Jelena Vuckovic - a brief bio

Jelena Vuckovic was educated at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the University of Nis, Serbia (Diploma in Engineering, 1994), and at the California Institute of Technology - Caltech (MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 2002, respectively). After graduating from Caltech, she spent a year (2002) working as a postdoctoral scholar in Applied Physics at Stanford University. In 2003, she joined the faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department and Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford, where she is currently an Associate Professor and a Chambers Faculty Scholar. She leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics research group and her research focuses on experimental nanophotonics and quantum photonics.

Vuckovic is a recipient of several awards, including the Humboldt Prize, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, and the Frederic E. Terman Fellowship from Stanford University. 

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