Other Activities

Served/serving as a reviewer for the following journals:

•  Optics Express – OSA  [recognition] [recognition] [recognition]
•  Photonics Research – OSA
•  Optics Letter – OSA [recognition]
•  Photonics Journal – IEEE
•  Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS – SPIE
• Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics – IOPscience

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

2009 – present     Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2009 – present     Senior Member, IEEE Photonics Society (IPC)
2009 – present     Senior Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
2009 – present     Senior Member, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
2012 – present     Member, European Physical Society (EPS)
2013 – present     Member, Die Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG)

Professional Services 

• 2024                     Subject Matter Expert Panelist – “Microelectronics” in Air Force Office of Scientific Research Spring Review 2024 [recognition]
• 2022                     Subcommittee Chair in 6-Materials, Foundries and Fabrication (MFF) within IEEE Photonics Conference 2022 (annual meeting), Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2022                     Subcommittee Chair in Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics in Compound Semiconductor Week (CSW), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2022.
• 2022                     General Chair of  Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics 2022 within OSA’s Advanced Photonics
• 2022                     Technical Program Committee in “S&I3 Semiconductor Lasers” in OSA’s CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, USA
• 2021                     Subcommittee Chair in Photonic Materials, Processes, Integration and Packaging (PPIP) in IEEE Photonics Conference 2021, Vancouver, Canada
• 2021                     Program Chair of  Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics 2021 within OSA’s Advanced Photonics,  Virtual, Appreciation Letter from the OSA President
• 2021                     Committee Member, EG 1510 – Electrical and Computer Engineering, NSERC, Canada, Appreciation Letter from the Director
• 2021                     Technical Program Committee in “S&I3 Semiconductor Lasers” in OSA’s CLEO 2021, San Jose, CA, USA
• 2020                    Technical Program Committee in Photonics, Imaging and Display of IEEE EDTM 2021 within IEEE Electron Devices Society
•  2019                    Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Progress in Wide-Bandgap and Ultrawide-Bandgap Materials” in Advances in Materials                                      Science and Engineering, Hindawi.
•     2019                   Subcommittee Chair – Photonic Integration and Packaging in IEEE Photonics Conference (annual meeting), Austin, TX, USA
•     2019                   Subcommittee Chair in “Photonic Devices” in OSA’s Advanced Photonics, IPR 2019, Burlingame, CA, USA

•     2018                   Guest Editor of the Feature Issue on “Mid-Infrared Lasers for Medical Applications” in Biomedical Optics Express, OSA
•     2018                   Technical Program Committee in “Photonic Devices” in OSA’s Advanced Photonics, IPR 2018, Zurich, Switzerland
•    2018                    Technical Program Committee in “Photonic Integration and Packaging (PIP)” in IEEE Photonics Conference 2018                                    (annual meeting), Reston, VA, USA
•     2017                   Guest Editor of the OSA’s Applied Optics, Feature Issue on Near- to Mid-IR (1­13 µm) III-V Semiconductor Lasers [Link]
•     2017                   Technical Program Committee in “Photonic Devices” in OSA’s Advanced Photonics, IPR 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA
•     2017                   Technical Program Committee in “Photonic Integration and Packaging (PIP)” in IEEE Photonics Conference 2017                                    (annual meeting), Orlando, FL, USA
•     2016-current    OSA Laser Systems Technical group, Vice Co-Chair  [Link1] [Link2]
•     2015                   Guest Editor of the Journal of Nanomaterials, Special Issue on Nanostructured                                                      Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices
•     2014–current   Reviewer in OSA Youth Education Grants and Student Chapter Grants
•     07/2013             Official Blogger in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2013, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

•     06/2014                 OSA Young Professionals – Science Writer in CLEO 2014, San Jose, CA

•     10/2014                 OSA Young Professionals – Science Writer in Frontiers in Optics/ Laser Science 2014, Tucson, AZ