Two engineering professors have been named fellows of The Optical Society (OSA), a leading international association for optics and photonics.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering Sharon Weiss, a professor of electrical engineering, received the distinction “for contributions expanding the use of silicon in photonics and optoelectronics, and especially for designing and demonstrating highly sensitive porous-silicon guided-wave optical biosensors.”
Weiss also has been named a Fellow of SPIE, international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light, “for achievements in optical properties of nanoscale materials.”
Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, also a professor of neurological surgery, was honored by OSA “for contributions to the clinical translation of optical diagnostics and therapeutics including the development and application of Raman spectroscopy methods and infrared neural stimulation.”
She was named a SPIE Fellow in 2010 and just finished a three-year term on the organization’s Board of Directors.