Liang Feng, assistant professor in the departments of materials science & engineering and electrical & systems engineering in SEAS, has been elected a fellow of the Optical Society.

Since 1916, the scholarly society has been the “world’s leading champion for optics and photonics, uniting and educating scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders worldwide to foster and promote technical and professional development.”

Dr. Feng joined Penn Engineering last year, among the ranks of 30 new faculty hired in a two-year span. That group includes a concentration of experts in data science and new computational techniques, areas that Dr. Feng approaches from his background in developing nanomaterials that provide unprecedented control over light.

The Optical Society cited Dr. Feng for his “outstanding pioneering scientific contributions to the field of non-Hermitian photonics and its applications in integrated nanophotonics and optoelectronics.”

Dr. Feng was also recently awarded an NSF grant from its Engineering Quantum Integrated Platforms program; he and fellow MSE professor Ritesh Agarwal will use it to build quantum communication devices that take advantage of chiral properties of individual photons (see article).