This division covers a broad range of topics from the manufacturing of integrated circuits to their applications in real world systems.
Current research includes:
- adaptive circuits
- radio frequency circuits
- hardware security
- VLSI design
- co-packaged photonic circuits for AI acceleration and reconfigurable computing
- acoustic sensing in harsh environments
- microwave device and interconnect modeling
- IC test, and modeling of materials,components and circuits for high-frequency power electronics
- bioelectronics
- energy harvesting circuits
Faculty
Area Chair: Hamed Dalir
Volker Sorger
Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Professor in Semiconductor Photonics
Biography
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Devices & optoelectronics, Functional Materials, Photonic integrated circuits, AI Accelerators, Mixed-signal ASICs, Advanced Packaging, Machine Learning Workflows, Digital Twins, Strategic Initiatives & Industry Partnerships
Honors And Awards
2024 Fellow, IEEE
2023 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, SPIE
2023 Scientist Medal, IAAM
2022 Distinguished Researcher Award, SEAS GWU
2022 Fellow, SPIE
2022 Fellow, IAAM
2021 Fellow, Optical Society (formerly OSA)
2021 Highly Cited Researcher recognition (Elsevier, top 0.1% in field)
2021 DURIP Award, AFOSR
2020 Community Champion, SPIE
2019 PECASE – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, White House/U.S. President
2019 2x DURIP Awards, ARO & AFOSR
2019 Community Champion, SPIE
2018 Best Paper Award, ‘Highest expected future impact’ at the 2018 Cognitive Computing Conference
2017 Distinguished Career Award, GWU
2017 Gold Medal, 14th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology
2017 Senior Member, SPIE & IEEE & OSA
2016 Early Tenure Promotion
2016 Hegarty Innovations Prize
2016 Dean’s Outstanding Research Award, GWU
2015 Faculty Recognition Award, GWU
2014 YIP Award, AFOSR
2014 Annual ECE Faculty Award, GWU
2011 Gold Award, Material Research Society
2010 Best Paper Award, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2010 1st Price, Berkeley Nanoforum
2009 Emil Wolf Prize, OSA
2009 Finalist, European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Selection (top 0.2%)
Education
Ph.D., The University of California – Berkeley, 2011
Management of Technology, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, 2011
M.A., The University of Texas, 2005