
emitting laser arrays and the invention of 2D wavelength-controlled
optoelectronic devices.
- Presidential Faculty Fellow,
White House, 1994-7.
30 awards are given annually by the White House to faculty in all areas
of science and engineering. Sponsored by the NSF.
- Packard Fellow, David and
Lucile Packard Foundation, 1992-7.
20 awards are given annually to faculty in all areas of science and
engineering.
- Distinguished Lecturer Award
of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 1994-5.
Citation Lecture: Vertical Cavity Laser Arrays
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1994-5.
- Reid and Polly Anderson Faculty Chair,
Stanford University, 1993-5.
- National Young Investigator Award,
National Science Foundation 1992-4.
- Young Alumnus of the Year,
University of California at Davis, 1993.
- Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer
Award Winner, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Electrical Engineer
Society, 1992.
Citation: by virtue of her notable contributions to electro-optics in
the area of monolithic semiconductor laser arrays and leadership in
professional societies.
- Best Paper Award, The
First Soviet-American Joint Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor
Lasers, Leningrad, USSR, May 1991.
Paper Title: Monolithic multiple wavelength tunable vertical cavity
surface emitting laser array.
- Bellcore Interim Award,
Bellcore, 1990-91.
- D. J. Sakrison Prize for
the Best PhD Dissertation from U.C. Berkeley, 1989.
Thesis Title: High power performance and modulation of semiconductor
lasers
- Quantum Fellowship from
the American Electronics Association, 1984-87.
- California
Fellowship in Microelectronics and Computer Sciences,
1982-84.
- First Place in
the PhD Preliminary Examination, EECS Dept., U.C. Berkeley,
1983.
- Graduate with Highest
Honor from University of California, Davis, 1982.
- Departmental Citation,
Dept. EECS, U.C. Davis, 1982.
- Second Prize in IEEE
Central Area Student Paper Contest, 1982.
- President's Undergraduate Fellowship,
UC Davis, 1981.
- Roger Chen, Best Student Award, 2010 IEEE
Photonics Society Annual Meeting, Denvor, Co.
- Roger Chen, ISCS Student Award, 2010
International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS ’10), Kagawa,
Japan.
- Christopher Chase, Best Poster Award. Workshop
on photonic technologies for access and interconnects 2010, Stanford,
CA.
- Vadim Karagodsky,
Second Place, Best Poster Award, international Nano-Optoelectronics
Workshop (iNOW) 2010.
- Wai Son (Wilson) Ko, Second Plase, Best Poster
Award, iNOW 2010.
- Christopher Chase, Third Place, Best Poster
Award, iNOW 2010.
- Roger Chen, Second Place, Best Poster Award,
iNOW 2010.
- Kar Wei (Billy) Ng, Third Place, Best Poster
Award, iNOW 2010.
- Michael Moewe, First Place, Best Poster Award,
iNOW 2009.
- Roger Chen, Second Place, Best Poster Award,
iNOW 2009.
- Christopher Chase, Third Place, Best Poster
Award, iNOW 2009.
- Wai Son (Wilson) Ko, Honorable Mention, Best
Poster Award, iNOW 2009.
- Roger Chen, National Defense Science and
Engineering Fellowship (NDSEG), 2009
- Devang Parekh, Infinera Best Student Paper
Award Finalist, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition
(OFC ‘09), San Diego.
- Forrest Sedgwick, 2009 Leon Chua Award, EECS,
University of California, Berkeley.
- Bala Pesala, Demetri Angelakos Award, EECS,
University of California, Berkeley 2009
- Weijian Yang, Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship,
UC Berkeley, 2009.
- Linus C. Chuang, Outstanding Graduate Student
Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2009.
- Xiaoxue Zhao, 2008 B.U. Chen Memorial
Scholarship, Photonic Society of Chinese Americans.
- Christopher Chase, Second Place, Student Poster
Award, international Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW) 2008.
- Roger Chen, Second Place, Student Poster Award,
iNOW 2008.
- Michael Moewe, Honorable Mention, Student
Poster Award, iNOW 2008.
- Xiaoxue Zhao, 2007 Leon Chua Award,
2007. EECS, University of California, Berkeley.
- M. Huang, Best Student Paper, 65th Annual
Device Research Conference, 2007.
- Ye Zhou, Best Student Paper Award, Optical
Society of America (OSA), 2007.
- Ye Zhou, M.C.Y. Huang and C.J. Chang-Hasnain,
“Very Large Fabrication Tolerance of VCSELs Using High-Contrast
Subwavelength Grating," Frontiers in Optics Conference, San Jose, CA,
17-20 September 2007.
- Linus C. Chuang, First Place of Student Poster
Award, iNOW 2007.
- Linus C. Chuang, Michael Moewe, Shanna
Crankshaw, Chris Chase, “Epitaxial III-V Nanowires on
Lattice-Mismatched Substrates by MOCVD”, International
Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop, Beijing and Lanzhou, China, 7/29-8/11/07
- Bala Pesala, Best Paper of Topical Meeting,
OSA, 2007.
- Bala Pesala, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Alexander V.
Uskov, Connie Chang-Hasnain, Tony H. Lin, “THz Tunable Slow Light and
Fast Light of Ultrashort Pulses in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”,
OSA Topical Meeting on Slow and Fast light, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8-11
July 2007.
- Mike Huang, PhD 2007, received B.U. Wang
Memorial Scholarship given by the Photonic Society of Chinese
Americans, 2007
- P. C. Ku, Ross Tucker Award, AIME Electronic
Materials Awards, 2004
- Lukas Chrostowski, Demetri Angelakos Award,
EECS, University of California, Berkeley 2004
- Chih-Hao Chang, PhD 2003, received B.U. Wang
Memorial Scholarship given by the Photonic Society of Chinese
Americans, 2003
- Happy Hsin, Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s
Scholarship, 2002-2006
- Janice Hudgings, Best Student Paper Award,
Optical Society of America, 1998. Paper: J.A. Hudgings, S.F.
Lim, R.J. Stone, G.S. Li, W. Yuen, K.Y. Lau, and C.J. Chang-Hasnain,
"Applications and Device Physics of a Novel VCSEL with an Intracavity
Quantum-Well Absorber," OSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 1998.
- Janice Hudgings, Intel Foundation Graduate
Fellowship, 1998-1999
- Yongan Wu, graduate research assistant,
received B.U. Wang Memorial Scholarship given by the Photonic Society
of Chinese Americans, 1996.
- Keith Toh, undergraduate research assistant,
received Dean's Award for Academic Achievement for extraordinary
intellectual accomplishments, Stanford University, 1995.
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