Jelena Vučković is a Serbian-born American professor and a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She served as Fortinet Founders Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at

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from August 2021 through June 2023. Vučković leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) Lab, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE Institute, SIMES Institute, and Bio-X at Stanford. She was the inaugural director of the Q-FARM initiative (Quantum Fundamentals, ARchitecture and Machines). She is a Member of the

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, an External Scientific Member of the

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics The Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (abbreviation: MPQ; ) is a part of the Max Planck Society which operates 87 research facilities in Germany. The institute is located in Garching, Germany, which in turn is located 10 km north-eas ...

, and a Fellow of

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, the

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and the

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. Vučković's research interests include

nanophotonics Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. I ...

quantum information Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both t ...

technologies,

quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry that studies the behavior of photons (individual quanta of light). It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons and their interaction ...

photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...

inverse design,

nonlinear optics Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in Nonlinearity, nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light. The non-linearity ...

optoelectronics Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radi ...

, cavity QED. Vučković is the Lead editor for Physical Review Applied.

Early life and education

Jelena Vučković was born in Niš, Serbia. She studied at the

University of Niš The University of Niš () is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1965. As of the 2018-19 school year, it consists of 13 faculties with 1,492 academic staff and around 20,500 students. It has a university library "Nikola Tesla"; th ...

. She received her M.S. (1997) and PhD (2002) in Electrical Engineering from the

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(Caltech). In 2002, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Applied Physics Department at Stanford. She became Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2003.

Career and research

Vučković is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She is the lead/principal investigator the NQP Lab at Stanford, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE, SPRC, SystemX, and Bio-X. Her PhD advisees include

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(PhD 2008), and she and Fushman were among lead authors on a

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paper published in ''

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'' in 2007 and ''

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'' in 2008. Other PhD advisees include Andrei Faraon (PhD 2009), MIT professor Dirk Englund (PhD 2008), and

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(PhD 2006), professor at the

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. , Vuckovic's research areas include:

quantum technology Quantum engineering is the development of technology that capitalizes on the laws of quantum mechanics. This type of engineering uses quantum mechanics to develop technologies such as quantum sensors and quantum computers. Devices that rely on ...

Integrated quantum photonics Integrated quantum photonics, uses photonic integrated circuits to control photonic quantum states for applications in quantum technologies. As such, integrated quantum photonics provides a promising approach to the miniaturisation and scaling up ...

inverse design,

, and cavity QED. Vučković's lab invented a software suite called Spins. Spins automates the design of arbitrary nanophotonic devices by leveraging gradient-based optimization techniques that can explore a large space of possible designs. The resulting devices have higher efficiencies, smaller footprints, and novel functionalities., Vuckovic is a cofounder and an advisory board member of Spins Photonics Inc, the company commercializing photonics inverse design. Vučković holds 20 patents. Vučković was the "Fortinet Founders" chair of the

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from August 2021 – June 2023, and lead researcher of the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) lab.

Awards and honors

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

(PECASE), (2006) *

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of ...

(2010) *

Marko V. Jaric Marko V. Jarić (Марко Вукобрат Јарић; March 17, 1952 in Belgrade, Serbia – October 25, 1997 in College Station, Texas) was a Serbian-American physicist. He served as visiting professor at Montana State University and Harvard ...

award for outstanding achievements in physics (2012) * Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University Munich, Germany (2013) * Fellow,

(2015) *Fellow,

, (2018) *Distinguished Scholar,

Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics The Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (abbreviation: MPQ; ) is a part of the Max Planck Society which operates 87 research facilities in Germany. The institute is located in Garching, Germany, which in turn is located 10 km north-east ...

, (2019) * Recipient,

IET A F Harvey Prize The IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize is a global engineering research prize awarded annually to an innovative researcher by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. It was named after an engineer, Arthur Frank Harvey. The award ...

, (2019) * Recipient, James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership, Optica (2020) * Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer,

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(2021) * Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow,

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(2022) * Member,

(2023)

References

External links

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Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
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