Yasha Yi (Fellow of the Optical Society of America and Full Professor). Dr. Yi is currently a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was the Founding EECE PhD program chair at the University of Michigan, Dearborn campus and Energy Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, and was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the MicroPhotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he was involved in research on integrated nano optoelectronic devices and systems. He has extensive research experience with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory. He is also a Professor Affiliate with the Microsystems Technology Laboratory at MIT. He has authored more than hundreds of top journal papers, edited four book/book chapters, and holds 31 issued patents (15 U.S. patents and 16 international patents). He has led several government/industry-funded projects, has been on review panels for NSF, DOE, and DOD, and has been a reviewer for leading journals. His research interests are silicon photonics chip, artificial intelligence chips; renewable energy; smart chip sensors; VR/AR display chips; chip-scale lidar for autonomous driving/UAVs/robotics; telecommunications; solid-state lighting; integrated quantum photonics.
