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IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship

Provides scholarships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest.

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Eligibility: Scholarship applicants must be an active IEEE Photonics Society student member pursuing a graduate education within the Photonics Society field of interest.Students should normally be in their penultimate year of study at the time of applying. (i.e. those applying in May 2023 would normally expect to defend their theses during 2024).

Applications must be submitted by May 30th each year with the following:

  • Start with name, address, email, IEEE member number, expected date of submission of the thesis, and a listing of any activities related to Photonics Society, along with the names and contact information of two references.
  • A one-page CV, including all degrees received and dates.
  • One copy of educational transcripts.
  • A 300-word statement of purpose describing the student’s research project and interests. The statement is to include the background to the project, what the student has achieved so far and how the research will be continued and developed by the student over the rest of the project.
  • A list of your top 3 publications with the most significant paper indicated and a 100-word description of your contribution to this paper. Please include IEEE Photonics Society journal publications if any.
  • Name and email address for two references from individuals familiar with the student’s research and educational credentials.
  • Note that additional information and submissions over the specified word count will not be forwarded to the evaluating committee.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
MAY 30

About the Award

IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship provides scholarships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest.

Presented to: Individual(s)

Scope: To provide scholarships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest.

Prize: Up to $10,000 awarded annually

Basis for judging: In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: Students should normally be in their penultimate year of study at time of application. Students will be evaluated based on the nominee’s education and research record, grades, references, and accomplishments and potential.

Introducing Our Award Honorees

We are proud to recognize and celebrate honorees of the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship. 

Our Most Recent Honorees

The IEEE Photonics Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarships. Join us in congratulating the following honorees:

  • Henrique Buglia, University College London
  • Benjamin Crockett, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Wenpu Geng, Nankai University
  • Olivia Long, Stanford University
  • Muhammad Hunain Memon, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Iryna Mikhailikova, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Rahul Dev Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  • Qi Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Xinzhou Su, University of Southern California
  • Adam Widomski, University of Warsaw

