Michal Lipson (born 1970) is an American physicist known for her work on silicon photonics . A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2019, Lipson was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow for contributions to silicon photonics especially towards enabling GHz silicon active devices . Until 2014, she was the Given Foundation Professor of Engineering at Cornell University in the school of electrical and computer engineering and a member of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Cornell. She is now the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University . In 2009 she co-founded the company PicoLuz, which develops and commercializes silicon nanophotonics technologies. In 2019, she co-founded Voyant Photonics, which develops next generation lidar technology based on silicon photonics. In 2022, Lipson was a co-founder of Xscape photonics to accelerate AI , ML , and simulation hardware. In 2020 Lipson was elected the 2021 vice president of Optica (formerly the Optical Society), and she served as the Optica president in 2023.
12-453: Michal Lipson (2023 president) Satoshi Kawata (2022 president) Optica , founded as the Optical Society of America (later the Optical Society ), is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics . It publishes journals , organizes conferences and exhibitions , and carries out charitable activities. Optica was founded in 1916 as
24-684: A PhD in physics from the same university in 1998, with the thesis topic "Coupled Exciton-Photon Modes in Semiconductor Optical Microcavities." Lipson spent 2 years as a postdoctoral associate with Lionel Kimerling at MIT , and then accepted a position at Cornell University in 2001. Lipson is best known for her work on silicon photonics. She developed (along with other researchers around the world at IBM, Intel, Ghent University) silicon photonic components such as waveguide couplers, ring resonators, modulators, detectors, WDM wavelength sources and sensors on silicon platform. She published
36-587: A probe and Optica announced that it would no longer accept money from Huawei, remove the company's representation on a panel of judges, return donations made by Huawei from 2022 onward, and remove Elizabeth A. Rogan as CEO. Optica Publishing Group Optica Publishing Group is Optica's scientific publishing platform, which publishes peer-reviewed optics and photonics research. Optica Publishing Group's portfolio consists of 20 publications. Optica presents awards and honors, including Optica Fellow , Honorary Membership, and Awards/Medals. Optica's awards and medals program
48-542: Is also an elected fellow of Optica. Her current research interests include optical metamaterials, low-power and compact optical modulators , and slot waveguides . Her work has appeared in Nature , Nature Photonics , and other journals. National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of
60-638: Is endowed through the Optica Foundation, and includes more than 20 named awards; among them are the following: The following persons are or have been presidents of the society: Michal Lipson After spending two years as a BS student at the Instituto de Física of the University of São Paulo , Lipson obtained a BS in physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1992. She went on to obtain
72-501: The United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions. The awards, presented once each year, include a federal grant of minimum $ 400,000 for research and education activities for five-year period. The Presidential Young Investigators (PYI) program
84-687: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program was approved by NSF's National Science Board , and the first awards were presented in FY 1995. Several existing NSF programs and their objectives were merged into CAREER. In 1996, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) program was instituted, replacing the PFF Awards. NSF PECASE recipients receive no additional funding. Beginning in FY 1997,
96-629: The Optical Society of America, under the leadership of Perley G. Nutting , with 30 optical scientists and instrument makers based in Rochester, New York . It soon published its first journal of research results and established an annual meeting. The group's Journal of the Optical Society of America was created in 1918. The first series of joint meetings with the American Physical Society took place in 1918. In 2008, it changed its name to
108-601: The Optical Society. In September 2021, the organization's name changed to Optica, in reference to the organization's journal by the same name and geographic neutrality to reflect the society's global membership. In 2024, following an employee whistleblower complaint, Bloomberg News reported that the Optica Foundation Challenge was funded entirely by Huawei . In response, the United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology launched
120-479: The first paper on a class of versatile waveguides known as Slot-waveguides in 2004, which has since been cited over one thousand times. In all her work has been cited 32,373 times (as of January 18, 2018). She was also the first to demonstrate optical parametric gain in silicon, which was considered an important step towards building optical amplifiers in silicon. Lipson's McArthur fellowship citation mentions her work in ring modulators (circular waveguides) as
132-475: The key contribution of Lipson via the continued refinement of both opto-electronic and purely optical circuits for smaller size, increased efficiency, and accelerated switching speed The resulting silicon-based photonic integrated circuits have the potential to improve signal transmission and processing dramatically. Lipson has received numerous honors, including being the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and an National Science Foundation CAREER Award . She
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#1732844349106144-736: Was initiated in 1983 during the presidency of Ronald Reagan , and remained active until the NSF New Young Investigators (NYI) program replaced it in 1992. Both programs were research-oriented and funded an average of 200 faculty members per year. Another, more selective program began in 1992, when the White House asked NSF to institute the Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) program. It awarded young faculty up to $ 100,000 per year for five years, with no matching-fund option, and put more emphasis on education and outreach. In 1994,
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