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LEOS is proud to present profiles of our LEOS Graduate
Student Fellows of 2000:
 RANDY
BARTELS
Randy A. Bartels received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
2002. His Ph.D. work was performed at JILA in Boulder, CO, where he
worked on ultrafast laser development, coherent control of quantum systems,
and the study of extreme nonlinear optical processes. Among other advances,
this work led to the development of attophysics by manipulating the
strong-field dynamics of atomic electron wave functions with ~ 10 attosecond
precision. During his graduate career, Randy was supported by a National
Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and received numerous
awards, including the IEEE LEOS Graduate Fellowship, Optical Society
of America’s New Focus Student Research Award, a JILA scientific
achievement award, and selection as a finalist for the DAMOP Thesis
Award. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the Laser Science and
Technology division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory designing
and building diode-pumped solid-state laser systems. Randy joined Colorado
State University (CSU) as an assistant professor in January of 2003.
Since arriving at CSU, Prof. Bartels has been awarded the 2004 Adolph
Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, a 2004 National Science
Foundation CAREER award, and was recently named a 2005 Sloan Research
Fellow in physics. His current research involves the control of molecular
coherences for novel nonlinear optics and manipulation of ultrafast
optical pulses, as well as development of EUV laser sources and optical
systems and is funded by the NSF, the American Chemical Society Petroleum
Research Fund (Type G), and the Sloan Foundation. He is a member of
the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, Sigma
Xi, and the IEEE.
 MICHAEL
DUESER
The receipt of the 2000 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship was a big boost
in motivation during my Ph.D. programme. At the time of the award I
had completed nearly 2 years of my Ph.D., so it confirmed that my research
in the field of dynamic optical networking was both timely and state-of-the-art.
I am extremely grateful to my Ph.D. supervisor, Prof P. Bayvel of University
College London (UCL), UK, for proposing my name to the selection committee.
In the retrospective, the fellowship lent a lot of credibility to my
research, so the LEOS Annual Meeting just became the starting point
from which more than 50 contributions to journals, conferences and seminars
followed.
After completion of my Ph.D. in 2003 I became a postdoctoral research
fellow at UCL in a collaborative Basic Technology Project concerned
with the research of quantum computation, where a number of problems
on the small scale occur which show striking similarities to those problems
relevant in wide-area network design. Just recently I became a member
of technical staff at the Deutsche Telekom research facility in Berlin,
Germany, concerned with investigation of the combination of traffic
statistics and core network design problems.
 LAN
FU
It was a great honour for me to receive the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship
in 2000. At that time, being a final year PhD student and finding that
one’s research and hard work have been recognised by LEOS was really
a big encouragement. With the financial support from the Fellowship
program, it was a very enjoyable experience to attend the LEOS annual
meeting in Puerto Rico to meet excellent researchers and students from
all around the world. Most importantly, this award has greatly motivated
me to continue my career as a scientific researcher.
Since obtaining my PhD in 2001, I have continued my research in the
same Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group led by Prof.
C. Jagadish, in the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering,
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian
National University. I enjoy my work in the field of semiconductor materials
and optoelectronic devices.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank LEOS again for offering
such an excellent program and strongly encourage eligible graduate student
members to consider applying for this award.
 M.
SAIF ISLAM
In 2004, I joined the Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing department
of University of Cali-fornia, Davis as an Assistant Professor. After
my graduation from UCLA in 2001, I spend more than three years at SDL
Inc./JDS Uniphase Corporation, Gazillion Bits Inc. and Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories. Currently, my research focuses on the incorporation of
low-dimensional nanowire devices with conventional devices and circuit
elements, employing processes compatible with mass-manufacturing. Unlike
the research-based approach of sequentially connecting electrodes to
individual nano-structures for device physics studies, massively parallel
and manufacturable interfacing techniques are crucial for reproducible
fabrication and incorporation of dense, low-cost nanodevice arrays.
I have developed novel nano-device integration and mass-production techniques
that are entirely compatible with existing microelectronic and photonic
fabrication processes. My goals include the development of massively
parallel synthesis and integration processes for nano-structures for
potential applications bio-chemical sensing, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics,
memory and logic devices for future computing.
