Jelena Vuckovic

Jelena Vuckovic is the Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford University, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab in the Ginzton Laboratory. She also served as the Fortinet Founders Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and was the inaugural director of QFARM, the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative. She receiving her PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Vukovic is the lead editor of Physical Review Applied, a member of the PNAS Editorial Board, and a co-founder and a lead scientific advisor of SPINS Photonics. Her research interests are broadly in the areas of photonics and quantum science and engineering, and her current projects include semiconductor quantum systems, heterogeneously integrated, inverse designed photonics, and on-chip integrated laser systems, such as Ti:sapphire lasers. She has graduated 33 PhD students and 25 postdocs so far.

She is a Fellow of Optica, APS, and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards and honors include the R.W. Wood Prize, the James Gordon Memorial Speakership, the Zeiss Research Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Distinguished Scholarship of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship, Marko V. Jaric Award, Humboldt Prize, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.