Li Innovation Prize (CLEO)
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Li Innovation Prize (CLEO)
Recognizing the top early career members innovative ideas at CLEO.
Program Prize
USD 3,000
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The Tingye Li Innovation Prize is presented to an early-career professional who has demonstrated innovative ideas in their accepted paper to CLEO, the premier conference for lasers and electo-optics.
Application Information
How To Apply
Submit a paper to CLEO and opt into the competition. Learn more on the conference website.
Important Dates
The submitting author must opt-in to the competition during the regular paper submission process and follow all of the instructions provided on the submission site.
Paper Submission Deadline: 07 April 2024
Applicant Requirements
- Have an accepted paper to CLEO or a Post Deadline Paper (PDP) and must have "opted in" during the submission process
- Be a current early career member who has received a terminal degree within the last five years or will receive a terminal degree by the application deadline.
- Be responsible for, and exhibit innovative ideas in, their research
- Agree to let the Optica Foundation use their picture, name and story in program marketing opportunities.
Application Requirements
The submitting author must opt-in to the competition during the regular paper submission process.
If you have questions, please contact apply@optica.org.
2025 Recipient
Daniel Herman
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
For their paper "Squeezing in a dual-comb centerburst"
Past Recipients
Nicholas Rivera
Harvard University, USA
For their paper "An ab initio framework for understanding and controlling quantum fluctuations in complex light-matter systems"
Chen Shang
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
For their paper "scalable on-chip lasers grown on 300 mm Si wafers"
Armin Feist
MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
For their paper "electron-photon correlations induced at a photonic integrated
microresonator"
Yating Wan
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
For their paper "1.3 µm regrown quantum-dot distributed feedback lasers on (001) Si: a pathway to scale towards 1 Tbit/s"
Julia Gessner
National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
For their paper "Ultrafast Charge and Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnets"
Shai Tsesses
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
For their paper "Optical skyrmions: a new topological state of light"
Logan G. Wright
Cornell University, USA
For their paper "Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking"
Yoshitomo Okawachi
Columbia University, USA
Marcus Seidel
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
For their paper "development of Watt-class femtosecond sources at mid-IR wavelengths beyond the oxygen absorption edge around 5 µm"
Antonietta De Sio
Universitat Oldenburg, Germany
For their paper "50x50 Digital Silicon Photonic Switches with MEMS-Actuated Adiabatic Couple"
Contributors
This honor is endowed by Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc., AT&T, Optica, the IEEE Photonics Society, the IEEE Communications Society, Thorlabs, Inc., the Li family and supporters of the Tingye Li Memorial Fund.
About the Endowment
Established in 2013, the Li Innovation Prize honors the global impact Tingye Li made to laser science and optical fiber communications.
Selection Committee
The recipient is selected by the CLEO conference chairs.
