Faculty News

Qiang Lin Appointed Dean’s Professor

Published
November 25, 2024
Qiang Lin looking at camera standing with lab equipment wearing purple shirt

Qiang Lin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and optics, has been appointed Dean’s Professor. These distinguished faculty appointments are assigned to individuals of outstanding research accomplishment in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Hajim School

Qiang is a leading expert in photonics, including micro/nano, quantum, nonlinear and mechanical photonics. He works both on understanding the fundamental physics of these photonic phenomena but also on applications of these phenomena to signal processing and sensing.

Qiang has received numerous awards for his research, including being named Fellow of Optica, the PECASE award, and the NSF CAREER award. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, leading to an H-index of 56 and more than 12,000 citations to his work. He publishes in top journals including Nature Communications, Nature Photon, Science, and Physics Review Letters, among many others. He has advised numerous students and has been involved in projects with funding of more than $30 million, including more than $10 million with Qiang as principal investigator. Congratulations Qiang!                                                                  

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