Hooman Mohseni

Hooman

 

 

 

 

 

Education

Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering		 2001
Sharif University of Technology
M.S. in Electrical Engineering		 1995
Amirkabir University of Technology
B.S. in Electrical Engineering		 1993

Appointments

Northwestern University
Associate Professor, EECS Department

Director, Solid-state and Photonics Initiative (SSPI)
Faculty, Applied Physics Program
Faculty, International Institute of Nanotechnology

2009-Present

 

 
Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, EECS Department 		2004-2009
Sarnoff Corporation
Member of Technical Staff, Photonic Integration Group 		2001-2004
Northwestern University
Research Assistant, Center for Quantum Devices 		1996-2001
Sharif University of Technology
Research Assistant, Intelligent Systems Laboratory 		1994-1995

Awards and Honors

SPIE Fellow
Recognized for specific achievements in optoelectronic devices for photon detection.		 2010
Top Researcher Award
EECS Department, Northwestern University 		2009
Young Faculty Award
Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) 		2007
Selected and funded by NSF
for the first US-Korea Nano-manufacturing and Direct Self-Assembly Meeting 		2007
CAREER Award
National Science Foundation 		2006
Selected and funded by NSF
as one of the 14 US members in the NSF-MEXT US-Japan Young Scientist Exchange Program on Nanotechnology 		2006
Searle Junior Fellow
Northwestern University 		2005
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Robert McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University. 		2001
Best Student Paper Award
(first place among 52 selected papers internationally) International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, Virginia. 		1999
Walter P. Murphy Fellowship Award
Northwestern University 		1997

External Services and Activities

Advisory/Steering Committees

  • Elected TC Chair for Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics Division, IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society (2007-2010).
  • International Advisory Committee Member, International Joint Journal Conference in Engineering (2009-2010).
  • International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Control, Communication and Power Engineering - CCPE (2010-2012)

Conference Chair & Co-Chair

  • Bio-sensing-III, SPIE Optics & Photonics (2010)
  • Optics and Photonics, IEEE-MWSCAS (2009)
  • Integrated Optics & Optoelectronics, LEOS Annual Meeting (2008)
  • Nano-Science and Engineering symposium, SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference (2008)
  • Enabling Photonic Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando FL (2007)

Technical Program Committees

  • Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics, Benicassim, Spain (2011)
  • IEEE/ICNSC International Conference on Networking Sensing and Control, Delft, The Netherlands (2011)
  • Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics, Helsinki, Finland (2010)
  • IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Chicago, IL (2010)
  • SPIE International Symposium, Quantum Sensing, Photonics West, San Jose CA (2007)
  • IEEE Laser Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) 20th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (2006)
  • SPIE International Symposium, Photonics West, San Jose CA (2006)
  • IEEE Laser Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) 19th Annual Meeting, Sydney Australia (2005)

Review Panel Member

  • European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant review panel (2010)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) - EPDT (2010)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) - EPDT (2009)
  • National Institute of Health (NIH) - Challenge Grant (2009)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) -Physics Division (2009)
  • US-Isreal Bi-national review panel (2009)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) - Major Equipment Grants (2009)
  • European Research Council (ERC) review panel (2008-2012)
  • National Science Foundation review panel for Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT-2007)
  • The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2007)

Recent Invited and Keynote Talks:

  1. IEEE Photonics Annual Meeting, Arlington VA (2011) {Invited}
  2. Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics, Benicassim, Spain (2011) {invited}
  3. SPIE Symposium on Security and Defense, Orlando, FL (2011) {invited}
  4. SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, CA (2010) {invited}
  5. National Academy of Engineering -Developments in Detector Technologies, Albuquerque, NM (2010) {invited}
  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, NM (2010) {invited}
  7. Euro American Workshop on Information Optics, Paris, France (2009). {Invited}
  8. Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, CA (2009) {invited}
  9. The Next Generation Vision Sensors and Algorithms, DARPA, DC (2009) {invited}
  10. 8th Annual NanoTechnology for Defense Conference, Burlingame, CA (2009) {invited}
  11. SPIE Photonic West, San Jose, CA (2009) {invited}
  12. SPIE Symposium on Security and Defense, Orlando, FL (2009) {invited}
  13. Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, CA (2008) {invited}
  14. SPIE, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA (2008) {Keynote}
  15. SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA (2008) {invited}
  16. Department of Aerospace of Engineering, University of Maryland, MD (2007) {invited}
  17. US-Korea Workshop on Nano-manufacturing, Seoul, Korea (2007) {invited}
  18. SPIE International Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando FL (2007) {invited}
  19. US-Japan Young Scientist Exchange Program, Tokyo, Japan (2006) {invited}
  20. IEEE Indium Phosphide and Related Material Conference, Princeton NJ (2006) {invited}
  21. Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), Washington, DC (2006) {invited}
  22. SPIE International Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando FL (2006) {invited}
  23. Symposium on Infrared Material and Technologies, Penn State PN (2005) {invited}
  24. SPIE Photonic West, San Jose, CA (2005) {invited}
  25. Symposium on Infrared Material and Technologies, Penn State PN (2005) {invited}
  26. Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference, Las Vegas NV (2005) {invited}
  27. SPIE Security and Defense, Orlando FL (2005) {invited}

Patents:

  1. H. Mohseni, US Patent # 7,745,816 "Single-photon detector with a quantum dot and a nano-injector" 2010.
  2. H. Mohseni, US Patent application #20100080954 "Process for formation of highly uniform arrays of nano-holes and nano-pillars" 2010.
  3. H Kwakernaak, H. Mohseni, and G. Pajer, US Patent # 7,546,011 "Monolithically integrated optical devices with amorphous silicon arrayed waveguidi gratings and INGaAsP gain " 2009.
  4. H. Mohseni, J. Abeles, M. Kwakernaak, and V. Khalfin, U.S. Patent# 7,376,319 "Vertically Coupled Large Area Amplifier" 2008.
  5. H. Mohseni and W. Chan, US Patent # 7,026,641 "Electrically tunable quantum dots and methods for making and using for same" 2006.
  6. H. Mohseni, US Patent # 7,064,881 "InP-based phase modulators and methods for making and using for same" 2006.
  7. US Patent application #20050117844 "Method and system for coupling waveguides" 2005.
  8. US Patent J. Abeles, A. Braun, V. Khalfin, M. Kwakernaak, R. Martinelli, H. Mohseni, US Patenet # 7,477,670 "High power diode laser based source" 2009.
  9. US Patent application # 20070147762, International Patent # WO2007044543 "Interface for a-Si waveguides and III/V waveguides." 2007.
  10. US Patent application # 20070160326, International Patent Application # WO2007044545 "Monolithically integrated optical devices with amorphous silicon arrayed waveguide gratings and InGaAsP gain" 2007.
  11. US Patent application # 20050721007 "A Single-photon Detector and Application of Same" 2007.
  12. US patent application # 20050724535; International Patent application # WO2007044542 "Method of reducing edge height at the overlap of a layer deposited on the edge of a stepped substrate" 2007.
  13. International Patent application # WO2007044554 "Amorphous silicon waveguides on III/V substrates with a barrier layer" 2007