Congratulations to the 2025 IEEE Fellows
Elevation to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.
Fourteen IEEE Photonics Society members elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2025.
Vittorio Curri
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
For contributions to physical layer aware multi-band open optical networks.
Amr Helmy
University of Toronto, Canada
For contributions to harnessing optical non-linearities in diode lasers for quantum and non-linear photonics applications.
Zhensheng Jia
CableLabs
For contributions to optical communication systems and broadband access networks.
Cherie Kagan
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For contributions to colloidal nanocrystals and their integration in optical and optoelectronic devices.
Shayan Mookherjea
University of California, San Diego, USA
For contributions to optoelectronic devices and their applications.
Willie Padilla
Duke University, USA
For contributions to the field of metamaterials, including perfect absorbers and active devices.
Jamie Phillips
University of Delaware, USA
For contributions to quantum dot infrared photodetector and microscale photovoltaic energy harvesting.
Malin Harindhu Premaratne
Monash University, Australia
For contributions to theory, modelling, and simulations of optical quantum devices.
Jin-wei Shi
National Central University, Taiwan
For contributions to high-speed photodetectors and VCSELs for optics fiber communications.
Masayuki Shigematsu
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
For contributions to realization of low loss optical transmission lines and gain flattened optical amplifiers.
Radan Slavik
University of Southampton, UK
For contributions to coherent all-optical signal processing and hollow core fiber development.
Rajasekaran Swaminathan
Intel Corporation, USA
For leadership in chiplets technology architectures for highperformance computing.
Xiao Wei Sun
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
For contributions to optoelectronic materials and devices.
Jeffrey Tsao
Sandia National Labs, USA
For contributions to semiconductor-epitaxy and solid-state-lighting technologies.
