Demetri Psaltis ( el, Δημήτρης Ψάλτης) is a Greek-

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

who was the Dean of the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2007 to 2017. He is a Professor in Bioengineering and Director of the Optics Laboratory of the EPFL. He is one of the founders of the term and the field of

optofluidics Optofluidics is a research and technology area that combines the advantages of fluidics (in particular microfluidics) and optics. Applications of the technology include displays, biosensors, lab-on-chip devices, lenses, and molecular imaging tools ...

. He is also well known for his past work in holography, especially with regards to

optical computing Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication for computing. For decades, photons have shown promise to enable a higher bandwidth than the ...

, holographic data storage, and

neural networks A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...

. He is an author of over 1100 publications, contributed more than 20 book chapters, invented more than 50 patents, and currently has a h-index of 98.

Education

Demetri Psaltis received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1975), and Ph.D. (1977) at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

Academic career

From 1980 to 2007, he worked at Caltech as an Assistant Professor (1980–1985), Associate Professor (1985–1990), Full Professor (1990–1996), Executive Officer for

Computation and Neural Systems The Computation and Neural Systems (CNS) program was established at the California Institute of Technology in 1986 with the goal of training Ph.D. students interested in exploring the relationship between the structure of neuron-like circuits/networ ...

(1992–1996), Director for the National Science Foundation Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering (1996–1999), Thomas G. Myers Professor (1996–2007) and Director for the DARPA Center for Optofluidic Integration (2004–2007). In 2007, he moved to Switzerland as a Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering at EPFL. His current research focuses on

and nonlinear optics particularly in scattering media. His past research had focused on

, holographic data storage, and

Honors

2012 Emmett N. Leith Medal.
2006 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award.
2005 IEEE Fellow.
2003 Humboldt Prize for Senior U.S. Scientists.
2002 NASA Space Act Award.
1997 SPIE Fellow.
1989 International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize for contributions in Optical Information Processing.

OSA Fellow The Optica Fellow is a membership designation of Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA)) that denotes distinguished scientific accomplishment. The bylaws of this society only allow 10% of its membership to be designated as an Opti ...

References

External links

Personal page of Demetri Psaltis on the EPFL website

Optics Laboratory
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Psaltis, Demetri Date of birth missing (living people) 1953 births Living people Greek electrical engineers American electrical engineers Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of SPIE Carnegie Mellon University alumni