Honors & Awards
Honors and Awards (2021)
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M. Brongersma, The Stephen Harris Professor of the School of Engineering, Stanford University, 2020
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J. Vuckovic, Dresselhaus Lecture, MIT, November 2021
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S. Fan, Simons Investigator in Physics, 2021
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S. Fan, The Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor in the School of Engineering, 2021
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A. Alù, S. Fan, Highly Cited Researcher, 2021
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A. Alù, AAAFM-Heeger Award, 2021
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A. Alù, Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (2021)
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A. Alù, Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2021)
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A. Alù, MRS Fellowship (2021)
Honors and Awards (2020)
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Andrea Alù, Top 10 Breakthrough of the Year in Physics
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Andrea Alù, Director of Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries
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Andrea Alù, 2020 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists (Finalist)
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Andrea Alù, National Academy of Inventors Fellowship
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Andrea Alù, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship
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Mark Brongersma, Director-at-large of the Optical Society Board of Directors
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Mark Brongersma, Appointed as the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford
University
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Hongkun Park, A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto
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Andrea Alù, Mikhail Lukin, Philip Kim, Hongkun Park, Shanhui Fan, Albert Polman, Highly Cited
Researchers, the Web of Science Group
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Mikhail Lukin, George Gamow Award
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Philip Kim, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Nader Engheta, Recipient of the 2020 Max Born Award from the Optical Society (OSA)
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Nader Engheta, Recipient of the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK)
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, 2021-2023 Chair-Elect for the OSA Photonic Metamaterials Technical Group
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, 2020 Princeton Pathway to Academy program (all-virtual due to COVID19)
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, 2020 URSI Young Scientist Award, URSI-General Assembly Symposium (GASS),
Rome, Italy, 2021 (postponed due to COVID19)
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, Selected to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (postponed for
2021 due to COVID19)
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, Best Doctoral Thesis Award: Best doctoral thesis for the year 2019, School of
Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, 2019 URSI EMTS Young Scientist Award, San Diego, CA, USA.
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Dimitrios Tzarouchis, 2019 AGU Radio Science, Top20 most read articles for the year 2017-2018.
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Jelena Vuckovic, James P. Gordon Memorial Speaker, the Optical Society
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R.Trivedi, Research visit award, The Europe Center and the Stanford Club of Germany's Graduate
Research and Internship Program
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R.Trivedi, Runner up for Ken Hass Outstanding paper award at APS March Meeting 2020
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Roel Baets received the John Tyndall award in 2020
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Wim Bogaerts was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2020
Honors and Awards (2019)
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Director-at-large of the Optical Society Board of Directors (M. Brongersma)
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Co-Chair of Programmable Photonics, IEEE Photonics Summer Topicals 2019 (D. Miller)
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International Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (N. Engheta)
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Ellis Island Medal of Honor (N. Engheta)
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Distinguished Scholar of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (J. Vuckovic)
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IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize (J. Vuckovic)
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A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto (H. Park)
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National Academy of Inventors Fellow (A. Alù)
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AAAS Fellow (A. Alù)
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IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (A. Alù)
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DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (A. Alù)
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Cover of Small 2019
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2019 Highly Cited Researcher, the Web of Science Group (several PIs)
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2020 Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of APL Photonics (N. Mohammadi Estakhri)
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Tenure-track faculty position at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (M. Mencagli)
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President’s Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore (G. Hu)
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CUNY Postdoctoral Travel Award (S. Mann)
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Outstanding Chinese Ph.D. Students Studying Abroad (M. Wang)
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Many invited, keynote, plenary talks at international conferences
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National Academy of Sciences (M. Lukin)
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Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize (P. Kim)
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DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (S. Fan)
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Associate editor for ACS Photonics (J. Vuckovic)
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Tenure-track position at University of California, Davis (M. Radulaski)
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Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University (K. Yang)
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2018 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching service in Electrical Engineering
department at Stanford University (R. Trivedi)
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Director at Large of the Optical Society Board of Directors (M. Brongersma)
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Best Thesis Prize from Springer (M. Mencagli)
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2018 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from IEEE Nanotechnology Council (N. Engheta)
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OSA Executive Committee and Chair of the Awards Committee (M. Brongersma)
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Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship (M. Radulaski)
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Rising Stars in EECS (M. Radulaski (2017), N. Mohammadi Estakhri (2017, 2018))
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PRL Editor’s Suggestion with Y. Radi, D. Sounas, A. Alù, “Meta-Gratings: Beyond the Limits of Graded
Metasurfaces for Wavefront Control,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067404 (2017)
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J. Perczel, J. Borregaard, D. E. Chang, H. Pichler, S. F. Yelin, P. Zoller, M.D. Lukin, “Topological Quantum
Optics in Two-Dimensional Atomic Arrays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 023603 (2017)
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A. Krasnok, D. G. Baranov, A. Generalov, S. Li, and A. Alù, “Coherently Enhanced Wireless Power Transfer,”
Physical Review Letters 120, 143901 (2018).
