Dr. Volker Sorger
RHINES ENDOWED PROFESSOR IN SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONICS
DIRECTOR: FLORIDA SEMICONDUCTOR INSTITUTE
Research interests:
Devices & optoelectronics, AI/ML accelerators, mixed-signal ASICs, quantum processors, cryptography
Dr. Volker Soger comes to the University of Florida via George Washington University, where he led the Devices & Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley in 2011 and his M.A. from the University of Texas in 2005. He is a fellow of OSA/Optica, SPIE, IAAM, and the German National Academic Foundation. He is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He was a 2009 finalist for astronaut selection by the European Space Agency and is a licensed pilot.
Dr. Yingying Wu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Quantum materials, quantum devices, nanoelectronics, magnetism and spintronics, non-volatile memory, unconventional computing (e.g. quantum and neuromorphic computing)
Prior to her arrival at the University of Florida, Dr. Yingying Wu was a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California–Los Angeles in 2020. She received a MPhil in physics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016.
Dr. Elham Heidari
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Nanophotonic and optical interconnect, integrated photonics, quantum engineering, sensors, MOS and nanostructure device modeling
Dr. Elham Heidari received her Ph.D. electrical & computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021 and her M.S. in electrical & computer engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014.
Dr. Hamed Dalir
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Mid-IR photonics, on-chip light sources, classical & quantum Sensors, Ising Machine, AI accelerator, photonics integrated circuits
Dr. Hamed Dalir received his PD from the University of California–Berkeley in 2016 and his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014.