John E. Bowers | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Title | Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology |
| Parent | Charles E. Bowers |
| Awards | Member of National Academy of Engineering Fellow of the IEEE Fellow of The Optical Society Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S., Physics (1976) M.S., Applied Physics (1978) Ph.D., Applied Physics (1981) |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota Stanford University |
| Thesis | Broadband monolithic Sezawa wave storage correlators and convolvers (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gordon S. Kino[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
John E. Bowers is an American physicist, engineer, researcher and educator. He holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology,[2] the director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a distinguished professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials at University of California, Santa Barbara.[3] He was the deputy director of American Institute of Manufacturing of Integrated Photonics from 2015 to 2022.[4]
Bowers' research is focused on silicon photonic integrated circuits for fiber optic communications.[5] He has edited two books, published sixteen book chapters, 900 journal papers, and 1300 conference papers. He holds 73 patents.[6] He has co-founded six companies, including Terabit Technology (acquired by Ciena), Aerius Photonics (acquired by FLIR), Aurrion (acquired by Juniper), Calient Networks, Nexus Photonics and Quintessent.[7]
Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,[8] a fellow of the IEEE, OSA, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement to Science (AAAS).[9] He is a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Award,[10] OSA Tyndall Award, OSA Holonyak Prize, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Pioneer and Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.[11] He is a highly cited researcher.
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