In 2000, the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship tremendously contributed
to boosting my morale to strive for attaining higher and challenging
goals. The meeting and subsequent ones offered me the opportunities
to mingle and exchange ideas with world experts in many different fields
and make new friends and future colleagues/collaborators. Many of them
continue to extend their help in broadening my knowledge in the fields
beyond my research interests. The award induced a lasting mark of inspiration
and self-confidence deep in my heart and the sizeable cash was very
helpful in taking care of many pressing needs. I am always thankful
to LEOS for offering this fellowship to graduate students.
VIJAY KRISHNAMURTHY
In 2002, I graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from Purdue University with specialization in advanced semiconductor
optoelectronic devices. My research focused on the design, fabrication,
and optimization of large-area high-speed MSM photodetectors for polymer
fiber-optic applications. The highlight of the work was the demonstration
of a large area photodetector (diameter = 300 m) with a bandwidth of
6 GHz. From 2004-present, I am working at National Semiconductor as
a Senior Device Engineer. My present responsibilities include device
modeling of advance semiconductor processes for analog applications
I was fortunate to be a recipient of the prestigious LEOS Graduate Student
Fellowship in 2000. The Fellowship is a very wonderful program. It provides
an excellent platform for recognizing significant contributions to the
research in the optoelectronics by graduate students. It has benefited
me immensely by highlighting my research contributions and was very
helpful during job interviews. To summarize, the Fellowship is an excellent
way in which the IEEE LEOS can recognize and support the up and coming
researchers who would be the milestones of the future. Keep up the good
work IEEE and LEOS and thanks very much!
 MOHD
ADZIR MAHDI
First and foremost, I would like to address my sincere gratitude to
IEEE LEOS for giving me this opportunity to have a piece of thought
on the IEEE LEOS Graduate Fellowship Award program. This award is a
symbol of recognition for young researchers who have contributed significantly
in the area defined by LEOS. It also has an open policy in which the
award is divided into a few geographical areas that provides equal opportunity
to other young researchers from developing countries like me. I felt
so grateful that my research under restricted facilities was recognized
by LEOS. This award has boosted my self-motivation and will always be
memorized as my all-time favorite award.
Upon receiving this award, I accepted an offer from a start-up company
in the United States (2001) and wasted no time in meeting the challenge
with one objective that was to be a successful optical engineer. It
was during my stint in the United States that I involved in the design
and development of two commercial designs and numerous engineering prototypes
that all related to optical amplification technologies. I also had one
patent pending approval in the United States for a unique design of
high-end amplifier that can self-adjust its gain shape automatically
without the use of a channel monitor. Unfortunately, the optical fiber
communication was no longer immortal technology in the late 2002 and
due to this collapse; I opted to become a university lecturer in Malaysia.
Now, I am an associate professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia and still
active in research that includes but not limited to optical fiber devices,
optical fiber communications and optical fiber sensors. Nevertheless,
this award has significantly contributed to the recognition of my research
in Malaysia whereby, I was awarded for the National Excellent ICT Teacher
Award 2003. Furthermore, my university also nominated me as one of the
candidates for the National Young Scientist Award 2003 which is still
pending.
Mohd Adzir Mahdi
Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Universiti Putra Malaysia
43400 UPM Serdang
Selangor, Malaysia
VITALY MIKHAILOV
I received the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship for 2000 when I was
in the middle of my PhD studies in the Optical Networks Group, Department
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
under the supervision of Professor Polina Bayvel. The fellowship was
an important confirmation that my research in the area of multiwavelength
high speed optical fibre transmission was important and relevant. The
development of the reconfigurable recirculating fibre loop testbed and
the investigation of fibre nonlinearities with different modulation
formats propagating over various dispersion maps at 10 and 40 Gbit/s,
were the most important subjects of my PhD research which resulted in
45 publications and conference presentations at all the leading international
conferences such as OFC, ECOC and CLEO.. I was awarded my PhD degree
in 2003 and in 2004 I received the Institute of Physics Quantum Electronics
and Photonics Group PhD prize (highly commended) for ‘PhD thesis
examined in 2003’.. All these achievements would have been impossible
without the help of my supervisor Prof. Polina Bayvel and colleagues
from the group. During this time I was also fortunate to have the opportunity
to spend time as a consultant in the Photonics Systems Group at Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (headed by Dr Martin Zirngibl and
collaborating with S. Chandrasekhar, C.R. Doerr et al). This fruitful
collaboration is ongoing.
