Awards

Pallab Bhattacharya is the Charles M. Vest Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the James R. Mellor Professor Emeritus of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sheffield, UK. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics D. He has edited Properties of Lattice-Matched and Strained InGaAs (UK: INSPEC, 1993) and Properties of III-V Quantum Wells and Superlattices (UK: INSPEC, 1996). He has also authored the textbook Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (Prentice Hall, 2nd edition). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of compound semiconductors, low-dimensional quantum confined systems, nanophotonics, spintronics and optoelectronic integrated circuits. His group has conducted extensive research on molecular beam epitaxy of strained heterostructures and their electronic and optoelectronic devices, III-V and III-nitride quantum dot lasers, LEDs and single-photon sources, nanowire heterostructures and light sources, hot-carrier dynamics in quantum well and quantum dot lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and spintronic devices.

Professor Bhattacharya is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded the D. Eng. (honoris causa) degree from the University of Sheffield, U.K. He has also received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The professional awards he has received include the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, the Heinrich Welker Medal, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the IEEE (LEOS) Engineering Achievement Award, the IEEE (Nanotechnology Council) Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, the Optical Society of America (OSA) Nick Holonyak Award, the TMS John Bardeen Award, and the Quantum Devices Award of the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America, and the National Academy of Inventors.

Jason Kawasaki is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research focuses on epitaxial synthesis of Heusler films, superlattice, and single crystalline membranes. A particular focus is to tune their magnetic, topological, and superconducting properties via strain and interface effects, with potential applications in spintronics. To that end, he currently leads an Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) within the Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on tuning ultrafast magnetism via combined strain and optical excitation in single crystalline membranes. Kawasaki received a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 2009, a Ph.D. in Materials from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2014, and was a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University from 2014-2016. He joined UW-Madison as an Assistant Professor in 2016 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2022. He is the recipient of the AVS Peter Mark Young Memorial Award (2024), NAMBE Young Investigator Award (2019), and young investor awards from ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, and NSF.