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Feature Article for A. Raza et al, “ALD assisted nanoplasmonic slot waveguide for on-chip Enhanced
Raman Spectroscopy”, Applied Physics Letters 3, 116105 (2018)
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J. Opt. Editor’s Pick with M. Tymchenko, J. S. Gomez-Diaz, J. Lee, M. A. Belkin, A. Alù, “Highly-Efficient
THz Generation Using Nonlinear Plasmonic Metasurfaces,” J. Opt. 19, 104001 (2017)
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Cover of Nature Photonics with D. Sounas, A. Alù, “Non- Reciprocal Photonics Based on Time
Modulation,” Nature Photon. 11, 774 (2017)
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Cover of Nature Electronics with D. L. Sounas, J. Soric, A. Alù, “Broadband Passive Isolators with Large
Efficiency Based on Coupled Nonlinear Resonances,” Nature Electronics (2018).
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Cover of Advanced Materials with M. Wang, A. Krasnok, T. Zhang, L. Scarabelli, H. Liu, Z. Wu, L. M. Liz-
Marzán, M. Terrones, A. Alù, Y. Zheng, “Tunable Fano Resonance and Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Single
Au Nanotriangles on Monolayer WS2 at Room Temperature,” Advanced Materials 30, 1705779 (2018).
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News and Views article for P. Y. Chen, M. Sakhdari, M. Hajizadegan, Q. Cui, M. Cheng,El-Ganainy, and A.
Alù, “Generalized Parity-Time Symmetry Condition For Enhanced Sensor Telemetry,” Nature Electronics 1,
297 (2018).
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2018, 2017 ISI Highly Cited Researchers: A. Alù, N. Engheta, Fan, P. Kim, M. Lukin, A. Polman
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2017 ICO Prize in Optics (A. Alù)
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Fellow of SPIE (A. Alù)
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Blavatnik National Award Finalist (2016, 2017, 2018, A. Alù)
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IEEE AP-S AdCom (A. Alù)
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IUMRS Young Researcher Award (A. Alù)
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International USNC-URSI Travel Grant (N. Mohammadi Estakhri)
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American Physical Society DMP Postdoc Travel Grant Award (N. Mohammadi Estakhri)
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Honorary Doctorate from Ukraine’s National Technical University (N. Engheta)
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Honorary Doctorate from University of Stuttgart, Germany (N. Engheta)
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Honorary Doctor of Technology from Aalto University, Finland (N. Engheta)
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2017 Beacon of Photonics Industry Award from Photonics Media (N. Engheta)
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2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award from IEEE Photonics Society (N. Engheta)
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Fellow of URSI (N. Engheta)
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2017 EPS Research into the Science of Light Prize (A. Polman)
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Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich,
Germany (J. Vuckovic)