It is of vital importance to APL Photonics and the multidisciplinary photonics community to recognize excellence in early career researchers and to hear their perspectives. To that end, APL Photonics is pleased to announce our fourth annual cohort of Early Career Editorial Advisory Board members in this editorial.
The Early Career Editorial Advisory Board appointees submitted applications to the selection committee, which was composed of members of the Editorial Advisory Board. The selection committee chose five of the many strong applicants within 10 years of their Ph.D. graduation to be invited to the Board:
Ilaria Gianani, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Dr. Ilaria Gianani is a fixed-term Assistant Professor in the Science Department at University of Roma Tre. She graduated cum laude in 2011 from Sapienza Università di Roma and then obtained her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford under Professor I. A. Walmsley’s supervision, with a thesis on the characterization of ultrashort pulses. Between 2016 and 2021 she has worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at University of Roma Tre and at Sapienza Università di Roma. She is an author of more than 50 publications. Her main current research interests are quantum metrology and the control of time–frequency correlations in SPDC sources.
Mohammad-Ali Miri, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Dr. Mohammad-Ali Miri is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Optics from CREOL, the Center for Optics and Photonics, at the University of Central Florida in 2014. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications in the broad areas of optics and photonics, nonlinear optics and optical computing. Miri is a Senior Member of Optica and has been the recipient of the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award of AFOSR.
Haoran Ren, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Haoran Ren is an ARC DECRA Fellow. His nanophotonic research aims to develop advanced optical materials and nanotechnology for both fundamental light–matter interactions and broad photonic applications. Dr. Ren received a Ph.D. from Swinburne University of Technology in 2017. He was a postdoc at RMIT University from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, Dr. Ren won a Victoria Fellowship to visit the CNRS in France. In 2019, Dr. Ren was awarded a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and moved his research to LMU Munich in Germany. In December 2020, he started a MQRF at Macquarie University.
Chao Shen, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Chao Shen received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KAUST (2017) and B.Sc. in Materials Physics from Fudan (2011). He was the technical lead at SaNoor Technologies, Inc. He is now with the School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University. His research interests include III-nitride optoelectronics, superluminescent diodes, laser diodes, LiFi devices, underwater wireless optical communications and photonic integrated circuits. He served as a TPC member and invited speaker at IEEE, SPIE and Optica conferences. He holds five US patents and his research has been featured by over 30 global media, including Compound Semiconductor, SPIE Newsroom, EE Times, and LaserFocusWorld.
Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dr. Mengjie Yu is Gabilan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California (USC). She received her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 2018. She held a research staff associate position at Columbia University from 2015 to 2018. Before joining USC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She is the 2020 Optica (formerly OSA) Ambassador. She was the Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in 2019. She was selected as the Rising Star Women in Engineering in the Asian Deans Forum 2019. She serves as chair of the Optica Integrated Photonics Technical Group.
Please join us in congratulating our new board members! We look forward to working with them over the next two years and to growing the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board in the coming years. We encourage you to apply for a seat on the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board next year. For more information about eligibility, please visit our informational website below or contact us at aplphotonics-journalmanager@aip.org.
Early Career Editorial Advisory Board Informational Website: https://aip.scitation.org/app/info/eceab
