University Professors

Dr. Irena Knežević

Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, USA.
Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices, nanowire thermoelectrics, heat transport on the nanoscale, ecoherence and relaxation in nanostructures, transient and high-frequency response, transport in curved 2D electron systems, solid-state-based quantum information processing.
Education: Ph.D. Arizona State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Position: Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.
Research areas: photonic crystal nanolasers and single photon sources, nonlinear optics and photonic crystal nanobeam cavities, reconfigurable nano-optomechanical devices and their applications, meta-materials for THz applications, diamond photonics and quantum optics, intra-cavity, on-chip bio-chemical sensing.
Education: Ph.D. Caltech, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Research areas: modeling of noise and dynamics in circuits and systems, application of convex optimization to digital communications, analog and VLSI circuits, communications and signal processing architecture, high-speed electrical and optical links, on-chip signaling, clock generation and distribution, high-speed digital and mixed-signal IC design.
Education: Ph.D. Stanford, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA.
Research areas: experimental and theoretical research in nanophotonics and quantum photonics, nanophotonics, photonic crystals, devices and circuits (including optical microcavities, lasers, optical switches and modulators, active silicon nanophotonics, solid-state photonic quantum information technologies, cavity quantum electrodynamics in solid-state.
Education: Ph.D. Caltech, USA; B.S. University of Niš, Serbia.