Professor Shanhui Fan

Education
o Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph. D in Physics, 1997.
o Ph. D. advisor: Professor John Joannopoulos.
o University of Science and Technology of China, undergraduate, 1988-1992.
Professional Experience
o Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (Tenured), 2007-present;
o Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, 2001-2007.
o Massachusetts Institute of Technology
o Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, 1999-2001;
o Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics Department, 1997-1999.
Honors and Awards
o Fellow, American Physical Society, Elected 2008.
o The Adolph Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America, 2007.
o The National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research, 2007.
o Fellow, Optical Society of America, Elected 2007.
o STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar Award, Stanford University, 2007.
o David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 2003.
o National Science Foundation Career Award, 2002.
Research Interest
Computational and theoretical studies of solid-state devices; Photonic crystals; Plasmonics; Meta-materials; Microcavities; Quantum optics; Computational electromagnetics; Large-scale scientific computing.
(As of December 31, 2008)
o 10 students, 3 research associates, 1 visiting scholar. (See list)
o Funded by NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, ARO, DOE, GCEP, SRC, as well as industrial corporations and foundations.
(As of December 31, 2008)
o 154 refereed journal articles. (See list)
o 34 issued U. S. patents.
o Total citations 9,177. The h-index: 42.
o A full CV can be found here.
Contact Info:
o Email: Shanhui@stanford.edu
o Phone: 1-650-724-4759
o Fax: 1-650-725-3890
o Address:
Ginzton Laboratory, AP273
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Last updated: December 31, 2008.