Alan E. Willner

Alan E. Willner is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was also president of the Optical Society in 2016.

Alan E. Willner
Alma materYeshiva University (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
AwardsPaul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern California

Willner is known for his research on optical fiber communications[1] and free-space communications.[2] Willner's doctoral advisor was Richard M. Osgood Jr.

He is a recipient of the Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award and several other distinctions.

Education

Memberships

In early 2016, he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also an International Fellow of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; IEEE; National Academy of Inventors; the Optical Society (OSA); and SPIE. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the IEEE Eric Sumner Award, and a Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House."[4]

Willner was President of the OSA and editor in chief of several of their publications.[5]

References
  1. Kaminov, I. P.; Li, T.; Willner, A. E. (2008). Optical Fiber Telecommunications: Systems and Networks. New York: Academic Press.
  2. Wang, J.; Yang, J-Y.; Fazal, I. M.; Ahmed, N.; Yan, Y.; Huang, H.; Ren, Y.; Yue, Y.; Dolinar, S.; Tur, M.; Willner, A. E (2012). "Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing". Nature Photonics. 6 (7): 488–496. Bibcode:2012NaPho...6..488W. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2012.138.
  3. "Alan E. Willner". USC Viterbi. USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  4. Ballon, Marc (February 16, 2016). "Alan Willner Elected to National Academy of Engineering". USC Viterbi. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  5. "President – Alan Willner". OSA.org. Retrieved May 27, 2016.


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