Lih Y. Lin

Lih Y. Lin joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington in 2003. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA. Prior to joining the UW, she worked in AT&T Labs-Research as a Senior Technical Staff Member on micromachined technologies for optical switching and lightwave communication systems, then Tellium, Inc. as director of Optical Technologies to co-lead their R&D effort on high-port-count MEMS optical crossconnects. Her research projects in UW have involvedsolution-processed materials and AI-driven optoelectronics, nanostructure-enhanced laser tweezers, bio-photonics and optical MEMS/NEMS. She has over 100 journal publications, over 180 conference papers, 5 book chapters and 40 granted patents. Lin was a recipient of the MIT Technology Review Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA), and a Fellow of AIMBE.

• AIMBE Fellow, 2024.
• Optica (formerly OSA) Fellow, 2020.
• Best Scientific Poster Award, 9th NAMIS International Summer School on Nano and Micro Systems, 2015.
• IEEE Fellow, 2010.
• Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, 2009.
• Best Paper Award, Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security (NANO-DDS) Conference, 2007.
• MIT Technology Review Award, 2003.
• IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer, Finalist, 2001.
• Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy (highest honor), UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1997.

• Perovskite Optoelectronics
• AI/ML for optoelectronics
• Nanostructure-Enhanced Laser Tweezers
• Quantum Dot Nanophotonics
• Micro-instrumentation by Optical MEMS

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Please visit the Photonics Lab Publications website for a complete list of our journal publications.