View All Award Winners

Year Award Winners
2023 Essam Berikaa, Junjie Ding, Yuxi Fang, Tatsuki Ishijima, Santosh Kumar, Michal Lipka, Arpita Mishra, Shubhanshi Sharma, Zixian Wei, Norita Mohd Yusoff
2022 Sajjad Abdollahramezani, Callum Deakin, Pedro Jorge Freire de Carvalho Souza, Md Shariful Islam, Hui Jing Lee, Peng Li, Md Saad-Bin-Alam, Xiaohui Xu, Wenting Yi, Yuning Zhang
2021 Naznin Akter, Valentina Bello, Amol Delmade, Zeki Hayran, Dariia Herasymova, Jinho Lee, Mengxi Tan, Kaihui Wang, Ning Xu, Jingyi Yang
2020 Zhiqiang Fan, Alessio Ferrari, Jorge Holguin Lerma, Senta Jantzen, Kirill Koshelev, Charles Matte-Breton, Anishkumar Soman, Tingting Song, Oleh Yermakov, Tao Zhan
2019 Harshil Dave, Eslam Elfiky, Tengfei Hao, Peicheng Liao, Md Ghulam Saber, Zarina Sadrieva, Jianyang Shi, Xingyuan Xu, Xuebing Zhang, Sha Zhu
2018 Shaimaa Azzam, Yinwen Cao, Dmitry Filonov, Thang Hoang, Long Li, Daniel Semrau, Alena Shchelokova, Dimitrios Tzarouchis, Zhenming Yu, Yamei Zhang
2017 Changjing Bao, Haiwei Chen, Tobias Fehenberger, Qiang Guo, Zhe Li, Pavlos Maniotis, Daniel Perez, Alexander Tait, Zhenzhou Tang, Guodong Xie
2016 Talha Erdem, Stewart Fryslie, Junsu Lee, Wang Miao, Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, Yongxiong Ren, Alexey Slobozhanyuk, Christos Vagionas, Yuanquan Wang, Weifeng Zhang
2015 Mathieu Chagnon, Di Che, Sezer Erkilinc, Burak Guzelturk, Hengyun Jiang, Weilin Liu, Francesco Monticone, Raphael Van Laer, Xiaoming Wei, Ben Wu
2014
Zizheng Cao, Kuo-Ju Chen, Dimitrios Fitsios, Hao Huang, Taewoo Kim, Xiaohang Li, Xinying Li, Mohamed Osman, Martin Virte, Chen Zhu
2013
Salvatore Campione, Yuan Chen, Vincent Ginis, Qi Guo, Bart Kuyken, Gururaj Naik, Vincent Sleiffer, Ke Xu, Junwen Zhang, Qunbi Zhuge
2012
Tingyi Gu, Jens Hofrichter, Domanic Lavery, William Loh, Dan Luo, Hiva Shahoei, Yan Shi, Ke Wang, Jin Yan, Yue Zhou
2011
Shamsul Arafin, Honglei Guo, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Wangzhe Li, Hungyen Lin, Linghui Rao, Bruno Romeira, Bhavin Shastri, Zhaobing Tian, Yang Yue
2010
Yanbo Bai, Caroline Lai, Dimitrios Mandridis, Binh-Minh Nguyen, V.R. Supradeepa, Ibrahim Murat Soganci, Shaoliang Zhang, Mohammad Alfiad, Koen Huybrechts, Joris Roels
2009
Can Bayram, Pierre-yves Delaunay, Umit Demirbas, Qiaoqiang Gan, Lendert Gelens, Zubin Jacob, Meizi Jiao, Sedat Nizamoglu, S.M. Abdur Razzak, Evgeny Shumakher, Chao Wang, Xiaoxia Wu
2008
Tomohiro Amemiya, Ranojoy Bose, Jia Chen, Mehdi Panah, Yoga Divayana, Ivana Gasulla, Alireza Hassani, Bas Huiszoon, Xiankai Sun, Philippe Tassin, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Lin Zhang
2007
Amit Agrawal, Maria Cataluna, Ignace Gahangara, Maria Larrode, Zhensheng Jia, Hannah Joyce, Yannick Lize, Cicero Martelli, Houxun Miao, Joris Van Campenhout, Dirk van den Borne, Lin Zhu
2006
Ioannis Chremmos, Ning Deng, Zhibing Ge, Georgios Kalogerakis, Jung-Won Kim, Zetian Mi, Sudha Mokkapati, Lazaro Aurelio Padilha Jr, Dominik Pudo, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos, Nenad Vukmirovic, Philip Watts
2005
Hatice Altug, Ray Chen, Mable Mei Po Fok, Giancarlo Gavioli, Daniel M. Grasso, Sander Jansen, Zhi Jiang, Alessandro Marques de Melo, Joyce Poon, Takuo Tanemura, Jaroslow Piotr Turkiewicz, Chad S. Wang
2004
Muzammil Arain, David Dahan, Pedram Z. Dashti, Olufemi Dosunmu, Milan Masanovic, Sung-Woong Park, Bojan Resan, Borja Vidal, Shijun Xiao, Konstantinos Yiannopoulos, Changyuan Yu, Alejandra Zapata
2003
Jan Hendrik den Besten, Sameer Bhalotra, Jung-Ho Chung, Chee Seong Goh, Juliet Gopinath, Chang-Seok Kim, Ivan Lima Jr., Yong Liu, S.M. Reza Motaghian Nezam, Marco Peccianti, Nikos Pleros, Kenneth K-Y Wong
2002
Matthew Emsley, Cristiano Gallep, Ronald Holzloehner, Ju Han Lee, Charlotte Marra, Michael Mielke, Pascual Munoz, Marco Passerini, Marc Sciamanna, Michael Venditti, Sebastian Wieczorek, Lianshan Yan
2001
Mathieu Allard, Rohit Grover, Stephen B. Ippolito, Elaine LaLanne, Sagi Mathai, Bryan Robinson, Andrei Senin, Reuel Swint, Peh Chiong The, Elaine Wong, Mirvais Yousefi
2000
Randy Bartels, Michael Dueser, Lan Fu, M. Saif Islam, Vijay Krishnamurthy, Mohd Adzir Mahdi, Vitaly Mikhailov, Saiedeh Saghafi, Yuri A. Shpolyanskiy, Saran Sumriddetchkajorn, Wai Mun Wong, Weidong Zhou
1999
Christina Lim, Yu Liu, Eva Peral, S. David Roh, Hans Jorg Thiele, Atsushi Uchida