Prof. Yeshaiahu Fainman 
​(Curriculum Vitae)

Research Interests: Silicon photonics, wave-division multiplexing, mode-division multiplexing, second harmonic generation, mid IR generation.
Education: 
Ph. D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1983
​M. Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1979
B. Sc., M. Sc Lvov Polytech. Inst., USSR, 1970

Biography

Professor Fainman joined the faculty at UCSD in July 1990 following a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan. Y. Fainman is a Cymer Chair and Distinguished Professor in ECE at UCSD. He received M. Sc and Ph. D degrees from Technion, Israel in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He directs the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics (UNO) group in research of nanophotonics for information processing. He and his UNO group helped to exploit near field optical phenomena in nanophotonic technologies for optical information and signal processing applications. His current research interests are in near field optical science and technology compatible with CMOS manufacturing. Current projects include nanoscale resonant optical phenomena for filtering, modulation and emission of light, quantum emitters, multimodal photonic transducers for medical diagnosis, optical processing with femtosecond pulses, and nonlinear optical microscopy for deep brain imaging. He contributed over 280 manuscripts and 450 conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and a recipient of Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, Gabor Award, Emmett N. Leith Medal and Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.

Honors and Distinctions

• 1970 Honors Diploma, Lvov Polytechnic Institute, USSR
  
• 1982 Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Technion, Haifa, Israel
  
• 1995 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
  
• 2003 Fellow of the IEEE 2004 Fellow of SPIE
  
• 2006 Lady Davis Fellowship
  
• 2006 Faculty Advisor for SPIE Student Chapter Recognition
  
• 2006 Brown Award for Quantum Computing (Alfred U'Ren from the Applied Physics division at CICESE (Ensenada, Mexico) and Yeshaiahu Fainman, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UC San Diego)
  
• 2012 Recognized as one of the 50 Most Published Authors in “Applied Optics” 14 Optical Society of America
  
• 2012 Dennis Gabor Award in recognition of outstanding contributions and novel applications of ultrafast pulses and nanophotonics in information processing systems. ( January, 2012)
  
• 2015 Emmett N. Leith Medal, OSA, recognized for extension of Fourier optics methods to the femtosecond and nonometer regimes (March 2015)
  
• 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher Award
  
• 2017 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, OSA, recognized for pioneering, seminal and wide ranging contributions to nanoscale engineering of linear and nonlinear optical materials and components (March 2017)

Contact Information

Office: 3406 Engineering Building Unit 1

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (858) 534-8909 
Fax: Fax: (858) 534-1225
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Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego 
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407