Young Investigator Award Winners
| Year | Award Winner | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Junjie Yao | For pioneering novel photo-acoustic imaging that allows probing living tissue functions at unpreceented accuracy, sensitivity, and speed. |
| 2018 | Yu Shrike Zhang | For pioneering contributions in applying biophotonics to characterization of engineered tissue constructs. |
| 2017 | Hannah Joyce | For significant contributions to nanowire optoelectronics and terhertz spectroscopy. |
| 2016 | Igor Aharonovich | For contribution to the development of single photon emitters in wide bandgap materials. http://photonicssociety.org/sites/default/files/2016%20YI%20%20Aharonovich.pdf |
| 2015 | Jeremy N. Munday | For pioneering contributions to plasmonic and photonic light-trapping in solar cells. http://photonicssociety.org/sites/default/files/2015 YI.pdf |
| 2014 | Ertugrul Cubukcu | "For contributions to photonics beyond the diffraction limit with nanoantenna-based devices and sensors." http://photonicssociety.org/sites/default/files/YI _ Cubukcu.pdf |
| 2013 | Alexandra Boltasseva | For seminal contributions to the development of metal-dielectric waveguides for integrated optics and novel approaches for realization of nanoplasmonic devices. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/feb13/Careers-YoungInvestAward.html |
| 2012 | William Green | For contributions in CMOS integrable, highly scaled, Silicon Nano-Photonics, and pioneering Silicon Photonics for mid-infrared applications and non-linear-optics. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/feb12/Careers-WilliamGreen.html |
| 2011 | Hatice Altug | For contributions on nanoplasmonics and integrated nanofluidics for biological sensing and spectroscopy. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/apr11/Career-YoungInvest.html |
| 2010 | Sander Lars Jansen | For pioneering contributions in optical OFDM for fiber-optic transmission systems. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/feb10/YoungInvest.html |
| 2009 | Aydogan Ozcan | For his pioneering contributions to non-destructive non-linear material characterization techniques, near-field and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/feb09/2009awardozcan.html |
| 2008 | Jose Azana | For pioneer contributions on innovative ultra-fast optical pulse processing techniques, particularly temporal self-imaging (Talbot) effects, using all-fiber grating technologies. http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/apr08/jose_azana.html |
| 2007 | Randy Bartels | For pioneering contributions to ultrafast molecular photonics and photonic reagent control of quantum systems on an unprecedented time-scale. sites/default/files/21leos01_43.pdf |