Five researchers gathered around an open lab instrument in a cluttered laboratory, smiling
M. Saif Islam, middle, with graduate students (from the right) Ahasan Ahamed and Lisa Mcphillips, and undergraduate student (from the left) Zbynka Jaroslava Kekula and Teodora Petrovic, discussing the testing of high-speed and highly efficient photodetectors enabled by photon-trapping structures. Credit: Inano-UC Davis.

M. Saif Islam: The 2024 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award

  • by SPIE

M. Saif Islam, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, and director of the university’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and Banatao Institute, is widely recognized for his significant technical, entrepreneurial, and academic contributions that have advanced semiconductor electronic and photonic devices.

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