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David Burghoff is an Assistant Professor and Early Career Fellow in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has previously served as a research scientist at MIT. His research interests are concentrated on the development of bandstructure-engineered photonic devices and their applications in fields such as nonlinear optics, sensing, computing, and energy. Dr. Burghoff is particularly known for his work on broadband devices and systems, with a focus on mid-infrared and terahertz wavelength ranges. He is the lead Principal Investigator for the Precision Radiometry Incoherent Spectral Measurements (PRISM) MURI and has received several prestigious awards including the IRMMW-THz Young Scientist Award in 2024, the Moore Inventor’s Fellowship in 2022, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2021. His research areas include Electromagnetics & Acoustics, Electronics, Photonics, and Quantum Systems, with specific interests in quantum optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, and frequency combs.
The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and conducting research in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focusing on photonic devices and their applications.
General requirements for the Graduate School at UT Austin apply to all programs unless otherwise specified.