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Daniel Wasserman holds the Cullen Trust Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin's Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He completed his Sc.B. in Engineering and Physics at Brown University in 1998, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, and received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2004. During his time at Princeton, he was recognized as a Francis Upton Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Following his PhD, he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton, engaging in work focused on quantum cascade laser physics with the Gmachl group. In 2007, he began his academic career at the University of Massachusetts Lowell before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. Wasserman joined the University of Texas at Austin's Electrical and Computer Engineering department in the Fall of 2016. His honors include the NSF CAREER award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award at UMass Lowell, and the Distinguished Promotion Award from the University of Illinois. His research interests encompass Microelectronics, Photonics, Semiconductor Lasers, and Photonic Devices.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign • Champaign, IL
Promoted with tenure in 2015.
University of Massachusetts Lowell • Lowell, MA
Began academic career.
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