December 2018: Works on Topographically Anisotropic Photonics selected for OPN’s special issue on Optics in 2018 that “highlights 30 major achievements of the year in optical science, engineering and technology”
December 2018: Invited paper Heterogeneous Nonlinear Integrated Photonics is featured on the cover of the corresponding issue of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
September 2018: S. Fathpour shares three stories on OSA webpage: His work in integrated photonics, his mentorship, and how he decided on his career path
August 2018: S. Fathpour promoted to Full Professor of Optics and Photonics
July 2018: Article Thinking beyond Conventional Silicon Photonics, featured in the PIC magazine
September 2017: S. Fathpour elected Fellow of OSA, The Optical Society
April 2017: Topical review paper chosen as paper of the week in the Journal of Optics
March 2017: S. Fathpour receives the College Research Incentive Award
March 2017: S. Fathpour receives the College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
February 2017: Research and commercialization efforts featured in Florida High Tech Corridor magazine
May 2016: Paper coauthored by S. Fathpour among the most impactful papers from third of a century history of Journal of Lightwave Technology
April 2015: S. Fathpour receives the UCF Reach for the Stars Award
January 2015: J. Chiles wins the College Student of the Year Award
December 2014: Paper coauthored by S. Fathpour entitled “Silicon Photonics” among top 20 cited papers in Journal of Lightwave Technology
November 2014: Paper published in Optica on mid-infrared integrated photonics highlighted in Opli and other news sites
July 2014: J. Chiles wins the IEEE Photonics Society 2014 Summer Topical Meeting Student Paper Award
August 2014: S. Fathpour promoted to tenured Associate Professor
December 2013: Research on optical delay lines on silicon highlighted in Advances in Engineering
November 2013: Research on lithium-niobate-on-silicon photonics highlighted in Laser Focus World, Photonics Online and other news sites
May 2013: S. Fathpour receives the university’s Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
April 2013: S. Fathpour receives the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
March 2013: S. Fathpour receives the College’s Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
March 2013: S. Fathpour elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society
May 2012: S. Fathpour elevated to Senior Member of OSA, the Optical Society
May 2012: S. Fathpour is appointed as the Vice-Chair of Short Courses at CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics)
January 2012: S. Fathpour receives the NSF CAREER Award for proposal on “Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits on Silicon”
January 2012: New book, co-edited by S. Fathpour published by CRC Press: “Silicon Photonics for Telecommunications and Biomedicine“
August 2011: IPES Lab paper “Electronically Tunable Silicon Photonic Delay Lines” highlighted in Nature Photonics
July 2011: S. Fathpour elevated to Senior Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
May 2011: S. Fathpour teaches a Short Course on “Silicon photonics” at the CLEO 2011 conference in Baltimore, MD
November 2009: Book chapter on “Energy Efficiency in Silicon Photonics“ published in in Silicon Nanophotonics by John Wiley & Sons
October 2009: S. Fathpour’s invited talk at the OSA Annual Meeting highlighted by photonics.com
June 2009: Featured article on “Green silicon photonics” published and made it to the cover of Optics and Photonic News
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