CANEUS 2009 Workshops

Connie Chang-Hasnain

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Connie Chang-Hasnain is the John R. Whinnery Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured SemiconductoR Technologies (CONSRT) and Chair of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group.

Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, Dr. Chang-Hasnain was a member of the technical staff at Bellcore (1987–1992) and an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (1992–1996). Her research interests have been in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and MEMS tunable optoelectronic devices and, most recently, nanostructured materials and nano-optoelectronic devices. Professor Chang-Hasnain was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow, Packard Fellow, and Sloan Research Fellow. She was awarded with an IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award, National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecturer Award, and OSA Nick Holonyak Jr. Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and IEE, and an Honorary Member of A.F. Ioffe Institute. Since January 2007, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology.