He joined the CREOL faculty in 2008. He has multiple degrees including a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, where he demonstrated the world’s first temperature invariant semiconductor laser and the fastest quantum dot laser to date. He worked at UCLA prior to coming to UCF and his work in California on energy harvesting in silicon photonics received worldwide media coverage. He received an NSF CAREER [2] award in 2012 and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2013. He is the co-editor of a book entitled “Silicon Photonics for Telecommunications and Biomedicine [3].” He also has co-authored about 85 journal and conference papers and six book chapters.