Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Professor in Semiconductor Photonics
Contact
Email: volker.sorger@ufl.edu
Phone:
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 116200, Gainesville, FL 32611-6200
Office Location
MALA 3205
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Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Devices & optoelectronics, AI/ML accelerators, mixed-signal ASICs, quantum processors, cryptography
About
Honors And Awards
- 2024 Fellow, IEEE
- 2023 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, SPIE
- 2023 Scientist Medal, IAAM
- 2022 Distinguished Researcher Award, SEAS GWU
- 2022 Fellow, SPIE
- 2022 Fellow, IAAM
- 2021 Fellow, Optical Society (formerly OSA)
- 2021 Highly Cited Researcher recognition (Elsevier, top 0.1% in field)
- 2021 DURIP Award, AFOSR
- 2020 Community Champion, SPIE
- 2019 PECASE – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, White House/U.S. President
- 2019 2x DURIP Awards, ARO & AFOSR
- 2019 Community Champion, SPIE
- 2018 Best Paper Award, ‘Highest expected future impact’ at the 2018 Cognitive Computing Conference
- 2017 Distinguished Career Award, GWU
- 2017 Gold Medal, 14th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology
- 2017 Senior Member, SPIE & IEEE & OSA
- 2016 Early Tenure Promotion
- 2016 Hegarty Innovations Prize
- 2016 Dean’s Outstanding Research Award, GWU
- 2015 Faculty Recognition Award, GWU
- 2014 YIP Award, AFOSR
- 2014 Annual ECE Faculty Award, GWU
- 2011 Gold Award, Material Research Society
- 2010 Best Paper Award, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- 2010 1st Price, Berkeley Nanoforum
- 2009 Emil Wolf Prize, OSA
- 2009 Finalist, European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Selection (top 0.2%)
Education
- Ph.D., The University of California – Berkeley, 2011
- Management of Technology, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, 2011
- M.A., The University of Texas, 2005