Nader Engheta, the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in the department of electrical & systems engineering at Penn, has been named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. He will be presented with the honor at the NAI 2016 Annual Conference in Washington, DC in April.

Dr. Engheta’s research interests span the fields of nano-optics and nanophotonics, metamaterials and plasmonics, and optical nanostructures, including nanoantennas, nanocircuits and nanosystems. He and his group have been developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits based on material nanostructures, with the goal of “modularizing” nanophotonics and providing the possibility of information processing with light at the nanoscale, and also the extreme platforms for unprecedented tailoring and manipulating light-matter interaction.