Applied Physics Seminar

Speaker's Bio:
Alan Willner received the Ph.D. from Columbia Univ., has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore, and is Professor of EE at USC. He received the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF National Young Investigator Award, Fulbright Foundation Senior Scholars Award, IEEE LEOS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Award, USC University-Wide Award for Excellence in Teaching, IEEE Fellow, OSA Fellow, SRC Student Fellowship, Armstrong Foundation Memorial Prize, and Eddy Paper Award from Pennwell Publications for Best Contributed Technical Article. Prof. Willner has been President of IEEE LEOS, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/OSA J. of Lightwave Technology, Editor-in-Chief of Optics Letters, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Co-Chair of OSA Science & Engineering Council, General Co-Chair of CLEO, Chair of the IEEE TAB Ethics Committee, and LEOS Annual General Chair and OSA Annual Program Co-Chair. Prof. Willner has 700 publications, including two books and 25 patents.