AIM PHOTONICS SUMMER ACADEMY INSTRUCTORS
This year’s AIM Photonics Summer Academy instructors feature top academics and researchers from some of the country’s leading universities and photonics institutes leading a series of short courses in process and design flows, process variation and design for manufacturing, active and passive devices, fabless PICS, optical testing and PIC packaging, as well as a broad range of integrated photonic applications, such as datacom, sensing, wireless, AR imaging and quantum computing.
Anu Agarwal is principal research scientist at MIT, where she is developing integrated Si-CMOS compatible linear and non-linear materials for photonic devices, especially in the mid-IR regime, for hyperspectral imaging and chem-bio sensing, because most chemical and biological toxins have their fingerprints in this range. Her work on MIR materials and devices is creating a planar, integrated, Si-CMOS-compatible microphotonics platform that will enable on-chip imaging and sensing applications.
Moderator: Sensor PICs
Duane Boning's research focuses on understanding and modeling variation in IC, photonic, and MEMS processes, devices, and circuits. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT, where he is currently Professor of EECS, and where he serves as Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program, the MIT Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations (MIMO) effort, and as Associate Director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL).
Instructor: Process Variation and Design for Manufacturing short course
Thomas Brown is professor and director of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on polarized light in free space optics and waveguides, stress engineered optical elements, and the discovery of new metrology methods for photonic integrated circuits.
Instructor: PIC Packaging short course
Jaime Cardenas is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester working on integrated and nanoscale photonics. He earned his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in Optical Science and Engineering, investigating single air interface bends and waveguide microcantilevers. After two years as a process engineer, he worked at the Cornell Nanophotonics Group until 2016, before joining the Institute of Optics.
Instructor: PIC Optical Testing short course
Dirk Englund earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 2008. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined Columbia University as Assistant Professor of E.E. and of Applied Physics. He joined the MIT EECS faculty in 2013. Recent recognitions include the 2011 PECASE, the 2011 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, and the OSA's 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, a Bose Research Fellowship in 2018, and a 2020 Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Instructor: Quantum & Neuromorphic Computing short course
Ryan Hammerly a research scientist at NTT PHI Labs and a visitor at MIT with Prof. Dirk Englund. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2016, for work with Prof. Hideo Mabuchi on quantum control, nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics. In 2017 he was at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), working with Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto on quantum annealing and optical computing concepts.
Instructor: Quantum & Neuromorphic Computing short course
Juejun Hu is the Merton C. Flemings Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. His research interest is in optics and photonics for sensing, imaging, communications, and photovoltaics applications.
Instructor: PIC Passive Devices short course
Lionel Kimerling is the Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and the founding Director of the MIT Microphotonics Center, where he conducts an active research program in the design and processing of semiconductor materials and devices. He is the Strategic Advisory Board Executive for Education and Workforce Development at AIM Photonics, and also serves as Executive of the AIM Photonics Summer Academy.
Instructor: Chip Process Flow short course, Moderator: Datacom PICs
Jifeng Liu is an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College. His major research field includes integrated Si photonics for ultralow energy photonic datalinks, as well as nanomaterials and nanostructures for solar thermal and solar photovoltaics.
Instructor: PIC Active Devices short course
David Marpaung is a full professor leading the Nonlinear Nanophotonics group at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is working on photonic integration in silicon nitride, nonlinear photonics, laser and frequency combs, optomechanics, and microwave photonics, He is a fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and a recipient of the 2021 ERC Consolidator grant on the topic of 3D photonic circuits for Brillouin scattering.
Instructor: Wireless short course
Ben Miller is the Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Optics at the University of Rochester. Miller is a founder of Adarza BioSystems, Inc., and the Academic Lead for Integrated Photonic Sensors in AIM Photonics.
Instructor: Sensing short course
Jelena Notaros is the Robert J. Shillman Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 2020. Her research interests are in integrated silicon photonics devices, systems, and applications. Jelena was one of three Top DARPA Risers, a 2018 DARPA D60 Plenary Speaker, a 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Listee, a 2021 MIT Robert J. Shillman Career Development Chair recipient, a 2020 MIT RLE Early Career Development Award recipient, a 2015 MIT Grier Presidential Fellow, a 2015-2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a 2019 OSA CLEO Chair's Pick Award recipient, among other honors.
Instructor: Imaging short course, Moderator: 3D Imaging PICs
Sajan Saini is the Education Director at AIM Photonics Academy, MIT. He has been a lecturer at Princeton University in writing and science communications, and was formerly a member of the physics faculty at Queens College of CUNY. His photonics research interests include waveguide optical amplifiers, nanostructured materials, and photonic crystal devices.
Moderator: RF PICs
Chris Striemer is the Business Development and Facilities Manager for AIM Photonics Test, Assembly and Packaging facility in Rochester, NY where he coordinates projects with members and customers to most efficiently leverage the institute’s advanced packaging, metrology, and testing capabilities for their prototype designs in order to help drive them toward commercial success. Previously, he founded and led product development at two silicon technology companies in specializing in optical biosensing and microfluidics. Chris has published numerous papers along with collaborators across the industry in fields ranging from solar cell optical coatings to ultrathin membranes to label-free biomolecular detection. He earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Buffalo and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester.
Instructor: AIM Photonics Test, Assembly and Packaging short course
Kazumi Wada is a Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and an Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo.Since 1998, his research focus has been on Electronic and Photonic Convergence on a Si CMOS platform, some of which are for integrated photonics applications in for 3D imaging and sensing systems based on Ge-on-Si for near infrared (IR), and Pb chalcogenides for mid- and long-wavelength IR.
Moderator: 3D Imaging PICs