Jelena Vučković

Jelena Vučković was born in Niš, Serbia. She studied at the University of Niš.[7] She received her M.S. (1997) and PhD (2002) in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2002, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Applied Physics Department at Stanford. She became Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2003.[8]

Vučković is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She is the lead/principal investigator the NQP Lab at Stanford, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE, SPRC, SystemX, and Bio-X.[9][8]

As of 2018, she was part of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), a Scientific Advisory Board Member, part of the Ferdinand-Braun Institute, and a SystemX Board Member.[8]

Her PhD advisees include Ilya Fushman (PhD 2008),[10] and she and Fushman were among lead authors on a quantum computing paper published in Nature in 2007[11] and Science in 2008.[12]

Other PhD advisees include Andrei Faraon (PhD 2009),[13][10] MIT professor Dirk Englund (PhD 2008),[14] and Hatice Altug (PhD 2006), professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.[15]

As of 2018, Vuckovic's research areas include:[4][5] nanophotonics, quantum information, quantum technology, quantum optics, Integrated quantum photonics, photonics inverse design, nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, and cavity QED.

Vučković's lab invented a software suite called Spins.[16] It automates the design of arbitrary nanophotonic devices by leveraging gradient-based optimization techniques that can explore a large space of possible designs. The resulting devices have higher efficiencies, smaller footprints, and novel functionalities.[17] As of 2018, Vučković holds 15 patents.[18]

Vučković was the "Fortinet Founders" chair of the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering as of 2023, leading the department's Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) lab.[19]

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), (2006)
• Humboldt Prize (2010)[20]
• Marko V. Jaric award for outstanding achievements in physics (2012)[21]
• Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University Munich, Germany (2013)[22]
• Fellow, American Physical Society (2015)[23]
• Fellow, The Optical Society (2015)[24]
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (2018)[25]
• Distinguished Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, (2019)[26]
• Recipient, IET A F Harvey Prize, (2019)[27]
• Recipient, James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership, Optica (2020)[28]
• Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021)[29]
• Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, United States Department of Defense (2022)[30]
• Member, National Academy of Sciences (2023)[31]

• Jelena Vučković publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University