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Herbert Winful earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1981. In 1980, he joined GTE Laboratories as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff until 1986. He then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Michigan as an associate professor in 1987, achieving full professor status in 1992. Winful was named the Thurnau Professor in 1993 and in 2019 was appointed the Joseph E. and Ann P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering. His contributions have significantly advanced the fields of nonlinear fiber optics, nonlinear optics of periodic structures, nonlinear dynamics of laser arrays, and the physics of tunneling. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, American Physical Society, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His awards include the 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship, and multiple teaching excellence awards at the University of Michigan.
GTE Laboratories • Waltham, MA
Worked on key technology developments in optical communications.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Became a leading academic in Electrical Engineering.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Promoted to full professor in the EECS department.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science