Currently I am a Senior Research Fellow (and concurrently appointed
to a Research Councils’ UK Academic Fellowship) in the Optical
Networks Group, where I have a brilliant opportunity to continue my
research of the fundamental effects governing high speed (> 80 Gbit/s/channel)
optical transmission and all-optical signal processing.
SAIEDEH SAGHAFI
Information not available at time of printing.
 YURI
A. SHPOLYANSKIY
I have been working in the group of Prof. Sergei A. Kozlov at St.Petersburg
State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics,
Russia since 1996 when I was a second-year student. I analyze theoretically
phenomena accompanying propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses
in transparent media. In 2000, on the last year of my Masters program
I was awarded IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship. That time I should
make a choice whether to continue my favorite University studies within
the framework of a Ph.D. course after graduation or look for another
job, most likely not purely scientific because the financial situation
in Russian science was very difficult. Successfully, the Fellowship
money appeared to be the base for my studies and I joined Ph.D. program
in ultrafast optics. In addition, the Fellowship helped me participate
in the European Conference on Optical Com-munications 2001, held in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In 2003 I finalized my thesis titled “Scenarios of spectral ultrabroadening
of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical waveguides” and
received the Degree of Candidate of Science in Phys. and Math., which
is the Russian equivalent of Ph.D. Since 2004 I am working for the Degree
of Doctor of Science, the highest scientific degree in Russia similar
to Full Professorship. I continue researches in ultrafast optics, supervise
M.S. students and teach general physics to first-year students. I am
an author and co-author of 30 papers in Russian and International scientific
journals and more than 40 reports at International Con-ferences. The
IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship opened me a way to other international
awards for young scientists as SPIE Educational Scholarships in Optical
Science and Engineering including named Nakajima Scholarships (2001-2004)
and OSA New Focus Student Award (2001). I am very grateful to IEEE/LEOS
for supporting my scientific career.
SARUN SUMRIDDETCHKAJORN
Information not available at time of printing.
 WAI
MUN WONG
I’m currently working as contract re-search fellow at the photonics
research group at Aston University, United Kingdom. My research interest
focuses around all-optical bit serial processing for future optical
networks. Aside from academic research, I’m involved in a commercial
study of existing undersea long-haul fiber systems for a startup company.
With the cash reward, I bought myself a personal computer plus accessories
for my research work. For the next years ahead, I believe that assigning
a mentor from the panel of judges to each future graduate student fellow
would further develop the full talent and potential of these future
young researchers.
Wai Mun Wong, Ph.D
wongwm@ieee.org
 WEIDONG
ZHOU
I graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2001, with
a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. My research experience includes
areas of semiconductor lasers, receiver and transceiver based OEICs,
spans from design and fabrication to characterization. My PhD thesis
focus was on novel transmitter research involving microcavity, quantum
dot, and photonic crystal devices, which led to 37 peer reviewed journal
publications, conference presentations and invited/plenary talks. The
Research work on electrically injected photonic crystal light emitting
devices leads to the exclusive Nature News and Views review after it
was published in Electronics Letters. I received LEOS Graduate Student
Fellowship award in 2000 for my outstanding academic performance and
research achievement.
After my graduation, I joined CIENA Corporation, a leading company on
the wavelength division multiplex (WDM) technology. I worked as a lead
engineer at the Active Photonics Group, responsible for the C band tunable
lasers and the OC192 transponders for the next generation ultra-high
density WDM systems.
In Fall 2004, I joined the University of Texas at Arlington, as an assistant
professor of Electrical Engineering. Currently, I am a faculty member
at the NanoFAB center. My current research interest includes photonic
crystal based semiconductor lasers and detectors, OEIC, nanophotonic
and nanoelectronic based photonic IC.
Dr. Weidong Zhou
Assistant Professor of
Electrical Engineering
NanoFAB Center
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
wzhou@uta.edu
My suggestions on IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship
program:
I hope the program not only recognizes the fellows’ past performance,
but also provides a means for the fellows to communicate and collaborate
in the long term, to share both academia and industrial experiences,
to promote and stimulate creative thinking and high quality research/development.
Some examples of activities:
- Make a special section at LEOS (night section,
poster or oral) for all fellows to present their major technical achievements.
- Enhance the network among the fellows: Setup email
list; compile fellow profiles; a dedicated weblink on LEOS student
web site, social events during LEOS annual meeting for past and current
fellows.
- How about a LEOS fellow summit every two years?
LEOS fellows can showcase their achievement and update their career
activities.
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